Cricketer Virat Kohli and actress Anushka Sharma, after much speculation and media frenzy, tied the knot far away from the hustle bustle of Mumbai, in an exclusive Tuscan villa hours away from Milan, Italy. On December 11, social media overpoured with beautiful and heartwarming images from inside the small and tight-lipped #Virushka wedding, filled with pastel pink hues of the couple’s Sabyasachi traditional couture, the floral backdrop against Italian landscape and the dreamy Hindu wedding set up. After four years of courtship, the Indian power couple spared no expense in their ethereal destination wedding, and we have all the details you need to know. From the wedding planner behind the breathtaking wedding to the villa which housed their exclusive guest list, read on…
The Decor Designer
Devika Narain, the celeb go-to wedding designer from Lucknow, is known for conceptualizing high-profile destination wedding assignments and was at the helm of affairs in the celebrity wedding in Tuscany. Narain, along with her photographer husband Joseph Radhik conceptualised and captured the wedding, following other celebrity weddings of cricketers Dinesh Kartik and Robin Uthappa.
Sharing a photograph of Anushka and Virat’s wedding, Devika captioned her instagram post as, “Some days, the whole world conspires to make things right. That you Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma, it has been an absolute honour and privilege to be a part of your journey.” Devika’s partner also Joseph Radhik also took to social media sharing, “Congratulations Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma. It was an honour to be a guest at your wedding and privilege to photograph it. Thank You. The past week has been one where we have been mouth-shut and we can finally talk about it now.”
The Wedding Planner
Tina Tharwani & Saurabh Malhotra, the co-founders of Mumbai based Shaadi Squad, translated their decade long on-screen production experience to off-screen magic as wedding planners. Reportedly, the wedding planning took place in Sri Lanka with the couple’s families away from the prying paparazzi.
Shaadi Squaad took to Instagram post the wedding sharing,’The past few weeks have been absolutely surreal and as we sit typing this out, it’s sort of settling in!”. “Four months of keeping a secret, hiding even from our own team, the secret recces, midnight meetings, vague conversations, and sleepless nights have finally manifested into this grand moment.” They add in more exclusive images captioned, ‘Thank you Anuskha and Virat, for making us part of your family and trusting us to pull off something of this magnitude. You believed in us, even on those sleepless nights that we didn’t!”
They thank their team of expert professionals to make the top secret mission a success including Super Tuscan Wedding Planners (the Tuscan extension), Ritu Dalmia (food consultant), Stories by Joseph Radhik (photographer and videographer) and Devika Narain.
The Destination
Borgo Finocchieto, an 800-year-old restored villa with unparalleled views of historical sites and idyllic valleys of Tuscany, hosted the celebrity couple’s private ceremonials. The property is known to be the second most expensive in the world, having been a holiday home to elite guests such as the Kennedys and Obamas. Close to the tourist-favourites of Siena and Florence, the Borgo is easily accessible to Milan and other major cities, yet it gives the illusion of escaping into medieval Italy as the property sprawls across 400 acres. The five villas within the exclusive hotel houses only 44 people, ensuring privacy and attentive personalized services, which makes it ideal for a high profile secret wedding. Onlookers reporters that the beats of dhol and bhangra could be heard from the Borgo in light of the Punjabi wedding.
The Dress
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Every Indian bride dreams of being dressed by renowned Indian couturier Sabyasachi, and Anushka Sharma’s dream came true as the designer stepped in to create the striking ensembles of the bride and the groom for their wedding festivities. Sabyasachi Mukherjee took to Instagram to share details of the bride’s traditional jewellery, handcrafted with syndicate uncut diamonds, pale pink spinel and baroque Japanese cultured pearls, by the Sabyasachi Heritage Jewellery collection. For her wedding outfit, the bride wore a gorgeous blushing pink lehenga with Renaissance embroidery in vintage English colours embellished with silver-gold metal thread, pearls and beads. The designer also picked a similar palette for the groom, in an ivory raw silk sherwani hand-embroidered in a vintage Benarasi pattern, with an old rose silk kota safa.
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