If you were a billionaire, what musicians would you pay to play at your wedding?

I was pondering this very question today as I was reading about the nuptials of Petra Ecclestone, the daughter of Formula One's Bernie Ecclestone (who is worth £2.5 billion). The less said about the looks of the groom the better.... But I digress....

For her £1.3m wedding this weekend, she's chosen the same Italian castle where Katie Holmes got married to Tom Cruise (and pretended to be shorter than him in the wedding pic by crouching. See here). But I digress again...

Back to the important stuff -- the entertainment!

Petra's Dad has booked Eric Clapton (playing for free because he's a friend) and the Black Eyed Peas (playing for £1 million because they're not). Pretty great choices I must say, and certainly better than some other celebs' big day choices:

Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries - Robin Thicke and Earth, Wind and Fire (oh dear)
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes - Italian singer Andrea Bocelli (booorrrrring)
Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston - a Latin Jazz band and a 40-piece gospel choir
James and Erica Packer (Aussie media mogul) - Canadian crooner Michael Buble
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - English pop star Ellie Goulding and a DJ
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban - Hugh Jackman, Neil Finn and a 16-piece big band
Donald and Melania Trump - Tony Bennett, Billy Joel
Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas - a Welsh choir, Tom Jones, Art Garfunkel, Gladys Knight, Mick Hucknell
Prince Albert and Princess Charlene (ha!) - American rockers The Eagles, French artist Jean Michael Jarre
Kate Moss and Jamie Hince - Bryan Ferry and a DJ

Yikes. Clearly money doesn't buy taste in a lot of cases. If I was a billionaire and could book ANYBODY in the world to pay you can bet your bottom dollar it wouldn't be Earth, Wind and Fire.

So who's on my list?  Let's see...

Kings of Convenience and Feist - bit of cool chill-out stuff to get the party in a good mood
The Pixies - as a present for my husband
The Cat Empire  - Aussie ska/jazz/funk band to get the party grooving
Lenny Kravitz - so he can play "Let Love Rule" live for me
Eric Clapton - so he can play "Cocaine" and we can all watch my Dad go batshit crazy
The Rolling Stones - get the whole party rocking out
Rihanna and Groove Armada - now we can dance!

And if I was going to bring a band out of retirement for a couple of tracks, it's gotta be Fine Young Cannibals.  "Good thing..where have you gone..."

Failing that - you could just make a playlist and play all the artists above, just like I did. And my party rocked!