The big fat Indian wedding

Blowing huge amounts on your nuptials is the ultimate modern status symbol.

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The kind of wedding $100m buys you
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This has been the year of the lavish wedding. From Princess Eugenie trying to upstage her royal cousin to Gwyneth Paltrow "consciously coupling" for the second time, blowing huge amounts of money on your nuptials is now, it seems, the ultimate status symbol. However, even these celebrity ceremonies seemed modest compared with the latest extravagance.

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