Karthi Wedding

The Hindu Actor Karthi weds Ranjani at CODISSIA trade fair complex, Coimbatore’s first star wedding in a long time, on Sunday.

It was not your regular sleepy Sunday morning in Coimbatore. All roads led to CODISSIA trade fair complex, where happening Tamil actor Karthi and English literature postgraduate Ranjani tied the knot at about 6.30 a.m. on Sunday.

It was Coimbatore’s first star wedding in a long time, and it lived up to all the hype - what with a grandly-decorated hall and stage, thousands of people thronging the venue, a huge posse of security men and the presence of stars, old and new.

Among the stars who descended on the stage were actor Prabhu and his wife, actors Rajesh, Poornima Bhagyaraj, Nanda, Karthik and his wife Suchitra, yesteryear music director Shankar Ganesh, ace lensman G. Venket Ram and directors Bala, K.S. Ravikumar and R.V. Udhayakumar. Orator Solomon Pappiah was there too.

For the wedding, Karthi wore a white silk shirt and a silk veshti. His bride was dressed in an elaborate orangish-yellow creation. Both wore garlands made of rose, golden flowers, lotuses, orchids and carnations.

In the afternoon, about 4,000 fans of the actor were treated to a special lunch. The other guests partook of a feast prepared by Lakshmi Catering of Madhampatty, featuring traditional fare from the South.