“I consider myself the godfather of Indian weddings in Turkey,” he said, recalling that the trend began when steel magnate Pramod Mittal’s daughter married at Çırağan Palace Kempinski in 2011.
Raised in Texas and Oklahoma, Mesta moved to D.C. with her husband, steel magnate George Mesta, in 1917, after he was asked to consult with the government’s steel committee as the U.S. entered WWI.