Sean Vanaman was living in San Francisco and planning a work trip to New York when he decided to change his location on Tinder with the hope that he’d have a great date on the other coast. “I was very distinctly not looking for my life partner,” he said. “I had this very romantic idea:…
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…
Shortly before Ann Klein left her home in Oakland, Calif., to meet Krist Roginski for a first date at an Italian restaurant in Menlo Park, Calif., she began considering her mode of transportation. “I decided to drive, mostly because I was wearing a dress,” said Ms. Klein, 56, the chief product officer at Tact.ai, a…
Vermont has always been a significant, go-to getaway for Lucia D’Agostino Foulkes and Nicholas Spencer Dorf, particularly a tiny stone chapel in the woods at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vt. On Aug. 1 they were married outside the chapel, where Mr. Dorf had also proposed in February 2019 while they were snowshoeing through…
Isaac Webb could not have imagined, back in high school in Maine, that his desire to avoid physics and calculus would eventually lead him to a career, love and marriage. But, it could be argued, that is exactly how it happened. Mr. Webb still wanted to be attractive to competitive colleges, so after reading Dostoevsky’s…
A year ago, a wedding for fewer than 300 seemed impossible to Shravani Durbhakula. “When you’re an Indian person, you don’t get to have an intimate wedding,” she said. Because, she said, tradition often dictates a multiday celebration with extended family, “it just doesn’t happen.” Yet in a pandemic, sometimes it has to. Dr. Durbhakula,…
The Rev. Roxanne Birchfield, 36, a minister of the Evangelical Church Alliance and the founder and owner of Married By Rev. Roxy, an officiating and premarital counseling service in Brooklyn, has become a high-profile officiant, performing ceremonies on hit reality shows like Netflix’s “Love Is Blind,” VH1’s “Love & Hip Hop” and “Married at First…
Almost nothing about Kayla Picciuto and Andrew Elia’s relationship has been traditional or expected. The two spent more time casually peering at each other at a local coffee shop than they did actually dating, and they started an event entertainment business, Party Proper Productions, together at the same time they became girlfriend and boyfriend. Then…
Julie Sanchez, a business operations consultant in Orcutt, Calf., recently celebrated her 15th wedding anniversary — a milestone that she wasn’t sure she would hit, given the recent strain politics has brought to her marriage. “There’s a giant elephant and a giant donkey, and they’re both in the living room,” was how Ms. Sanchez, 59,…
Nekpen Osuan doesn’t waste time mobilizing when she finds a cause that moves her. She is a founder and chief executive of WomenWerk, a nonprofit organization that helps empower women of color, as well as an active volunteer for organizations including SEO Scholars, an education enrichment and mentoring program. But when it comes to romance…