Ambani wedding: Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Ivanka Trump among wedding guests at son of Asia’s richest man

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Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Rihanna, Ivanka Trump and Disney chief Bob Iger are among the world’s tremendous wealthy and elite figures anticipated to attend the extravagant pre-wedding bash of the youngest son of Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani.

Anant Ambani, 28, is marrying his childhood sweetheart Radhika Merchant, 29, in July later this yr however the three-day festivities in Gujarat’s Jamnagar beginning on 1 March are being seen as setting the stage for the bigger wedding celebrations. Ms Merchant is from a household with enterprise curiosity in prescription drugs.

Mukesh Ambani is Asia’s richest man and a famend oil and telecommunications tycoon, competing carefully with billionaire Gautam Adani, chair of Adani Group of firms, based on the real-time billionaires checklist worldwide compiled by Forbes as of 30 January 2024.

Expected to be one of the world’s grandest weddings of the yr, the Ambani household has marked the three-day affair for guests to get pleasure from a lavish gala with over 2,500 dishes cooked by a workforce of 65 cooks.

The Ambani household, with web value of £85bn, runs India’s main conglomerates in all sectors – petroleum refining and advertising, organised retail, telecommunication large Jio and different digital streaming companies.

Top Indian celebrities corresponding to Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Amitabh Bachchan, Rajinikanth, Salman Khan, Deepika Padukone, Ranbir Kapoor, Ranveer Singh, Sachin Tendulkar and Alia Bhatt are anticipated to attend.

According to an occasion checklist, the celebrations will kick off with a glitzy cocktail get together known as “an evening in Everland”, adopted by a jungle themed celebration on Saturday the place guests have been requested to put on snug sneakers for a safari stroll.

The groom’s love for nature is ready to have impressed the wildlife theme of pre-wedding celebration. The invitation says: “Anant has lovingly nurtured this complex into a haven of care and compassion for thousands of rescued animals”.

The two acquired engaged in a standard ceremony final yr in January at the grand Ambani residence of Antilia in Mumbai.