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

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>.<br /><br /><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 <em>finally </em>getting hitched.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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>!<br /><br /><h2>Isha Ambani and <keyword id="20288912" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Anand-Piramal" source="keywords">Anand Piramal</keyword>’s 700-crore wedding<br /></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.<br /><br /><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.<br /><br /><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.<br /><h2> <br />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!<br /><br /><h2>Another Mittal wedding worth 240 crores<br /></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.<br /><br /><h2>Sonam Vaswani's 210-crore wedding  <br /></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.<br /><br /><h2>Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma's 100-crore wedding<br /></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.<br /><br /><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.<br /><br /><strong>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></strong><br />

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