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…
By the end of their first date at Mother Burger, a restaurant in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, in late June 2015, Megan Cunningham O’Conor had sensed something special in Thomas Peter Cordell. “I’m not always the easiest person to get along with,” said Ms. O’Conor, 30, “but he seemed like the perfect man for me.”…
In the days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Mr. Stambler’s father, Rabbi Levi Stambler of the Synagogue of Kamianske, said he was conflicted about leaving his community in the middle of a crisis. After consulting the head rabbi in the region, who told Rabbi Stambler that family has to come first, he and his wife, Dina…
Elizabeth Arasevi had no intention to follow custom when it came to choosing a wedding dress. “Any bride wants to feel their most beautiful on their wedding day, and stuffing myself into a sugary sweet white dress for the sake of tradition was not an option for me,” said Ms. Arasevi, a 36-year-old auditor who…
Mendy DeWitt and Michael Vincent of Fordsville, Ky., were among the couples who shared the stage with Ms. Wigington and Ms. Martin on March 20. Though comfortable with marrying before the crowd, Mr. Vincent, 42, and Ms. DeWitt, 44, weren’t as keen to share their first kiss as newlyweds with the assembled rock fans. When…
In June 2021, Mr. Dansby surprised Ms. Combs with a proposal with help from her former boss at Harvest Hands, who invited Ms. Combs to what she thought was a volunteer appreciation dinner on June 27. The invitation was a ruse, and when Ms. Combs arrived at the event, she was shocked to see Mr.…
On Jan. 28, 2020, Sharon Deckey Mussalli was scrolling through Instagram when she came upon a black-and-white photo of Shaun Robert Jenkins, a senior manager of training at Tone House, a trendy gym in New York City. The photo was posted by a mutual friend on Mr. Jenkins’s birthday, and showed him in a tuxedo…
When Jafreen Momtaj Uddin and Shakil Sarfaroz Rabbi matched on Salams, a Muslim dating app, in June 2021, they immediately began a two-hour online conversation that Ms. Uddin described as “extremely comfortable.” “I was visiting an aunt in Philadelphia that day,” said Ms. Uddin, 36. While one of her parents drove, she exchanged messages with…
In September 2015, Henderson Moore Blumer could sense the panic of fellow art student Suzanne Zoe Joskow. She was in her first year of the M.F.A. program at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles; he in his second. It was that time at the start of the semester when students begin receiving…
By the time Sneha Medappa Maruvanda met Dr. Mark Ross Edelstein in person, she feared they might not have anything left to say to each other. “I was having a bit of a panic attack about meeting,” said Ms. Medappa Maruvanda, 30, who matched with Dr. Edelstein on Bumble in November 2019, and soon became…