Abhishek and ash may wed at home on April 18

ALL EYES ON STARRY COUPLE: The wedding itself will be a close-knit affair, to be attended by family and friends only. (TOI Photo)

MUMBAI: It may be an April wedding at the Bachchans' family home of 'Prateeksha', instead of a five-star hotel in town or Jodhpur's Umaid Bhavan, for Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai.

The wedding will be followed by receptions in Delhi and Mumbai. In what is a sort of first for a Bollywood wedding, there are reports that the exclusive rights of the wedding have been sold to a foreign media house for an undisclosed sum of money.

The wedding itself will be a close-knit affair, to be attended by family and friends only, and there is speculation it could happen on April 18.

Amitabh Bachchan's mother, Teji Bachchan, is ailing and admitted to Lilavati Hospital. This is also being cited as a reason for Bollywood's first family not wanting to postpone the wedding any longer.

Abhishek is currently shooting for Drona and the bride-to-be, Aishwarya, is shooting for Ashutosh Gowarikar's Akbar Jodha. Both plan to wrap up the shoots by March-end.

Angelina Jolie set to get new son by early April

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie ride a motorbike around Vietnam's southern Ho Chi Minh City November 23, 2006.

13 March 2007 - Angelina Jolie may become mother to a 3 1/2 year old Vietnamese boy within weeks, according to a Vietnamese official.

The boy was abandoned at a Ho Chi Minh City hospital as an infant and taken into an orphanage. The staff there was unable to locate his parents.

"He is in good health," orphanage director Nguyen Van Trung told AP. He gets along well with other children. However, "He is a little bit shy."

The processing of Jolie's adoption request is being expedited and will be completed before 31 March, the director of Vietnam's International Adoption Department, Vu Duc Long, told the Associated Press on Tuesday.

Once approval is granted, Jolie will be free to pick up the child anytime.

Jolie has applied for adoption as a single mother since Vietnamese law frowns on adoptions by unmarried couples. However, both Pitt and Jolie have jointly planned for the adoption.

It was a "process that began shortly after Shiloh was born [in May]," a source told People