8 Most Expensive And Lavish Indian Weddings

Weddings in India is more than union of two human beings. It’s an elaborate affair where two families intend to spend in terms of both cost and effort to ensure maximum happiness and joy. Their investment is also a luxury they put up, to portray their financial status to the society.

Hence, weddings that involve maximum pomp and show are noticed by people especially due to the hype created by media. You might think top entrepreneurs and Bollywood celebs make the most in their weddings.

Well, wrong thought indeed. In terms of money certain billionaires has set the standard very high for Indian weddings. These are claimed to be the most expensive Indian weddings that has happened in recent times. As ScoopWhoop lists, these eight are the epitome examples of extragravance that can possibly happen in an Indian wedding.

Kajal Fabiani and Gaurav Assomull
Cost: 450 crores

Destination wedding is the new trend. Goa, Udaipur or Jaipur might be the best in the country. But the childhood dream of this bride was a wedding at Monte Carlo that came true. Top wedding professionals of Monte Carlo, along with the city tourism and Percept DMark arranged the complete four day package. Highlights of this Sindhi wedding include music performances by singing sensations Akon and Sukhbir.

Vikram Chatwal and Priya Sachdev
Cost: 100crores

The beautiful Indian actress tied knot with New York based son of a popular hotelier in presence of 600 guests over a week long ceremony in Udaipur, Mumbai and Delhi. The wedding had an exclusive guest list of international figures like Naomi Campbell and P. Diddy and was attended by Bill Clinton, Deepak Chopra and Saira Mohan. Elites from 26 countries turned up in this wedding broadcasted by Discovery Travel and Lifestyle, later.

Mallika Reddy and Siddharth Reddy
Cost: 1000 crore

Celeb spotting was the highlight in the billionaire wedding. The media captured presence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Delhi CM Sheila Dixit, Home Minister P Chidambaram, Amitabh Bachchaan, Sunanda Pushkar, Anil Kapoor Hema Malini, social activist Nafia Ali and Nagma. The Badshaah of Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan took the stage himself to greet the couple during Sangeet ceremony.

Payal Bansal and Deepak Kanodia
Cost: 100Crore

Bansal and Kanodia families booked the most of Mardan Palace Hotel in Antalya to let their children take the seven vows at White Sand Beach of Turkey. As continuation of the Indian tradition, Payal’s family gifted the groom with a check worth 15 million euros. Several countrymen like 30chefs, 130 assistants, flower decorators, landscape experts, musicians and dancers flew to Turkey to relive India in the wedding of five days.  100,000 flowers of 25 different types were used to design the wedding venue.

Vineeta Agarwal and Muqit Teja
Cost: 130 crore

Britain based NRI Pramod Agarwal gave his daughter to Muqit with a luxurious wedding at the 17 acres of San Clemente Island of Venice.  Elephants, horses, gondolas and palazzos might be common in any other bug fat Indian wedding. The take away in this were performance by Shakira and Franco Dragone, an Italian theatre director.

Lalit Tanwar and Yogita Jaunapuria
Cost: 250crore

Claimed to be the richest wedding that has happened in the country this wedding had a guest list of 15000, each of whom received 11000 as return gift or shagun on attending the wedding at Delhi. Bell429, a chopper helicopter gifted to the groom be his in laws and a tilak ritual worth 21crore are ultimate exposure of the wealth that a wedding can witness. Kanwar family claimed this to be a standard marriage and the fuss by the media was beyond their understanding.

Vanisha Mittal and Amit Bhatia
Cost: 350crore

The spectacular wedding of the only daughter of Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal at the heart of Paris begun with an engagement ceremony at Palace Of Versailles added with a French opera and Moulin Rouge style cancan dancing. Royal feast by authentic Indian culinary experts were laid along the tables of Le Grand Inter Continental Hotel to serve the guests. Choreographer Farah Khan, designers Tarun Tahiliani, Suneet Varma and the Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla, mehendi experts, b-town performers, decorators and more flew from the country to organize the star studded wedding that had Kylie Minogue's live performance at the best.

Shrishti Mittal and Gulraj Behl
Cost: 500crore

This Mittal wedding lists among the top five much spent wedding in Indian history. Media could not reveal many facts and figures about this December wedding as guests were signed confidentiality agreements during invitation. A troop of 200 butlers, chefs and assistants was flown to Spain from India and Thailand to put up this matrimony alliance.