Aneeta & Jon's Indian-American Wedding at Bavaria Downs

Aneeta Babulal and Jonathon Boor had planned their dream wedding for Villa del Balbianello on Lake Como. When COVID closed the Italian border, they rebuilt the weekend in Minnesota: an Indian wedding at a private home in Oak Grove on August 9, 2020, and a smaller Christian ceremony with reception at Bavaria Downs on August 13.

Aneeta was drawn to Edward Anne Estate for its European feel among the rolling grounds — not Italy, but close enough in spirit to carry the weekend they had imagined. For couples searching for a Chaska wedding videographer, a two-ceremony celebration asks for continuity: the same filmmakers holding both the private-home Indian wedding and the estate ceremony so the film reads as one love story, not two disconnected events.

The Indian celebration unfolded at Jon’s parents’ home in Oak Grove — intimate, personal, and full of the color and ritual that make a multicultural wedding film feel alive. Alma Films was there for those frames as well as the Bavaria Downs day: bridal adornment, family gathered close, and the joy of a shortened traditional weekend reshaped for a pandemic summer.

Minnesota Bride later featured the weekend, noting details Aneeta chose to honor both families — including Persian orange-peel rice with chicken on the catering menu, and a golden Aladdin’s-lamp cake topper. Those specifics are the kind of imperfectly perfect notes we keep close when we edit.

At Bavaria Downs, the Christian ceremony sat under a black wrought-iron gazebo dressed in white florals and fabric, with water and woodland behind the altar. Guests filled stone benches along the aisle while Aneeta and Jon stood at the center — lace gown, classic black tie, and a wedding party in champagne and black.

We filmed for story and feeling: vows and first kiss at the gazebo, golden-hour portraits in the tall grass, and a reception that carried the European estate atmosphere Aneeta had fallen for. Venues like Edward Anne Estate give light and landscape to work with, but the film stays about the people who filled it.

An Indian-American wedding film is not a highlight reel of two outfits. It is a record of how love sounded when a Lake Como plan became an Oak Grove backyard and a Chaska estate — parents’ home and European grounds, red and gold beside white lace. Years from now, Aneeta and Jon will not only see where they stood. They will feel who they were when the weekend found its way home.