Rinku Singh-Priya Saroj Wedding: CM Yogi Invited, Dec 4

The Indian cricketer’s mother, brother and sister handed the invitation to the Chief Minister at his Lucknow residence.

Lucknow: The countdown to one of the year’s most talked-about weddings has begun. Cricketer Rinku Singh and Samajwadi Party MP Priya Saroj will be married in Lucknow on December 4, and the cricketer’s family has now formally invited Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to the ceremony.

Rinku’s mother, Beena Devi, his brother Sonu Singh and his sister Neha Singh went to the Chief Minister’s residence in Lucknow on Friday and handed him the invitation card in person.

The date and the venue

The wedding is set for Friday, December 4, 2026, at the Ramada by Wyndham hotel and convention centre in Lucknow. Reports say pre-wedding functions are expected the day before, and that traditional rituals will also be held in Priya’s ancestral village near Varanasi. The couple’s wedding card, which has been widely shared online, has a cream background with floral designs and a Ganesha motif at the top.

Rinku was closely involved in the planning. He is reported to have chosen the invitation cards along with his sister Neha. Invitations are also planned for other leaders, including Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav.

A long wait

The couple got engaged on June 8, 2025, at a hotel in Lucknow, and the wedding comes nearly 18 months later. It was first planned for November 2025, but had to be moved because of Rinku’s cricket schedule. One report says the date was postponed twice, though others mention only one delay.

Who they are

Rinku Singh, 29, is from Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh and made his India debut in 2023. He is a left-handed middle-order batter and has become one of the country’s best-known finishers in the shortest format. Priya Saroj represents Machhlishahr in Uttar Pradesh as a member of the Samajwadi Party, and is among the younger members of the Lok Sabha. Their relationship has drawn wide public interest because it connects two high-profile worlds, cricket and politics.

A courtesy across party lines

The invitation to Adityanath, a BJP leader, to the wedding of a Samajwadi Party MP is notable in a state where the two parties are fierce rivals. In India, it is customary for families to invite leaders from across the political spectrum to weddings, and such invitations are generally read as courtesy calls and not political signals. The Chief Minister’s office has not said whether he will attend, and I found no comment from either family on the guest list.

What to watch

Details of the guest list and the schedule of ceremonies should become clearer in the coming days. Several figures from cricket and politics are expected to attend, according to reports, though none have been officially confirmed.