Celebrity Destination Wedding in Udaipur

Celebrity Destination Wedding in Udaipur

Search "celebrity destination wedding in Udaipur" and you'll get a flood of pretty photos and vague superlatives. What you actually need whether you're planning your own wedding or just want the real story is the timeline: who got married where, and when. So that's what this is: every documented celebrity wedding in Udaipur from the event that started it all in 2004 through the two biggest weddings of 2026, with real dates and real venues, no guesswork.

At Weddings by Neeraj Kamra, we plan destination weddings across these same venues year-round so this isn't just a list of celebrity headlines, it's a working map of what's actually available to you.

Why Every Celebrity Destination Wedding in Udaipur Ends Up Here

Before the timeline, the short version of why Udaipur keeps winning:

  • Palace inventory nobody else has. Several of Udaipur's top hotels Taj Fateh Prakash, Shiv Niwas Palace sit inside the actual City Palace complex, built for Mewar royalty, not converted for tourism.
  • Water and hills, in the same city. Lake Pichola gives you boat entries and floating mandaps; the Aravalli hills around the city give you the private, hilltop-resort version celebrities have increasingly chosen since 2020.
  • Island venues for real security. Jag Mandir and Raffles Udaipur sit on their own islands, which is why they keep showing up for the highest-security celebrity weddings.
  • A vendor ecosystem built for scale. Decorators, caterers, and planners here Weddings by Neeraj Kamra included routinely run 300+ guest, multi-day, multi-venue builds. That infrastructure is a big part of why celebrities keep coming back.

Celebrity Destination Wedding in Udaipur: The Full Timeline

2004 - Raveena Tandon & Anil Thadani, Jag Mandir Palace

Detail Info
Date February 22, 2004
Venue Jag Mandir Palace
Location Private island, Lake Pichola
Guest scale ~100–150
Access Boat only
  • Bollywood actress Raveena Tandon married film distributor Anil Thadani, arriving in a 100-year-old doli that once carried the Queen of Mewar.
  • Jag Mandir is a 17th-century marble palace built entirely on its own island boat-only access gives it total privacy from the mainland.
  • The property centers on the Gol Mahal and the Bara Patharon ka Mahal, both fronted by manicured courtyard gardens.
  • Why it matters: before this wedding, Jag Mandir was a heritage site tourists visited; after it, the island became one of India's most requested wedding venues and put Udaipur on Bollywood's wedding shortlist for the first time.

2017 - Neil Nitin Mukesh & Rukmani Sahay, Radisson Blu Palace Resort & Spa

Detail Info
Date February 9, 2017
Venue Radisson Blu Palace Resort & Spa
Location Fateh Sagar Lake
Style Contemporary palace-style architecture
  • Actor Neil Nitin Mukesh, grandson of playback legend Mukesh, married Rukmani Sahay here.
  • The property sits on the banks of Fateh Sagar Lake, with dedicated banquet halls and open lawns built for large-format functions.
  • Why it matters: it gets far less blog coverage than the island venues, which makes it a useful reference point for full celebrity-scale hospitality without needing an entire island.

2018 - Isha Ambani & Anand Piramal, Pre-Wedding Celebrations at Oberoi Udaivilas

Detail Info
Date December 8–9, 2018
Venue Oberoi Udaivilas
Location Lake Pichola
Size 30+ acres
Notable guests Hillary Clinton, Beyoncé, Priyanka Chopra & Nick Jonas
destination wedding planner udaipur
  • The wedding itself happened in Mumbai, but the Udaipur pre-wedding celebrations are the single biggest reason the city became an international name.
  • Oberoi Udaivilas is built around domed Rajasthani-style architecture, private courtyards, and multiple banquet lawns, with select suites offering private plunge pools.
  • The hotel's illuminated facade became one of the most photographed images of the entire celebration.
  • Why it matters: this event proved Udaipur could handle international, security-heavy, celebrity-scale logistics and it put Oberoi Udaivilas permanently on the celebrity-venue map.

2023 - Parineeti Chopra & Raghav Chadha, The Leela Palace

Detail Info
Date September 24, 2023
Venue The Leela Palace
Baraat route From Taj Lake Palace, across the water
Location Lake Pichola
Built 2009
Rooms ~80
Parineeti Chopra and Raghav Chadha Wedding Udaipur
  • Bollywood actress Parineeti Chopra married AAP MP Raghav Chadha at a lakefront property with a domed rooftop profile and a central courtyard used for the wedding functions.
  • The baraat departed from Taj Lake Palace the 18th-century floating marble palace in the middle of Lake Pichola, reachable only by boat and crossed the water to reach Leela.
  • Why it matters: still the single most-searched celebrity wedding in Udaipur, and the one most couples reference when they ask Weddings by Neeraj Kamraabout venue costs at this tier.

2024 PV Sindhu & Venkata Datta Sai, Raffles Udaipur

Detail Info
Date December 20–22, 2024
Venue Raffles Udaipur
Location Private island, Udai Sagar Lake
Size 21 acres
Format 3-day Telugu ceremony (sangeet, haldi, mehendi, wedding)
  • Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu married entrepreneur Venkata Datta Sai in a multi-day traditional ceremony.
  • Raffles sits on its own island on Udai Sagar Lake Udaipur's second major lake, distinct from Pichola built in Indo-Saracenic style with manicured gardens and full-island exclusivity.
  • Why it matters: marked a real shift Udaipur wasn't just for Bollywood and business families anymore, it was for India's biggest sports stars too.

2025 Netra Mantena & Vamsi Gadiraju, Jag Mandir Palace and Multi-Venue

Detail Info
Date November 21–24, 2025
Main venue Jag Mandir Palace
Notable guests Ranveer Singh, Jennifer Lopez (performing), Donald Trump Jr.
Entertainment Cirque du Soleil showcase
Format 4-day celebration
Netra Mantena and Vamsi Gadiraju Wedding
  • US-based pharma billionaire Raju Mantena's daughter Netra married tech entrepreneur Vamsi Gadiraju in the biggest Udaipur wedding since the Ambani celebrations.
  • The main ceremony returned to Jag Mandir Palace the same island venue, courtyards, and boat-only access that Raveena Tandon used 21 years earlier.
  • Why it matters: the freshest large-scale reference point in the city, and it closes the loop on Jag Mandir's twenty-year run as Udaipur's flagship celebrity venue.

2026 Nupur Sanon & Stebin Ben, Raffles Udaipur

Detail Info
Date January 11, 2026
Venue Raffles Udaipur
Location Private island, Udai Sagar Lake
Follow-up Mumbai reception
  • Actress and social media star Nupur Sanon married singer Stebin Ben at the same private island, Indo-Saracenic courtyards, and Udai Sagar Lake setting PV Sindhu used a year earlier.
  • Why it matters: the second consecutive major celebrity wedding at Raffles in just over a year, confirming it as one of Udaipur's two or three most in-demand celebrity venues.

2026 - Vijay Deverakonda & Rashmika Mandanna, Mementos by ITC Hotels, Ekaaya

Detail Info
Date February 26, 2026
Venue Mementos by ITC Hotels, Ekaaya
Location Aravalli hills, ~25km from Udaipur city center
Format Private ceremony, "The Wedding of Virosh"
Notable guests Sandeep Reddy Vanga, Eesha Rebba
Follow-up Reception at Taj Krishna, Hyderabad (March 4)
rasmika and vijay Wedding udaipur
  • Telugu superstars Vijay Deverakonda and Rashmika Mandanna married in a hilltop boutique resort built around private villas and suites, several with temperature-controlled plunge pools well away from the lake-facing hotel cluster entirely.
  • Why it matters: confirmed a trend that started with Aurika and Taj Aravali Udaipur's "second ring" of hilltop, Aravalli-facing resorts is now a genuine celebrity-wedding category on its own, separate from the classic lakefront palace.

Read More About this wedding - Rasmika – Vijay Weddings Udaipur

Where to Host Your Own Celebrity-Style Wedding in Udaipur

Venue detail is covered above, in the timeline. This section is just the practical booking picture: which of those venues (plus a few close alternatives) you can actually reserve through WNK, and what guest count or budget each one suits.

Venue Best suited for
RAAS Devigarh Boutique, high-fashion, intimate weddings (under 150 guests) — Royal Heritage Hotel in Udaipur
Oberoi Udaivilas Large-scale, multi-day celebrations needing serious infrastructure — A Palace on Lake Pichola
Radisson Blu Palace Resort & Spa Celebrity-level scale without booking a full island — Where Lake Views Meet Grand Celebrations
Taj Fateh Prakash Couples who want the actual City Palace complex, not a look-alike — Lake View Palace Hotel
Taj Aravali Resort & Spa Hilltop, Aravalli-facing weddings away from the lake crowd — Luxury Wedding Resort in Udaipur
Aurika Udaipur – Luxury by Lemon Tree Hotels Modern architecture over classic palace décor, same hilltop category — A Hilltop Retreat Built for Weddings
Chunda Palace Intimate, old-city heritage weddings (Sheesh Mahal-scale) — Royal Heritage Hotel in Udaipur
Fateh Vilas Palace styling on a tighter guest list and budget — A Heritage Wedding Hotel in Udaipur

Weddings by Neeraj Kamra also plans weddings at Umaid Bhawan Palace (Jodhpur) and Rambagh Palace (Jaipur) outside Udaipur city limits, so left off this Udaipur-specific list.

What Every Celebrity Destination Wedding in Udaipur Has in Common

Across two decades and eleven weddings, three patterns repeat:

  1. Island and hilltop exclusivity wins. Jag Mandir, Raffles, and Devigarh built their reputations on physical separation from the city. The 2026 shift toward Ekaaya, Taj Aravali, and Aurika shows the same logic applied to the hills instead of the water.
  2. Multi-day format is now the default. Even the smaller weddings on this list Akshat Ranaut, Nupur Sanon run sangeet, haldi, and mehendi as separate staged events rather than a single ceremony.
  3. The venue becomes the wedding's identity. "The Leela Palace wedding," "the Raffles wedding," "the Jag Mandir wedding" these are how each event gets remembered and searched years later, which is exactly why venue selection is the first decision that matters.

Plan Your Own Celebrity Destination Wedding in Udaipur

You don't need a billion-dollar family or an Olympic medal to get the version of Udaipur these weddings show off you need the right venue matched to your guest count, budget, and the kind of ceremony you actually want. Weddings by Neeraj Kamra works across every venue on this list, from an intimate Chunda Palace evening to a full multi-day Oberoi Udaivilas celebration, and we can walk you through real costs, availability, and planning timelines for any of them.

 

For more information for your dream big fat wedding in India contact us @ EMAIL: info@weddingsbyneerajkamra.com , MOBILE: +91-9928544555

To read more like this click on the links below -

NRI wedding in India | Royal Weddings Udaipur | Best Boutique Wedding Venues in Rajasthan | Luxury Wedding Venues in Udaipur | Best Luxury Destination Wedding Venues in India | Umaid Bhawan Palace Wedding Cost  | Oberoi udaivilas wedding cost | Destination Wedding at The Alila Diwa, Goa | Fairmont Jaipur Wedding Cost and Venue Details 2026 27 | Wedding at Marriott Udaipur | Destination Wedding Cost At Grand Hyatt Goa | Destination Wedding Cost At Leela Palace Udaipur | Destination Wedding Cost At Raas Devigarh Eklingji, Udaipur

Neeraj Kamra, Founder of Weddings by Neeraj Kamra

Written by

Neeraj Kamra

Founder, Weddings by Neeraj Kamra — Destination Wedding Planner, India

Neeraj Kamra is the founder of Weddings by Neeraj Kamra, a destination wedding planning company based in Udaipur. With over Fifteen years in the industry, he has planned royal and destination weddings across Udaipur, Jaipur, Jodhpur, and Goa, as well as international celebrations in Thailand, Dubai, and Bali. His work covers venue selection, design, and full event execution, and has been featured on WedMeGood, WeddingWire, and Zankyou. He writes on destination wedding planning and Rajasthan's wedding traditions.

15+ Year of Experience Destination wedding in India and abroad Trusted By Couples Worldwide Featured On Leading Wedding Platforms