Weddings have a way of bringing pre-existing issues with friends or family members to the surface. Take a peek in any wedding nook of TikTok or Instagram, and you are likely to encounter horror stories of wedding party members experiencing “the maid of honor curse” or watching a friend turn into a “bridezilla” or “groomzilla”…
Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist were the first couple to meet and marry on “The Golden Bachelor,” ABC’s spinoff of “The Bachelor” featuring cast members 60 and older. On Friday, the newlyweds announced that they will also be the spinoff’s first couple to divorce. They made the announcement in a joint appearance on ABC’s “Good…
Elena Isabel Bauer and Joshua Daniel Fagel’s relationship started as what they both refer to as a “D.F.M.O.,” or a “dance floor make out.” They met April 15, 2016, on the “gross, grimy dance floor” at Mr. Fagel’s fraternity house, Sigma Nu, on Stanford’s campus. “Our feet were sticking to the floor,” Mr. Fagel said.…
In August 2018, Svetlana Dotsenko and Fabián Alejandro Poliak were visiting the Peterhof palace complex in St. Petersburg, Russia, when Mr. Poliak decided to make a move. “I’m not leaving these grounds without trying for a kiss,” Mr. Poliak recalled thinking to himself. A short while later, they were running through the palace gardens in…
Roland John Passaro looks back at his time growing up in the 1950s with a sort of wistful tenderness, especially when it comes to the time he spent with his first crush, Elaine Hall. The two met in the ninth grade in 1950 at what was then called Harrison-Morton Junior High School in Allentown, Pa.…
Wedding accessories are often the unsung accents that play a pivotal role in enhancing a look. Cynthia Smith, a wedding stylist and owner of Cynthia Cook Brides in San Francisco Bay, believes that “accessories provide an opportunity for today’s bride to break the typically traditional mold by adding personality, sentimentality or a risqué quality all…
When Zach Horrall, a social media specialist at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and Corlan McCollum, a children’s librarian, got engaged two years ago, they wanted to connect their wedding to a larger event. At first, they considered Halloween, but when they realized Indianapolis was in the path of totality for the April 8, 2024, solar…
Like many single people attending friends’ weddings, Alexandra Telford Dale and Patrick John Kohout were each given a rundown of eligible guests attending the June 4, 2022, nuptials of John O’Malley and Samantha Pelcher in Manchester, Vt. For whatever reason, though, “They left us off each other’s lists,” said Mr. Kohout, an account executive at…
Though Tanya Tanwar Sareen’s brother died in 2015, she feels he had a hand in introducing her to her future husband. “Taj helped put us in each other’s path,” she said. “He probably got tired of my making bad decisions,” she added with a laugh. Maj. Taj Sareen, a jet pilot in the Marine Corps,…
In February 2020, when Krystle-Jayne Mei-Ying Ng first saw the dating app profile of Hanna Sophia Rinderknecht-Mahaffy, one crucial detail struck her: her listed height. Ms. Rinderknecht-Mahaffy’s profile on Her, a dating app for L.G.B.T.Q. women and nonbinary people, said that she was 6-foot-6. For Ms. Ng, who is 5-foot-2, the height difference was a…