All the dirt on the Katy-Brand wedding

Delhi may have come under fire last month ahead of the Commonwealth Games, but it seems the city has at least two fans.

Katy Perry and Russell Brand, we mean, who want a big fat Indian wedding this month. The pair have sent out fresh invitations to their friends last week. The invites read: "Meet you in Delhi in October. Dates to follow. Please allow seven days for this event."

Earlier this year, the UK's News of the World newspaper printed pictures of a save-the-date card, which put the dates of the wedding at October 18 to 25. The text read: "Save the Week, For the Wedding of Katy & Russell. You will need a passport and will be contacted soon with more information."

The nuptials are expected to have a glitzy Hollywood-meets-Bollywood theme. "Expect the most vibrant wedding of the year. It will be a mix of traditional Hollywood glamour with Katy's hair and dress, plus Indian touches like henna on her hands and feet, an Indian tiara and hair brooches. The ceremony will be held at an ashram," the Daily Mirror quoted a source as saying on its website.

Perry, 25, and Brand, 35, were engaged at the Taj Rambagh Palace hotel in Jaipur on New Year’s Eve and were blessed in a spiritual ceremony days later.

Gown

Word is that Lebanese designer Reem Acra, who has dressed everyone from Angelina Jolie to Catherine Zeta-Jones, is designing Perry’s bridal gown. With her over-the-top lines, it’ll probably be something stunningly candylicious.

Katy has said: "I want my dress to be ornate and detailed and cinched and beautiful. I have my own look, which I call 'Lolita meets Old Hollywood glam'. My style is less cute, more miaow."

Speeches

At a signing for his "Booky Wook Two" at Edinburgh’s Ocean Terminal on Tuesday, Brand said he has not yet started writing his wedding speech, but that his future wife’s family are “very good” at speeches.

He said: “I haven’t started doing mine yet, but my best man Nick Linen is working on his. “My Mrs’ family will be very good at the speeches though, they are all preachers and singers and actors, it will be very tricky to compete.”

Party

On the list of between 75 and 100 guests are a proper set of rabble rousers, including Jonathan Ross, Noel Gallagher, David Walliams, Morrissey, Rihanna and Taylor Swift, so all of Delhi should be braced for a right knees-up.

But the British comedian tried to tone down all the stories, saying it would be a “mundane” affair.

"It will just be like a normal one. It will have a first dance, it will have all things, like anything else. It's no more interesting or no less spectacular than any marriage of anybody, so it's very beautiful and incredible and wonderful but it's also utterly mundane," he told Heart 106.2 DJ Harriet Scott.

Gifts

And in what is a classic tradition for some Indian communities, the pair have asked guests not to buy them wedding gifts. The two say that if they will receive any money, they will donate it to the charity.

"Katy has got a good job and I've got a good job, it seems indulgent to ask for more things, so we're going to do something more worthwhile and humane with any money that people want to give us," femalefirst.co.uk quoted Brand as saying.

The now-teetotal actor has certainly toned his wild act down: his stag party last month saw him and his mates watch his beloved West Ham football team play a game before going on to London strip club Stringfellows. He said: "My whole life has been a stag night. It was good. I got caught up in a Hindu wedding, went to see West Ham, popped to Stringfellows. It was a nice combination of the spiritual man I'm becoming and the Essex boy that I was!"
 

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