Hopkins Coach Novak Rubs Elbows With Celebrities

Ken Novak Jr. has been to the mountaintop in the world of high school basketball more than once. However, he probably hasn’t been to as glamorous one as he was at this past weekend.

Novak and his wife, Shauna, were among the many guests at the wedding this past weekend of Kris Humphries and Kim Kardashian in Santa Barbara, CA.

Nothing was spared to put on the nuptials. Estimates are the price tag for the event ranged from $6 million to $10 million.

“I’m certain I will never attend another wedding anything like it,” the Hopkins boy’s basketball coach said.

The Novaks were invited because he was Humphries' coach at Hopkins back in the early 2000s. Today, Humphries is plays for the NBA’s New Jersey Nets.

The wedding took place at a $29 million mansion just outside Santa Barbara.

“We were driven over in large limos. When we got there, we were told that cameras were not allowed, had to go through a metal detector and had to sign a document granting permission for them to use our photos in wedding pictures and any related publicity associated with the wedding," he said. “I glanced at it and started to sign and I heard a woman behind me say it’s always a good idea to read all legal documents thoroughly. I turned around, and it was Greta van Susteren."

Novak said the wedding was filled with more celebrities that can be imagined: “Venus and Serena Williams sat right in front of us at the ceremony. Others there were George Lopez, Kathy Lee Gifford and Scottie Pippin.”

Novak recalled that the reception took place outdoors under a tent  “the size of a big ballroom.

“They also had dozens of giant balloons a couple of hundred feet in the air tethered to the ground to keep helicopters away," he said.

Earth, Wind and Fire provided live music.

“It was really something,” Novak said.