On their first date, at a New York restaurant in late February 2020, Jessica Rosenblum told Steve Young that he looked like a lot more fun in his photo, which was provided by an acquaintance who had set them up. He laughed, delighted by her “cutting” sense of humor. “I thought it was hilarious,” he…
“I was very attracted to her,” he said, and vice versa. That weekend, he invited her to a friend’s barbecue. The next day, they went running in Prospect Park. By Thanksgiving, she found out they were an official couple when they ran into one of Mr. Breland’s co-workers at a movie theater in Queens. The…
Josh Rosenthal is an owner of the Grand Bevy Corporation, a mixology and creative beverage company in Los Angeles that he started 10 years ago. Run by Mr. Rosenthal and his wife Priscilla Sommer, who works as a managing partner and C.F.O., the company now employs 130 mixologists across the country at around 150 weddings…
On their first date in October 2014, Randy James told Ashley Finigan he loved her. Twice. “Usually, I would have bolted,” said Ms. Finigan, 35. “But I remember believing him.” The couple matched on the dating app Tinder before meeting in person at the Promontory, a restaurant in Hyde Park, Ill. “We were just connecting…
When Anna Johnson and Trivante Bloodman first met at Mississippi State in January 2013, he seemed eager to strike up a conversation with her. She was a little apprehensive. The two, then sophomores, did engage in some small talk after he took the seat next to her in class. “We didn’t exchange names or anything,…
When Nicole Pellegrino was married on Sept. 4, she wore an opal ring that belonged to her mother, Diane Pellegrino, as her “something blue.” But for Ms. Pellegrino, 28, the tribute to her mother, who died from cancer in August 2017, did not end there. At the wedding in Annapolis, Md., the bride also “saved”…
If Gabi Conti learned anything from the exercise in extreme dating she undertook as a writer for Cosmopolitan magazine in 2019, it was to cut through the pleasantries. So when Daren Johnson, whom she met on Bumble that year, failed to live up to her expectations about how a person should conduct himself on a…
Gillian Stoss first spotted Zach Lent 16 years ago at a basketball championship. The team from her elementary school, St. Brendan Parish School in San Francisco, was competing against Mr. Lent’s team from the city’s Star of the Sea School. Liking what she saw, Ms. Stoss asked a friend who went to Mr. Lent’s school…
When a mutual friend sent a picture of Danielle Dorsi to Najee Fortè, it left Mr. Fortè speechless. “She was drop-dead gorgeous, and I just kind of froze. I was like, ‘Oh man, I have to meet her,’” said Mr. Fortè, 30, recalling the night in August 2012 when he received the photo on his…
Brian Ellner was appraising the cheese spread at a party in Bellport, N.Y., in April 2018, when Jarrett Olivo walked through the door. Mr. Ellner said he practically leapt over the couch to say hello. “It’s rare for me to leave a cheese board, but when I saw Jarrett I knew this was someone I…