Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh don’t want gifts at their wedding

Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh’s wedding preparations are in full swing, as they are set to get married in Lake Como, Italy this week on November 14 and 15. The wedding has a strict no-phone policy, and a lot of the details are being kept under wraps, but we’ve learnt that the couple are eschewing the tradition of receiving wedding gifts at their reception. Instead, they has requested that all their guests donate to The Live Laugh Love Foundation, which was founded by Padukone to reduce the stigma around mental health, and spread awareness around the issue.

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The actor, who has battled depression herself, started the foundation in 2015 with her counsellor Anna Chandy and psychiatrist Dr Shyam Bhat. Along with serving up a plethora of awareness programmes that have already been launched in schools and workplaces, the organisation also has a website featuring important mental health information. The foundation is helmed by Padukone’s younger sister, Anisha, who is the director. In an earlier interview with Vogue India, the actor had spoken about her experience with depression. “When I got better, the first thing I wanted to do was to be able to just breathe. To take that weight off my shoulders, to be able to tell the world, Listen, this is the experience I’ve been through, this is what it felt like, and this is what it’s called. And there are ways of dealing with it,” she’d said.

This is just one of the ways that the Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh are making their wedding truly personal to them. A few weeks ago, the Bollywood power couple confirmed their wedding by releasing a joint statement on Instagram. The duo has since left for Italy, where they will get married at Lake Como (at Villa Del Balbianello) with two ceremonies that will honour each of their faiths. News on the grapevine states that Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh will have a Bengaluru and Mumbai reception soon after, too.

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