The of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant is set to be the ultimate celebration of extravagance, exclusivity, and exuberance. The childhood sweethearts will tie the knot in a lavish three day ceremony held at the Jio World Convention Centre in , and if the pre-wedding parties are anything to go by, the ceremony will be the last word in luxury. Think nine pages of dress code for 1000 A-lister guests, custom Versace gowns, $152 million dollar budgets, performances from the likes of Rhianna and Justin Beiber, and an 800-person Mediterranean cruise with a Roman toga party to boot.
Yes, that’s all the big day. It’s what you’d expect from ’s most powerful family: the youngest son of Asia’s richest man (and the world’s 10th richest), Mukesh Ambani, Anant is partial heir to the family's $118 billion fortune – and his bride-to-be, Merchant, is the daughter of similarly wealthy pharmaceutical tycoons. Recently, an inside source vouched for the sheer star power of the Ambani celebrations to : ‘They flex huge social and financial influence .
.. no one would turn down an invitation.
They’re a marker of the social pecking order.’ So it’s the word on everybody’s lips, the talk of the town, the subject of months worth of spiralling rumours: who has their name on the Ambani wedding guest list? Which of the great, the good, and the gilded have bagged an invitation to this most illustrious of events? The Hollywood elite have already been flying in to kick off the celebrati.