Was Twinkle Khanna The Most Laidback Celebrity Bride Ever?

Twinkle Khanna, AKA Mrs. Funnybones, is a gift that keeps on giving. Whether it’s dispensing solid gold life advice through her words or her uproarious observations about everything from politics to Bollywood, the actor-turned-author always comes through. But if there’s one thing that we wish we could borrow from her, it’s her cool head while planning a wedding.

When Twinkle Khanna got married in 2001, her family had barely five hours to plan the whole thing. Reportedly, the couple tied the knot at designers Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla’s store in Juhu, Mumbai, with a gathering of just 50 people.

More recently, celebrity mehndi artist Veena Nagda has come forth to share some more evidence about how Twinkle Khanna and Akshay Kumar’s wedding should be a blueprint for anyone looking for a low-key affair.

In an interview, Veena Nagda revealed how she could never forget Twinkle Khanna’s wedding as it was one of the few times she had received a call from the bride herself.

“She called me and said, ‘You have to come tomorrow for the mehndi for the bride and 10 other people’. She called me just one day prior. I didn’t know it was Twinkle who was calling me,” she said.

The mehndi artist added that she was asked to come to an address and was taken in a car from that spot to a second destination, which turned out to be Twinkle’s mother Dimple Kapadia’s house. When Veena finally saw the bride, she was left more confused than before.

“Twinkle came and she started checking out the designs, so I thought it must be her friend’s wedding. She was sitting in shorts. That’s when she declared that it’s my wedding and I want to get bridal mehndi. I was so surprised. She also told me that the wedding is happening on the same day. The mehndi was in the morning. I wondered how the mehndi will get enough time to darken?”

By the time they got done with her bridal mehndi, it was 4 pm. Twinkle and Akshay were supposed to get married at 7 pm.

“By 5-6 pm, she removed the mehndi. But by the next day, the mehndi was dark and she called me and said, ‘Veena ji, it’s so dark now,'” she recalled.

Twinkle’s chill attitude towards her nuptials is something she hopes has been passed down to her children, too. In one of her columns in March 2024 (If you don’t recall, this was the time the Ambani wedding had all of us in a chokehold), the author wrote about how she hopes her children elope when they decide to get married. In her characteristic style, Twinkle wrote about a conversation she had been having with her sister Rinke Khanna about their children’s future weddings.

“What about all the taam jhaam (all the fuss) we will have to do. The bar is now set very high after the Ambani events...I reply, ‘Well, I can’t dance like Nita Bhabhi. The last time I tried dancing to Tamma Tamma Loge during the pandemic, I think even God didn’t want to see my uncoordinated footwork because I immediately fell down and fractured my leg. My husband can barely stay awake after 10 pm, and we both get anxious about hosting dinner parties for over 20 people.’ I pause for breath, ‘If my children really want me to be happy, then the best thing they can do is just elope," she added.

Here’s manifesting Twinkle Khanna’s energy for the wedding season!