Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Chitrangada Singh (princess)" in English language version.
Maharajahs, industrialists, foreign leaders, officials, journalists and villagers watched in a drizzling rain, considered a sign of good fortune, as the bejeweled groom and the bride, diamonds glistening on her wrists, ears and nose, met under the silk canopy. And when they exchanged the symbolic garlands, enthusiastic cheers spread across the palace. 'Despite all our troubles,' said Nirmala Palherkar, a teacher in Gwalior, 'we have come to see the marriage of our princess.'
The tiny, nervous bride was practically carried to the altar by jewel-encrusted female relatives who gripped her firmly by the elbows. She was covered head to knee by a red veil spun of gossamer Benares silk as fine and sheer as a spider's web, so translucent that it barely dulled the brilliant sheen from her saree. 'Only' 40,000 Spectators. The wedding of Prince Vikramaditya Singh, a 23-year-old former polo-playing student at USC, and Princess Chittrangada Raje, 20, may have seemed grand to outsiders, but by the standards of Indian royalty, it was fairly intimate--only 40,000 or so folks gathered in front of a 455-room palace to see the offspring of two of India's noble families joined in wedlock.
The slim young prince arrived in a silver carriage, wearing a scarlet and gold tunic draped with pearls, diamonds and rubies. The princess emerged from an immense fairy tale palace that shimmered with strands of white lights. Then, as 20,000 guests applauded, the son and daughter of two of India's wealthiest and most influential former maharajahs were married under a red and gold canopy in an outdoor ceremony as rich in political and social controversy as it was in pageantry.
