Deepika Ranveer Sindhi Wedding LIVE UPDATES: Bride and groom reach Lake Como venue

16:06 IST: Ranveer Singh has made no secret of his fondness for 90s Bollywood songs. As soon as he arrived at the Villa del Balbianello, My Name Is Lakhan started playing. From Chunnari Chunnari to Amma Dekh to Naiyyo Naiyyo to Tamma Tamma, 90s songs are currently playing at the wedding venue.
The India Today team is bringing you live updates from Lake Como.

15:34 IST: Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone’s team sent out special ‘thank you’ gifts to the media. A beautifully decorated box containing Mysore Pak and Laddoo arrived at the India Today office this morning. “We thank you for your love and blessings,” a note from the couple read. Take a look:

15:27 IST: The nation is waiting with bated breath for a sneak-peek of Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone on their wedding day, but to no avail. However, a previously unseen picture from the pre-wedding festivities has surfaced on the internet.
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15:09 IST: The bride and the groom, Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh have arrived at the wedding venue, Villa del Balbianello. All guests at the Sindhi wedding today are sporting turbans. Deepika and Ranveer, just like yesterday, hid themselves from the cameras with umbrellas while making their way to the mandap.

14:46 IST: Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone’s Sindhi wedding festivities will kick off anytime now. The paparazzi stationed outside Villa del Balbianello are waiting with bated breath for the couple to arrive.
Meanwhile, a new video of Ranveer and Deepika exiting the venue after their Konkani-style wedding on November 14 has surfaced on the internet. Much to the disappointment of the journalists, their entourage covered them up with black umbrellas as they got on the board and took off to Casta Diva, the luxury resort at which they are putting up.
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14:39 IST: The mandap is ready and the security boats have arrived at the Villa del Balbianello. It is very chilly at Lake Como today, informs India Today’s Sushant Mehta.

14:31 IST: Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh will release a wedding video tomorrow, from their Konkani ceremony yesterday. Their Konkani wedding ceremony was a veritable fairy tale, with their wedding venue completely decked up.
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14:26 IST: Singer Harshdeep Kaur has arrived at the wedding venue, Villa del Balbianello, where Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh are to host their Sindhi wedding ceremony today. Harshdeep will perform at the ceremony, informs India Today’s Sushant Mehta who is at Lake Como.

14:19 IST: Ranveer Singh’s cousin Soumya Hingorani shared pictures of herself all dressed up for his Konkani-style wedding with Deepika Padukone. She is seen wearing a white lehenga with gold embellishments, in one of the pictures. In another picture which she shared on her Instagram story, she is seen posing with her “best”.
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14:06 IST: Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone’s wedding is an intimate affair, with only close friends and family members in attendance. Members of the film fraternity were conspicuous by their absence.
The guests are putting up at Casta Diva, a luxury resort on the east side of Lake Como, in the pretty village of Blevio. The resort, which has 75 rooms, has been fully booked till the end of the season (November 17) for the wedding. Guests have begun arriving at the wedding venue, the stunning Villa del Balbianello, on boats.
India Today’s Sushant Mehta brings us the first visuals:
Photo: Sushant Mehta
Photo: Sushant Mehta

13:52 IST: Bollywood actress Preity G Zinta posted an adorable message for newlyweds Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh. Preity wrote on Twitter, “Congratulations @RanveerOfficial & @deepikapadukone on your new life together. Welcome to the married club. Wish you both loads of love, laughter, togetherness & happiness always #DeepikaWedsRanveer.”
After their Konkani wedding yesterday, several Bollywood celebrities took to social media to wish the newly-married couple. While filmmaker Karan Johar expressed his eagerness in seeing Deepika and Ranveer’s wedding photos, actor Ronit Bose Roy wished the couple ‘lots of babies’!
See how Bollywood celebrities wished Deepika and Ranveer here.

13:50 IST: With Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone set to get hitched in a Sindhi-style wedding any minute now, the excitement has reached a fever pitch. The two got married in a traditional Konkani wedding, which was attended only by close friends and family members on November 14.
Currently, the mandap is being set up for their Sindhi wedding. The India Today team is in Lake Como and bringing you minute-by-minute updates of the big day. Guests have already begun at the Villa del Balbianello, where Ranveer and Deepika will tie the knot.
Take a look at the first picture of the mandap, which has been decked up with red flowers:
First picture of the mandap being set up. Photo: Sushant Mehta

12:58 IST: Ever since Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh made an official announcement about their wedding dates, B-Town and fans can’t keep calm. It’s not every day that one of B-Town’s most-loved couples tie the knot. But unlike many of their contemporaries, Ranveer and Deepika have decided to keep their wedding an intimate affair with only friends and family members in attendance.
On November 14, Ranveer and Deepika got married in an intimate Konkani ceremony, but not a single inside picture from the wedding made it to the internet. Though many were waiting with bated breath for the couple to post one photo from the ceremony making an official announcement about their wedding, Ranveer and Deepika did not give in.
However, if reports are to be believed the newlyweds will sharing the first photos of their wedding on social media today, after wrapping up Sindhi wedding.
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12:01 IST: There is a lot of excitement surrounding Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone’s wedding, and fans are waiting with bated breath for pictures of the couple exchanging garlands. However, they are determined to keep their special day away from the prying eyes of the media and even made their guests cover their mobile phone cameras with a sticker so that there are no leaks.
There was heavy security outside the Villa del Balbianello, with powerboats manned by beefy guards chasing away the boats of any journalists and photographers who tried to capture Ranveer and Deepika.
Smriti Irani’s Instagram post perfectly summed up how all of us feel right now. Check out her post here.

10:55 IST: Farah Khan, who gave Deepika Padukone her big break in Om Shanti Om, holds a special place in the actress’s life. In fact, she was one of the few people from the film fraternity who received an invite to the Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone wedding.
Farah had shared pictures with the couple on Instagram and written, “My baby’s getting married!!!” She also called Ranveer her “son-in-law” in one of the posts.
Our correspondent Shivangi Thakur informs that Farah has a special wedding present for Ranveer and Deepika – a personalised hand impressions made by artist Bhavna Jasra.
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09:35 IST: Ranveer and Deepika are all set to have a Sindhi-style wedding at Villa del Balbianello any minute now. A traditional Sindhi wedding starts with a Kacchi Misri ritual. This is the first formal meeting between the bride and groom’s family after the wedding gets fixed. The families present each other with gifts and an informal engagement ceremony takes place.
This is followed by the Pakki Misri, the formal engagement ceremony, where the groom’s family presents gifts like clothes, jewellery etc. to the bride. The groom’s mother presents an earthen pot filled with misri to the bride’s mother.
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08:43 IST: While the guests at the Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh wedding were asked not to put up any pictures on social media, they made sweet gestures in their own special way. If Deepika’s sister Anisha Padukone changed her name to #Ladkiwale on all her social media accounts, her cousin Amit Padukone welcomed Ranveer to the family.
“Magical week, steeped purely in love. Fairy-tale union of the two most kind, beautiful souls. @RanveerOfficial Welcome to the fam! you’ve dethroned me as filmiest, but I’ll cope. @deepikapadukone Never seen you happier; you deserve no less! #ladkiwale #DeepVeerKiShaadi,” he tweeted along with a collage of the couple’s pictures.

08:12 IST: Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone’s Konkani-style wedding on November 14 was a close-knit one, with only around 35-40 people invited. The guest list included close friends and family, and no one from Bollywood made it to the cosy gathering. Though it was an intimate affair, Ranveer and Deepika’s wedding was no less than a fairytale.
According to reports, celebrated classical vocalist Shubha Mudgal performed as Deepika walked to the mandap. While there are no pictures or videos of Deepika’s bridal walk (or the wedding) yet, we bet she was the most stunning bride ever!

07:25 IST: Sabyasachi Mukherjee hinted that he would be designing the bridal trousseau when he took to his Instagram account to share a picture of Deepika Padukone dressed in one of his creations.
It looks like Deepika has entrusted the designer to make outfits for all her pre-wedding and wedding functions. For the Nandi puja held at her Bengaluru residence before the wedding, Deepika wore a bespoke orange bandhgala silk suit and gorgeous statement Sabyasachi jhumkis. At her Konkani-style wedding, she opted for a traditional silk saree in white and gold tones.
Now, for her Sindhi-style wedding, Deepika has chosen a red and gold lehenga designed by Sabyasachi. Ranveer, meanwhile, will be dressed in a Kanjeevaram sherwani, also designed by the couturier.

06:33 IST: Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone have chosen to get married in Italy, far away from the media glare. In fact, they valued their privacy so much that their guests were reportedly made to cover the cameras on their mobile phones with a piece of tape. There was also heavy security at the venue.
The couple zeroed in on the breathtaking Villa del Balbianello as their wedding venue. While the villa was decorated with white roses for the Konkani-style wedding, it will be decked up with red flowers for the Sindhi wedding today.
Twelve florists were specially flown in from Milan on Monday to beautify the villa. They also decorated Casta Diva, a luxury resort on the east side of Lake Como, at which Ranveer, Deepika, and their families are staying.

06:04 IST: Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh got married in a fairytale Konkani-style wedding at Villa del Balbianello in Italy’s Lake Como on November 14. The stars have their second wedding ceremony today, in a few hours. Deepika and Ranveer’s second wedding will be a Sindhi wedding, keeping with the groom’s background.
The Padukone and Singh families are hosting their guests at the breathtaking Villa del Balbianello at Lake Como for the wedding. The wedding festivities are taking place at the villa that sits right at the end of a peninsula and offers some stunning views of Lake Como.
For their first wedding yesterday, Ranveer and Deepika chose Sabyasachi creations. Deepika looked resplendent in white and gold while Ranveer colour-coordinated his outfit with the bride.
After their Konkani-style wedding yesterday, Ranveer and Deepika had a lavish luncheon in place for their guests.
Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh’s first wedding ceremony saw Villa del Balbianello, the wedding venue, decorated with lovely white roses. Twelve florists from Florence were flown in to Lake Como to decorate the villa.
The couple’s Sindhi wedding will see a red theme. The villa will be decorated with red flowers today, keeping with the colour scheme it seems. Deepika is wearing a heavily embroidered red lehenga for the Sindhi wedding, while Ranveer will wear a Kanjeevaram sherwani.
After their wedding ceremony today, Ranveer and Deepika will be in Lake Como for another two days to wrap up the rest of the festivities. The couple will fly back to India on November 18.
Deepika Padukone and her family will then host a reception party for their friends at The Leela in Bengaluru, on November 21. On November 28, Ranveer Singh and his family will throw a bash for their friends and Hindi film industry colleagues. The Mumbai reception will see all big Bollywood names in attendance.
Deepika and Ranveer hit it off on the sets of director Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Ram Leela. The stars dated for six years before telling the world on October 21 this year that they were tying the knot on November 14 and 15.

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Deepika Ranveer Sindhi Wedding LIVE UPDATES: Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh tied the knot in a dreamy Konkani-style wedding ceremony on November 14. The couple, who have been in a relationship for the last six years, will have a Sindhi wedding ceremony today, to honour Ranveer’s customs. We bring you minute-by-minute updates from the breathtaking Villa del Balbianello at Lake Como in Italy, where Ranveer and Deepika are getting married. The two are determined to keep their wedding a private affair, and their guests were reportedly made to cover up the camera lenses on their mobile phones with stickers. The security was tightened and patrolling boats ensured that no paparazzi came snooping. Once Ranveer and Deepika return to the country as husband and wife, they will host two lavish receptions – one in Bengaluru and the other in Mumbai. Follow our live coverage of Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh’s big fat wedding here.

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