After what seemed like light years, Stephen Daniel Sullivan grabbed Alexandra Lauran Ullman Wagner’s hand in March 2018 under the stars projected onto the dome of the Grainger Sky Theater at Chicago’s Adler Planetarium. “I was crazy nervous,” Mr. Sullivan said. The two had met about a year and a half earlier, in August 2016,…
Emily Miller always wanted her wedding to have a storybook element. For her, that did not mean a ride in a horse-drawn carriage or a gown fit for a princess. It meant a celebration filled with books. She and her husband Alex Seher, 31, a product manager at a lighting manufacturer, had originally planned to…
When Marissa Branch was 6, she made her first trip to Walt Disney World with her parents and grandparents. It didn’t go well. Everything about the amusement park, from its gargantuan scale to the characters, “absolutely terrified” her, she said. It would take Ms. Branch, 29, nearly two decades to return. That next trip —…
Despite being raised on different continents and residing in different countries, Andrea Mendoza and Victor Aguilera were not deterred from pursuing a relationship after they met in Munich during Oktoberfest in September 2016. “She was pretty, smart, interesting — of course I had to keep in contact, even if the distance was huge,” Mr. Aguilera…
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. In May 2020, Omar Ruiz found himself with a broken heart. “My wife told me she was no longer in love with me,” and shortly thereafter, the couple, who had been married 11 years, separated. Not only…
Soon after a meal of meatballs, bread, tortellini and Caesar salad, the guests at the wedding of Andrew and Danya Svoboda began to feel strange, according to the authorities in Seminole County, Fla. One man, an uncle of the groom visiting from Michigan, said he felt “tingly.” His heart raced and he was “having crazy…
On Saturday March 12, Bria Pugh found herself wide-awake at 4 a.m. She isn’t an early-riser, nor did she have pre-wedding jitters. This was the call time for her hair and makeup before she walked down the aisle to marry Matthew Norman six hours later. “I was optimistic as long as I could wake up…
When Janelle Ashley Clark accompanied her friend Tiara Lewis to a 2007 service at the Resurrection Deliverance Church International in Yonkers, N.Y., she encountered a “tall, handsome and very talented” man playing the piano. That man was David Christopher Funchess, who said he was attracted to Ms. Clark as soon as she walked through the…
On their first date at a San Francisco restaurant in April 2014, enough wine flowed and sparks flew between Elizabeth Krasney Berman and Richard Alan Fiedotin that the two soon found themselves “giggling like teenagers at the bar,” she said. “I was immediately attracted to him from the start,” added Ms. Berman, 42, the owner…
Hannah Cha and Anthony Kim Elfering met in quintessential rom-com fashion: They were seated next to one another at a wedding in January 2019, at which both also gave speeches; Ms. Cha as a friend of the bride, and Mr. Elfering as a friend of the groom. “I looked over at him and two things…