From 'saffron penda' and 'mohanthal' in sweets to refreshing drinks like 'aam panna', guests at Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant's pre-wedding festivities are welcomed at the Jamnagar venue with sweet and savory delights.
Convoys of luxury cars lined up at Jamnagar airport for the second consecutive day on Friday as eminent personalities and celebrities from across the world arrived to attend the three-day long pre-wedding festivities that began on March 1 in Jamnagar of Gujarat.
Anant Ambani, the youngest of the three children of Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani and Nita Ambani, will marry Radhika Merchant, the youngest daughter of Viren Merchant, CEO of Encore Healthcare, later this year and the businesswoman Shaila Merchant.
A green room adorned with various types of flowers has been set up for the guests and a large number of security measures have been deployed for their safety.
Sweets with which guests are welcomed include saffron penda, dry fruit sukhdi, churma laddus, pistachio sweets, halvasana, mohanthal and surti ghari. Welcome drinks include mango panna and lemon shikanji.
The guest list includes international business leaders such as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, Walt Disney CEO , Bob Iger, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, Adnoc CEO Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, and EL Rothschild Chairman. Lynn Forester de Rothschild.
The invited Indian business tycoons include Gautam Adani and his family, Tata Sons chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Aditya Birla group chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla and his family, the Godrej family, Infosys chairman Nandan Nilekani, the RPSG group chief Sanjiv Goenka, Wipro's Rishad Premji, banker Uday Kotak, vaccine maker Serum Institute of India CEO Adar Poonawalla, Airtel chairman Sunil Mittal, Hero's Pawan Munjal, HCL's Roshni Nadar , Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath, entrepreneur Ronnie Screwvala and Dilip Sanghi of Sun Pharma.
Top cricketers including Sachin Tendulkar and his family, MS Dhoni and his family, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Hardik and Krunal Pandya and Ishan Kishan are also on the guest list.
Bollywood will be represented by mega stars Amitabh Bachchan and his family, Abhishek and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan and his family, Amir Khan, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna, Ajay Devgn and Kajol, Saif Ali Khan and his family, Chunky Pandey, Ranveer. Singh and Deepika Padukone, Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt and Vicky Kaushal and Katrina Kaif.
Madhuri Dikshit and Sriram Nene, Aditya and Rani Chopra, Karan Johar, Boney Kapoor and family, Anil Kapoor and family, Varun Dhawan, Sidharth Malhotra, Shraddha Kapoor and Karisma Kapoor, Rajnikanth and family are also on the guest list.
