New Delhi: Veteran Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh and Bollywood beauty Geeta Basra's wedding ceremony started off with mehandi and sangeet ceremonies.


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The celebrity couple will be tying the knot on October 29. While the mehandi was held on Monday, the sangeet ceremony took place on Tuesday with relatives and close friends being present during the auspicious occasion.


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Here are some facts about the ceremony and the couple.


# Harbhajan and Geeta’s wedding will take place in Hotel Club Cabana, in Phagwara, Punjab, which is around 20 km away from his hometown, Jalandhar.


# The wedding reception will be held in a five-star hotel in Delhi on November 1. Several celebrities from cricket and bollywood will attend the event.


# Earlier on October 10, 2015, the cricketer had met Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and invited him for his marriage.


# Singers Mika Singh and Gurdaas Mann entertained the guests with some Punjabi hits during Harbhajan-Geeta's sangeet ceremony.


# Geeta Basra made her Bollywood debut in 2006 with Dil Diya Hai and since then has appeared in only five films.


# Geeta Basra hails from Portsmouth, England. She and Harbhajan have been dating each other for several years.


# Harbhajan Singh was part of India's squad in T20s and ODIs that played against South Africa recently.