$60 million to say 'I do'

[Mike0812]

$60 million to say 'I do'
Indian steel tycoon throws
6-day bash for daughter's wedding

Updated: 3:31 p.m. ET June 25, 2004PARIS - An Indian steel tycoon reportedly paid $60 million for his daughter’s wedding — a six-day bash for 1,500 guests in France’s most sumptuous settings, including Versailles.

Lakshmi Mittal rented the Tuileries garden in Paris one night and a gallery at Versailles another night to celebrate the marriage of his 23-year-old daughter, Vanisha, to 25-year-old Amit Bhatia, according to Thursday’s edition of Paris Match magazine.

Louis XIV’s lavish chateau apparently was not enough — Mittal also had a makeshift castle built at a park in Saint-Cloud, outside the capital, Paris Match said. The actual wedding took place Tuesday at another chateau, Vaux-le-Vicomte.

The $60 million price tag was about the cost of an Airbus A320 passenger jet.

The wedding put on by Mittal, named by Forbes magazine as one of the richest people in the world, cost more than the recent royal wedding in Spain. Paris Match said the wedding of Spain’s Crown Prince Felipe to TV anchorwoman Letizia Ortiz cost $35 million.

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:eek: WOW and I think perhaps :g2f:

[Third EYe]

if i have a daughter, she'll be lucky if she gets cake dammit.

[bubblez]

That must've been one uuuuuuuuuuugly daughter... No one takes out that kind of insurance on a wedding to ensure the groom doesn't skeedaddle...

[Mike0812]

Actually, I think she's quite pretty, well, from this photo anyway...

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/040625/040625_wedding_vmed_1p.vmedium.jpg

Still...

[bubblez]

whoa... I stand corrected. Then I guess it falls to 'if you have that much money, what else are you doing to spend it on?'

Geeez...I hope my future daughter doesn't hear of this... it will be tough enough trying make her "special day" special without contrasting and comparing...

[who45]

Oh wow 60 mil for a wedding. :eek:

[grinner]

too much money??? :eek:

[Third EYe]

I can't even get my lawn mowed

[grinner]

slaves... slaves I tell ya. Or just maybe some indentured servants.

[Mike0812]

Torch it or pave it...though it may have the strange effect of pissing off your neighbors...or your wife (depending on who's the greater threat) ;)

[who45]

if i have a daughter, she'll be lucky if she gets cake dammit.Right..sure...I bet she'll have you wrapped around her finger. :lol

[Third EYe]

Right..sure...I bet she'll have you wrapped around her finger. :lol

yeah, but I won't smile

[grinner]

like most daddies

[who45]

no, that might scare some people..but I'm sure you will be smiling on the inside. :D :P

[TheBladeRoden]

watch them get divorced in a month

[bubblez]

Please tell me her name isn't J-Lolaksi

[faustus]

it'll cost him anothe 60 mill

[AgentSun]

from that pic, i think we should be asking "how did a guy like that get a girl like her?" cause she's pretty and he's...not.

and for my wedding, i'd have a budget. but i'd separate that budget into categories. a 800 for my dress. 100 for my veil. 500-800 for the flowers. 500-600 for the cake. 500-800 for the catering. 200-300 fpr the bridesmaids dresses. 200-300 for the groom's tux and the best men. 500 for my invitations.

okay, so the numbers aren't realistic and i probably won't have a budget. thank goodness the bride plans and her family pays for the wedding. if it were the groom to plan the wedding, i'd be at the local sports bar...wherever there was a tv behind my head so he looked like he was looking at me. actually no. but it's possible. i wouldn't be surprised.

[faustus]

you've got it all planed I see :D

[Scarran Raptor]

wow....you've had a lot of time to plan this, haven't you?

$60 Mil for his daughter's wedding, was he also granting favors to those who wished him well on this, the day of his daughter's wedding?

or

Ladies and Gentlemen, Patvir Corleone

or if I really wanted to be nasty

I understand the guy's talking about closing down his factories and outsourcing all his work to Detroit

[bubblez]

and for my wedding, i'd have a budget. but i'd separate that budget into categories. a 800 for my dress. 100 for my veil. 500-800 for the flowers. 500-600 for the cake. 500-800 for the catering. 200-300 fpr the bridesmaids dresses. 200-300 for the groom's tux and the best men. 500 for my invitations.

Are these numbers in terms of hundreds of thousands?? ;)

[AgentSun]

it's in terms of beans. at least until i get that engagement ring. mmmhmm.

[bubblez]

you go girl

[AgentSun]

i've got a plan. yep.

[Third EYe]

Let me explain something AgentSun, you can't plan a wedding, it happens. prior to my wife brainwashing me (it's my story, back off) into marrying her ( yep ) i had no concept of what a wedding entailed. Now that I'm married, and participated in every aspect of the preparations, I still have no idea.

We budgeted 2 grand, that's rings, dress, venue, harpist all that jazz. I'm not sure what the final tally was, but it was over 5 grand, and we had a very small wedding, just a few family, no friends.

Good luck, but I'd try to stay real basic, and then work out from that. if you don't plan too much, you won't be too disapointed. My wife was very disapointed with the entire thing because she tried to control each and every detail. I was just happy nobody got sick. (we were at 10000 feet)

[AgentSun]

i have a general idea of what i want, but i don't hold on to it too much because i have 2 years to grow and change.

[bubblez]

just make sure you have a meal ready in the limo when traveling from wedding to reception. if there are tons of people there you won't get a chance to eat once you are in the hall and meeting the famblee

[AgentSun]

hahahahahah right...i'm asian. all my family does at gatherings is ask "where's the food?" then again, my boyfriend isn't so i dont know how the culture shock would happen.

[bubblez]

beware the drunken uncle...

[AgentSun]

there's one of those, yes. from his side, not mine. we chinese are classy. nothing but the best karaoke. :-P

we both want the priest from princess bride at our wedding. we'll suffice for the minister imitating that voice to get us both laughing, then settling down for the serious part.

[Mike0812]

we both want the priest from princess bride at our wedding. we'll suffice for the minister imitating that voice to get us both laughing, then settling down for the serious part.

:lol or you could settle for the priest from Spaceballs. Otherwise, sounds like you got it all figured out ;) :D

[bubblez]

pardon the terrible phonetic spelling...

na ho mai aah

[AgentSun]

whaaaaat?

[bubblez]

rats... never mind... supposed to be something like "how are you doing?"
Mandarin Chinese I think...

[AgentSun]

in mandarin (chinese) it's more like nee hao. in cantonese it's more like lay ho ma. you can't lump the sounds together either. each of them has to be it's own distinct sound.

[bubblez]

lo siento mucho (very sorry)

picked it up from an ex-coworker... even recongnized it in a movie as "no may ah"