Akash Ambani with Shloka Mehta and family at Siddhivinayak temple
Mar 27, 2018, 14:40 IST
A day after an intimate ceremony in Goa where Mukesh Ambani's son Akash Ambani reportedly proposed his classmate Shloka Mehta, the Ambanis visited Siddhivinayak temple in Mumbai on the occasion of Ram Navami to seek blessings. All pictures/Yogen Shah
The Ambani family reached the temple earlier on Sunday evening
Indian Mukesh Ambani's elder son Akash will marry his schoolmate Shloka Mehta, the youngest daughter of diamantaire Russell Mehta, in early December
The couple is reportedly scheduled to tie the knot later this year
Shloka Mehta is the youngest daughter of Mona and Russell Mehta, who run Rosy Blue Diamonds
Shloka, who after finishing schooling at Dhirubhai Ambani International School in 2009 went on to study anthropology at Princeton University and did her masters in law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, is a director on Rosy Blue Foundation since July 2014. She is also a co-founder of ConnectFor, which matches volunteers with NGOs that need them
Besides parents Mukesh and Nita Ambani, grandmother Kokilaben was also present
As per reports, Akash Ambani and Shloka Mehta studied together at the Dhirubhai Ambani International School in Mumbai and have known each other for years
Though the two families have been talking to each other for the wedding for sometime now, the plans were formalised at the Goa event, which was planned before Holi
Akash is on the board of Reliance Jio, the group's fast growing telecom venture
Earlier sources said the two families and close friends gathered at a plush five-star resort in Goa yesterday for a 'get-to-know-each-other' before the formal engagement
Akash and twin sister Isha are the eldest of the three children of Mukesh and Nita Ambani. The younger one is Akash Ambani (seen in the picture)
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Mukesh Ambani with wife Nita, son Akash, his fiancee Shloka Mehta and other Ambani siblings sought blessings of Lord Ganesha at Siddhivinayak temple in Prabhadevi, Mumbai