Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas arrive at 2nd Annual Learning Lab Ventures Winter Gala, Arrivals, The Beverly Hills Hotel, Los Angeles. Rex
Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas arrive at 2nd Annual Learning Lab Ventures Winter Gala, Arrivals, The Beverly Hills Hotel, Los Angeles. Rex
Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas arrive at 2nd Annual Learning Lab Ventures Winter Gala, Arrivals, The Beverly Hills Hotel, Los Angeles. Rex
Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas arrive at 2nd Annual Learning Lab Ventures Winter Gala, Arrivals, The Beverly Hills Hotel, Los Angeles. Rex

Nick Jonas's self-aware wedding joke: 'Walking into wedding reception 100047'


Farah Andrews
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It seems like every time we click onto Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra's Instagram accounts, there is a new set of wedding images from the loved-up couple.

But don't worry, the 26-year-old is in on the joke.

"Walking into wedding reception 100047 like... Haha just kidding," Jonas captioned a photo with his new wife. "So happy to celebrate our friends Armie Hammer and Elizabeth Chambers and the amazing work they have done with Learning Lab Ventures".

Rather than a wedding though, on this occasion the star couple were at the Learning Lab Ventures 2019 Gala, a charity evening in Los Angeles, which was thrown by Hammer and Chambers.

At the event, Chopra wore a dress by Lebanese designer Elie Saab, while Jonas wore a black Dunhill tuxedo.

So, how many weddings have they had?

Let us break the many parts of their big day(s) down for you here:

November 2018: The couple's nuptial celebrations began with the Mehendi on December 1 in Jodhpur. The Mehendi, as Chopra described on Instagram, is "an important part of the pre wedding rituals for the girl". Adding: "One of the most special things that our relationship has given us is a merging of families who love and respect each other's faiths and cultures. And so planning our wedding with an amalgamation of both was so so amazing."

For the Mehendi, Chopra wore a colourful dress by Abu Jani Sandeep Khosla.

November 2018: The Mehendi was followed by the Sangeet, or the musical evening. Still in Jodhpur, the Sangeet saw the two families come together to perform "a fierce song and dance competition".

December 1, 2018: Jonas and Chopra officially tie the knot on December 1, after holding a Western wedding at the stunning Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur. For the big day, Chopra wore a custom Ralph Lauren wedding gown with a 75ft veil. Jonas also wore Ralph Lauren.

December 2, 2018: Following their Western wedding, the couple also had a Hindu ceremony take place the following day, also at Umaid Bhawan Palace.

“Being able to have two big weddings, in India, with our closest family and friends was unbelievably special,” Chopra said of the celebration at the time.

December 4, 2018: From there, the couple left Jodhpur for New Delhi, where the celebrations continued with a reception bringing together both of their families.

Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas pose for photographs during a reception in New Delhi, India on December 4, 2018. EPA
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas pose for photographs during a reception in New Delhi, India on December 4, 2018. EPA

December 19, 2018: The celebrations don't stop there. Two weeks on it was time to party again, with a reception in Mumbai, which was hosted by Chopra's mother, Madhu Chopra.

Speaking to Ellen DeGeneres, Chopra joked: "My mother was so upset with me the entire time. She was like, 'I need to have another people for the 150,000 people I know. How can I not invite my jeweller? How can I not invite my hairdresser?' So it was a whole conversation."

Priyanka Chopra and musician Nick Jonas stand for photographs at their wedding reception in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, December 19, 2018. AP
Priyanka Chopra and musician Nick Jonas stand for photographs at their wedding reception in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, December 19, 2018. AP

December 20, 2018: Showing no signs of slowing down, the couple's celebrations continued in Mumbai on December 20. This time they partied with top Bollywood stars at Taj Lands End Hotel. Salman Khan, Rekha and Kangana Ranaut are a few of the celebs who attended.

January 28, 2019: The celebrations wrapped in the US last month, with a final (we think) reception in Charlotte, North Carolina, hosted by the Jonas family.

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Eldarir had arrived at JFK in January 2020 with three suitcases, containing goods he valued at $300, when he was directed to a search area.
Officers found 41 gold artefacts among the bags, including amulets from a funerary set which prepared the deceased for the afterlife.
Also found was a cartouche of a Ptolemaic king on a relief that was originally part of a royal building or temple. 
The largest single group of items found in Eldarir’s cases were 400 shabtis, or figurines.

Khouli conviction

Khouli smuggled items into the US by making false declarations to customs about the country of origin and value of the items.
According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he provided “false provenances which stated that [two] Egyptian antiquities were part of a collection assembled by Khouli's father in Israel in the 1960s” when in fact “Khouli acquired the Egyptian antiquities from other dealers”.
He was sentenced to one year of probation, six months of home confinement and 200 hours of community service in 2012 after admitting buying and smuggling Egyptian antiquities, including coffins, funerary boats and limestone figures.

For sale

A number of other items said to come from the collection of Ezeldeen Taha Eldarir are currently or recently for sale.
Their provenance is described in near identical terms as the British Museum shabti: bought from Salahaddin Sirmali, "authenticated and appraised" by Hossen Rashed, then imported to the US in 1948.

- An Egyptian Mummy mask dating from 700BC-30BC, is on offer for £11,807 ($15,275) online by a seller in Mexico

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- A shabti that was on sale through a Chicago-based coin dealer, dating from 1567BC-1085BC, is up for $1,950

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