So the government doubled its army of so-called work coaches, who help people on unemployment benefits find jobs. It hired 13,500 more coaches, a bigger force than was marshaled after the Great Recession in 2008. In the end, the fallout was much less severe. After the British Treasury extended the furlough program, unemployment peaked at…
“Laminate vows” was included on the prewedding checklist for Catarina Salvador Espírito Santo Cristovão Neto. After all, when you’re getting married in the Pacific Ocean, just beyond the wave breaks, that’s probably a good thing to do. Ms. Neto also proved herself to be rather resourceful when she found hers and his wedding attire online…
Isaiah Bryant said he wasn’t much for traveling before he met Emily Maretsky. He’d gone abroad with USA Ultimate, which is the governing body of Ultimate Frisbee in the United States (he is now a member of its board of directors). But just booking a ticket and going somewhere? Not really his thing. Then, in…
If there was one constant in the courtship between Rashmitha Vasa and Varun Murthy, it was distance. They met in Columbia, S.C., in April 2015, when she traveled to the University of South Carolina with the Bollywood fusion dance team from her alma mater, the University of North Carolina. He went to the same competition…
Three years ago, as I contemplated ending my marriage, I looked out my kitchen window and saw my husband mowing our lawn. I didn’t yet know if I’d be able to manage on my own, living in the New Jersey suburbs as a divorced mother of two. Yes, I had spent years alone when I…
One evening in March 2020, Angeline Disante, 29, was tasting teriyaki steak on a stick to be served at her wedding on April 15. Once the pandemic hit, Ms. Disante and her fiancé rescheduled the wedding for Nov. 28. Not surprisingly, that one had to be postponed as well. Her venue in New Rochelle, N.Y.,…
Mutual friends from their teen years had told Sapna Maheshwari that Devjoy Sengupta was a “keeper” at 17. She was not about to let him go when they met more than a decade later. “Incredibly, we had two mutual friends who went to a high school program in New Jersey with Devjoy,” said Ms. Maheshwari,…
“There’s that old paradigm that even though we think we’re self-aware, there are parts of us that are still wounded, ” said Ms. Lyman. “And we attract people who are a mirror to our fears.” Unlike matchmakers, who introduce potential love interests to one another, Ms. Lyman connects people to themselves. She believes that finding…
DJ Kaiser and Tom Saggio didn’t necessarily plan to marry last September — it just happened. The couple had bought a house together in St. Louis that July and decided that marriage should be the next step, despite the absence of proposals or the exchange of rings. Rather than attempt to wrangle family together during…
Marvin Alexander, a makeup artist in New York City who decided to shift from the fashion industry to bridal during the depths of the pandemic, is also seeing lots of last-minute bookings, including from rescheduled weddings. The events are often more modest affairs, with smaller wedding parties and guest lists, in a nod to virus…