Someone to Always Spill the Tea With

Jessica Hanser and James Atkinson talked nonstop after meeting in June 2018 at the British Library in London. “Jessica has the singular ability to engage anyone she meets,” said Mr. Atkinson, who was born in Rochford, England, raised in Melbourne, Australia, and is now living in Singapore. He currently works as a senior ship broker…

Back to Where They Started

Sydney Spector, an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Hawaii, and Brock Glover, a Defense Department contractor, began dating a month after meeting through mutual friends in July 2013 in Honolulu. At the time, Mr. Glover, 33, who served 10 years as an active duty officer in the Army, was stationed at Schofield Barracks,…

When Plans Are Meant to be Changed

Long before she agreed to meet Tyler Bosmeny, Sophie Turnbull, who was finishing up a master’s degree at Harvard, had bought a plane ticket to return to her native Australia. “I was having dinner one night with a friend and his fiancée, talking about the pitfalls of dating,” said Ms. Turnbull, 32. “Suddenly, out of…

You, Me and 53 Dogs

Liz Raines was three years into her first on-camera job as a political reporter at KTVA, the CBS affiliate in Anchorage, when a chance to cover the Iditarod, the nearly 1,000-mile dog sled race, landed in her lap in March 2018. Winning the coveted assignment was “a shocker,” she said. “I never got to do…

Finding Hope and Their Own Magical Moments

By the time the singer and songwriter Alexi Paraschos married Chelsea Holmes in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square on July 26, he was feeling pretty good about the odds of avoiding the wedding-in-a-pandemic blues. Credit belongs to a musical project he assigned himself weeks before the couple decided to make good on a marriage certificate due to…

Spicy Sign of Love and Family History

Karolle Malalatiana Rabarison and David James Rose were married Aug. 16 in the hemlock grove at Woodend Nature Sanctuary in Chevy Chase, Md. Rabbi Hannah Spiro officiated before immediate family including Mr. Rose’s grandparents who live nearby, and a close friend. Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the sex therapist, who is a close friend of the groom’s…