10 March 2009

FRIPPING, FREAKING EXCESS: $60 million wedding


AP Associated Press
updated 2:31 p.m. CT, Fri., June. 25, 2004

PARIS - 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.
O.K., so this happened a few years ago and I've just caught wind of it. I just cannot imagine how anyone from India could do something like this and live in that country. What, have they never heard of Mumbai or any of the other festering slums of their own country? Dear God save us all.

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