The star is said to have pitted rival tabloid magazines against one another for the shots of her tying the knot with Good Charlotte rocker Joel Madden.
An insider said: “[She is] playing the weekly magazines against each other to drive up the price.”
She is said to have agreed a price with OK! – then taken her offer to People magazine, the New York Post reports.
But she ran into problems when she couldn’t guarantee certain star guests would be at the bash.
'Things got complicated because both Kim Kardashian and Christina Aguilera said they couldn't attend the wedding because of other commitments,” a source said.
A representative for Richie, who is expected to wear a Marchesa dress as she walks down the aisle at her dad Lionel Richie’s Beverly Hills estate in California, told the New York Post: 'Your information is incorrect.'