Urvashe Sameer and Ryan Joseph Harris are to be married Jan. 20 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Ronald L. Levy, a Baptist minister and an uncle of the groom, is to officiate in a ceremony incorporating Christian wedding traditions. Later that day at the same place, the couple is to take part in a Hindu ceremony, led by Shukavak Dasa, a Hindu priest.
The bride, 29, is a litigation associate at the New York law firm Fleischner Potash. She graduated with two degrees from the University of California, Irvine, one in psychology and one in political science. She also received a law degree from Fordham.
She is the daughter of Sameer Khera of Fremont, Calif. The bride’s father is the vice president for enterprise architecture and mergers and acquisitions at Symantec, a software company in Mountain View, Calif.
The groom, 31, is a corporate associate at Proskauer Rose in New York. He graduated with two degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, one in political science and one in African-American studies. He also received a law degree from N.Y.U.
He is the son of Paula D. Levy-Harris and Harry Harris of Cerritos, Calif. The groom’s mother is a southern region collection program manager for the State of California; she works in Santa Fe Springs. His father is a senior manager of digital marketing strategy at Acura in Torrance, Calif.
The couple met in 2006 through a mutual friend at U.C. Irvine when the groom was a sophomore and the bride a freshman. The groom later transferred to U.C.L.A.
