Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma invite PM Modi to their wedding reception in Delhi

VIrat Kohli and Anushka Sharma met Prime Minister Narendra Modi today and he might attend the Delhi wedding reception of the couple that is to take place on December 21.

IndiaToday.in  | Posted by Ashna Kumar
New Delhi, December 20, 2017 | UPDATED 21:52 IST

Newlyweds Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharmaflew back to India yesterday, after their exotic honeymoon in Finland. The couple is in Delhi for their first wedding reception, scheduled for December 21. Virat and Anushka met Prime Minister Narendra Modi today in the capital, to invite him to their Delhi reception.

The Prime Minister congratulated the couple on their wedding, and is expected to attend the grand reception that is to take place at a five-star hotel in the capital tomorrow.

A tweet from the Prime Minister's Office read:

A video from the couple's meeting with the Prime Minister was also tweeted by ANI.

Virushka will also host a reception in Mumbai on December 26 for friends from the cricket fraternity and the film industry.

Virat and Anushka's wedding was an intimate affair, that took place in Tuscany, Italy. The engagement, haldi, sangeet and wedding, were all at an 800-year-old luxury heritage resort, Borgo Finocchieto, a little over 100 km away from Florence.

After their wedding, the couple headed to Finland for their tailor-made honeymoon that involved a visit to the Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi, Lapland. Anushka had posted a photo of her and Virat from the Finnish village that sits on the Arctic Circle. After the first leg of their honeymoon in Finland, the couple will fly to South Africa on December 26, once the Mumbai reception is over.

WHAT NEXT?

After their reception in Mumbai, the newlyweds will travel to South Africa where the cricketer is playing a series, which includes three Tests, six One Day Internationals (ODIs) and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches.

Anushka will ring in the New Year with her husband, and then return to Mumbai in the first week of January, where she will resume shooting for Aanand L Rai's film with Shah Rukh Khan. She also has her home production, Pari, lined up for release in February. Apart from that, she is working on Sui Dhaaga opposite Varun Dhawan.

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