6 secrets from Isha Ambani’s US$100 million wedding, from Nita taking over the planning to Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan’s touching speech and the billionaire heiress tearing up

Nov 28 , 2021

It’s been almost three years since Isha Ambani and Anand Piramal got married in a US$100 million ceremony. Photos: @ETimesPhotos/Twitter, @vogueindia/Instagram

The Indian businesswoman wed Anand Piramal in a lavish ceremony in 2018 that featured a Beyoncé performance and recording from the legendary Lata Mangeshkar

The Ambani family hosted a proposal party in the lead-up to the ceremony with guests like Sachin Tendulkar, Shah Rukh Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, Aamir Khan and Gauri Khan

It’s been almost three years since Isha Ambani and Anand Piramal got hitched back in December 2018 and still, more details of the extravagant and expensive wedding continue to emerge. Sure, the wedding that was rumoured to cost around US$100 million with Beyoncé performing (yes, really) got a lot of airtime at the time, but more intimate details remained unknown.

Here are six Isha Ambani wedding secrets you probably didn’t know about …

She got emotional

Isha Ambani wed Anand Piramal in a US$100 million ceremony almost three years ago. Photo: @stylebyami/Instagram

In an interview with Vogue India, Isha said the tears came rolling down at her vidaai ceremony – her farewell party – after everyone around her got emotional. She said the whole wedding process was emotional, but during her vidaai, she also felt herself welling up, explaining that she felt some pressure when everyone was crying, especially her parents.

Nita took over the planning

Isha Ambani reportedly let her mum Nita take over the wedding planning. Photo: @stylebyami/Instagram

Isha and Nita Ambani have both spoken about their close relationship before, so it is no surprise that Isha allowed her mother to take over the wedding plans. In an interview with Vogue India, she said her mother was the “CEO and I was the chairperson”.

Isha referred to the planning as a family affair, explaining that her parents did all of the hard work for the wedding. She also said she was lucky because they like the same things and she never felt alone in the process, explaining how she never went to a single wedding planning meeting by herself.

“I was never someone who dreamt of how my wedding would be, yet it was wonderful in more ways than I can imagine,” she told Vogue India.