Vanisha Mittal and Amit Bhatia
Cost: $78 million
The record-holder for the world's most expensive wedding to
date is the nuptials of Vanisha Mittal (daughter of billionaire Lakshmi Mittal)
and investment banker Amit Bhatia.
Lets see few glimpses of engagement and Grand Wedding…….
Enchanting Engagement….. 20 June 2004
The engagement ceremony took place on 20 June 2004 at the
Palace of Versailles, once the home to Louis XIV, France's Sun King. There was
a lavish dinner for the guests at the Jardin des Tuileries on the right bank in
Paris.
The highlight of the engagement ceremony was a cocktail
party for the guests who were then taken through the palace.
Mr Mittal and his
wife, Usha, according to reports, even played themselves in an hour-long
'drama' which enacted the love story of Vanisha and 25-year-old Amit at a
glittering function on the banks of the Seine. The domestic drama was a
Bollywood production. The script was written by leading movie writer Javed
Akhtar, set to music by music director Shankar Mahadevan and choreographed by
dance director-turned filmmaker Farah Khan.
Wealthy Wedding…….22 June 2004, Paris
The elaborate, outrageous wedding has been honored by
Forbes' Magazine as one of the most expensive weddings, and currently ranks in
the Guinness Book of World Records for the most expensive wedding ever
recorded, with $78 million spent. This wedding went on for five days.
This then is the mother of all weddings for the daughter of
one of the wealthiest Asian men in the world. The host is London-based
Indian-born steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal. The bride his daughter Vanisha. The bridegroom
Amit Bhatia, a Delhi-born investment banker, now based in London. Mr Mittal
owns a steel company with an estimated worth of $6.4bn. Only last April he paid
out nearly $127m for a London mansion, making it the most expensive house in
the world.
It had 1,000 guests
from all over the world, 20-page-thick silver-cased invitation cards and five
days of events staged in some of the France's most famous settings. The
expensive wedding invitation card was talk of the Indian media. The card
contained romantic poems, including some written by a Mittal family member.
And, of course, there
is Bollywood song and dance. The guests were put up by the host in a five-star
hotel in Paris.
Mr Mittal had hired
the 17th century Vaux le Vicomte, described as the "finest chateau and
garden" in France, for the marriage of 23-year-old Vanisha, who has a
degree from London's School of Oriental and African Studies, and her banker
fiancé.
The chateau was built
for Nicolas Fouquet, King Louis XIV's finance minister. The Eiffel Tower was cleared
for the mother of all firework displays.
Top Bollywood stars,
including Aishwarya Rai and Shah Rukh Khan entertained the guests at a
'surprise' Bollywood theme party at the wedding.
The bridal trousseau was
designed by some of the top Indian designers, including Suneet Verma and Tarun
Tahiliani.
One of the top chefs
from the eastern Indian city of Calcutta, where Mr Mittal was born, was flown
to Paris to prepare Indian food for the guests. Munna Maharaj, Calcutta's top
caterer-turned-restaurateur, has a reputation for rising to the challenge of a
big event.
"The steel
magnate summons all the romance of Paris to gift his daughter-and his guests-a
fairytale wedding,"
Happy Wedding!!
Shubh Vivah- The wedding planner
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