After spending the last several months canceling, downsizing and postponing weddings, event planners remain cautiously optimistic about forging ahead now that some event restrictions are being lifted. While many couples have resorted to virtual wedding celebrations on Zoom, recently engaged couples who are planning their weddings for next year are hoping to celebrate with friends…
In recent months, systemic racism, police brutality and discrimination against Black people in America have been catalysts for tough conversations, including between Black and white interracial couples. The tragic deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and countless others has led many interracial couples to prioritize open and honest conversations about how society treats…
The symphony of power tools conducted by men in hard hats still echoed in the foothills of the Ramapo Mountains when Carol Ryan first arrived at the brand-new liberal arts college in Mahwah, N.J. Though several classrooms on the leafy campus were still without hinges for windows and doors, Ms. Ryan, a 28-year-old freshman and…
Mallory Traughber had been out planting trees as a volunteer all morning on the day that she and Jessica Matthews were to have their first date, in February 2018. So when she arrived at the ramen shop, she was ready for a beer. Ms. Matthews (right),39, was impressed by her date’s volunteerism, and also by…
When the coronavirus forced Ariella Segal and Eli Shapiro to move their May 24 wedding to July 5, a rehearsal dinner was no longer necessary. But they did need an oil change. The couple, both 29, also switched gears regarding their wedding location, leaving the Marriott Albany in upstate New York in their rearview mirror…
While most couples have a first date, followed at some point by a first kiss, Jess Seok and Gifford Brooks did not. But they didn’t skip the kissing part. Both were analysts for an economics and financial consultancy — she in its San Francisco office and he in Washington — when they met in May…
Paul Ryan Dorsey noticed Ariel Holy Gordon in August 2015 as soon as she walked into the University of Michigan Alumni Club bar in Washington and then they stood next to each other glancing up now and then to watch the first football game of the season. “It was loud, standing room only,” said Ms.…
Lana Price was living in New York in 2015 and losing enthusiasm for dating when it struck her that she and her friends, who also reported lackluster attempts at romance, should try a new approach. “We really talked a lot about how challenging it is to be a single person, and how dating can be…
Every time Sigrid Carrie Gabler sees a full moon it reminds her of her first date with Manly Lin Romero in January 2019 at the Quarter, a restaurant in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. “The moment he saw me he had a big smile,” said Dr. Gabler, 57, who a few weeks earlier had decided to give…
Years ago, when Madigan Beck was just a girl, one of the interns on her family’s community-supported agriculture farm in Osceola, Wis., made a big impression on her. “She was a big sister figure to me,” said Ms. Beck, 28. So, in 2013, when Ms. Beck was an undergraduate at Naropa University in Boulder, Colo.,…