There’s a wedding happening this weekend that will make the three-day, $3.5 million USD look like a quiet backyard affair, the $135,000 floral wall from Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s $12 million wedding in Italy seem an exercise in restraint, and every single appear embarrassingly light on pomp, ceremony and pop stars hired to give private performances. The wedding in question is bankrolled by , Asia’s richest person, an Indian businessman whose net worth is pegged at $116 billion USD by .
The couple getting married are Mukesh and his wife Nita Ambani’s youngest son, Anant, who heads up the green energy division in the family business, mega-conglomerate Reliance Industries, and his girlfriend, Radhika Merchant. The pair, who reportedly met through friends in 2017, have much in common: They’re both 29, they’re both passionate about animal welfare and their parents are both billionaires, (like Anant, Merchant works in the family business, which in her case is pharmaceuticals). Merchant with her future in-laws in 2018 at the wedding of Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas in Jodhpur.
From left: Nita Ambani, Radhika Merchant, Mukesh Ambani, Anant Ambani and Isha Ambani. Dubbed India’s “mega wedding” by the BBC, these nuptials are already proving to be eye-wateringly lavish, even by the standards of a country where ; its wedding industry is worth an estimated $130 billion, double the size of the next runner-up, the U.S.
When Anant’s older sister, Isha, got married .
