Socialite Kim Kardashian and rapper Kanye West have decided to turn down a host of offers from magazines to buy photos of their wedding this weekend.
This is despite receiving offers of up to $1 million.
The reality star is set to marry West – with whom she has 10-month-old daughter, North – on Saturday, and although there is huge interest surrounding her nuptials, ‘Kimye’ have decided to priorities their privacy and keep all photos of the big day to themselves.
Kardashian sold the pictures from her second marriage to Kris Humphries to People magazine for $1.5 million as well as receiving $300,000 for their engagement announcement, and the ceremony was recorded and aired on E! reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
A source told the New York Daily News’ Confidenti@l column: “Kim wants to handle the wedding with Kanye [West] in a more private manner.
“There is huge interest in the wedding and in her dresses, and she’s the most famous girl in the world. She understands publicity. But selling the pictures after everything that happened with the last wedding [to Kris Humphries] isn’t the way to go and she knows that.”
Kardashian – whose union to Humphries only lasted 72 days – could expect to receive a bumper pay day if she change her mind and take a publication’s offer for images.
The source explained: “If any other celebrity had been married for a few months after a two-hour E! special, they’d be unable to go back to the same well. She keeps getting bigger and bigger.
“If she chooses to sell exclusive wedding pictures, she’ll make more than she did last time.”