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Liz Hurley wedding in India |
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Arun Nayar and Liz Hurley wedding |
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pre-wedding jitters, or just the urge to
look super slim on her big day, but Liz Hurley is
practically starving herself. The actress is well
known for her extreme diets as she lost 5lbs in a
few weeks after the birth of her son Damien by
surviving on a fish and rice diet. "Elizabeth is
eating a very little breakfast, followed by a small
lunch and only little snacks in the day, like a
banana or raisins, before having a regular-sized
dinner. She is drinking four litres of water a day
and eating food like steamed fish and green
vegetables,” a source was quoted by the Daily
Mail, as saying. "She is also eating lots of
protein, such as egg-white omelettes and has cut
out wheat, dairy, gluten and alcohol," he
added.
The groom will arrive on a white horse, flanked
by family members on lavishly caparisoned camels
and elephants. The couple will exchange vows at a
'house of flowers' before retiring to a
presidential suite complete with black marble
swimming pool. This hospitality is the best India
can offer - what bride could ask for anything more?
Well, Elizabeth Hurley perhaps, if hoteliers in
India are to be believed. They are brimming with
rumours that Hurley, the actress turned beachwear
designer, has drawn up a list of special
requirements for her marriage to Indian businessman
Arun Nayar in February next year. They say she is
determined to have the ultimate Indian wedding.
Article continues The ceremony is to take place,
according to a manager at the hotel, at the Devi
Garh, an 18th century palace and fort in Rajasthan
that has been converted into one of the most
exclusive boutique hotels in the world. Although it
offers the last word in opulence - four staff
members dressed in immaculate white for every
suite, Indian haute cuisine, a traditional
Ambassador car and chauffeur at hand for each guest
- Hurley is said to be insisting on alterations.
The hotel says that Hurley, not content with its
first-class reputation for cuisine, plans to fly
out three specially hired Michelin starred chefs
from London to create a series of menus for the
wedding. And wary of the notoriously erratic local
electricity supply, she is said to have ordered
that 'silent generators' be transported from the
Indian capital New Delhi - a 14-hour drive away -
to ensure the party is not disturbed by Devi Garh's
own generators, which make a barely audible groan
when they start up. The former Estée Lauder
model will not get her own way on every detail,
however. It is understood the Indian government
bluntly refused to give air traffic control
clearance for a fleet of helicopters to shuttle the
star guests from Udaipur's tiny airport. Instead an
arduous, twisting road journey through the hills of
the Aravalli Range awaits guests who are expected
to include Sir Elton John and David Furnish, David
and Victoria Beckham, and Pamela Anderson, as well
as Hugh Grant and his partner, Jemima Khan. What
impact the arrival of Hurley - who achieved instant
fame in a Versace dress fastened together with
safety pins at the 1994 premiere of Four Weddings
and a Funeral - and her entourage will make on
people in the nearby village of Derwala is anyone's
guess. On a typical day there, farmers sweat
beneath the sun while sari-clad women fetch water
from a stagnant holding tank. They are usually
phlegmatic about the wealthy Western tourists who
frequent the Devi Garh in the hills above.
Fortunately, they are unlikely to have read about
Hurley's turbulent 13-year romance with actor Hugh
Grant, which survived even his arrest with a Los
Angeles prostitute - Hurley said she 'felt like
she'd been shot' when she learned of it - and
subsequent photographs of him pulling a mattress
into separate quarters. The couple eventually grew
apart but remain close friends. Hurley, 41,
recently appeared on the cover of the Italian
edition of Vanity Fair and was pictured inside
modelling several daring examples of her new bikini
designs. After months of rumours she finally
admitted to the magazine that she and Nayar, 42,
are to wed: 'I cannot reveal to you the exact date
but it is very close. We are even thinking of
having a child.' There have been rumours in the
British press of a £2m deal for coverage of
the wedding in a leading celebrity magazine. As
well as overrunning the Devi Garh, the wedding
guests will apparently also take over suites at
Udaipur's famed Lake Palace, the setting for the
James Bond movie Octopussy, and rooms in the city's
$1,000 a night Oberoi Udaivilas resort, the most
expensive hotel in India. But Hurley, who has a
five-year-old son by Hollywood producer Steve Bing,
will not stop there. Several newspapers have
reported that she is planning two weddings and a
total of 13 designer gowns. The first ceremony,
described as a small family affair, is set to take
place imminently at Gloucestershire's Grade II
listed Barnsley House hotel, close to her 400-acre
estate in Ampney Knowle. Hurley, who has a home in
Fulham, is a member of the 'Gloucestershire set' of
celebrities that includes Kate Moss and Damien
Hirst, who have second homes in the county.
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