After a long absence from the dating scene, Courtneye Barrett made her presence felt three years ago on Bumble, when she parked her cursor on the profile, “John C., 53’s,” which belonged to John Capshaw, a bearded, blue-eyed man. The first sentence in Mr. Capshaw’s profile put a smile on the face of Ms. Barrett,…
Kaitlin Ruby Brinkerhoff and Ian McCann consider the two weeks spent quarantining in a freezing recreational vehicle in Canada last fall — she knitting afghans and he playing the video game Call of Duty — among the highlights of their relationship. They realize this may not be everybody’s idea of a good time, but for…
The coronavirus disrupted much of the bridal fashion industry, driving down sales and forcing designers to showcase their collections virtually instead of in person. But through it all, Jackson Wiederhoeft kept extra busy and productive. The 27-year-old designer, who got his start at Thom Browne and released his first collection in 2019, has a passion…
Her dress, borrowed from a colleague at CVS, was almost an afterthought. “She had said earlier in the year, ‘I have a wedding dress and I’m not going to be keeping it.’ I called her and said, ‘Can I borrow it?’” Dr. Moore and Ms. Moore picked it up from the drugstore on the way…
Deany Keith was 16 and living with her family in Corning, N.Y., when her brother, Preston Douglas Powers, a soldier in World War II, sent her a silk German parachute he found while on the beach in Normandy, France, on D-Day. It was 1944 and parachutes had become coveted items — for making wedding dresses.…
Gambling, infidelity, moving away from a shared religious faith. These topics, once hidden behind closed doors, are now discussed openly as couples choose to broadcast their relationships on podcasts. On “Marriage and Martinis,” a New Jersey pair describes getting to the brink of divorce, propelled by the husband’s trips to Atlantic City. On “Black Millennial…
Last November, Lance Gross, an actor known for his roles on various Tyler Perry productions including “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne,” had to say goodbye to his family for four weeks as he embarked on his first movie project since the coronavirus lockdown began. As this film project began to ramp up, it did so…
Anthony Smith, a pastor at Houston’s Tabernacle of Meeting Church, performed the ceremony preceded by a demonstration of biblical humility. Instead of bouquets, the bridal party carried jugs of water to a towering altar draped in greenery and white flowers. Mr. Onuoha used the vessel in which the water was poured to wash Ms. Egwuatu’s…
This March, as the world marked one full year of the pandemic, my mother and stepfather celebrated their second go at a first wedding anniversary, 25 years after they divorced. I was 13 when they split. If you’d asked me then if I wished my mother, Fawn Waterfield, and my second stepfather, Chilton Allen Bowman…
Eventually Saman Akhtar had to know what Mohammed Islam was thinking. “I actually directly asked him: Do you like me? What is going on?” she said. By that point, they had spent time together in New York, Washington and San Francisco and were texting on a daily basis. But beyond flowing conversation and a hug…