A wedding to remember News Archive News

March 17, 2007 12:00 AM IST

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It8217;s been one high-profile wedding after another. While the Liz-Nayar nuptials have been a talking point long before the event actually happened one guest from Delhi is said to have prepared her outfit as long back as 2005 another one went by rather quietly. The wedding of Devyani Rana the woman who was to marry the prince of Nepal, till he executed the famous massacre before taking his own life with Delhi-based Aishwarya Singh, grandson of Union Minister Arjun Singh was pretty low-key. You couldn8217;t say that about the guest list, though, or the bling-bling on display. And while the bride wore precious heirloom passed down the Rana dynasty, others managed to match up. Lady Catherine, of Russian and German aristocracy, came wearing a Chanel dress and jewellery by Chopard so stunning that the guests were talking about it for weeks after. Others who attended the wedding at Scindia villa in Delhi included Lord Tennyson and Lord Conway from England and Bhutan8217;s former king Jigme Singye Wangchuk. However, low-key weddings, minus the pomp and ceremony of a made-for-media event, have their share of critics: some among Delhi8217;s circles were murmuring how invitations reached last minute, that there were no follow-up phone calls as has come to be expected at such functions and that many of Devyani8217;s most steadfast friends from her days at Welham School in Dehradun were not present at the wedding.

8230;And all that hurley-burley

On the other hand, there was nothing low-key about the Liz-ayar affair. That, in fact, told the opposite story: the hype was huge, but the guest list didn8217;t match up to expectations. But while Liz and Nayar posed happily with son Damian at various airports on London-Jodhpur-Mumbai route to the wedding and the itinerary was in every TV scribe8217;s hands, what was played down was the party that didn8217;t happen. Just after the wedding, Nayar8217;s father Vinod Nayar was supposed to throw a bash in Mumbai. It never happened. Everybody twittered about it, with various versions of what the exact story behind this party-that-didn8217;t-happen was. While the story went that it was because Liz was upset because her new mom-in-law Joanne Nayar was hogging too much limelight, there is speculation that the couple8217;s 2-million-pound deal with Hello! was culprit once again: the party would have led to local coverage, something the magazine would not approve of.

Delhi to goa

Meanwhile, another wedding that has been the talk of Delhi circles is that of Naresh and Madhu Trehan8217;s daughter Shawnan who tied the knot with banker Rahul Bajaj over a five-day wedding party in Goa. The festivities began well before Holi, with the groom throwing a rocking party at Ivy, the new lounge in Delhi. While the venue for the Parsi wedding in Delhi was shifted to the Hyatt Regency because of the rain, in Goa, the ceremony had a gathering of family and friends. One party had a Jungle theme, and industrialist Micky Punj and Bindu Vadehra hosted a 8220;hangover brunch8221; for the couple at their home in Goa.

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