<p>Shehzaan and Zainab Chunara were on the same “big fancy wedding” track themselves, until a bitter reality brought them both from cake-tasting cloud 9 back to earth. Something started to make them feel incredibly guilty, and they had to get it off their chests.</p>
<p>In seeing the poverty plaguing the world around them, they simply could not find it in themselves to spend the nearly $30,000 that it costs for the average wedding these days.</p>
<p><span>So instead, the 24-year-old couple decided they would donate the money saved up for their wedding fund to the Aga Khan Foundation, an organization whose mission is to eradicate poverty through investing in “education, infrastructure and self-sustaining communities around the world.</span></p>