Akash Ambani Engaged To Diamond Magnate’s Daughter Shloka Mehta
MUMBAI : The son of the richest man in the country proposed to diamantaire Russell Mehta’s youngest daughter Shloka Mehta at a pre-engagement ceremony in Goa. The two families and close friends gathered at a plush five-star resort on Saturday for a ‘get-to-know-each-other’ before the formal engagement. The wedding of Akash Ambani, the scion of India’s richest family, is on the cards for later this year.
While the dates of either the wedding or engagement of Akash Ambani have not been finalised yet, the couple is likely to get formally engaged in June and the wedding is likely to be held in early December.
Pictures shared by fan pages and social media users showed a charming lawn ceremony under palm trees and white shamianas. Reporting the engagement, local news website Nagpur Today said the wedding ceremony had been planned for later this year.
However, there has been no official statement from the families yet.
Akash Ambani, 25, is the older of the two sons of Nita and Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man who heads Reliance Industries. Shloka Mehta is the youngest daughter of Mona and Russell Mehta, who runs Rosy Blue Diamonds, one of the world’s largest diamond trading companies.
Akash Ambani and Shloka Mehta studied together at Dhirubhai Ambani International School in Mumbai and have been close friends for years, a report in the Free Press Journal said.Shloka Mehta, who also studied at the Princeton University and the London School of Economics, is a director in the family-run diamond firm.
She is also the co-founder of ConnectFor, a platform that makes it easy and convenient for people to volunteer in Mumbai, the Free Press Journal reported.
Akash Ambani has been a Director of Reliance Retail Private Limited and Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited since October 2014. Amabani graduated from Brown University in the US with majors in Economics. (With Agency Inputs ).
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