There’s nothing more exciting than watching your best friend say “I do.” There are happy tears, there are sad tears, and there are just tears for the sake of crying! If you’re the maid of honor, there’s a high chance that you might even be crying a little bit because you’re conscious of the fact that you should be doing something at all times. Want to know something? That isn’t the case! You’re entitled to enjoy the day as well, so just make sure that you know just what you need to do so you can spend the rest of the day basking in all of the love.

Keep Everyone On Track

It’s kind of a given that the bride will be late for her own wedding, but it’s down to the maid of honor to make sure that the bride doesn’t miss her wedding entirely. Wedding prep normally starts early on in the day to make sure that the leading lady and her bridal party are dressed and made up to perfection. As the maid of honor, you need to keep everyone on track and make sure that the bride is as happy as can be with her finished look.

Give The Bride Food And Drink

It may sound like a strange task, but the bride will thank you for it after. Due to wedding jitters, many brides opt out of breakfast and head straight to the bubbly -, and everyone knows that drinking on an empty stomach is not a winning combination. So, you need to make sure that the food eats something, even if she doesn’t want to. Adding some water into the mix wouldn’t go amiss either.

Take Note Of The Wedding Dress

Many brides spend weeks, months, or even years finding the perfect wedding dress, which means that the last thing they want is a rip or tear in it before they walk down the aisle. As maid of honor, it’s your duty to take note of the wedding dress during regular intervals throughout the day. It’s always best to keep an emergency sewing kit on hand at all times, just in case you need to sew a loose button back on.

If you’re currently stressing about your maid of honor duties, then you don’t need to worry. Perfect your speech, make sure the bride looks blushing, and enjoy the day alongside her.

They say that there’s an amazing woman behind every great man. So, it stands to reason that there would be a pretty incredible woman behind some of the richest men on the planet, don’t you think? Well, unfortunately, not every one of the wives and girlfriends we’ll be talking about today is incredible — some may just be trophy partners. Or is the man the trophy? After all, isn’t it even more of a praiseworthy feat to snag a rich and famous person? We’ll let you decide on this list!

We’re sure we don’t have to tell you who Mark Zuckerberg is. But, you might not know about his beautiful wife, Priscilla Chan. The two of them met in 2003 during a “going away” party Zuckerberg was throwing for himself, believing that a certain prank website was going to get him expelled from Harvard.

That website was, of course, Facebook. Chan and Zuckerberg started dating before Facebook made it big, so anyone who calls Chan a gold digger would be sorely mistaken. Besides, she graduated from medical school and could definitely live comfortably on her own!

It’s a bit of an odd match — Spiegal is the co-founder of Snapchat, and Kerr is the founder of Kora Organics skincare, not to mention the first Australian model for Victoria’s Secret and the ex-wife of Orlando Bloom. But, despite their different worlds, the two married in 2017.

The story is that they first met at the Museum of Modern Art in New York during a Louis Vuitton event where Kerr told Spiegal that her favorite song was “Spiegal im Spiegal” by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. Guess it was fate!

Hayek is wealthy by most anyone’s standards, but she’s not quite up there with the Pinault family fortune, which is upwards of $50 billion. The two of them met in 2006 during a Palazzo Grassi gala in Venice, and they got married in 2009, once in private and once again for the cameras.

Was it all about the money? Or do they really love each other? Sad thing is, people never question the authenticity of love when it comes to those who aren’t wealthy. But hey, not everyone has the most respectable of motives!

A lot of people erroneously assume that any girl on the arm of a wealthy guy is just a trophy who is there for her looks, but that’s just not the case most of the time. It certainly isn’t in the case of Nicole Schuetz — who founded her own clean energy investment firm, Sutro.

Of course, Kevin Systrom founded Instagram, so they’ve both go credit to their name. The two of them met at Stanford, their alma mater, and got engaged in 2014. Apparently, the proposal included Kevin faking the disappearance of their dog to lure Nicole to the right spot.

It takes a special kind of couple to name their child “X Æ A-12.” That couple would be the eccentric Elon Musk and his equally eccentric partner, Claire Boucher, professionally known in the music world as “Grimes.” These two are a little weird, but more power to them.

Apparently, they bonded with each other over a joke involving 18th-century French art and an AI dystopia, so that should tell you all you need to know about the couple, really. We expect more android children to come from this wealthy couple as time progresses.

Larry Ellison is one of the richest men alive with a net worth of just over $120 billion. Nikita Kahn, who runs a real estate agency and is an animal rights activist, has been his girlfriend for over 10 years now.

Why they don’t tie the knot is anyone’s guess, but it’s safe to say that they do really like each other — Ellison opened a Malibu restaurant named after Nikita, and you don’t just spend 10 years with a woman you don’t like if you could practically net anyone you want, right?

You’d be surprised how many people don’t actually know who started and owns Nike, the unmistakable shoe empire. That would be Phil Knight, who started the imported shoe company Blue Ribbon Sports back in 1968. He didn’t do it alone, though.

Penelope Parks handled the administrative tasks back then, with the two of them getting married the same year she was brought into the company. A few years later, Blue Ribbon Sports was rebranded as Nike, and the rest is history.

Larry Page was co-founder of Google, so that’s all anyone needs to know about where his immense wealth came from. In 2007, he booked the entirety of a private island for his wedding with Lucinda Southworth, a research scientist and philanthropist.

Southworth has a Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford. In 2018, the couple donated roughly $18 million to support the cause against Ebola in West Africa. Larry Page is no longer CEO of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, but he’s still a controlling shareholder and board member.

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon, so there’s really no explanation needed on why he was once the wealthiest man in the world (he’s still way up there, of course). In 2019, he went through an expensive divorce with his at the time wife, Mackenzie Scott.

Now, he’s dating Lauren Sanchez, a licensed helicopter pilot who founded Black Ops Aviation, an aerial production and film company. She’s worked as a consultant on many movies requiring aerial shots, and also provided some of those shots for Blue Origin, Bezos’ aerospace company.

There are 50 years of marriage between artist and author Ricky Lauren and fashion designer Ralph Lauren. Ricky was working as a receptionist at an office in 1946 when Ralph came in for an appointment, after which the two decided to date. Apparently, Ralph proposed on literally their first date.

They didn’t actually get married until 1964, though, and the fashion brand we all know wasn’t launched until a few years after that. Ricky’s written five books, and together the couple owns quite a bit of property, making them pretty wealthy overall.

There’s actually not a whole lot known about Joan Templeman, wife of Sir Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Group. Supposedly, she was raised by a well-off ship carpenter in Glasgow, but still had to work several jobs to make ends meet before meeting Branson.

When they did meet, Templeman was still married to Ronnie Leahy, but that didn’t stop Branson from wooing her with a helicopter ride above Necker Island, where the couple still lives today after Branson bought the place in 1978.

These two met each other on a blind date in 1988, before Dell became a huge name in computers. It was the same year Dell Computer Corporation went public, and they got married a year later in 1989. Susan had a bit of credit to her name as well, however.

She’s particularly athletic, having participated in numerous marathons, cycling races, and so on, and she also ended up founding three fashion brands — including the luxury brand Phi. She’s even a board member of the scientific research Cooper Institute. The couple has four children.

Sometimes, two people of near equal renown come together. Hélène Mercier is an internationally known concert pianist who first met Bernard Arnault, a French fashion tycoon, at a dinner party in 1989. Apparently, Arnault decided that he was going to play piano for her at that party — quite the bold move.

The two of them married in 1990, and Arnault surpassed Jeff Bezos as the richest man in the world in 2021. Mercier herself still has quite a busy schedule, playing nearly 20 concerts a year and spending two to six hours every day practicing her craft.

Wendy Schmidt, past interior designer and current philanthropist and investor, has been married to former Google CEO Eric Schmidt since 1980. The couple spends most of their time and money to further their philanthropic goals, having founded a number of foundations and initiatives.

Wendy is currently the president of the Schmidt Family Foundation while also being a competitive sailor. Eric has retired from his positions related to Google, but still has an impressive net worth of around $24 billion.

It was back in 1985 when Nita Dalal, a trained Bharatanatyam dancer, married into India’s wealthiest family. That would be the family of Mukesh Ambani, CEO of Reliance Industries. His net worth is approximately $90 billion.

But, Nita has her hand in the business world as well. She’s a board member of both Reliance Industries and East India Hotels, and she’s even the co-owner of the cricket team Mumbai Indians. She’s also the founder and chairperson of Dhirubhai Ambani International School.

These two have been married since 1990, and have three children together. Steve has received some relatively recent praise for his philanthropic efforts, but Connie has been around the block on that front much longer than him, and she actually believes he has to catch up to her.

Connie is the co-founder of Ballmer Group, a foundation dedicated to improving economic mobility for American families that need it. She also serves as a founding investor at Blue Meridian Partners and is on the board of the Obama Foundation, the Los Angeles Clippers Foundation, and StriveTogether.

Diana Taylor is the former New York superintendent of banks and is often referred to as the “First Lady of New York City.” Since 2000, she has been in a relationship with Michael Bloomberg. They met at a business luncheon at which Bloomberg spoke, and coincidentally, they ended up eating at the same restaurant afterward.

Diana Taylor possesses a public health degree and an MBA. She worked on Wall Street and has performed many important roles, including being deputy secretary to former New York Governor George Pataki, Vice President of KeySpan Energy, Vice-Chair of Solera Capital, and Managing Director at Wolfensohn Fund Management.

Not all stories start out super romantic. Waverly and Chesky apparently liked the look of one another on Tinder in 2013, and that was the start of their still steady relationship. Waverly was a community marketing manager for the selfie app Frontback, a marketing operations consultant for Mercatus, and an account executive for WePay.

Recently, though, she’s forgone her marketing career to focus on her artistic skills, using her brand East Darjeeling to help out local talent and donate to communities in need around the world.

Jennifer Gilbert, an interior designer, first met Dan Gilbert — co-founder of the mortgage lending company Quicken Loans — when she was designing his office. Talk about fate! Jennifer took a break from her career when the kids started coming (they have five) but stepped back up to the plate when the youngest entered preschool.

Jennifer Gilbert also founded the online interior design resource Doodle Home in 2010, as well as Amber Engine, a home furnishings company in Detroit, in 2015. Together, the couple founded the Gilbert Family Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to finding a cure for neurofibromatosis, which affects one of their children.

Long before James Dyson became known for vacuums and whatnot, he and Deirdre Hindmarsh met at the Byam Shaw School of Art in 1966. Two years later, they were married. Before James made it big with his inventions, Deirdre supported the family by teaching art.

Now, she’s a fine artist and fabric expert who has spent the last two decades designing contemporary carpets and rugs. She’s also a trained soprano who hosts an opera event for charity every year!

Some women may be hunting for a cushy life, but that’s not the case with this couple, since they were sweethearts in college before Pierre Omidyar became super-rich thanks to eBay. There was a rumor that he set up the site to help Pam collect Pez dispensers, but that rumor has been dispelled.

Pam is a co-founder of The Omidyar Network, a foundation that pushes for economic and social change, along with her husband. She’s also a board member of Humanity United, which aims to put an end to human rights abuses.

Age differences tend to not matter as much as you get older, but the difference between Buffet and Astrid Menks is 16 years and was probably a bit more noticeable when they first met back in the ’70s. At the time, Astrid Menks was a waitress.

Warren Buffet is one of the world’s most well-known investors, though he’s far from the richest man in the world nowadays. It’s hard to compete with the likes of Bezos and others of his caliber and fame.

OK, so Guy Laliberte is not quite in the same league as some of the other wealthy men on this list, but he’s still a billionaire, thanks to this trade as an investor and impressive poker playing skills. He also co-founded Cirque de Soleil.

His beautiful wife is Claudia Barilla, a model with whom Laliberte has two children. Unfortunately, she’s been pretty prudent about keeping her personal life private, so there’s not much we can actually say about her!

We suppose this is a little bit of a misnomer, seeing as how Steve Jobs is no longer with us. But Laurene was his wife at one time, and she most certainly inherited his wealth after his passing, giving her a net worth of approximately $20 billion.

Laurene is also the founder of the “Emerson Collective,” an organization that supports reform for immigration, education, and environmental policies.

Lots of people probably remember that Jerry Hall was in a relationship with rock legend Mick Jagger from 1977 to 1999, but in 2016, she ended up getting married to Rupert Murdoch, the CEO of Fox News who has a net worth of about $12.5 billion.

We suppose this makes Jerry Hall particularly impressive since she managed to marry two very famous men. The fact that they both have a lot of money is probably a nice bonus in her eyes.

We suppose that a net worth of $4 billion might seem a little small compared to fortunes like Buffet’s or Bezos’, but a billionaire is a billionaire — and we doubt Fabiana Flosi, wife of Formula One Group CEO Bernie Ecclestone, is complaining.

Unfortunately, Flosi’s personal life is not very well known, so there’s not a whole lot we can conclusively say about her other than the fact that she’s quite beautiful. Well, that and the fact that she’s 46.

Combined, this couple has an estimated net worth of approximately $3 billion. Andrea Hissom and Steve Wynn are often considered one of the most notable and charismatic power couples in Las Vegas.

The two of them were married in 2011, and they have a son named Nick. Unfortunately, Andrea Hissom’s most notable facet is her status as a British socialite — other than that, people mostly know her for being Steve Wynn’s wife.

Alison Gelb is the co-founder of a home décor website named “One Kings Lane,” though she’s also known for being married to Mark Pincus, founder of Zynga Incorporated, since 2007. Together, they have a net worth of about a billion dollars.

One billion dollars might seem relatively small compared to everyone else on this list, but for the likes of us, we can’t help but know how it feels to not have a billion dollars — which is still super rich compared to most of the population.

Despite all the scandals related to Les Moonves, we’d be remiss to not mention the beautiful Julie Chen while talking about the wives of rich men, though the CBS CEO was “only” estimated to be worth around $300 million when they got married in 2004.

Julie Chen herself is a very popular producer, news anchor, and talk-show host, so it doesn’t really come as a surprise to find that she married one of the biggest names in the television industry.

Jade Foret apparently had the makings of the legendary model she is today at a young age, as she landed her first modeling career at age 12. As for Arnaud, he’s the CEO of MMB, a multi-million dollar company, and he also owns Warner Books, which was previously owned by Warner Bros.

There was a bit of controversy surrounding these two when they first got together, but only because the media was blowing a bit of personal affection between them out of proportion, though they had only known each other for six months at the time.

As you may imagine, a lot of rich men are married to models. Australian model Kristy Hinze has done a fair bit of modeling for Victoria’s Secret catalogs, and she’s married to the owner of Netscape, Jim Clark. It’s worth noting that there’s a significant age gap between the two of them.

Far be it from us to claim that love can’t be real with a 30-year age gap between two people, but we can’t deny that it does make us wonder. Maybe that’s being unfair.

Katsia Zingarevich is another model who apparently had potential when she was a little girl when she was approached by a modeling agent (that’s actually a little weird). She ended up modeling for Victoria’s Secret around 2010, close to when she met her current husband Anton.

Anton Zingarevich was once the owner of an association football club known as the Reading F.C., and he had a net worth of about $5 billion before retiring. Pretty good for just owning a football club!

We don’t want to question the romantic integrity of a relationship based solely on age, but Phil Ruffin — who owns casinos, real estate, oil production companies, and greyhound race tracks in Vegas — is 86, and his wife, Ukrainian actress and model Oleksandra Nikolayenko, is 40.

The situation kind of just screams “trophy wife.” Or perhaps Ruffin is the trophy husband? After all, we imagine that Nikolayenko gets to live a pretty comfortable life in this arrangement. But who knows, maybe they really do just love one another?

You may remember Devon Aoki from 2 Fast 2 Furious. She’s a successful model and she’s even starred in movies like Sin City and Mutant Chronicles, but she’s probably best known for being married to James Bailey, hedge fund billionaire and business analyst.

Fun fact about Devon Aoki — apparently she didn’t actually know how to drive when she was on set for 2 Fast 2 Furious, and she had to learn for the sequel. How she reached her age without learning that skill, we have no idea.

Admittedly, Ivanka Trump is probably better known for who her father is, rather than what she does or who she is married to. Ivanka has done some modeling before and is married to Jared Kushner, who’s a billionaire real estate investor and the publisher of the New York Observer.

Now that the Trump presidency is over, Ivanka may have a chance to escape from the shadow of it, be it good or ill, and be recognized more as her own individual — but unfortunately, that doesn’t happen much when you’re the child of such a controversial character.

We suppose this is a bit misleading, as the two people in question divorced recently. But, they were married for 21 years and Kirsty is now one of the wealthiest women in the UK, so we feel that she still warrants mentioning. Ernest Bertarelli had inherited the biotech company Serono in 1996, leading to their wealth.

Supposedly, they had an amicable split as far as their divorce is concerned, with former model Kirsty coming out of it with quite the financial settlement, villa included. As for why exactly they split up, that’s anyone’s guess.

Sindika Dokolo had an interesting pedigree that involved being half Danish and half Congolese, and he was an avid proponent of resurrecting the often overlooked beauty of African art. However, it was his wife Isabel Dos Santos that made him a billionaire by proxy, thanks to smart investments and business decisions.

Unfortunately, Sindika Dokolo passed away about a year ago, leaving Isabel Dos Santos alone. It’s a shame that money really can’t buy happiness, because no amount of wealth is going to make that kind of thing any more bearable.

Everyone knows Mark Zuckerberg, but Eduardo Saverin was also a major player in getting Facebook off the ground, and he too is a billionaire. Oddly enough, he also has a very attractive Asian wife, Indonesian Elaine Andriejanssen, who used to be a Quantitative Research Analyst for Franklin Templeton Investments.

Apparently, people thought that Saverin was going to marry Miss Singapore Universe 2009 Rachel Kum, but he bamboozled all of those folks and got hitched to Elaine instead. What influenced his decision? Who can know?

Aleksandra Melnichenko was a member of a Serbian pop group called the Models when she was 17. After separating from the group, she became a fashion model and ended up posing in both advertising campaigns and television gigs. Today, she’s married to Russian billionaire industrialist Andrey Melnichenko.

The two of them are pretty well-known for suing other people, though it’s usually justified — one time, they sued the previous owners of a luxury apartment for defects, and they sued an art dealer for selling them a misleading sculpture.

At some point, we have to get into the rich men who might not be quite as well-known as some of the others. For instance, John Paul Dejoria, co-founder of the John Mitchell brand of hair products — not as well known as some, but still wealthy by normal standards.

His wife is Eloise Broady, an American producer, actress, model, and philanthropist, most well-known for Weekend at Bernie’s. She should also be known for looking really good at age 64, in our opinion.

As of 2021, David Steward had a net worth of approximately $3.7 billion, thanks to being the founder and chairman of IT provider World Wide Technology. His wife, Thelma Steward, has been by his side for more than 40 years.

Apparently, running companies is part of the family bloodline, because their children — David L. Steward II and Kimberly Steward — are both CEOs of their own companies as well, Polarity Ltd and K Period Media, respectively.

In 2008, Patrice Motsepe from South Africa became the first black billionaire on the Forbes list. Most of his wealth came to him through his own company, African Rainbow Minerals, though he also owns shares in an investment firm.

Precious Molo-Motsepe married Patrice back in 1989, but she has other noteworthy credits to her name, having made her mark in the world of fashion and being the chancellor of the University at Cape Town.

Despite the popularity of hip-hop, the genre didn’t actually generate its first billionaire in 2019, at which time the honor went to Jay-Z. Of course, we’re sure his investments in other areas helped as well, but either way, his net worth surpassed a billion dollars in 2019.

As for Beyoncé, well… come on, we don’t really have to tell you anything about her, right? Let’s just say that she could probably do just fine in the monetary department even if she wasn’t married to Jay-Z.

For some reason, George Lucas doesn’t come to mind for many people when it comes to wealthy men, but he does have a net worth ranging in the several billions. He also has a beautiful wife, Mellody Hobson of Ariel Management Company. They were wed in 2013.

On an interesting note about their relationship, their daughter was conceived in 2013 via gestational carrier. Then again, it’s not hard to imagine why that may have been necessary for the couple to have their own child.

By now, everyone knows that Bill Gates and his once upon a time wife Melinda have divorced. But, considering that Bill Gates is an immensely wealthy man and they were married for 27 years, we feel that Melinda still fits here.

She may not be his wife anymore, but being married to one of the richest men in the world for that long kind of cement your identity as such a wife in the minds of the world. Of course, she’s pretty wealthy herself now, considering the divorce.