Brian Noviski, Paul Harris

Brian Neil Noviski and Paul Elliott Harris are to be married Feb. 16 at Alo, a restaurant in Toronto. Sandra L. Ruch, a registered officiant with the province of Ontario, is to officiate. Mr. Noviski (left), 48, is the head of global architecture and design for Restaurant Brands International, which owns multiple fast-food brands in…

Elle O’Sullivan, Peter Bradt

Ellen Clare O’Sullivan and Peter Ryan Bradt were married Feb. 15 at the Bel Air Bay Club, an events space in Los Angeles. Katherine Hudson, a Universal Life minister and a maternal aunt of the groom, officiated, with Catherine Frugé Starghill, a maternal aunt of the bride, taking part. Ms. O’Sullivan, 36, who goes by…

Jacqueline Penn, Alexander Deutsch

Dr. Jacqueline Hannah Penn and Alexander Jared Deutsch are to be married Feb. 16 at the Rainbow Room in New York. Rabbi Maurice Salth is to officiate. Dr. Penn, 32, is a child and adolescent psychiatry chief fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. She graduated summa cum laude from George Washington University, and…

Adrienne McGill, Brian Adams

Adrienne Melissa McGill and Brian Justin Adams were married Feb. 15 at Los Poblanos Historic Inn and Organic Farm in Albuquerque. William Lang, the former chief judge of New Mexico’s Second Judicial District Court in Albuquerque, officiated. Mrs. Adams, 35, works in Seattle as the director of strategic accounts for SeaSpine, a company based in…

Unmarried, Happily Ever After

Despite the increasing number of dating apps, matchmakers, and love advice designed to facilitate romantic connections, many women are opting out of relationships. Instead of moping over singledom or aggressively trying to find partners with arbitrary deadlines in mind, they are declaring to be happily unmarried and proudly find solace in living solo. Danielle Clare,…

An Unexpected Path Leads to a Fresh Start

At 6:30 a.m. on Jan. 31, Hailey Moore and Dr. Kristopher Hansen stood in the dark at the Mesa Arch trailhead inside Canyonlands National Park near Moab, Utah. The half-mile to the arch was snow-covered and wound past prickly bushes, boulders, frozen puddles, cactuses and dead-but-still-standing trees. Ms. Moore, 40, and Dr. Hansen, 38, were…

The Wedding That Wasn’t Sad

Our wedding was about to begin. I wore an ivory embroidered Tadashi Shoji gown and clutched a bouquet of coral ranunculus and periwinkle thistle. My throat was tight, my cheeks were flushed, and my scarlet lipstick was probably fading, but I didn’t care. I was ready to marry David Sanchez. David’s father saw me. “Kim!…

Katie Maurer, Daniel Okin

Dr. Alexandria Katherine Maurer and Dr. Daniel Andrew Okin were married Feb. 8 at the Dane Estate, an events space in Chestnut Hill, Mass. Stephen D. Okin, the groom’s brother who received a one-day marriage designation from the state of Massachusetts, officiated. Dr. Maurer, 30, who is known as Katie, is a fellow in medical…

Lauren Escobar, Alex Slater

Lauren Michelle Escobar and Alex Woo Slater were married Feb. 8 at Darlington House, an events space in San Diego. The Rev. Mark R. Earl, an American Catholic priest, performed the ceremony. Dr. Slater, 30, is a clinical pharmacist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, specializing in infusion therapies. She graduated from Northeastern University,…