An Almost-Missed Connection Saved By a DM

After matching on several dating sites in 2017, Joseph Michael Flaum was becoming increasingly interested in Allison Dana Port. She was feeling overwhelmed, however, not by Mr. Flaum but the barrage of messages she was continually receiving through the apps. So, when Mr. Flaum, 38, sent Ms. Port, 35, a message, she didn’t respond. Then,…

Planning a Wedding While Grieving

“Everyone’s ways of coping are different,” said Litsa Williams, 42, a social worker and a founder of What’s Your Grief, an online grief support and education company, and the author of What’s Your Grief, published this year. “It can be helpful in really practical ways to think about, how do I want my connection to…

Winning the Long Game in Love

Still, the two spent the next summer together and continued to casually date. They broke up when she left for school — Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., from which she graduated cum laude, with a degree in communications. [Click here to binge read this week’s featured couples.] In 2017, during Easter break, they ran into…

How to Upcycle Your Wedding Dress

Weddings may be a once-in-a-lifetime occasion for most people, but that doesn’t mean their wedding attire has to be stored away, never to be seen again, afterward. Many brides are finding new ways to repurpose their dresses. Sarah Jessica Parker’s “Sex and The City” character, Carrie Bradshaw, is just one of the former brides restyling…

What They Wanted

There was nothing traditional about my grandparents, other than, perhaps, my grandmother’s rabid interest in my love life. “I just want to be around long enough to dance at your wedding,” Mopsy, as we called my paternal grandmother, told me over and over again for a decade. When, four years ago, I did finally meet…