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Money can't buy happiness, or ensure marital success, but it can certainly buy a very, very <keyword id="22383832" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="expensive-wedding" source="keywords">expensive wedding</keyword>. <keyword id="20178842" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Anant-Ambani" source="keywords">Anant Ambani</keyword> and <keyword id="20178843" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Radhika-Merchant" source="keywords">Radhika Merchant</keyword>’s upcoming wedding is often dubbed as the wedding of the year and is perhaps the most talked-about event in recent times. After kicking off celebrations earlier this year with their first pre-wedding festivities in Gujarat, the billionaire family followed it up with a star-studded luxury cruise to Italy for another pre-wedding affair — there are some things that only the Ambanis can conceive of, after all. Thankfully, the happy couple is finally getting hitched. In the interim, speculations are rife on just how much of his wealth the senior Mr Ambani has parted with for his son’s nuptials. Internet trolls even suggest that Jio’s potential IPO plans are in part to compensate for the extravagant spending on the wedding. Jokes aside, while we won’t know for sure just how much has been spent on this wedding until after it has culminated, it promises to win the title of the most expensive wedding in the world in recent times. In the meantime, we can take you through some of the most pricey <keyword id="22383831" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="big-fat-Indian-weddings" source="keywords">big fat Indian weddings</keyword>! <h2>Isha Ambani and <keyword id="20288912" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Anand-Piramal" source="keywords">Anand Piramal</keyword>’s 700-crore wedding </h2>Daughter of billionaire <keyword id="19916798" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mukesh-Ambani" source="keywords">Mukesh Ambani</keyword>, Isha had a week-long extravaganza costing Rs 700 crores, or roughly $100 million. The celebration spanned across Udaipur (India), Lake Como (Italy), and Mumbai (India), with celebrities performing and the ceremony on a private island. <h2>Double Wedding of Roy Brothers cost 554 crores</h2>In 2004, the sons of business tycoon Subrata Roy, the former chairman of the Sahara Group, <keyword id="22383834" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sushant-Roy" source="keywords">Sushant Roy</keyword> and Seemanto Roy's wedding cost Rs 554 crore $75 million. Held at a Lucknow stadium, it was a week-long party with over 11,000 guests flown in by private jets, including Bollywood stars and sports personalities. <h2>Brahmani Reddy's 500-crore wedding</h2>The 2016 wedding of Brahmani Reddy, daughter of mining magnate and former politician Gali Janardhana Reddy, to Rajiv Reddy was a $74 million affair (Rs 500 crore). The five-day celebration at Bangalore Palace hosted 50,000 guests, including celebrities and politicians. <h2> Shristi Mittal and Gulraj Behl’s wedding costed 500 crores</h2>Steel tycoon Promod Mittal’s daughter, Shristi Mittal, married Gulraj Behl spent the same amount of money as the Reddys during their three-day celebration in Barcelona, Spain in 2013. It had 500 guests, a menu by a celebrity chef, and a giant six-tier cake. Helicopters even captured the event from above! <h2>Another Mittal wedding worth 240 crores </h2>Lakshmi Mittal from the same steel tycoon family had his daughter <keyword id="22383833" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="vanisha-mittal" source="keywords">Vanisha Mittal</keyword> married to Amit Bhatia in a grand Parisian wedding that cost Rs 240 crores ($55 million) back in 2004! The six-day celebration featured performances by celebrities like Kylie Minogue and Bollywood stars. A play was written for the pre-wedding events, and the main ceremony was held at a 17th-century chateau. We think it’s fair to say that this couple sort of set the precedent for the other expensive weddings that followed. <h2>Sonam Vaswani's 210-crore wedding </h2>In 2017, Sonam Vaswani's wedding to Navin Fabiani cost Rs 210 crores ($30 million) and was held at a royal venue in Vienna (Austria). Sonam is the daughter of Stallion Group founder Sunil Vaswani while Navin is a UAE- and Mumbai-based businessman. The festivities took place across multiple palaces. <h2>Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma's 100-crore wedding </h2>Celebrity couple Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma reportedly spent Rs 100 crores ($15 million) on their wedding in Italy in 2017. Virushka’s nuptials were attended by just 40 guests but they got married in Lake Como, which would explain the expenditure! The couple also held a reception later in Mumbai. <h2>Looking ahead: a billion-dollar <keyword id="20727512" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Ambani-wedding" source="keywords">Ambani wedding</keyword>?</h2>With pre-wedding festivities already costing a reported US$100 million, the upcoming wedding of Anant Ambani is poised to break records. Whether it surpasses past extravagance remains to be seen, but one thing's for sure: it will be a spectacle to remember. Also Read: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/entertainment/news/anant-ambani-radhika-merchant-wedding-key-details-on-performances-menu-guest-list-and-yes-the-traffic-advisory/articleshow/111655198.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">Key details on the Anant Ambani-Radhika Merchant wedding</a>

How the Ambani wedding weighs up against some famous, expensive, big fat Indian weddings

Mining baron and billionaire from Karnataka, Gali <keyword id="73291" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Janardhan-Reddy">Janardhan Reddy</keyword> has sent out a boxed wedding invitation for his daughter’s wedding and it is surely going down in history. 
 
The wedding box, like the traditional ones, does have a written invite but one thing that will surely blow your mind is the LCD Screen inside the box. 
 
Yes, at a time when people are cutting down unnecessary expenditure on weddings, he sent out a LCD invite for his daughter’s wedding, which has a minute-long video of Reddy, his wife, bride Brahmani and groom Rajeev Reddy. 
 
The song being played in the video was especially composed for the wedding invite. 
 
The wedding invite will put Bollywood movies to shame as it has all ingredients such as horses, lip-syncing, music, introduction of the couples, etc. 
 
Well, this won’t come as a surprise for those who have attended a wedding hosted by Reddy in which he spent Rs 20 crore and the guests were flown in via helicopter. 
 
As per various reports, Shah Rukh Khan, Prabhudeva, Tamannah and Katrina Kaif may perform at the wedding, which is scheduled for November 16. 
 
For those of you who can’t register who Reddy is, this former BJP member spent more than three years in jail in connection with the Ballary illegal mining case. He used to have a 15kg gold throne as well. 
 
If you still don’t believe us, watch it here:

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Karnataka billionaire’s daughter’s wedding invite includes an LCD screen and a
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<keyword id="264298" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Gali-Janardhana-Reddy">Gali Janardhana Reddy</keyword>, the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=mining+baron&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">mining baron</a> and former <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=karnataka&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Karnataka</a> minister is hellbent on ensuring that his daughter’s wedding is the most <keyword id="4620813" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="lavish-wedding">lavish wedding</keyword> the country has seen. And, going by the preparations, it’s safe to say, he might have succeeded. 
 
It all started with the Reddys sending out an <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/This-Karnataka-billionaires-daughters-wedding-invite-includes-an-LCD-screen-and-a-custom-shot-music-video-See-it-to-believe-it/articleshow/54938280.cms">outrageously lavish wedding invite </a>that comprised an LCD screen playing a custom video for all its recievers. Taking it a notch higher, <keyword id="68429" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Janardhana-Reddy">Janardhana Reddy</keyword> is reportedly spending a whopping Rs 500 crores on Brahmini, his daughter’s wedding, making the event the fattest wedding of the year. 
 Reddy who is an accused in several money laundering and illegal mining cases, believes that he is the reincarnation of the Vijayanagara King Krishnadevarya and has thus recreated the ancient city of <keyword id="49785" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Hampi">Hampi</keyword> of the Vijayanagara empire on 36 acres of land at the Palace Grounds in <keyword id="6354321" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Bengaluru">Bengaluru</keyword> as a setting for his daughter’s marriage. 
 The setting includes building King Krishnadevaraya’s palace, Lotus Mahal, Mahanavami Dibba, Vijaya Vittala Temple and Reddy’s childhood home ‘Hale Mane’, all of which are being reconstructed by <keyword id="143" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Bollywood">Bollywood</keyword>’s biggest art directors and an army of labourers. Horses, elephants, camels and chariots will lend even more pomp to the ceremony. 
 
 
 
 On the other hand, the celebrations have already begun in full swing from November 12 with a mehendi ceremony and will culminate in this year’s most extravagant event on November 16 when Reddy’s daughter Brahmini ties the knot with <keyword id="426456" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Rajeev-Reddy">Rajeev Reddy</keyword>, the son of Hyderabad-based industrialist. As many as eight priests from the Tirupati Thirmala temple have been flown down to perform the rituals. 
 
It is estimated that over 30,000 guests will be in attendance, with 1500 rooms in star hotels being booked to accommodate them. There will also be 2000 cabs to ferry them to the venue and back while 15 helipads have also been set-up to fly in VIP guests. The VVIP guests, will be ferried from the entrance to the mandap area on cushioned bullock carts. 
 To ensure the security of all the guests, 3,000 bouncers, including special security on location, have been employed at the <keyword id="9092" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="Bangalore-palace">Bangalore Palace</keyword> ground. Additionally, 300 police personnel have been employed for the VVIPs to attend the wedding. Sniffer dogs and bomb squads have also been deployed on location for the day of the wedding. 
 
Reportedly, the bride’s wedding trousseau will comprise a Rs 17 crore saree, which she will wear on her wedding day. Accessorizing it will be jewellery worth Rs 90 crores, gifted by the bride’s father for the special occasion. 
 
 
 
Bollywood and Tollywood stars are also expected to attend the wedding, with rumours of performances by <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=srk&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Shah Rukh Khan</a>, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=alia+bhatt&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Alia Bhatt</a>, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=varun+dhawan&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Varun Dhawan</a> and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=prabhu+deva&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Prabhu Deva</a> flying wild. According to sources close to the family, State and Union government Ministers will be gracing the occasion. 
 
In light of Demonestisation, the one question everyone wishes to know is how has the move not affected the lavish preparations for the wedding. That’s because the Reddys has completed all the transactions six months ago right when the wedding planning had started. Infact, Reddy has mortgaged close to 10 of his properties to borrow Rs 30 crores. 
 
Reddy, who was arrested by the CBI on charges of illegal mining, has been out on bail since January 20, 2015, on the condition that he would not visit Ballari and Kadapa. In view of his daughter's marriage, Mr Reddy submitted a plea to permit him to visit Ballari and the apex court relaxed the restrictions for 21 days - from November 1 to 21. 
 
Image credit: NewsMinute

This billionaire politician built a palace in the middle of Bangalore for his daughter's Rs 500 crore wedding

Recently, former <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=BJP+&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">BJP </a>minister and mining czar <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=G+Janardhan+Reddy+&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">G Janardhan Reddy </a>was in news for spending hundreds of crores on his daughter’s wedding at Bengaluru Palace. Now, <keyword id="6354751" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Income-Tax">income tax</keyword> officials are after his life and scanning his accounts. 
 
Along with Reddy, his daughter’s in-laws and event managers-who were signed up for various wedding-related services like priests, security guards and pandal suppliers-are also under the radar. 
 
The Income Tax (I-T) department, recently, issued a three-page notice to Reddy seeking details of all the expenses, including the source of income for his showy attire during the wedding. 
 
Reddy's daughter's five-day wedding grabbed headlines for its ostentatious display of wealth: LCD-screen invitation cards, recreation of the Vijayanagara empire by erecting massive sets on the 35-acre wedding venue, and a list of of 50,000 guests. 
 Other reason for the wedding to be in headline except for hundreds of crores being spent is that the wedding took place within days of PM <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword> declaring a war on black money by outlawing the use of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes. 
 
Tax department sources said: "We've been gathering information for the past two months. We waited for the wedding to get over and have now issued a notice to him under Section 135 A (5) of the Income Tax Act, 1961. He has been directed to reply before November 25." 
 
The notice has been served on and it contains a list of items against which Reddy has to enter the amount spent. 
 
However, according to reports, Reddy has said that he has spent only 35 crores on his daughter’s wedding but other reports suggests that Reddy spent Rs 100 crore on his daughter Brahmini's bridal dress and jewellery , Rs 20 crore each on food and the palatial setting of the Vijayanagara empire. The mining baron is said to have spent about Rs 200 crore on the wedding. 
 
The I-T department has sought details of preand post-marriage functions, the number of guests, details of credit and debit card transactions, and the money spent on return gifts. 
(image: IndiaTimes)

Remember Janardhan Reddy daughter’s big fat wedding? Tax department has now slapped Reddy with a 3-page notice, demanding answers for lavish expenses

Majority of the families in India are not as lucky as <keyword id="83240" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="G-Janardhan-Reddy">G Janardhan Reddy</keyword>, who spent Rs 500 crore on his daughter’s wedding, and are facing acute <keyword id="6380684" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="cash-Crunch">cash crunch</keyword>, post demonetization. Usually, people save for lavish weddings but their plans hit a major roadblock due to Narendra Modi’s announcement of demonetization. People having <keyword id="6372645" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="marriages">marriages</keyword> in their families are facing a lot inconvenience as they can withdraw upto Rs 2.5 lakh. But, we all know normal marriages aren’t possible in Rs 2.5 lakh. 
 
But, this village in Kolhapur overcame this problem and crowdfunded a wedding. Villagers turned out to support Sayali’s wedding. Villagers, friends and relatives queued up at banks to withdraw small amounts that helped crowdfund Sayali's wedding, a BA, B.Ed student, who was jubilant that her trousseau and gifts were arranged in time. 
 
"This wedding has brought our family and friends closer. It is a blessing for all of us," she told TOI. 
 "We were stunned and the situation at home was almost chaotic when <keyword id="3315394" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="demonetisation">demonetisation</keyword> was announced...we did not want a grand occasion, just a simple and graceful wedding for our daughter. But we were afraid even that would not happen," Sayali's father Sambhaji, a farmer, told TOI, adding that her marriage to a shop owner in Karad was fixed around three months ago. 
(iamge: indiatimes)

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