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Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Rihanna, the Kardashians...are all there to celebrate your wedding. Now that would be a pinacle of an event, wouldn't it. A wedding celebrated in festivities and celebrities' performances worth Millions of Dollars, 600 Million to be specific, dubbed as the most expensive, star-studded & elitist wedding of our times. This is the Anant Ambani & Radhika Merchant wedding.
3 days of pre-wedding events in March leading to 3 days of wedding celebration on July the 12th and so much happening in between. Son of Billionaire Reliance chairman Mukesh Ambani & daughter of industrialist Viren Merchant took their happy day to another level of lavish & elegant, as well as fun, charitable and ritualistic.
Ambani-Merchant Family
The wedding that has shaken up the press and got all media eyes on them worldwide after months of pre-wedding events, since March. The Billionaire heir of India & his now-wife Radhika tied the knot in Mumbai over the entire weekend of July the 12th.
Ever been to an extravagantly lavish wedding? Anant & Radhika have redefined the concept of a wealthy celebration, into wealthiest & trendiest - let's have a look into the wow factors that rendered this event, a most spoken of! Luxury, Fashion, Entertainment, Traditions & Rituals, Celebrities & worldwide Personalities...the who's who of A-listed artists and politicians alike were there!
Anant Ambani & Adhika Merchant
Asia's richest billionaire spends $300 million on 2 pre-wedding parties for his "youngest son" - Rihanna performed her first full-length concert in nearly eight years, kicked off the celebration of the pre-wedding festivities on March 1 for a fee estimating 6 to 9 million dollars.
Rihanna's pre-wedding performance
The pre-wedding festivities lasted from March 1 till 3 at the Ambani estate in Jamnagar, India, with some 1,200 guests invited. Attendees such as Bill Gates, Hillary Clinton, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Karlie Kloss, and Mark Zuckerberg, as well as business power players, gathered to toast the couple and enjoy the show.
Mark Zuckerberg & Priscilla Chan
Other entertainers reportedly included Akon, Punjabi musician Diljit Dosanjh, and magician David Blaine. The celebration also included a jungle-themed party and light show with 5,500 drones. The weekend was planned over three months, with Anant’s mother, Nita, recruiting Indian designer Manish Malhotra to be the affair’s creative director.
David Guetta & The Backstreet Boys gave a surprise concert, late May, as the couple and around 1,200 of their friends, family, and coworkers boarded a cruise ship in Palermo, Italy.
The Backstreet Boys on Ambani Yacht
It was a four-day trip making stops throughout the Mediterranean, and one night called for a toga party dress code, a nod to the couple’s college origins.
David Guetta on Ambani Yacht
The ship stopped for an evening in Cannes, where guests enjoyed a masquerade ball and a surprise Katy Perry concert. A Pitbull concert followed upon reboarding.
Katy Perry in Cannes for Ambani-Merchant Festivities
Pitbull at Ambani-Merchant Festivities
At the end of the party, the yacht stopped in Portofino (Italy). The final concert featured Italian singer Andrea Bocelli and his son Matteo Bocelli.
In Portofino, celebrants were treated to a specially created open-air market for the night’s festivities, during which they were serenaded by Andrea Bocelli. The tenor performed “Love in Portofino” and “Can’t Help Falling in Love.”
Andrea Bocelli at Ambani-Merchant Festivities
Justin Bieber performed for the couple at their Sangeet ceremony the week ahead of the final festivities on July the 5th.
Justin Bieber with the couple
Now the wedding itself arrived! The three-day festivities kicked off on Friday, July 12 in Mumbai. The day was marked by a formal ceremony at the World Convention Centre in Mumbai.
The centre is a 16,000-seat convention center owned by the Ambanis - unsurprisingly, the guest list was red carpet-style, with Indian cinema superstars such as Arjun Kapoor and Salman Khan among the guests.
Arjun Kapoor and Salman Khan at the wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant
American reality stars Kim Kardashian and sister Khloe Kardashian, Actor John Cena, Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, whose wedding Anant and Radhika attended together as a couple in 2018 - time for some fashion sensation & some real diamond display.
Kardashians at Ambani-Merchant Wedding
John Cena at Ambani-Merchant Wedding
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas at the wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant
Sunday was the Mangal Utsav: the couple’s wedding reception which was attended by over 14,000 people. Let's watch the worldwide broadcast.
A running tally calculated by The Guardian estimated that the current wedding cost, which includes the pre-wedding parties and payment for the pop-stars’ performances, is $600 million.
And that is how a world-elite celebrated wedding looks like. Congratulations to the couple!
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