On Halloween night, under a blue moon, Vivienne Vermuth and Jason Perkins, both dressed in black, were married after a dating life that Mr. Perkins describes as more layered than an onion. “There were the romantic days; the sexy days; the laugh till you snort days; and some days that felt like the third act…
When Annette Blum recognized Michael Pearson on Bumble in 2016, she reacted in a way that only a tech company employee would: He must be there to test the user experience, she thought, as he was in a relationship. But when she learned otherwise, she wrote on the app, “My freshman year self is really…
Drs. Sarah Y. Siu and David X. Yang were on what they call their “negative-fifth date” when they first broached the subject of marriage. It was 2018, and the two had been friends for nearly a decade. They were having dinner and began reminiscing about an awkward moment that they had shared early in their…
As couples continue to look for ways to move forward with their wedding plans during the coronavirus pandemic, guests are also looking for ways to feel more involved, connected and present. “Guests want a deeper experience, especially because many can’t be there,” said Jason Mitchell Kahn, the owner of Jason Mitchell Kahn and Company, an…
During the March coronavirus lockdown, Melissa Fahlstrom, the owner of Sugar Whipped Bakery, a Plattsburg, Mo., business that specializes in wedding cakes, had feared the worst. “I panicked that my business would come to a crashing halt,” she said. “I could last two months to pay my mortgage, my loan, my overhead costs.” That spring…
For many, the thought of having a personal chef whip up a Michelin-worthy meal in your home sounds like a dream come true. However, when Rebecca Bohanan, a writer in Los Angeles, started dating a chef who worked late nights and insisted on cooking elaborate meals between the hours of midnight and 2 a.m. for…
By the time Luis Solis met Hailey Nicole Terrell last December, he had been divorced for 10 years and had become a master of the short-term relationship. Mr. Solis, 62, said he developed several “relationship management policies,” for keeping the people he was dating at a comfortable distance. He avoided the word “girlfriend” and instead…
After seeing Jennifer Miles in a bikini in 1998 while mowing her father’s lawn on Lake Wawasee in Indiana, 15-year-old Nate Goldenberg was confident enough to ask her on a date. “I was 100 percent in love,” said Mr. Goldenberg, now 37, and the general manager of Grand Design RV in Elkhart County, Ind. “Her…
When Mitchel Aaron Scott and Evelyn Ruth Danforth were first introduced in January 2011 at a dorm party their junior year at Stanford, the sparks didn’t exactly fly. A few weeks before the start of their senior year, the pair, who were casual acquaintances, found themselves on an abandoned campus training together to be residential…
When Cleo Samuel came across Tony Ryals’s profile on eHarmony in September 2018, she liked it so much that she sent him a smile emoji and a couple of winks. Ms. Samuel did not know that by the time she began flirting with Mr. Ryals, he had already pulled the plug, albeit temporarily, on his…