A woman was arrested and accused of setting fire to a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Kaysville this month while setting up her own wedding.

Police say the 25-year-old stole a lighter and used a tampon to start a fire under a chair inside the meetinghouse late July 10, the night before she was set to be married in the church.

The woman, from Wyoming, was decorating the church with the groom and other family members that evening, according to a probable cause statement. The group was getting ready to leave for the night when the fire alarm went off.

The group searched for flames and found a fire burning in the women’s Relief Society room, where someone used water from some of the wedding decorations to help put it out; another person used a fire extinguisher, the document states.

“During the investigation, it was pointed out by the fire investigators that the fire appeared to have started under a chair that was amongst stacked chairs along the wall,” the probable cause statement reads.

“Under one of the chairs appeared to be items that were out of the ordinary,” the document continues, “including what appeared to be a tampon with the applicator on the floor.”

The groom told police that he and the bride-to-be had gone to an Ace Hardware store earlier that day. In the probable cause statement, a Kaysville police officer wrote that he reviewed security camera footage from that store and saw the woman steal two BIC lighters, then hide them in her shoes.

Later, the groom and the woman were in the Relief Society room just before the fire alarm went off, he told police.

When the bride spoke with law enforcement, the officer wrote, she provided a different first and last name than her legal name and a different birthday than the day on her Wyoming-issued license. And in an interview Monday, the document indicates, she acknowledged stealing from the hardware store but wouldn’t say what she took.

“[She] was asked prior to this about having a lighter,” the document reads. “[She] said she does not carry a lighter and does not smoke, nor would she need one.”

The woman was arrested Monday, more than two weeks after the fire, on suspicion of aggravated arson, retail theft and providing false information about her identity. The Salt Lake Tribune does not typically identify defendants unless they have been formally charged with a crime.

She is being held without bail in the Davis County jail.

The officer who documented her arrest noted there were five others in the building when the fire ignited. He described the woman as “deceptive” and said she continually took “drastic steps to hide her lies.”

And, he added, her alleged deception went beyond the fire itself.

“The bride,” he wrote, “did not obtain a marriage license for her own wedding that was to occur the following day after the fire but had lied stating she had.”