Bridal Hats Offer a Trendy Alternative to Veils
Fashion experts cite the influence of the British royals, along with high-profile events like the Kentucky Derby for the resurgence of this vintage wedding trend.
They Wanted Marriage and Family, Maybe Not in That Order
In the summer of 2023, Christopher William Sater and Traci Ryan Green hosted a combined engagement party and baby shower. “The theme was ‘Engaged and Expecting,’” he said. It wasn’t a party the two could have ever imagined having when they first matched on the dating app Bumble in March 2017. “I remember Traci’s profile…
A Shared Appreciation for ‘Sex and the City’ Leads to a Long Distance Romance
It began with an Instagram comment. In the summer of 2016, Lauren Cassandra Garroni created an Instagram account with her friend Chelsea Fairless that set out to log every outfit worn on the television show “Sex and the City.” The duo’s encyclopedic knowledge of fashion history — they met as undergraduates at the Parsons School…
A ‘Jedi of Emotion’ Taught Him a New Language
It’s second nature for Kara Ann Loewentheil to get her feelings out in the open and deal with them. Matthew Scott Eubank, who called her “a Jedi of emotion,” found the idea terrifying at first, but then began “to trust the system.” “It was like a magic trick,” said Mr. Eubank, 54, who grew up…
An Inside Look at the Star-Studded Wedding of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant
On Friday afternoon, Sneh Zala, 24, waited for celebrities to arrive on the red carpet for the wedding ceremony of Anant Ambani, the youngest son of India’s richest man, and Radhika Merchant, a daughter of a fellow business tycoon. The red carpet was set up in a room adorned with lanterns and red and orange…
The Stylists Who Dressed Two Ambanis For the Lavish Indian Wedding
When Radhika Merchant married Anant Ambani, the youngest son of one of the world’s richest men, Mukesh Ambani, over the weekend, about 2,000 guests were in attendance, according to Reliance Industries, the megacompany owned by the Ambani family. In a country where weddings have a deep cultural and historical significance, where the rich spare no…
Finding Happily Ever After in Their Happy Place
Joseph Abraham Gorman and Matthew Joseph Capbarat’s first meeting wasn’t a blind date by design. But it ended up feeling like one — and a wildly successful one at that. In mid-November 2019, Carrie Lafferty, a mutual friend, invited friends to join her for drinks at Hi Tops, a sports bar in San Francisco. “We…
After a Rock-Climbing Date, Their Relationship Reached New Heights
Ona Ferens and Samuel Haselden may have unknowingly crossed paths at the same gym before ever meeting each other.
‘Basically Inseparable’ From the Start
During Karli Nicolle Gray and Elizabeth Catherine Smith’s first dance at their wedding, the two kept whispering to each other, “Is this over yet?” Not because they wanted the wedding to end, but because neither of them likes to dance. That exact quality was part of Ms. Smith’s attraction to Ms. Gray when she first…
The Rise of the ‘Earlymoon’
One month before their July 2023 wedding, Shrestha Maharaj, 28, an analytics and insights manager based in South Africa, and Sumeeth Suthurgam, 31, a senior digital design lead, took an earlymoon. The couple spent a long weekend in Umdloti, a small resort village along the northern coast of Kwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa, just a…