Rihanna and Justin Bieber is ‘being paid £5M’ to perform at pre-wedding celebration for the son of India’s richest man as she arrives in Jamnagar for three-day party
Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s pre-wedding party: 1000 guests, 14 newly erected temples, a nine page dress code and a three day extravaganza for India’s richest heir and his childhood sweetheart
Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant are set to be married in July, but it’s never too soon to start celebrating for these suρer-rich lovebirds and their guest list of big Bollywood names, the Bhutan royal family and Bill Gates. Tatler has all the latest on the wild pre-wedding weekend, which is taking the internet by storm
What event will bring together pop superstar Rihanna, tech giant Mark Zuckerberg, Bollywood mega names like Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan, Hillary Clinton and Bhutan’s royal family? No this isn’t a fabulous phantasmagorical fever dream, nor the beginning of a bad joke.
It is in fact the unbelievable guest list of the pre-wedding party of Anant Ambani, 28, son of India’s richest man and tenth richest man in the world, Mukesh Ambani. Anant is to be wed to his childhood sweetheart Radhika Merchant, 29, the daughter of a mega-rich industrialist. The event, which has gone viral for having a nine page dress code and 1000 guests, will happen this Friday in the western city of Jamnagar, although the main wedding event itself won’t happen until 12 July.
Pre-wedding events are common in Indian nuptial celebrations, although according to Indian wedding expert Jignasa Patel ‘these gatherings and events start off small and intimate, usually involving families,’ with larger events taking place closer to the wedding day. Well, we’re five months off the wedding day, and the intended are celebrating with a three day spectacle drawing in A-list guests from around the world. ‘One can only imagine the scale of the wedding itself’, says Tatler’s wedding editor, Astrid Joss. ‘We’ve seen our fair share of extravagant events surrounding Indian weddings – but none quite so magnificent as this. The fact that such huge names are flying in from all over the world for the pre-party is indication of the seriously spectacular moments we can expect to see over the weekend.’
