But “it wasn’t the puppies that made us get back together,” Ms. Lal said. “It was spending that time together, talking and getting really vulnerable with each other.” Lives built around travel, Mr. Riglin said, “can sometimes keep things surface level.” In Bali, they went deep. By early June, the puppies had been adopted and they were a couple again.
This time, Mr. Riglin felt a sense of urgency. “I was like, we’re back together,” he said. “Let’s move this train forward.” On Aug. 31, at the Burning Man festival, he proposed. “The moment felt timeless,” Ms. Lal said.
On May 22, Ms. Lal and Mr. Riglin were married in their West Hollywood home by William Concoff, a Universal Life Church minister, with only their friend Masha Maltsava in attendance; family members watched via Zoom.
On June 17, they exchanged vows in front of 85 guests at Villa Balbiano, a resort in Lake Como, Italy, during an outdoor ceremony led by Ms. De Los Rios.
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To honor her central European heritage, Ms. Lal wore a custom taffeta wedding gown gifted by Milla Nova, a Ukrainian designer who keeps a store in Warsaw. The dress required a dozen workers, took 350 hours to craft and weighed 30 pounds. The designer gave it a name: “Her Majesty the Queen Aggie.” Mr. Riglin wore a black tuxedo by Zegna.
At the ceremony, under a handcrafted tree built to evoke a magical fairy tale, the couple read handwritten vows. “If you are down to travel the world, make babies, raise a family, jump out of planes, heal your inner child, buy dream homes all over the world and give back to the community, I am so down to be your wife,” Ms. Lal said.