Wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant

Mukesh Ambani is the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, while the bride is the daughter of Viren Kumar Merchant, the CEO of a healthcare company.

[9] Estimates for the wedding's cost range from $600 million[1] to $1 billion, [10][11][12] leading to sharp criticism of wealth inequality in India.

[15] A number of entertainers performed, such as Shah Rukh Khan, Diljit Dosanjh and Deepika Padukone, as well as Rihanna, who gave her first full-length concert in eight years.

[15] Guests were told to wear jungle fever outfits when visiting Vantara, the animal rescue shelter run by Anant Ambani.

[19] The wedding dress was designed by the fashion house "Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla" owned by fashion and costume designers Sandeep Khosla and Abu Jani (who had won the National Film Award for Best Costume Design for their work in Devdas (2002 Hindi film), Radhika's bridal lehenga featured zardozi cut-work with Gujarati cultural significance, a trailing ghagra with a second detachable trail, a 5-meter head veil, a blouse, and a tissue shoulder dupatta.

[21] The head veil (dupatta) featured delicate jaali and cut-work, while the detachable trail boasted an 80-inch zardozi marvel.

[29] The fashion of Merchant, has had a substantial impact on the clothing industry ever since the public revelation of her relationship with businessman Anant Ambani in 2017 until leading up to her wedding in 2024.

[30] Radhika wore a custom-made rose gold and pink Versace, which brought to mind Blake Lively's 2022 Met Gala ensemble.

[39][40] On her wedding day the wedding lehenga was designed by Sandeep Khosla, Radhika's bridal lehenga featured exquisite zardozi cut-work with Gujarati cultural significance, a trailing ghagra with a second detachable trail, a 5-meter head veil, a blouse, and a tissue shoulder dupatta.

[46] The garment featured Jayasri Burman's signature mythical aesthetic, celebrating Anant and Radhika's union through deeply meaningful imagery.

Among the designs by Bailey were 60 floral animal sculptures including tigers, elephants, monkeys and replicas of the couple's two dogs.

[13] The guest list, although not confirmed by the Ambani family, included Cinema celebrities[Note 1], Indian cricketers[Note 2], along with former British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Boris Johnson, Saudi Aramco CEO Amin H Nasser, American politician John Kerry, and celebrities like Adele, David Beckham, John Cena and the Kardashians.

[18] Some Indian politicians criticised the amount of money spent on the wedding, with Shahid Siddiqui, a former member of the upper house of Parliament, calling it the "most vulgar and ostentatious marriage ever seen" and Thomas Isaac, a former finance minister for Kerala and member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), stating that "...such ostentatious expenditure is a sin.

Reportedly the most common reaction in the working class of Mumbai, was frustration on the system which has allowed the inequality of resources.

One worker echoed a common strain of "Ambani earned his money, and it's his right to spend it on his own children", but bemoaned how the city could find resources to assist in the wedding security, but not keep up infrastructure concerns like potholes or flooding.