8 Bollywood weddings that were kept almost entirely private

Highlights:

• Several couples enforced strict no-phone policies for guests, including Katrina Kaif-Vicky Kaushal and Kiara Advani-Sidharth Malhotra
• Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt married at their own home, skipping a destination wedding they'd planned for years
• Taapsee Pannu didn't even confirm her marriage to the public until weeks after it happened
• Dia Mirza and Rajkummar Rao both married in small home-style ceremonies during the pandemic, largely out of necessity
• Even with 100+ bouncers and hired security, some of these weddings still saw details leak before the big day

Bollywood weddings tend to go one of two ways: a months-long media circus, or a tightly guarded operation that keeps even die-hard fans guessing. These eight fall firmly into the second category.

1. Katrina Kaif and Vicky Kaushal

When Katrina Kaif and Vicky Kaushal married at Six Senses Fort Barwara in Rajasthan's Sawai Madhopur district in December 2021, privacy wasn't just a preference — it was a full operation. Around 100 bouncers were brought in from Jaipur, a strict no-mobile-phones policy was enforced for every guest, and the venue's own staff were reportedly asked to hand over their phones during the three-day celebration. Even wedding planners skipped using guests' real names to avoid any information leaking out ahead of time.

2. Kiara Advani and Sidharth Malhotra

A little over a year later, Kiara Advani and Sidharth Malhotra followed a near-identical playbook at Suryagarh Palace in Jaisalmer. The couple enforced the same no-phone policy that had worked for Katrina and Vicky, specifically asking guests not to post any pictures or videos from the ceremony. Despite roughly 150 guests, including names like Karan Johar and members of the Ambani family, the couple managed to keep the first official wedding photos entirely in their own control, releasing them only once they were ready to.

3. Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt

Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt's wedding is proof that privacy doesn't always mean a remote location. The couple actually spent years planning a destination wedding in South Africa before scrapping the idea entirely and marrying at Ranbir's own Mumbai apartment, Vastu, in April 2022. Security sealed guests' phone cameras with removable stickers during the pre-wedding functions to prevent live streams or leaked photos, and the ceremony itself was held on the couple's own balcony, attended mostly by family.

4. Taapsee Pannu and Mathias Boe

Few celebrity weddings have stayed under wraps quite like this one. Taapsee Pannu married her longtime partner, Danish badminton coach Mathias Boe, in Udaipur in March 2024 — and didn't publicly confirm it for weeks. There was no official announcement, no red-carpet reveal, nothing. The first glimpses came from a casual Instagram post by a friend and a handful of candid photos that leaked online. Taapsee later admitted she had no plans to share wedding photos herself, saying she didn't want to "milk a headline" out of her own marriage.

5. Dia Mirza and Vaibhav Rekhi

Dia Mirza's second marriage, to businessman Vaibhav Rekhi Instagram/diamirzaofficial

Dia Mirza's second marriage, to businessman Vaibhav Rekhi in February 2021, was about as low-key as a Bollywood wedding gets. With pandemic restrictions still in place, the couple opted for an intimate home ceremony rather than anything resembling a typical star-studded affair, attended only by close family. It was a deliberate choice that matched the low profile Dia had maintained about the relationship from the start.

6. Rajkummar Rao and Patralekhaa

Rajkummar Rao and his longtime partner Patralekhaa kept their November 2021 wedding similarly modest, holding a small ceremony with a limited guest list due to pandemic-era restrictions. The two had been together for close to a decade before tying the knot, and true to their generally low-profile relationship, they skipped the scale that many of their contemporaries have gone for.

7. Varun Dhawan and Natasha Dalal

Despite being one of Bollywood's most recognizable star kids, Varun Dhawan chose to marry childhood sweetheart Natasha Dalal in a close family affair in Alibaug in January 2021, keeping media presence to a minimum. Given his family's deep Bollywood roots, the relatively quiet nature of the wedding stood out — there was none of the pre-wedding media buildup that usually surrounds a Dhawan family event.

8. Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal

Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal's wedding unfolded across multiple small ceremonies rather than one big event — a court marriage, followed by separate, modest celebrations tied to each of their family traditions. Instead of one tightly managed mega-event, the couple spread their celebration out in a way that kept any single ceremony from becoming a major media spectacle, letting them mark the occasion largely on their own terms.