When it comes to stretching out a wedding party, Elizabeth Hurley is giving pal Pamela Anderson a run for her money. Let's just hope Hurley and Arun Nayar's union lasts longer than Anderson and Kid Rock's.
A week after their first exchange of vows, Hurley and Nayar went through the motions for a third time Friday, in a traditional Hindu ceremony in his native India.
This time around, the setting was in Jodhpur's royal Umaid Bhavan palace, and everything from the bride's dress—a pink sari and red bangles—to the groom's arrival astride a white horse was done according to Indian custom.
Nayar, a textile heir and software entrepreneur, hails from the region.
The couple restated their commitment to each other in the palace-turned-hotel's fountain courtyard and followed up the ceremony with a celebratory dinner at the adjacent Mehrangarh Fort.
Whereas last week's joint civil and religious ceremonies drew largely from the British A-list, including Elton John, Kate Moss and Kate Winslet, the Jodhpur guest list featured Bollywood heavyweights Preity Zinta and Ness Wadia; Indian musicians Sivamani and Gazi Khan, both of whom performed during the ceremony; and Nikolaos Pavlos, crown prince of Greece.
The service capped seven days of revelry that ran from the British countryside to the Indian coast but was not, however, without its hang-ups.
Earlier this week, Mumbai officials did their best to buzzkill the couple's celebration in the city by twice demolishing platforms for the newlyweds' planned beach party.
The makeshift structures were torn down after several local residents complained the wooden monstrosity was illegally encroaching on a public beach. The party ultimately went on as planned Wednesday, with guests opting to come to terms with the sandy terrain.
On Friday evening, the festivities were again threatened when a scuffle broke out between journalists covering the vow swap and the hired security. A TV reporter was allegedly slapped in the face by a member of Hurley and Nayar's security team after a throng of reporters began chasing the couple's car down the road after their wedding dinner. The incident led officials to hire additional security for the duo's airport sendoff.
After the party, Hurley, Nayar, and 250 of their closest friends made their way to Jodhpur, at which point they continued their revelry by attending a moonlit cricket match on the palace's grounds.
Hurley and Nayar officially wed in a simple civil ceremony Mar. 2 at the 15th-century Sudeley Castle, located in the Costwold hills of Britain. They repeated their vows the following day in a religious ceremony in a chapel on the castle's grounds before dozens of their rich and famous friends.
Last summer, Anderson and Rock held matrimonial celebrations in the French Riviera, Los Angeles and Nashville, only to file for divorce three months later.
In any case, the seemingly happily hitched Hurley and Nayar are expected to fly back to Mumbai this weekend.
And while there's no word yet on what the newly minted marrieds are doing for their honeymoon(s), based on their track record of the past week, we're sure it will be a doozy.