Vintage car baraat, glass mandap, Rajasthani delicacies on the menu: Inside Vicky Kaushal-Katrina Kaif’s hush-hush wedding – Times of India

A grand wedding amid fort’s sheesh mahal

Sources tell us that the celebrations kicked off with Vicky’s
sehra
bandi ceremony on Thursday morning, and loud
dhol and
nagara beats could be heard at the venue.

The sherwani-clad
dulha arrived in a vintage car with a small baraat in the premises, while Katrina Kaif was carried in on a
doli decorated with flowers, and wore a red
lehenga, add the insiders. The ceremony supposedly took place in a glass mandap in the sheesh mahal area of the fort. The couple’s wedding started around Thursday noon, and Vicky and Katrina took their
saath pheras at 3.30 pm .

‘The couple twinned in pink at the sangeet’

The couple’s wedding festivities started from December 7 with the
sangeet ceremony, followed by the
mehendi on December 8. Twinning in pink at the
sangeet, both Katrina and Vicky were seen dancing while their family friend and singer Gurdas Maan gave a small performance for them, say sources.

Though Bollywood biggies like Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar and Alia Bhatt were expected to attend the wedding, none of them were spotted at the venue till the time of going to press. Neha Dhupia and Angad Bedi attended the
sangeet and
mehendi and the former returned to Jaipur early on Thursday due to a prior commitment.

Mawa kachori, kheer mohan and kaaju paan on the menu

Sources say that the menu during the three-day festivities included intercontinental cuisine, with a Rajasthani touch. Delicacies like
mawa kachori,
pyaaj ki kachori,
kaju paan, and
kheer mohan are believed to have been served, along with authentic delicacies made by a local
halwai. Kailash Sharma, owner of the mithai shop that catered to the wedding, shares, “For the past three-days, we have been preparing typical Rajasthani mithais for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Kheer mohan, mawa kachori and
pyaaj kachori are being served every day during breakfast.”

Digital stickers, 200 bouncers & Rajasthan police part of heavy security

The wedding has been in the news and also been a fodder for memes – thanks to its tight security, and for good reason. Entry inside the venue was only allowed to those with digital security stickers and codes which were allotted to the vehicles ferrying the guests from the airport and hotels in Sawai Madhopur. Reportedly, 100 bouncers each from Mumbai and Jaipur were deployed inside and outside the fort, in addition to personnel from Rajasthan police. Tinu Sogarwal, SHO, Chauth Ka Barwara, shares, “We are only taking care of security outside the fort and its entrance. Security inside the fort is being taken care of by a private agency from Mumbai. There are three entrance gates to the fort, where we have deployed one sub-inspector and four constables. A team of 11 has been kept on reserve.”