One month before their July 2023 wedding, Shrestha Maharaj, 28, an analytics and insights manager based in South Africa, and Sumeeth Suthurgam, 31, a senior digital design lead, took an earlymoon. The couple spent a long weekend in Umdloti, a small resort village along the northern coast of Kwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa, just a…
Magic was in the air the first time Michelle Navarro and Christopher Zegunis met. It was 10 a.m. on a Saturday in November 2016, and the two were the first arrivals for a class at the Magic Castle, a private club for magicians in Los Angeles. “We started talking and I thought, he’s a cute…
Raj Thakker first met Trisha Vijay on the Bollywood dance team at the University of California, Berkeley in September 2014. His first impression was that she wasn’t the type of person he’d normally befriend. “I was always more on the quiet and reserved side,” Mr. Thakker said, “whereas she was more of the pretty, outgoing…
Jamauri Amir Bogan got Kaylah Kasmir Howard’s attention the only way he knew how in fifth grade. “I teased her,” said Mr. Bogan, who had a crush on Ms. Howard in 2008 at Central Five Jefferson in Union, N.J., and tried to stay cool in front of his friends when he saw her at lunch…
Madison La’akea Te-Lan Hall Chock and Evan Christian Bates have had a long, intense journey together as skating partners for the last 13 years. They have competed in more than 100 competitions globally and won five U.S. national champion titles, two world champion titles and one Olympic gold medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics in…
When Alexandra Weinstein received the photos from her wedding in Anguilla in November 2023, she loved them all. At first. A few weeks later, after she had gone through all the photos and reflected further, she felt that something was off about the editing style, and she wasn’t happy. She felt it made her makeup…
Stephanie Alise Fleischman knew “it was pretty out of the norm” when Zachary David Kuperman planned their trip to Italy in 2023. “He barely makes a dinner reservation,” Ms. Fleischman, 37, said with a laugh. So in her mind, since he is a spontaneous sort of guy, it could only mean one thing: A proposal…
Lucie Lott said knew she would marry Eladio Fabregas even before the two had spoken. Their paths first crossed in September 2021 outside the cafeteria at Samford University in Homewood, Ala. Ms. Lott, now 22, was starting as a freshman, and Mr. Fabregas, 25, who goes by Lalo, was a junior. “We did a triple…
Jacob Samuel Mills Riglin had been waiting to ask Agnieszka Ewa Lal on a date for more than two years when, in January 2020, the moment finally arrived. Ms. Lal, who had jolted him with a sense of instant attraction when they first met, was, at long last, single. He had found out about her…
When Eric Tyler Rothman threw a tennis ball at Courtney Arielle DiGia’s head with the word “prom?” on it at Timber Lake Camp in Shandaken, N.Y., during the summer of 2012, neither of them expected that 12 years later, they would marry. It seemed especially unlikely because after taking a single photo together at the…