Lauren Pariani and Kate Schatz Marry

In September 2018, Lauren Davis Pariani and Kate Elizabeth Schatz met on a school playground. Their sons, who had just started kindergarten, soon after became best friends and during multiple play dates the two women forged a close bond. At the time, both lived in Alameda, Calif., a small island community just off Oakland, with…

She Said Yes in a House of Worship

Bagels, lox and N.F.L. marathons — that’s how Elan David Cooperman grew up spending nearly every Sunday at his childhood home in Roslyn, N.Y. “There’s nothing casual about watching football at my family’s house,” Mr. Cooperman said. And he knew when he met Sydney Marissa Berger in October 2018 that she would fit right in…