[Click here to binge read this week’s featured couples.] They did the 11-mile Pine Creek hike together, featuring steep switchbacks in the snow in the final ascent; the descent sometimes required sitting and sliding down. Although it was the hardest hike she had ever done, she didn’t complain. By August, it was clear Ms. Hitchcock…
Lexi Lilly Smith and Britton Michael Wehmeyer met at a “nerd”-themed party in August 2012 at their alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin. Soon after the party, Ms. Smith found herself in a bind — she was going to another event put on by her sorority the following weekend, and the friend she…
Lamis Khaled Hassan Azazy dreamed of having a wedding in front of the pyramids of Giza for as long as she could remember. She grew up in Cairo and first visited the pyramids when she was a child, but she never thought it would be possible for them to be the backdrop of her wedding.…
Soon, the two had the idea to sell vintage and antique items they found during their outings that reflected the experiences of Black people in America. “We’d be in a shop and there’d be one Lou Rawls record,” Ms. Handy said. “One Black record in these hundreds and hundreds of records. And I’m just like,…
James Coleman Burden was the star of the show, and Caleb Mansel Dicke didn’t even take notice. Mr. Burden was playing Sky Masterson in “Guys and Dolls” at the Asolo Repertory Theater in Sarasota, Fla. Mr. Dicke’s best friend, Elliott Mattox, was also in the show, playing Benny Southstreet. So in December 2016, Mr. Dicke…
The campaign posters were bright and stylish, with slogans like “New York Needs New Voices.” In 2018, they were all over the East Village, where Emily Heinz Bina was living. The graphic design caught her eye, but the candidate captured her interest. Suraj Champak Patel was running for Congress in Manhattan’s 12th Congressional District race,…
In mid-November Laurent Charles Catherine C. Van Hoestenberghe took his fiancée, Dr. Carine Isabelle Jouffret, to Las Vegas for the Formula One Grand Prix. They are both big fans, having attended car races in Monaco, close to Aix-en-Provence, in the South of France, where they live, and across Europe. This was their first time seeing…
Tracey Necole Broadhead Frith still has her childhood diary, and it’s chock-full of mentions of Darin Malcolm White. Ms. Broadhead and Mr. White, now both 56, were born and raised in Oakland, Calif. They met in 1979 as seventh graders at Westlake Junior High School, now Westlake Middle School, and began dating a couple of…
Ana Carolina Pejo Henderson and her parents were sure Jonathan Millam Walters would run the other way after spending a couple days in August 2022 wrangling, shearing and vaccinating a few hundred baby lambs on their farm in Artigas, Uruguay, bordering Brazil. To everyone’s surprise, and delight, he got the job done, and stayed. “I…
“Just meet the coach.” That’s what Sara Wacker Johnson had been saying to her friend Julie Lorraine Estrada Ewart again and again for nearly two years before Ms. Estrada Ewart finally agreed to meet Robert James Bishop, Ms. Johnson’s son’s ice hockey coach. The two, along with Ms. Johnson and her husband Ryan, met for…