Palakkad, Saturday, August 21, 2010: Former Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor will tie the knot with his fiancee Sunanda Pushkar in a quiet ceremony at his ancestral home in Elavanchery village in Kerala’s Palakkad district tomorrow.

Wedding preparations are in full swing at the 200-year-old ancestral home, known as Mundarath House.

Tharoor’s early morning marriage ceremony will be attended by close family and friends and then the couple is expected to leave for his constituency Thiruvananthapuram for the reception on August 23.

Sunanda Pushkar, the daughter of a retired Army colonel, hails from Jammu and Kashmir.

A Kashmiri wedding ceremony will take place in Dubai on August 30 followed by another grand reception in Delhi in September.

Tharoor resigned as a minister over allegations of corruption in winning a cricket league franchise in the Indian Premier League.