Hotel Mardan Palace

Address
Kunu Köyü, Oteller Mevkii, Lara 07110, Antalya
Telephone: 0090 242 310 41 00
Email: julia.ozer@mardanpalace.com
http://www.mardanpalace.com/


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1/28/12:
05.07.11-12.07.11 Indian wedding in Mardan Palace:
An Indian wedding , lasting five days and to which 450 special guests attended , took place in Antalya ' s Mardan Palace Hotel , costing over 2 million euros . The bride , Payal Bansal , 25 , and the groom , Deepak Kanodia , 26 , arrived at the vvedding dressed as queen and king . Prior to the vvedding , the bride ' s family , a leading iron and steel manufacturer , gave the groom ' s family , one of the leading textile manufacturers , a check vvorth 15 million euros as dovvry . The vvedding took place at the " VVhite Sand Beach / ' the name of vvhich derives from the sand brought in from the beach vvhere Cleopatra used to svvim , and vvhich resembles a scorpion from a bird ' s eye vievv . Ceremony lasted 2 . 5 hours The guests of the vvedding drevv attention to themselves vvith their traditional religious Indian clothing . The ceremony , vvhich began vvith Kanodia riding a horse in accordance vvith Indian tradition , lasted 2 . 5 hours . The groom and his family crossed the 250 meter distance to the dock vvhere the vvedding took place in 2 . 5 hours . Saying that the purpose vvas to make the groom reach the bride in the Iongest possible time , the families of the groom and bride said : " Thus , the marriage itself lasts as long , until forever . " in the religious ceremony , vvhich began after Kanodia reached the dock , he vvas splashed vvith vvater and blessed vvith incense . The ceremony ended vvith Bansal placing a necklace made of flovvers around Kanodia ' s neck . The celebration be came ali the more colorful vvith a shovv of 500 firevvorks . After the ceremony , the groom and bride slovvly made their vvay to the villa prepared for them . The couple vvas photographed vvith their relatives on a seat resembling a king ' s throne and aftervvard the festivities began . The guests celebrated the young couple ' s union accompanied by music . 15 million euros from bride Before the vvedding , the Bansal family gave the Kanodia family a check vvorth 15 million euros , in ac cordance vvith the Indian tradition that makes the family of the bride responsible for the dovvry . in total , 17 million euros vvere spent for the vvedding including the dovvry . The vvedding menu vvas prepared by the mutual efforts of 130 assistants and 30 Indian cooks who flevv in from India to prepare a vegetarian menu vvith typical Indian vegetables and spices . Bansal , vvho vvas brought in close to the vvedding place from her special chambers in a buggy , resembled Egyptian Queen Cleopatra vvith her traditional Indian clothing and mag nificent jevvelry . Kanodia likevvise vvas clothed in traditional Indian fashion and arrived at the vvedding on horseback and vvas received by his close friends amid traditional Indian music and dance shovvs . The families of the nevvlyvveds spent 2 million euros for the vvedding , vvith 1 million euros covering hotel expenses and 1 million euros spent on organization , transportation , gifts and decorations . To prepare the vvedding scene decorated vvith 100 , 000 flovvers of 25 different types , landscape experts vvere flovvn in from India . in the hotel , 250 rooms vvere booked for the 450 guests and every moment of the vvedding vvas recorded by the members of a production company flovvn in from England .