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…
In early March, Liana Elizabeth Cramer and Samuel Leonard Aronson traveled to a remote lodge in South Africa. Shortly after their arrival, they met two guides dressed in green shirts, khakis and thick boots. Mr. Aronson explained to Ms. Cramer that the guides, who drove a modified Toyota Land Cruiser with rugged tires and no…
Words we never get tired of hearing at weddings are often open bar and buffet. But thanks to the coronavirus the open part is temporarily closed, and the buffet has gone solo. “Social distancing and safety guidelines have made everyone rethink the way we curate what guests consume,” said Amy Shey Jacobs, the owner of…
With weddings this year being delayed, downsized or split into two — video ceremony now, party next year — many guests have some only-in-2020 etiquette questions. Should you dress up? Send a present — or two? Read on for answers to all your pandemic wedding quandaries. Zoom to the chapel. Laura Held, founder of Ida…
Grouse Creek, Utah, is about as off the beaten path as a town can be. To access this sleepy community, you have to cross miles of dirt and gravel roads over hilly terrain. A tiny two-pump gas station is the town’s only commercial building, along with a Bureau of Land Management bunkhouse, a shed-like post…
More than three years after they met, Sean Christian Casey finally asked Elaine Gabrielle Joseph on a first date. The pair had been friends since they met during a Cotton Bowl watch party featuring Texas A&M and the University of Oklahoma in 2013. It was Ms. Joseph’s first night in town after moving to Washington.…
Sarah Beverly Koatz and Stuart Hopkins Winchester had no idea where their relationship was going in March 2013, but the “Cupid Cabbie” did. By the end of their yellow taxi ride one evening from Union Square to the Upper East Side in New York, he told them they would get married someday. “I was so…
As rain pelted the London streets, Stephanie Hains and Christian Nilsson were scaling an iron gate at 2 a.m. The two, who met on Tinder and were enjoying a first date, had found themselves locked into Hyde Park. The couple had connected on the app in 2014 when they had both been in Prague on…
In early October, Priscilla Maria Page and Glenn Steven Siegel watched the jazz saxophonist Charlie Kohlhase lead a band outdoors, where the musicians’ notes cut through fall air. The location of the concert, by a creek outside the Institute for the Musical Arts in Goshen, Mass., was one that Ms. Page and Mr. Siegel had…
Shampa Panda and Christopher Bryant both were law clerks in the federal courthouse in Charleston, S.C., when they first met, in 2016, and her frequent visits to his office did not go unnoticed by their co-workers. “I think Shampa’s a little sweet on you,” Mr. Bryant’s boss told him. But Mr. Bryant, 35, who both…