Arpita Khan’s wedding gala gave many an opportunity to get a fair bit of fame. From the cake makers to hosts, guests and designers, everyone present at the ceremony basked in the glory of the bride’s ultimate moments
little did Arpita Khan, Salman Khan’s sister, would have known that her wedding with Delhi-based boyfriend Ayush Sharma would be a national fancy in making! The girl was hardly ever seen in tabloids or Page 3 circles yet she managed to garner attention as much as the wedding of Aishwarya and Abhishesk Bachchan. Arpita’s fairytale wedding first set the gossip engines in motion when Khans-at-war, Salman and Shah Rukh Khan, were spotted in a cosy moment, holding the bride tightly and showering their blessings. The one photograph let the event snowball into an extravaganza, no less than PM Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony, where from participants to eye-witnesses turned into newsmakers. “Who’s goingIJ Who’s not invitedIJ Who’s dancingIJ Who’s designingIJ” were the questions that hounded entertainment scribes day and night.
The curiosity factor levelled so high that even the least-weighed stakeholders claimed their fame by releasing pictures on their web portals or social media engines.
Fair enough, if Salman is the bhai of India, Arpita is bound to be the national sister. So media indulged in Arpita’s wedding like a ghar ki shaadi and morphed the lesser-known Khan family member into a brand ambassador of big fat Indian weddings. From cocktail evenings to the D-day, parties to reception, everything was under scanner. Salman bhai was also generous enough to not control the flow of information about his sister’s wedding and allowed the attendants to share pictures of the wedding.
While Aamir Khan, Kiran Rao, Mika Singh and Priyanka Chopra cooked up a storm on the Internet after they featured dancing in a leaked footage, those who kept their presence under wraps were equally spoken about. What moreIJ The 150 kg cake was the talk of the ceremony. Apparently, it took seven bakers over three days to come up with the cake. The team who made the cake posted their pictures on social networking sites and boasted of their contribution to the wedding. In most celebrity weddings, designers are the first ones to circulate news about their creations but in this case, the bride’s red and gold lehenga was notified a little later by designer duo Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla.