This weekend’s celebrations end Sunday with a reception party, and cap months of extravagant pre-wedding festivities.
Earlier events this year included a party at the Ambanis’ ancestral home where a purpose-built Hindu temple was unveiled, and private performances by R&B star Rihanna and Canada’s Justin Bieber.
Guests at that gala included Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and former US president Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka, along with a who’s who of India’s sporting and entertainment worlds.
In June, the couple embarked on a four-day Mediterranean cruise along with 1,200 guests, with singer Katy Perry performing at a masquerade ball at a French chateau in Cannes.
Mumbai this year overtook Beijing to become the Asian city with the most billionaires, according to a Chinese research institute survey.
But despite India being the world’s fastest-growing economy, the gap between rich and poor remains vast. More than half of the country’s 1.4 billion people live on less than four dollars per day, according to World Bank figures from 2021.
