Ambanis host last and 'most significant' party of son's months-long wedding bash

The Ambanis wrapped up the four-month-long wedding ceremonies of Anant and Radhika with a reception party reserved for Reliance employees, the media, and the Ambani family's household staff. The Ambanis hosted a special reception at the Jio World Centre on July 15.

In a viral video, the billionaire can be seen addressing a large crowd assembled at the Jio World Centre on July 15 to celebrate Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant's wedding. Mukesh Ambani, Asia's richest man, regarded this as the most meaningful occasion for him.

He began his address with "Jai Shree Krishna," which elicited thunderous shouts from the audience. "This is the last celebration for Anant and Radhika, but it is also the most important occasion. This is Anant and Radhika's final celebration. But for me, this is the most significant celebration," he said.

The video shows Nita and Mukesh Ambani, along with other family members, personally welcoming each guest that arrived for the event.

"Normally busy with organizing such events, the staff became guests of honor and were thanked profusely by the Ambanis and Merchants," read the caption of the video, which Reliance, Mukesh Ambani's company, uploaded on Instagram.

Oscar winner AR Rahman performed at the concert for guests on Day 3 of the post-wedding festivities, which also included performances by singers Sonu Nigam, Hariharan, Udit Narayan, Sukhvinder, Mohit Chauhan, Shreya Ghoshal, Neeti Mohan, and Jonita Gandhi.

The guests included people from the housekeeping, security, maintenance, secretarial, and operations teams working at various Ambani residences, including Antilia of Mumbai, Sea Wind of Navi Mumbai, and Karuna Sindhu of Mumbai, among others.

Over a thousand people, including their staff and their families, attended this special party, hosted in honor of their hard work and dedication, thus making Anant-Radhika's wedding a grand success.

Not just this, in a special interaction with photographers at the red carpet for Anant-Radhika's reception, Nita Ambani thanked the paparazzi for their hard work and support during the three-day-long wedding festivities. And so, as a mark of respect to people from the media industry, Nita Ambani also invited all the photographers along with their families for a special reception on July 15.

In a luxurious wedding, Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant tied the knot on July 12 in Mumbai. The wedding was the grand finale to a protracted engagement and four months of pre-wedding events that included a luxurious Mediterranean cruise and a three-day celebration in Jamnagar of Gjarat.

The celebrations, nevertheless, did not end with the wedding. Maintaining the legacy and setting up the bar of the Ambani family, Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, and his wife, Nita Ambani, hosted three receptions in the three days following their wedding.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi attended the inaugural event, known as Shubh Ashirwad, on July 13. The day following that was Mangal Utsav, which was attended by a number of celebrities, influencers, and others.

Radhika Merchant is the younger daughter of Viren and Shaila Merchant, both healthtech entrepreneurs. The roka of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant took place in 2022 at the Shrinathji Temple in Nathdwara of Rajasthan.

It was followed by a formal engagement in 2023, for which the Ambani family threw a spectacular party at their palatial Mumbai residence, Antilia.

The pre-wedding festivities officially began in February 2024 with a Lagan Lakhvanu ceremony. The couple held their first pre-wedding bash from March 1 to March 3 at the Ambani estate in Jamnagar, titled “An evening in Everland,” which featured a star-studded guest list from all over the world, including Rihanna, Bill Gates, Hillary Clinton, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Karlie Kloss, and Mark Zuckerberg, among others.

Other attendees included Google CEO Sundar Pichai, cricket legend Mahendra Singh Dhoni, and Bollywood superstars Shah Rukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Salman Khan, and Deepika Padukone, among many others.

Rihanna, who was paid between $8 and $9 million (₹66 to ₹74 crore), performed at the pre-wedding party.

In their second pre-wedding celebration, they invited about 800 friends, family members, and coworkers on a four-day Mediterranean cruise sailing from Palermo, Italy.

Mukesh and Nita Ambani hosted this lavish second pre-wedding function for Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant on a luxury cruise themed 'La Vita È Un Viaggio' which means 'life is a journey' at a cost of $900 million.

In the week leading up to the July 12 wedding, the family held a sangeet where the international pop star and the Canadian singer Justin Bieber performed, a mameru ceremony, a haldi, a mehendi, a mass wedding for the underprivileged, and a garba night.