Ambani Wedding: Details Of The Ambanis’ 500 Million Pound Wedding, From 20 Million Flowers To 37 Thousand 300 Food Options
Ambani Wedding: The couple’s wedding ceremony, which took place in several stages, was 15 times more expensive than Harry and Meghan’s £34 million wedding ceremony.
You might think that royal weddings are expensive and glitzy, but it was Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s wedding that shocked the world with a cost of over £500 million. Anant, the son of India’s richest man, and Radhika, the heiress of the pharmaceutical company Merchant, celebrated their engagement last weekend in Mumbai in front of five thousand guests.
Ambani Wedding, Among the guests were celebrities such as Kim and Khloe Kardashian, former British Prime Ministers Boris Johnson and Tony Blair, and actress Priyanka Chopra and her singer husband Nick Jonas.
Of course, in a country where millions of people live in poverty, the holding of such a ceremony aroused curiosity as well as criticism.
According to the Sun, the Ambanis reserved 100 private jets for the guests who came from all over the world for this three-day event, and all the five-star hotels in Mumbai were ready to receive their guests. This family had paid for the hotels in advance.
Ambani Wedding, The couple’s wedding ceremony, which took place in several stages, was 15 times more expensive than Harry and Meghan’s £34 million wedding ceremony. The first ceremony of this couple started in March with the performance of Rihanna and Ikan with the presence of 1,200 guests. According to reports, Rihanna received five million pounds for the 90-minute performance, and the total cost of the event was 126 million pounds.
Then the £94.5m four-day Mediterranean cruise for 800 guests began. Katy Perry, Backstreet Boys and Pitbull performed on this cruise.
Last week, a traditional pre-wedding party was held where Justin Bieber performed with a salary of seven million pounds.
Ambani Wedding: Details Of The Ambanis’ 500 Million Pound Wedding
Ambani Wedding, According to Sun, the marriage ceremony of this couple was held last weekend in Mumbai. The police had warned about the heavy traffic from July 12 to 15 in most parts of the city, because thousands of guests and businessmen and suppliers of the celebration’s necessities, as well as security and law enforcement forces, were on their way to the venue of this magnificent celebration.
The weekend’s festivities began on Friday at the Ambani family’s £780 million, 27-story compound, which has three helipads, a 160-car parking lot and a private cinema. Later on Saturday, another ceremony was held at the Geo World Convention Center, which belongs to Anant’s father, 67-year-old Mukesh.
Anant entered on a white horse and his friends and family members started dancing and stomping. Meanwhile, the bride arrived in a wooden boat. Then 60-year-old Nita, Anant’s mother, continued the ceremony with a poem about the value of girls. Radhika wore a stunning traditional skirt designed by Manish Malhotra, who was chosen as the creative director of the event.
Skilled tailors and weavers spent months to prepare about 100 rare silk sarees and their needlework with gold and silver threads, each worth more than 100,000 pounds.
Ambani Wedding, The wedding guests’ wardrobes were also expensive, as they were each given an 18-page dress code and had to change their clothes five times. Looks like Kim and Khloe Kardashian paid a fortune for the impressive traditional outfits they wore.
Boris Johnson’s wife Kerry also looked stunning in a traditional silver skirt as she held her children Rumi, two, and Wilf, four, who were both dressed in traditional Indian attire.
As soon as the guests entered the 18.5-hectare venue, they were faced with a thousand crystal chandeliers and 20 million flowers on the way, which were decorated by a group of 500 florists. Guests were then treated to glasses of the world’s best vintage champagnes.
Ambani Wedding, When it came to food, the hosts spared no expense. At the March celebration, the couple served 2,500 food options to 1,000 guests. In the recent ceremony, this choice reached 37,500 options that were prepared with the help of 500 chefs.
Anant and Radhika, who spent millions of pounds on their big day, are expected to have received more than £100 million in gifts from guests. Anant’s father, who is the ninth richest man in the world with a fortune of 100 billion pounds, previously bought a 62 million pound villa in Dubai for the happy couple. They were also given a Bentley car worth 500,000 pounds.
The bride’s custom jewelry, including a 2 million pound brooch, was from the Cartier brand. Nita gave her bride a diamond necklace worth approximately 10 million pounds.
Ambani Wedding, According to the estimates of experts in the wedding planning application “Bride Book”, the recent wedding of the Ambanis cost about 563 million pounds, which is 28,000 times the average cost of holding a wedding in the UK, which is worth about 20,000 pounds.
Of course, this is not the first time that Mukesh Ambani organizes such big celebrations for his family members. In 2018, Mukesh’s daughter Isha’s wedding was also the most expensive wedding in India. The cost of the ceremony was 80 million pounds and figures such as Hillary Clinton, the former first lady of the United States, participated in it, and Beyonce, the famous American singer, also performed.
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