Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli’s intimate wedding on December 11, 2017, in Italy remains one of the most talked-about celebrity unions. Their wedding visuals, which took social media by storm, captured
the love and joy shared by the couple. However, just before the wedding, the venue witnessed heavy rainfall, and the mandap had to be shifted. This led to chaos among the wedding planning team.
Vishal Punjabi, aka The Wedding Filmer, who shot the celebrity wedding, appeared on Adhunika Singh’s YouTube channel and recalled his experience. He said, “Virat and Anushka’s wedding was rained out. They shifted the location at the last minute. Devika Narain (wedding planner) didn’t sleep all night. She spent the whole night shifting the mandap.”
He also mentioned that while Virat and Anushka hadn’t seen his work before, they trusted the wedding planner’s taste. He also revealed that he wasn’t told whose wedding he was called for till he reached the venue. Vishal said, “It was all kept under wraps. But you kind of figure out that it may be them, but you only know when you get there. We got there, and we were very pleasantly surprised. It’s not like they knew of me, or knew of my work. They were just inherently very nice, sweet people.”
He said, “I met them, and they smiled and said, ‘Please do what you do. We don’t know what you do, but we believe that if you’re here, you’ve done it right.’ They trusted their planners, who trusted us. It was a very small wedding, and it felt like everyone was together. They were really nice to me, they were really kind to me. They gave me space. I felt a certain level of Sufiism at the wedding. There was a divine love for God’s spirituality and for each other. And it felt divine.”
Previously, on Shivani Pau’s podcast, Vishal had described just how beautiful the wedding was. “Cricket is a religion in India, and he’s (Virat Kohli) a god. He and Anushka got married in Tuscany, Italy. It was truly beautiful. Closest family and friends, only 40 of them, including parents, makeup artists, and us. They nailed the wedding. It was the most stunning wedding ever. No one disturbed them. It was like a bubble surrounded the place, allowing them to just be. They had the most magical wedding. As I was checking in, Barack Obama was checking out; it was a really cool, exclusive, and beautiful property,” he had said.
Anushka Sharma and Virat Kohli first met in 2013 while shooting for a television commercial. The two fell in love with each other but kept their relationship under wraps. In 2017, they tied the knot in an intimate ceremony in Italy. The couple welcomed their first child, a baby girl in January 2021 and named her Vamika. In February 2024, they became parents once again when they welcomed a baby boy, Akaay.
