Wedding
ceremony of Vanisha, the 23-year-old daughter of London-based
billionaire steel tycoon, Lakshmi Mittal
Paris, June 21, 2004
The Mittal couple promised their daughter
a truly spectacular wedding and Vanisha was
treated to a lavish show with costs running up to
£30 million.

Amit Bhatia (L) and Vanisha Mittal
celebrate at rings ceremony during their wedding festivities
at Versailles in Paris on Sunday, June 20, 2004. Vanisha
Mittal, daughter of Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal
and Usha Mittal, is marrying London-based financer
Amit Bhatia, the son of Renu and Arun Bhatia.
Wedding extravaganza took six-day long, which saw
over 1000 guests, including leading Indian industrialists
and Bollywood stars, and cost millions of pounds,
concluded on Wednesday afternoon at the Grand Intercontinental
in Paris.
All VIP guests included the Hinduja brothers Srichand,
Gopichand and Ashok, the two sons of NRI industrialist
Lord Swraj Paul, Ambar and Aakash, Reliance chief
Anil Ambani and his wife Tina, Vijay Mallya, Anand
and Anuradha Mahindra, Parmeshwar Godrej, Union Civil
Aviation Minister Praful Patel, Sunil Mittal, hotelier
Lalit Suri, property developer K P Singh, Javed Akhtar
and Shabana Azmi, renowned painter M F Hussain, Congress
leader Murli Deora and London socialite Ramola Bachchan.
Aishwarya Rai and Akshay Kumar, Bollywood stars performed
at the wedding ceremony on Tuesday night while Shah
Rukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Juhi Chawla and Rani Mukherjee
had taken the centre stage earlier.
At Catherine de Medici's Jardin des Tuilleries in
Paris, the sangeet ceremonyhad performances by Mittal's
son, Aditya, and daughter-in-law, Megha, enacting
the tale of how 23-year-old Vanisha fell in love with
25-year-old Delhi-born Amit Bhatia
Britain's
4th richest NRI Mittal's daughter to marry
London, May 24, 2004
Resham Bhatia
Vanisha, the 23-year-old daughter
of London-based billionaire steel tycoon, Lakshmi
Mittal and his wife Usha, is getting engaged to
24-year-old Amit Bhatia, grandson of London socialites,
Pasha and Kamal Saigal. Amit Bhatia is the son of
property brokers Arun and Renu Bhatia, who are residents
of Jorbagh.
Amit Bhatia, an investment banker,
studied in London where he stayed with his maternal
grandparents. He first met Vanisha when the two
of them went to the same college in London . After
dating each other for a year-and-a-half, the couple
decided to tie the knot.
Vanisha, a talented photographer,
has taken her Masters from SOAS (School of Oriental
and African Studies). She has recently joined her
father's company, LNM.
The wedding will be spread over
five days from June 19 to 23. The engagement will
take place in Versailles whereas the sangeet, mehendi
and doli ceremonies will take place in Paris. The
venue for the actual wedding will be the hotel Grand
Intercontinental in Paris , the highlight of which
will be a banquet for 1,000 guests at the Palace
of Versailles .
And now for the hype...The invite
is an elaborate 20-page booklet with hand painted
images and descriptions of the various venues and
functions. The gift accompanying the invite is as
elaborateanintricately carved 5 kg silver
centrepiece
The wedding, which will involve
a series of traditional Indian ceremonies and a
string of lavish parties, is expected to cost several
million pounds. After the 'Mehendi' ceremony,, the
guests will be treated to an exclusive Bollywood
night at the gardens of St Cloud.Against the backdrop
of Eiffel Tower will be our star performers: Preity
Zinta, ShahRukhKhan and Hrithik Roshan
This will be followed by exotic
fireworks and a feast of regional Indian cuisine
in a specially gildedBikaner Palace.TheBhatia's
will welcome the bride over a Doli Lunch at Hotel
Le Grand Inter Continental.
Guests, including Bollywood superstars
and the pick of Indian high society, will be flown
into the French capital from around the world and
will be put up in two four-star hotels throughout
the celebrations.
The groom's mother said, "We
are only inviting very close family friends and
relatives for the wedding in Paris . Later, this
year,we'll be hosting a reception in Delhi.".
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