Usually when temperatures drop, couples hold their wedding indoors, away from the cold. But with social-distancing requirements and restrictions on gatherings amid the coronavirus, more weddings will be taking place outdoors this winter. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, so long as marrying couples embrace the elements. If you’re planning an outdoor winter wedding, here…
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered to celebrate a wedding inside a cavernous hall in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood earlier this month, dancing and singing with hardly a mask in sight. The wedding was meticulously planned, and so were efforts to conceal it from the authorities, who said that the organizers would be fined $15,000 for violating…
A hurricane ruined Yoelvis Valdez’s plans to propose to Anabel Santeliz. And their wedding was first postponed because of a cancer diagnosis, then because of the coronavirus. But when two friends came to the rescue, the couple finally got their wedding in a backyard tent drenched in pink roses and candlelight. Mr. Valdez, 32, and…
Aliza Aber and Jonathan Browning had a marathon of a first date. After connecting on OkCupid in March 2017, they met in the afternoon at San Francisco’s de Young museum, shared an Italian dinner and then played miniature golf at an indoor course, Urban Putt. Things couldn’t have been going any better, until Mr. Browning…
Mary Kate Vollmer and Evan Sloan didn’t intend to cause a ruckus with their Nov. 2 wedding in the automotive aisle of Blain’s Farm & Fleet, a country store in Montgomery, Ill. They were just trying to bring Mr. Sloan’s 90-year-old, coronavirus-stricken grandmother, Beth Stanley, some peace. “Ever since March, when we moved in together,…
Unforgettable. That’s the word that brought the worlds of Kaitlyn Folmer and Jonathan Morris back into the same orbit after a brief but indelible encounter more than seven years earlier. “When I first met Kaitlyn, I found her to be super smart, super happy, very efficient, and very energetic,” Mr. Morris, 48, said. “She was…
Irene Fan Yuan came right out and told Colin Armand Evran that what he was wearing — an oversize, worn brown and orange argyle sweater, clunky black shoes and white bulky socks — was “hideous.” “I gave him feedback honestly during class,” said Ms. Yuan, referring to a popular interpersonal dynamics course, nicknamed “touchy-feely,” that…
Ron Jacobson recalled the moment when he knew he would marry Sarah Miller, whom he met through the dating app Coffee Meets Bagel in November 2017 in New York. “From the very start, I was able to be myself around her,” said Mr. Jacobson, 33, a founder and the chief executive of Rockerbox, an online…
Billy Pitman, a relative newcomer to online dating, posted a picture of himself on his Hinge profile in 2017 that showed him running the most recent Boston Marathon. This caught the attention of Jessica Jeffrey, who is also a runner. The two didn’t spend much time chatting online before agreeing to meet at a place…
Thais Prazeres de Almeida was dating someone else when she and Scott Nielson met at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints both attended in São Paulo, Brazil, but he didn’t see that as an obstacle. They went out a few times, on friend dates, as he was relatively new to the city —…