Himanshu Patel, founder of Epic Stories which covered the pre-wedding and wedding festivities of Radhika Merchant and Anant Ambani, details what went behind the grandest wedding of the country.
Seven months of planning, five month-long celebrations across Mumbai, Gujarat and on a cruise in Europe, strict protocols, host of international performers and the biggest of celebrities all under one roof. A lot has happened at the Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s wedding bash, which has been dubbed as the biggest celebration the country has ever witnessed. But when the wedding photographer Himanshu Patel spoke to indianexpress.com to detail his experience, the call dropped. Amusingly, it was a Jio network.
Founder of Epic Stories, Himanshu Patel isn’t new to the art of capturing celebrity weddings–Karishma Tanna and Varun Bangera, Prince Narula and Yuvika Chaudhary, Shweta Tripathi and Chaitanya Sharma–but his latest assignment was tracked closely by those, who were invited and those attending vicariously through their Instagram.
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