Kristine M. Boehm ’08 and Christian Móller

As Kristine M. Boehm ’08 shopped for a wedding dress at Filene’s Basement in downtown Boston, her mother back in Guatemala sent invitations for her daughter to approve.

The two were preparing for Boehms’ upcoming wedding in Guatemala, an affair in which the 12 bridesmaids will hail from all over the world—Alabama, Cuba and Puerto Rico, Germany, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, Montenegro, and Peru.

Boehm, 24, will wed Christian Móller, 32, on Sept. 6, two years after they met through mutual friends. Soon after meeting, they discovered that their German immigrant grandmothers knew each other in their home country of Guatemala.

While Boehm studied government and lived in Kirkland House, Móller, 32, was still in Guatemala. But the pair saw each other every few months throughout the academic year.

When Boehm was offered a consulting job in Germany last fall, she said Móller encouraged her to take it, and they began to discuss moving across the Atlantic together.

Móller proposed on the beach over spring break in California, which they visited for the first time together.

The wedding will take place at an hacienda in Guatemala with an early afternoon religious ceremony followed by a party in the evening at the surrounding colonial gardens.

Though the couple is off to Germany, where Móller must learn the language that Boehm speaks with her grandparents, Boehm said she wants to return to her home country within the next five years because “Guatemala needs good political scientists.”