A Lumen Ceremony in St. Louis, Missouri

"Due to our different cultural and religious backgrounds, American Christian and Gujarati Hindu, we opted out of a traditional church setting," Alyssa says. "This allowed us to bring in a Christian officiant as well as a Hindu maharaja."

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