To find the Ambani wedding distasteful

I actually don't even know who they are! Anyone else?

Frankly I find Royal weddings every bit as vulgar. As was last year's Coronation on the back of a lavish Jubilee and funeral, during a cost of living crisis.

I don't get bringing in all these international guests when you don't even know them properly like the kardashians and pay for them to attend. I wouldn't be suprised if Tony and Boris have had actual dealings with Mr ambani, and even Rishi considering his links in India although no photos of him there have come out.
There was a clip of the groom and at one point he looked exhausted.
It was a display of extreme Wealth but they do seem to have given back in certain ways, they did a ceremony for under privilege couples to get married and gave money, white goods and things needed to start married life, even money so the women would have financial independence. At one of their pre wedding parties they paid for 510000 people to have a meal. This is probably small fry compared to what's been paid for the actual wedding though.

According to times of India Justin beiber paid $10 million to perform.

Ah yes, so different to here. Someone from a Wigan council estate would never be looked down on in this country…

Ah, that figures. I wondered who was paying his fares and hotel costs, it makes sense that they are additionally paying him just to be there.

It's pretty obscene when you consider if they donated just a small amount of the wedding budget annually, the UK would no longer need to send aid to India.

Sounds like a right Royal wedding / funeral / coronation then. Millions spent on vulgar displays of wealth and celebrity, all while food banks are keeping families from starving 🤷🏾‍♀️.

I read somewhere that Rishi's in-laws although very rich are also very humble and raised their kids in a simple way. All this would be tacky for them too I imagine.

There is a video of mother of the groom walking hand in hand with KK (who was dressed so inappropriately) I felt so cringe for her! Why did they invite all these western celebs. The Bollywood actors I can understand but not Hollywood! So tacky. The worst is all these people will come and enjoy the wedding and still laugh at them. Stunning bride though.

Also I wonder if anyone from the Sunak family was there? Interesting Rishi wasn’t!

I believe they were some bespoke designers jobbies! But yes why not wear shoes. Doesn’t mean they have class if they’re rich. But I find so many rich people don’t have class, they’re just tacky.

Apparently the groom has severe asthma and has lots of steroids hence the weight?

They are also sharing their wealth out like sweets if they are paying the likes of Boris Johnson to go out there. He can’t even afford to pay for his own wallpaper.

I also find it gross when a celeb graces a homeless charity with their presence wearing a dress that costs thousands but apparently they are doing so much to support the cause

I bet the Ambanis would love to be described as “anyone.” 🤣🤣🤣 Nothing to see here - they are just trying to get on quietly with their wealth and not attract too much attention. 🤣

This wedding cost £600 million. Which is apparently 0.5% of the father's wealth.

Damn right I'm criticising him for not doing more. One hospital and one school is next to nothing. The wedding and the charity work still leaves him with 99% of his wealth.

When you have that level of wealth and spend it so ostentatiously in such an incredibly poor country, you're going to get criticism for it.

Like that...I'm gonna use it.

Boris yet again looks like he brushed his hair with a toffee apple

Think it's more about having a pop at the wealthy and expecting them to share their wealth out like sweets....its very on trend to want to criticise anyone with more than the next person.

It's in the press, to make an opinion you'd surely have to read an article about it in the first place otherwise how would you know?

Spending one and a half million £ on a wedding is extreme and will of course make news headlines as it is so extreme especially in a country where the difference between rich and poor is so vast

Exactly. I am not Indian but my parents are from the Indian subcontinent and are appalled.

Yes we have poverty here in the UK. But the scale of it in the Indian subcontinent is vomit-inducing. I have seen beggars sitting out in the midday sun, with no limbs and eyes gouged out, waiting for pennies. Very little children helping their mums break piles of rocks for money in the searing heat. Three year olds sleeping alone on the road at night. That’s just a few examples I have witnessed myself. And people in charge do not seem to bat an eyelid.

Because of this, the contrast with this excess is more horrific.

And of course a corrupt government in charge. In my parents’ country, which is poorer than India, the leaders pocket donations to furnish their own mansions whilst the poor just get poorer.

It alll makes me sick. I don’t think it’s helpful to say the situation in India is exactly the same as the UK. It is not racist to point out the huge disparity.

Though of course any ostentation is tacky to me, whether that’s in Chelsea, LA or Mumbai. This family is of course free to spend as they wish. And we are free to criticise.

Never even heard of these people or their wedding. Which reading this is a good thing.

Is the joke on Alexander Johnson or the Ambani family..?

Is it like paying for the court jester in modern day times

The oddest thing (not really of course) was the groom and a couple of other blokes wearing trainers.

I know exactly what you mean!
And Johnson looked like Worzel Gummidge.