Preity Zinta Will Marry Her American Boyfriend In April

Bollywood actress Preity Zinta,42, reportedly will wed rumoured boyfriend, financial consultant, Gene Goodenough in an intimate ceremony in Los Angeles in April. They will have intimate church ceremony in Los Angeles which will be followed fat Rajput wedding ceremony in Mumbai.

It will be a select group of people who will attend her Los Angeles wedding. Her Indian wedding, consisting of three-day events of sangeet and mehndi, in Mumbai will see who is who of the film industry.

Gene is a graduate from Marshall School of Business and currently works as senior vice president of Finance NLine Energy which is a US-based hydroelectric company. Preity allegedly met Gene during one of her Us trips through her brother who lives in LA with family. The sangeet and Mehndi outfits will be designed by the actress close friends Manish Malhotra and Surily Goel.

The actress was earlier believed to be in relationship with industrialist Ness Wadia and Preity's co-owner of Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Kings XI Punjab are believed to have dated for five years between 2005 to 2009. The power couple have decided to direct all the hypes and anticipation surrounding their wedding into charitable cause.

They will be putting their private wedding images up for auction and the proceeds thus generated out of these will be go the Preity Zinta Foundation. The foundation works for educating children and of old age rehabilitation. Preity is involved in several charitable initiatives but speaks less about her this work as she is extremely private person.