When Zachary Ian Miller first met Jill Diane Rafson, he faced a tough question as a football fan: playoff game or second date? It was January 2022, and Mr. Miller and Ms. Rafson had matched on the dating app Hinge. After about a week of chatting on the app — subjects included pop culture and…
Loyal readers of the author Kristen Nicole Arnett may not be surprised to learn that the night she met Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, she was at home in Winter Park, Fla., sipping wine from a 7-Eleven store. Ms. Arnett, 43, whose novels include the New York Times best-selling “Mostly Dead Things,” was unwinding after work on…
In weddings, as in football, the will to win may be nothing without the will to prepare. That’s why Laura Arvizu and Robert Marquez, of Paso Robles, Calif., started planning their wedding in Mexico 14 months ago. “We wanted the destination wedding of our dreams,” said Ms. Arvizu, 28, a sales manager at a company…
The soccer World Cup final in December 2022 ended with a nail-biting win for Argentina. For Yuna Yang and Christopher Mun-Yin Seck, the day was exciting for other reasons, too: After watching the match at a private club, the two spent hours together in New York, where they both live, and by the end of…
Katherine Ward Tsyrlin was friends with one of Alan Gerard Harbron’s roommates, and when she heard stories about him and how much he cared about his friendships, her interest was piqued. The roommate mentioned that Mr. Harbron was using dating apps, including Hinge. So to ensure they would meet — and to avoid asking the…
Getting sick is not usually something for which people are grateful. But Victoria Virginia Voos and Corey Alexander Buresch certainly are. “It seemed like illness, one way or another, kept our relationship progressing to the next level,” Ms. Voos said. The two began chatting on the dating app WooPlus, which markets itself as “the dating…
Carissa Anne Bauman had no idea who Dylan Taylor Jakobsen was when he handed her a flier on Dec. 26, 2010, outside El Corazon, a downtown Seattle music club, while she and a friend waited in line to see Scene Aesthetic, a local acoustic rock band. “I was out there slinging fliers, trying to get…
While searching on TikTok for ideas for her April 22, 2023 wedding, Mila Tweel came across several videos of former brides discussing what they would have done differently. Many regretted not hiring someone to capture behind-the-scene videos and photos of their wedding day. This prompted Ms. Tweel, 29, a wholesale senior account executive for Mint…
In June 2021, Shoshana Beth Heerter was swiping so perfunctorily on Tinder that she inadvertently swiped left on Rahul Kishore Boga’s profile. Immediately, it was as if somehow she sensed she made a mistake. She then paid to upgrade her account so that she could see Mr. Boga’s profile on her screen again. “Best $5…
A ‘Flawless’ Proposal That Took a Few Tries — and the Fire Department In 2021, during the holidays, Michael Greene bought a diamond ring and decided he would pop the big question to Tomika Anderson on New Year’s Eve. But after Ms. Anderson “whooped his butt in Monopoly so bad,” she said, he was no…