Need help! getting married with foreigner

hi, i am new here,i am indian boy and i am going to get marry a canadian girl, i have talked one lawyer about marrying with a foregner and he told me that i have to do an arya samaj wedding with her first where she has to change her relgion and her name, and then the certificate given by the arya samaj of our wedding, would b sent to the court where this certifcate will b bse of our court marriage! i am all confused with his information, cose i have read many blogs and information where many lawyers said that its not need to get married in aray samaj if we wants to get marreid under the special marriage act 1954, and i also dont wana change her (my girfriend's) name or religion after the marriage, so i need this infomation that what should we do? if we hv to do arya samaj wedding before court marriage? please some body help me with this, thank you very much all.