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Billionaire Russian oligarch and Arsenal FC co-owner pays for his niece's VERY extravagant wedding to an Uzbek tennis star, featuring three designer dresses and a fairytale castle (and the bride was treated to a Sex and the City-themed hen party, too)

A billionaire Russian oligarch and co-owner of Arsenal Football Club has treated his niece and her tennis star husband to a jaw-droppingly lavish wedding ceremony, featuring everything from a Disney-style castle erected inside the venue to a gown with a train big enough to cover the dancefloor.

Photographs of the extravagant affair capture bride Ganya Usmanova, who is understood to have worn a total of three dresses throughout the day, surrounded by dozens of guests holding her enormous train in the air.

Her uncle, the business magnate Alisher Usmanov, 64, acquired a 14 per cent stake in London-club Arsenal in 2007 and is understood to have footed much of the bill for the opulent wedding of Ganya, 24, to Uzbek tennis star Vazha Uzakov, 29.