{"id":65559,"date":"2024-07-12T13:53:08","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T04:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/12\/ambani-wedding-india-anant-radhika-merchant-mumbai-guests"},"modified":"2024-07-13T00:06:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T15:06:47","slug":"ambani-wedding-after-months-of-celebrations-the-windsors-of-india-finally-set-to-marry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65559","title":{"rendered":"Ambani wedding: after months of celebrations, the \u2018Windsors of India\u2019 finally set to marry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Power couple Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant set to marry in Mumbai with entire spectacle likely to cost upwards of $600m<\/p>\n

To many in India, it is hard to remember a time when the Ambani wedding wasn\u2019t taking place.<\/p>\n

The marriage of the son of India\u2019s richest man, the billionaire Mukesh Ambani, to the daughter of a millionaire was never going to be a humble affair. The industrialist is worth an estimated $120bn and over the years the Ambani family has not shied away from flashing its cash extravagantly, whether on the world\u2019s most expensive home \u2013 a 27-storey skyscraper mansion that towers over Mumbai<\/a> \u2013 or on what was previously India\u2019s most expensive wedding, spending almost $100m on their daughter\u2019s nuptials in 2018<\/a> where Beyonc\u00e9 performed.<\/p>\n

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Power couple Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant set to marry in Mumbai with entire spectacle likely to cost upwards of $600mTo many in India, it is hard to remember a time when the Ambani wedding wasn\u2019t taking place.The marriage of the son of India\u2019s ri…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3555,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,1886],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-the-super-rich"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3555"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65559"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65577,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65559\/revisions\/65577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}