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Moments You Didn’t See At Nick And Priyanka’s Epic Wedding

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Two ceremonies, one palace, and roughly 225 guests watching the biggest celebrity wedding of the year unfold in the desert.

Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra didn’t just get married once — they did it twice, over a single December weekend at the Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. The multi-day celebration blended a Western Christian ceremony with a full Hindu wedding, and while cameras caught the big set pieces, plenty of the smaller details only surfaced afterward.

• Priyanka wore a custom Ralph Lauren gown with a 75-foot tulle veil for the Saturday, December 1 Christian ceremony, officiated by Nick’s father, Paul Kevin Jonas Sr.
• Priyanka’s mother, Madhu Chopra, walked her down the aisle — stepping into that role since Priyanka’s father, Ashok Chopra, passed away in 2013.
• Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex and one of Chopra’s closest friends, skipped the wedding entirely due to her pregnancy.

The Christian Ceremony

Saturday’s service leaned Western in every sense — Ralph Lauren dressed both the bride and groom, with Priyanka’s gown built around that eye-catching 75-foot veil and floral embroidery running up a high neckline. Nick’s father, known to the family as “Pops,” is an ordained minister and officiated the ceremony himself, which turned the day into a genuinely family-run affair rather than a hired-officiant formality.

The moment that got people talking wasn’t the dress, though — it was who walked Priyanka down the aisle. Madhu Chopra took on that role in place of her late husband, Ashok Chopra, who died in 2013. It’s the kind of detail that got buried under headlines about the guest list and the palace, but it’s the one that actually explains the emotional weight of the day.

The Christian ceremony was officiated by Nick’s own father — Paul Kevin Jonas Sr., “Pops” — an ordained minister marrying his son in front of roughly 225 guests.

The Hindu Ceremony

Sunday, December 2 belonged to tradition. Chopra changed into a deep-red lehenga designed by Sabyasachi Mukherjee, while Jonas wore a traditional sherwani for the Hindu rites. The shift from a Ralph Lauren gown to a Sabyasachi lehenga in the span of a day was the clearest visual signal of just how deliberately the couple built two full ceremonies instead of one blended service — a choice fans of the most extravagant royal wedding dresses would recognize as its own kind of statement.

The lead-up mattered just as much as the ceremony itself. A Mehendi ceremony and a Sangeet — essentially a family musical and dance competition — had both the Jonas and Chopra clans performing choreographed routines built around the couple’s love story, turning pre-wedding events into their own show rather than a warm-up act.

Notable Absences from the Meeting

Notably absent: Meghan Markle. Chopra and the Duchess of Sussex have long been close, but Markle declined the trip because of her pregnancy. It’s the kind of absence that got more attention than most of the guests who actually showed up — a reminder of how tightly Chopra’s circle overlaps with royal-watching territory covered elsewhere, including Meghan Markle’s own family history.

The Send-Off

The Jodhpur festivities closed with a fireworks display over the city, capping a weekend that had already run through two ceremonies, a Mehendi, and a Sangeet. From there, the celebration moved to New Delhi, where an initial reception on December 4, 2018, drew Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi — a sign of just how far outside typical celebrity-wedding territory this event landed.

That Delhi reception is where the story picks back up next: with Modi already having made an appearance on December 4, the couple’s wedding tour was still adding stops even after the fireworks in Jodhpur had gone out.