They didn't close any roads or airspace, but when it comes to raw numbers, a Jersey Shore wedding outdid Chelsea Clinton's -- big time. And there wasn't even a breath of Snooki. Welcome to Shweta Parikh and Nirav Patel's wedding in Lakewood, New Jersey. While around 500 guests assembled in Rhinebeck for Chelsea's big day, 650 people gathered in Lakewood over four days, where the scale and spectacle rivaled the very best of Bollywood. The bride changed outfits five times, culminating in her 18-foot, deep-red silk wedding sari, worn to Saturday's ceremony. There, her bridal party was resplendent in embroidered saris in lush blues, greens, magentas and golds. The groom was decked out in a gold and red sherwani and entered the affair on a white horse adorned with bells, a bejeweled headpiece and a beaded saddle. The hall was filled with thousands of rose petals and orchids flown in from Thailand. The wedding canopy was made of silk patterned with thousands of crystals. At dinner, there were fifteen entrees, like paneer makhani (a cheese and tomato vegetarian dish) and malai kofta, (cheese and dried fruit dumplings in gravy), accompanied by 3,000 pieces of naan bread and 1,500 pieces of poori bread for guests to mop up their plates. Guests flew in from all over the world -- 11 states and 5 countries. And the music? Chelsea Clinton had the Etta James classic "At Last" - the same number Beyonce sang to President and Mrs. Obama at his inaugural ball. On the Shore they played Bon Jovi. And while there's no word on Chelsea Clinton's honeymoon location, the Patels will be heading to Paris and Malta. Parikh, 27, and Patel, 29, both first-generation Indian-Americans living in New Jersey, first met in 2002 after being introduced by a mutual friends. They were in relationships at the time but Parikh made an impression. "I thought, 'Wow! That is a pretty girl!'" Patel recalls. About six years later, they ran into one another at a barbeque, and bonded over a shared love of Bon Jovi. Patel, a pharmaceutical sales manager from Garwood, said he'd call Parikh when he scored some tickets to a coming Bon Jovi show. He called the next day -- even though he didn't have tickets. "Actually, there wasn't even a concert," recalls Patel. "It was a terrible line." He asked the accountant to dinner. On Independence Day in 2009, Parikh was waiting for Patel to pick her up from work. A white stretch limousine arrived instead. Patel wasn't in it, but the driver took her to Remi, an Italian restaurant in Manhattan where the two had their first date the previous year. Source: Daily News