New Delhi: After months of courtship, the wedding ceremony of Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh finally got underway in Italy’s scenic Lake Como Wednesday but the actor couple kept things fiercely private leaving the celebrity media breathlessly waiting for information.
In the best traditions of a celebrity wedding – think George and Amal Clooney maybe – the stars and their guests were ensconced in resorts tucked high above the lake ringed by snowcapped mountains while the paparazzi was stationed at a safe distance, hoping to catch a glimpse of the events. Though the couple declared the wedding dates on social media in October, Deepika and Ranveer made sure the wedding itself was cloaked in secrecy.
As television channels and social media kept the wedding chatter going with distant shots of the villas, stray tweets and old photographs from their films together, reports came in that the wedding would stretch over two days and the ceremony would be in Konkani tradition followed by Sindhi rituals. While Deepika is Konkani, Ranveer is a Sindhi.
This couple gave the media no space to broadcast their love story. “Such a stunning, gorgeous and beautiful couple! Badhai ho. Love you both. Here is to a lifetime of love and joy,” filmmaker Karan Johar said tagging the two stars.
Twinning in white, the actors, who have worked together in Ram Leela, Bajirao Mastani and Padmavati, were photographed at the Mumbai airport leaving for Italy November 10 in a blaze of camera flashes.
According to reports, only 40 people, including Shah Rukh Khan, Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Farah Khan, have been invited for the wedding. With no guests allowed to post any photographs without the couple approving it, the media was left grasping at straws to feed a fandom thirsting for fly-on-the-wall accounts – and, in the absence of that, any tidbits of information.
The couple, who confirmed their relationship only recently, will have a reception each in Bangalore and Mumbai November 21 and 28, respectively.
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