Hurley and Nayar went on Thursday to Nagaur Fort, about 130 km (80 miles) outside the city, for a musical ceremony that included qawwali, or devotional hymns performed by Sufi Muslims.

There was a wedding caravan involving 12 horses and 60 camel carts and fireworks in the evening, a Jodhpur newspaper reported.

Nayar wore a diamond-encrusted sherwani, which is a traditional Indian jacket, it added.

Indian designer Rohit Bal said he had designed many of the clothes being worn by the couple, who have been partying non-stop since their civil marriage last week at a castle in England.

But very few of the A-list celebrities touted in the media as potential guests turned up in Jodhpur.

Hurley split with actor Hugh Grant in 2000, ending a 13-year relationship that survived Grant's well-publicized encounter with a prostitute. In 2002, she had a son with U.S. film producer Steve Bing, but brought the child up as a single mother.

She met Nayar, a jet set businessman and a friend of Bollywood film stars, shortly after her son was born. Hurley and Nayar had a civil wedding last week at an English castle.

The celebrities, and the international press pack following them, have bemused the residents of Jodhpur, most of whom are hearing about Hurley and Nayar for the first time.

"She is the oldest bride Jodhpur has ever seen," said Kastury Ghosh, a bridal shop manager, one of many residents struck by Hurley's age in a country where most women become wives in their early twenties.

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