By Brianna Holt In recent months, people all over the world have taken to social media and to the streets to reject police brutality and injustice toward Black people. Protests have erupted in the United States, driven by recent deaths of Black people, including the death of George Floyd, the murder of Ahmaud Arbery and…
NEW DELHI — The groom felt ill at the wedding. Days later, he was dead, and soon more than 100 guests had tested positive for the coronavirus. Now, Indian officials have opened an investigation into the wedding gathering, which some experts are calling a superspreader event. The event was in mid-June, and was attended by…
The college sweethearts turned YouTube stars Khadeen and Devale Ellis are pros at pivoting. The married couple, both 36, began dating while they were students at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. After graduation, Mr. Ellis joined the Detroit Lions as a wide receiver and later played for the Cleveland Browns. He later left the N.F.L.…
A few days before they were supposed to have their first date, in February 2018, a sharp-eyed friend of Andrea Raines’s saw a man walking by the San Francisco bar that the women were waiting to enter. The man looked exactly like the picture Ms. Raines had just shared of her soon-to-be date from his…
As couples move forward with their wedding plans, many bridal boutiques, retailers and designers are creating virtual shopping experiences that allow brides, grooms and their attendants to select and buy wedding attire from the comfort of their homes. Some bridal salons now offer free remote consultations, prepaid shipping labels for trying on and returning gowns…
The words “I love you,” spoken for the first time, are milestones that let you know where a romantic relationship stands. In one memorable “Seinfeld” episode, Jerry asks George if he told his girlfriend he loved her. “Oh, I had no choice,” he replied. “She squeezed it out of me! She’d tell me she loved…
[Sign up here to receive Love Letter, a weekly newsletter about relationship highs, lows and woes, in your inbox every Friday.] So often, a trip to the hair salon or barbershop is as much about the social experience as it is about the actual cut or style. The beauty of those visits is found in…
Evelyn Rodriguez and Feliberto Gonzalo, both 27, were high school sweethearts who started dating their senior year at Union City High School in New Jersey, and in 2010 went to their prom together. Mr. Gonzalo, who wore a tuxedo to the prom, gave her a wrist corsage spray painted with gold glitter to match her…
Katie Adams and Emily Fletcher, both neuroscience majors at Dartmouth College, were in the last term of their final year, in 2013, before they met. Ms. Adams noticed Ms. Fletcher (left), both now 29, because the latter was perpetually late to a class they had together, and so had to sit in the back with…
It took two first dates for Nuala O’Connor and Peter Bass to fall in love. In 2013, Peter Bass, 56, was chatting with a college friend from Princeton at an event in Washington. “I was newly divorced and I had been doing the whole online thing and was finding it a little tiresome and challenging,”…