Saturday, May 12, 2007

Ash's Luxurious "Doli"

Ash's bidaaiceremony will be held on April 21 at La Mer, after which Ash will leave for Pratiksha on her red doli. (The dolicosts Rs 75,000 and took 22 days to put together) Okay, so the big day is here. The most talked-about wedding of the decade is all set to take place this evening at around 5.30 pm, according to the mahurat fixed by Amitabh Bachchan's pundits, who have specially been flown down from Benares. We got hold of an exclusive picture of the biggest wedding accessory of them all: the doli. "No one knows that the actual bidaai ceremony will take place on April 21. The procession will go from La Mer to Abhishek's house, Pratiksha. The Bachchan doli is silver which will be used after the wedding. However, Aishwarya will travel on 21st morning in a red doli. The doli costs around Rs 75,000 and it took around 22 days to construct. The design was finalised by the Rais a long time back but they wanted some changes, especially in the seating area. They also wanted the handle to have metallic sticks with golden wires. The doli looks stunning now," says our source. The mehendi ceremony happened yesterday afternoon at Ash's La Mer apartments in Bandra. The catering for the same is being done by ITC Grand Maratha Sheraton. Our source, an insider at La Mer, says, "The decorations are being done by National Decorators from Vile Parle. For the mehendi, a huge air-conditioned banquet hall has been constructed in the compound where the guests can dine. A special tunnel-like entrance has been designed to keep the paparazzi from peeping in. The banquet hall will be in use for at least three days after the wedding, since guests have been flown in from all over." A special table was constructed after its design was passed by Aishwarya's brother Aditya. "Every single thing has had to been 'passed' by the entire family from the decoration tapestries to sitting arrangements, down to the cutlery on the tables," says our source.

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