For the last decade or so, the designer Rebecca Schoneveld, who plans to relocate her to studio to Pleasantville, N.Y. next month, has participated in more than a dozen bridal fashion shows, sometimes presenting twice in one year. Although her designs change with each season, her process remains the same. “I start with the fabric,…
On Sunday, at a grandiose country resort, some 200 guests were seated inside a massive tent draped with white curtains, the sun peaking through the ceiling and onto their faces. They had flown in from New York, Miami, Atlanta, Dallas and Los Angeles, which is not unusual for the typical big city fashion show. But…
During New York Bridal Fashion Week, held Oct. 10 through 12, designers not only presented their fall 2024 collections, but also showed their support for one another, with some even attending each other’s presentations. To share a message of peace in the early days of the Israel-Hamas war, the designer Peter Langner ended his runway…
The bride walked down a 10-foot runner. Oscar, a 7-year-old French bulldog dressed in a bow tie, was the best man and tagged alongside the groom. Twenty guests cheered the couple as they took their vows in the picturesque venue in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The wedding wasn’t at a hidden hipster hall or a chic,…
It was a seemingly unlikely match. One afternoon in December 2013, Dalijah Amelia Franklin, a pole dancer and instructor, approached Willie Dwayne Francois III, a pastor, outside First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem. Ms. Franklin only meant to introduce herself, but he was entranced. “It was the beauty of the contradictions,” he said, that drew…
Alexa Jayne Nicolette and Mladen Vasic both worked for about eight months in the same office building in Midtown Manhattan, but their paths never crossed until one day in early May 2014, when they shared the same elevator. They said hello and awkwardly smiled at each other. “As soon as I got out of the…
The moment it became clear that Hurricane Lee was headed for the coast of Maine this month, over a year’s worth of wedding planning went out the window for Jackie Anne Brew and Robert James Hayes. The setting for their wedding was Cushing’s Island, a privately owned 266-acre island off the coast of Portland. Ms.…
Within minutes of meeting William Sam Gleason at a restaurant in the East Village of Manhattan, Fareez Giga knew that Mr. Gleason was special. At the time, Mr. Giga was actively dating with the goal of finding a serious relationship. “He was like my 250th date,” he said, jokingly. It was late January 2020, and…
Carlos Paz Jr. and Abigail Diaz had a rule: to see each other at least once a month in their mostly long-distance relationship. One of those visits — a trip to Chicago in 2018 — would test their future. In the Uber from the airport to their hotel, they talked about where things stood. Ms.…
On Bruce Linton Hager’s first date with Florence Leggett Buchanan in February 2018, he thought “everything was stacked against us,” Mr. Hager said. They met at Michael Jordan’s Steak House NYC in Grand Central Terminal, which has since closed. “Eighties music was blasting out of the bar,” he said. “There was a flash mob downstairs.…