In March, Vogue published a feature on the three-day pre-wedding celebrations and hastakshar of Anant Ambani and his fiance Radhika Merchant. By that time, many of our readers were already familiar with the couple: earlier that weekend, videos of Rihanna arriving in India began circulating widely on social media.
Internet sleuths soon figured out she was there to perform a private concert for the Ambanisβthe richest family in the countryβand their 1, guests. People around the world began following along on their feeds. As lavish as they were, as it turns out, those celebrations were only the beginning. The couple also held a Mediterranean pre-wedding cruise in May for about 1, people, published on Vogue earlier this week.
And if these are just the pre-wedding eventsβwhat is the real wedding going to be like? So, we took it upon ourselves to do a quick explainer of the many events surrounding the nuptials of Anant and Radhika.
Spoiler alert: they are far from over. The party began with a dinner in a grand glass structure of the family compound which resembled Palm House in the Brooklyn Botanic Gardenβa favorite place of the bride-to-be when she was a college student in New York City. Afterwards, Rihanna performed. At night, they held a Mela Rogue-themed party, a playful spin on the film Moulin Rouge.
On Sunday, it was time for their formal hastakshar. The bride-to-be wore a concept sari by Tarun Tahiliani.
