Few will miss saying goodbye to 2020, though most people will be celebrating the start of a new, and hopefully, a better year in a more subdued way because of the coronavirus pandemic. Your homebound New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day can still be romantic, nostalgic, and filled with traditions — old and new.…
Carrie Sun and Christopher Cerrone met on April 20, 2018 in Manhattan after a classical music concert held at St. Peter’s Church. She had just quit her job at a hedge fund and was planning to leave New York. Her movers were coming in 21 days. Even so, they had drinks after the concert and…
Even the most loving couples can struggle to put together a simple Ikea bookshelf without arguments and acrimony. But Amy Lai Wong and Michael Jastrzebski, who were married Nov. 29 at their home in Newark, Calif., bonded over much more complicated projects while working together as the only two mechanical engineers at a technology start-up…
Pearl Losoya and David Velasco appeared on each other’s radars as far back as middle school in Union City, Calif., a small city east of San Francisco. Their families were friendly, but in high school they ran in different crowds. She described herself as “bookish” and focused on her studies. Mr. Velasco said he affiliated…
Randy Nuñez and Sasha Nuñez-Carvalho were married in October while he was quarantined with the coronavirus in San Diego and she was deployed by the Navy, 4,000 miles away, in Europe. Ms. Nuñez-Carvalho was drinking at a bar when her fiancée, now husband, called her to tell her the news. “It was about 11:30 at…
At the beginning of their sophomore year, he met her friend Jen Buchholz, who was also learning CPR in preparation for a five-day Dartmouth wilderness trip. “I asked Jen who her friends are as a way of getting to know her,” he said. “When she said Ana Bowens, I let out this very guttural, ‘Oh,…
When Luke Rivett spotted Sunney Kohlhoss on March 1, 2019 at the Well, a bar in Los Angeles, both had recently given up on love, resolving halfheartedly, that they would be single forever. “When Sunney walked in, she took my breath away. I walked over to her and introduced myself,” said Mr. Rivett, 41, a…
Ms. Oud also notes the importance of proximity when dating. With video, there is no established distance. “If I gently want to come a bit close to touch you, maybe in real life you would just say, ‘Hey, go away,’” she said. “Or maybe you would accept it and like it. But that whole rapport…
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. When we asked our readers to tell us what they were grateful for in six words, we were expecting to see certain themes. Health, faith, love, family, marriage. Check. Pets, grandparents, medicine, science, sunshine. Check.…
I was at my gynecologist’s office. “At 39, I’m scared I’ll never get married or have kids,” I told him. “Think about freezing your eggs,” he said. My eyes went wide. It was 2009, when egg-freezing was “experimental” and felt like science fiction. Walking out of his office, I was filled with regret. I was…