She turned her career into a thriving business that encompasses furniture, clothing, wedding dresses and jewelry.

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Azhar Sheikh Azhar, a 32-year-old farmer with an eight-acre property in Dahegaon Village, India, canceled plans for a lavish wedding with gifts of gold jewelry for his niece this year.

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Vivienne Westwood designed Carrie's wedding dress and Fred Leighton made her jewelry.

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Visitors will have the opportunity to pose with an 85-carat diamond tiara (pictured above) designed by Reena Ahluwalia, a Toronto-based jewelry designer, for the Royal Wedding of Catherine Middleton, now Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince William.

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The wedding-industrial complex, and most especially the jewelry industry, likes to tell grooms that they should spend "six weeks'" or even "two months' salary" on a rock.

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Indians have been crowding jewelry shops and other retailers to lock in the lower prices before the start of the wedding season, which runs from the last week of April through June.

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