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Everything you need to know about the wedding of Asia's richest heir
In short:
Anant Ambani, son of Asia's richest man Mukesh Ambani, is set to marry Radhika Merchant on July 12.
Their pre-wedding celebrations included a three-day party in March, a three-day cruise in May and a Sangeet ceremony involving Bollywood stars and Justin Bieber.
And after?
The main wedding ceremony is expected to be followed by a grand reception on July 14.
In March, Asia's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, threw a three-day party ahead of his son's wedding.
It invited 1,200 guests, including former world leaders, tech moguls and Bollywood megastars, and featured a performance by Rihanna.
The guest list for the pre-wedding party in March included Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and former leaders of Canada and Qatar as well as Bollywood stars Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone.
Akon and Diljit Dosanjh, a Punjabi singer who rose to international fame when he performed at Coachella, also took to the stage.
It was just the beginning of the couple's lavish pre-wedding celebrations, which would last for months.
In May, the family took their guests on a three-day pre-wedding cruise from Italy to France.
The cruise experience would have included a DJ set from David Guetta, Katy Perry performing her hit Firework and a performance from Pitbull to top it all off.
The wedding is scheduled for next week, with Anant Ambani, 29, marrying his long-time girlfriend Radhika Merchant in what many have dubbed the wedding of the year.
Who are the Ambanis?
The groom's father is Mukesh Ambani, 66.
Mr Ambani is currently the ninth richest man in the world with a net worth of US$116 billion (A$171.83 billion), according to Forbes. He is also the richest person in Asia.
His energy conglomerate Reliance Industries has annual sales of more than $100 billion.
The Ambani family owns, among other assets, a 27-storey private apartment building named Antilia, worth US$1 billion, in Mumbai.
The building has three helipads, a 160-car garage, a private movie theater, a swimming pool and a fitness center.
Ambani's critics say his business thrived mainly on his political connections during Congress governments in the 1970s and 1980s and then under Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi from 2014.
“Crony capitalism” in India is said to have helped some companies, like Mr Ambani’s, to thrive.
The family patriarch began passing the torch to his two sons and daughter.
Ambani's eldest son, Akash Ambani, is now chairman of the family's telecom company Reliance Jio.
Mr Ambani's daughter, Isha, oversees the family's retail operations.
The groom Anant, the youngest, was introduced to the new energy sector.
Who are the bride and groom?
Anant Ambani holds a bachelor's degree from Brown University, according to Reliance Industries' website, and oversees the conglomerate's renewable and green energy expansion.
He also runs a 1,200-hectare animal rescue centre called Vantara in Jamnagar, Gujarat state, the family's hometown where guests spent days partying in March at the extravagant pre-wedding bash.
Bride Radhika Merchant, 29, is the daughter of pharmaceutical tycoon Viren Merchant and the marketing director of his company Encore Healthcare, according to Vogue.
She told the magazine that she and her husband were introduced through mutual friends in 2017.
“That first meeting sparked something special between us, and it wasn’t long before we started dating,” she said.
When is the wedding and what is expected?
The main wedding ceremony is scheduled for July 12, followed by a grand reception on July 14, according to local media.
The celebrations are expected to take place between Ambani's Jio World convention centre in Mumbai city and their family home.
The dates were said to have been chosen based on the couple's birth charts, as is usually the case in Hindu custom, and were considered auspicious.
In accordance with tradition, the wedding will be preceded by several days of traditional wedding events and rituals.
On Friday, videos of the couple's sangeet began circulating on social media.
Sangeet is a ceremony in which the bride and groom's families perform dances for the guests.
Ambani's ceremony also featured performances by Bollywood stars including Alia Bhatt, Ranveer Singh and Salman Khan, as well as Justin Bieber, who flew to Mumbai for the event, according to local media reports.
The family also held a mass wedding for more than 50 underprivileged couples last week as part of the pre-wedding celebrations.
Extravagant parties are the Ambanis' specialty and next week's events are expected to attract more celebrities, billionaires and world leaders.
In 2018, when his daughter got married, Mr Ambani made headlines for hosting grand celebrations, including a performance by Beyoncé.
At the time, former US secretaries of state Hillary Clinton and John Kerry were among those rubbing shoulders with Indian celebrities and Bollywood stars in the western Indian city of Udaipur.
AP
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