LONDON: British actress turned beachwear designer Elizabeth Hurley will marry Indian businessman Arun Nayar in February at the 18th century Devigarh Palace near Udaipur.
The wedding is expected to involve camels and elephants, a series of lavish feasts, and an exchange of vows at a specially constructed mandap before the newlyweds retire to a presidential suite, according to Britain’s The Observer.
The wedding guests, including Elton John and his partner David Furnish, football star David Beckham and his wife Victoria, Pamela Anderson, and Hurley’s ex-lover Hugh Grant and his partner Jemima Goldsmith, will be accommodated in suites at Udaipur’s famed Lake Palace.
Hurley, 41, who achieved fame in a Versace dress held together with safety pins at the 1994 premiere of Four Weddings and a Funeral, appeared recently on the cover of the Italian edition of Vanity Fair and was pictured inside modelling several of her bikini designs.
After months of rumours, she finally admitted to the magazine that she and Nayar, 42, are to marry. “I cannot reveal to you the exact date, but it is very close,” she said. “We are even thinking of having a child.”
The report said the former Estee Lauder model, who has a five-year-old son by Hollywood producer Steve Bing, is planning two weddings and 13 designer gowns. The first, described as a small family affair, is set to take place at Gloucestershire’s Grade II-listed Barnsley Hotel close to her home in Ampney Knowle, in London.
