Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant during their sangeet ceremony on July 5 in Mumbai, India. Photo: Raju Shinde/Hindustan Times via Getty Images
You thought you had an expensive wedding? This should make you feel better:
The months-long wedding ceremonies in India of the youngest son of Asia's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, and the daughter of pharma tycoons finally concluded this past weekend and reportedly cost at least $132 million, according to the BBC.
What that paid for: A rumored$10 million for Justin Bieber to perform.
Constructing 14 temples in part to provide a backdrop for the wedding.
And a mass wedding for 50 underprivileged couples, among countless other extravagances.
Yes, but: With each event since festivities began earlier this year, public criticism has grown.
While the remarkable displays of love and celebration mark a larger shift taking place inside India where "wealth must speak as loudly as possible," some view the opulence as being tone-deaf given that income inequality may now be worse than it was under British rule, according to the World Inequality Lab.
