“We were requested not to take pictures of the wedding. Felt a little odd, but this is not an ordinary marriage,” smiled Saibal Ganguly, an advocate at the Calcutta High Court and Dimpy’s father.

That is probably why the Ganguly family is going all out to make the wedding reception, which will be held at a city five star hotel tomorrow, a grand affair. “We plan to dress Rahul like a typical Bengali groom. We hope he doesn’t object on wearing a dhoti and a topor,” says Ganguly.

Rahul can also expect to be treated to a grand Bengali meal. “Since he is vegetarian, the spread will be somewhat limited. But we will try and compensate with a lot of Bengali sweets. In fact, Rahul has made a special demand of mishti doi and sandesh,” says Ganguly.

Daughter Dimpy, however, will be treated to all her favourite non-vegetarian dishes on her homecoming. “She loves chingri malai curry and shorshe ilish,” says her father.

Meanwhile, Dimpy’s sister Koel, who just wrote her Class X board exam, has a lot of plans for LJ (she calls Mahajan Lambu Jiju). “We hope to get him away from the media, crowd and security and pull his leg a bit when he comes to Kolkata,” say Koel, and Tithi, Dimpy’s cousin.

The reception will be a private affair to be attended by “close relatives and friends”.

“We will not give out the guest list because it’s a private ceremony,” says Ganguly.