Under the new austerity rulings in 2026, a few hybrid new scenarios emerged, out of creative tax evasion. Combined with the new 60% tax on destination weddings and a 20% cess on environmental upgradation projects, a whole new kind of Billionaire wedding typology emerged. Among weddings with budgets over Rs 1 crore, more than 60% were destination celebrations in 2025, with the average destination wedding cost rising to Rs 58 lakh — up from Rs 51.1 lakh the previous year. Early in 2027, The Badani Family Announced a “Carbon-Positive Nuptials” in an Abandoned Chhattisgarh Coal Mine. In a press release described by its own publicist as “historic, humble, and honestly quite spectacular,” the family announced that the forthcoming wedding of a senior family member — originally planned for a private island in the Maldives with a rumoured Taylor Swift performance that was firmly denied at least twice — will instead be held in the reclaimed Bishrampur open-cast coal mine in Chhattisgarh. “W...