NEW DELHI: After a big fat wedding, newlyweds Sonam Kapoor and Anand Ahuja hosted a grand reception for their colleagues and friends from the film industry at Mumbai's Leela hotel on Tuesday night. The bride and groom looked very coordinated - she in a chevron lehenga in dark grey, white and gold by Anamika Khanna; he in a black sherwani and, wait for it, sneakers (Anand owns a sneaker brand called VegNonVeg). Sonam and Anand's guest list reads like the who's who of Bollywood - Shah Rukh Khan with Gauri, the Ambanis, Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna, Kareena and Karisma Kapoor with Saif Ali Khan, Katrina Kaif, Alia Bhatt, Ranbir Kapoor, Kajol, Ranveer Singh, Kangana Ranaut, Rani Mukerji, Rekha, Varun Dhawan, Anil Kapoor's Tezaab co-star Madhuri Dixit, Rishi and Neetu Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor and wife Mira, Swara Bhasker, actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha and his wife Poonam, Tina Ambani and politician Praful Patel were among the first arrivals. Sonam's father Anil Kapoor, cousins Janhvi and Khushi, uncle Sanjay with his wife and daughter, Maheep and Shanaya Kapoor, were present to welcome guests.
Please welcome Sonam Kapoor (looking stunning as ever) and Anand Ahuja (in sneakers).
Here are pictures of the family and their guests at the reception. Kangana Ranaut and Rekha both wore sarees - except that Rekha threw us a sucker punch by wearing her traditional kanjeevaram in a distinctly non-traditional way. Call it the Sonam Kapoor effect, if you will. Kareena, Karisma and Saif arrived together, as they do. There were quite a few singletons at the reception - Madhuri Dixit was alone; Rani Mukerji's reclusive husband Aditya Chopra did not attend and both Kajol and Tina Ambani came without husbands Ajay Devgn and Anil Ambani but several other celebrity couples were pictured together - SRK and Gauri, Twinkle and Akshay, Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra, Rishi and Neetu Kapoor, Shahid and Mira Rajput, Jackie and Ayesha Shroff, Shatrughan and Poonam Sinha and others.