Kris Humphries and Kim Kardashian attend the Kardashian Kollection Launch Party at The Colony on Wednesday, August 17. (WireImage)
(
)
Forget white! Kim Kardashian could have been wearing green at her wedding.
The buxom reality-TV diva and her basketball-playing hubby, Kris Humphries, raked in a lot more than a few toasters when they tied the knot last night — scoring about $17.9 million by turning the ceremony into a media extravaganza.
The exclusive photo rights to the Hollywood super nuptials were sold to People magazine for $2.5 million, a source told The Post.
But that’s just the icing on the couple’s cash cake.
PHOTOS: SUPER-SECRET KARDASHIAN WEDDING
Their biggest payout will come from turning last night’s ceremony into a four-hour, two-part TV spectacular called “Kim’s Fairytale Wedding: A Kardashian Event,” which will air on E! in October.
The special is expected to pull in $12 million to $15 million for the Kardashian family franchise and for the show’s producer, Ryan Seacrest.
The wedding likely didn’t cost the celebrity couple much, if anything, experts say.
LA celebrity event planner Tony Schubert said many vendors would have either comped or given huge discounts to the couple in return for the publicity.
“It benefits the vendors, their goods and services [to be] shown to millions of people,” he said.
The 30-year-old star of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” picked the Sotto Il Monte estate in Montecito, Calif., for the black-tie affair.
She got three $20,000 Vera Wang gowns — one for the ceremony and two for later in the evening — all free, and $400,000 worth of Perrier Jouet Champagne also gratis.
Her $15,000, 10-tiered wedding cake with chocolate-chip icing and black and white decorations made by Hansen’s Bakery was comped, too.
In addition, the $10,000 worth of invitations by Lehr & Black were free.
“It seems they released the invitation a few weeks ago for obvious reasons. It’s all part of the game,” Schubert said.
Other costs would have included $2 million for Mark Gardens floral arrangements of African white roses and black and white décor, tents, lighting and favors.
Caviar, Kobe burgers, truffles, cupcakes and other tasty tidbits for the reception racked up a sweet $750,000 tab for the nearly 500 guests, which included Seacrest, Lindsay Lohan, Eva Longoria, and Carmelo Anthony and his wife, La La, People reported.
The $3 million in wedding bling — including the couple’s $1 million nuptial bands and Kim’s $2 million engagement ring, all by Lorraine Schwartz — was deeply discounted.
Even the $50,000 bachelorette party was sponsored, by Tao of Las Vegas.
In a public wedding of this magnitude, “everything is usually paid for or traded out,” said TV consultant Adam Armbruster of New Jersey-based ESA & Co.
After the wedding, the couple planned to head to New York, where Kim and her sister Kourtney will work on their reality TV show “Kourtney & Kim Take New York.”
During the filming, they will have a second wedding party at Capitale.
Making off like bandits
While the wedding of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries was reported to cost a manicured-eyebrow raising $10 million, the lovebirds really didn’t have to shell out a dime — in fact, they’ll rake in at least $17.9 million for just saying, “I do”!
Payments they received
* $15 million plus profit for four-hour, two-part wedding special on E!
* $2.5 million for exclusive photos with People magazine
* $300,000 for exclusive engagement announcement with People
* $100,000 for exclusive rights to bridal shower with Britain’s OK! mag
* $50,000 to have bachelorette party at Tao in Las Vegas
Stuff they got for free
* $15,000 to $20,000 Hansen’s Bakery wedding cake
* $20,000 Vera Wang wedding dress and fittings
* $40,000 for two more Vera Wang evening dresses
* $400,000 in Perrier Jouet Champagne
* $150,000 in hair and makeup for photo shoots and TV “home video”
* $10,000 in Lehr & Black wedding invitations
Deeply discounted
* $2 million 20.5-carat engagement ring and $1 million wedding bands by jeweler Lorraine Schwartz. The amount they paid for these items hasn’t been revealed, but it’s much less than their worth.