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Meet the rich and famous guests attending the Ambani wedding in Mumbai
- Radhika Merchant and Anant Ambani’s wedding begins on Friday.
- The three-day gathering will feature a traditional Hindu ceremony, followed by other events.
- Priyanka Chopra, Nick Jonas, and Kim Kardashian are among the stars expected to attend.
A four-day cruise, a performance by Rihanna, and a mass wedding for 50 couples were all just the lead-up to the glitziest wedding of the year.
Radhika Merchant and Anant Ambani, the youngest son of Asia’s richest man, are getting married in Mumbai on Friday, with events following on Saturday and Sunday.
The Ambanis will be surrounded by family, friends, and a who’s who of business, entertainment, politics, and sport.
The star-studded affair will kick off with a “Shubh Vivaah,” a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony held around a fire, according to a leaked wedding invitation seen by news agency Asian News International.
This will be followed by a “Shubh Aashirwad” or “divine blessing” ceremony on Saturday, and the wedding concludes with a reception party or “Mangal Utsav” on Sunday.
It’s expected to be held at the Jio World Convention Centre and the Ambani family home in Mumbai called Antilia.
Here are some of the stars attending and invited to the wedding.
Shahid Kapoor and Meera Rajput
Bollywood celebrities have been prominent on the guest lists of all the pre-wedding and wedding events.
Shah Rukh Khan and his wife Meera Rajput arrived in Mumbai on Friday for the wedding weekend, according to the Indian outlet Mint.
Actors including Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh, Shahid Kapoor, Jhanvi Kapoor, Vidya Balan, Alia Bhat, Ranbir Kapoor, have been featured in official photos of the pre-wedding events.