Last Updated: March 02, 2024, 13:21 IST
Anant Ambani and Radhika Marchant during their pre-wedding bash in Jamnagar on March 1, 2024. (PTI)
Joined on stage by fiancée Radhika Merchant, Anant Ambani also thanked his father, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, as well as his siblings and their spouses for making the event memorable
In an emotional speech at his pre-wedding festivities on Friday night, Anant Ambani thanked his mother Nita Ambani, crediting the Reliance Foundation chairperson with putting together the grand three-day celebrations in Gujarat’s Jamnagar.
Joined on stage by fiancée Radhika Merchant, daughter of Viren Merchant, CEO of Encore Healthcare, Anant Ambani also thanked his father, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, as well as his siblings and their spouses for making the event memorable.
“Thank You mom for all that you’ve done… All this is created by my mother and no one else. My mother has gone all out… she has worked I think for 18-19 hours a day. I am extremely grateful to mom and thank you so much,” Anant Ambani said.
“I would like to thank each and every one of you present here. I know everyone has made it to Jamnagar to make me and Radhika feel special. We are all honoured and humbled to have all of you here. I am sorry if we have caused any inconvenience to anyone… I hope everyone is going to enjoy the coming three days,” he added.
“I would just like to thank my mother, my father, my sister and brother-in-law, and my brother and sister-in-law for making this event so memorable.”
Engaged in Janaury 2023, Anand Ambani and Radhika Merchant are set to wed later this year.
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Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg with philanthropist-wife Priscilla Chan, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, former US president Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka, corporate leaders Gautam Adani, Nandan Nilekani, and Adar Poonawala, cricketers Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni, Rohit Sharma and spiritual leader Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev are also part of the pre-wedding festivities.
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