With Thanksgiving marking the unofficial start of engagement season — late November through Valentine’s Day is when marriage proposals are ...

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That summer each got to know the other’s family. Ms. Rosensweig’s parents, Linda and Daniel Rosensweig, live in Manhattan and ...

Austin J Mills said he remembered Taylor Beverly Mills, then Taylor Dordick, as “the popular older girl with the quarterback ...

[Click here to binge read this week’s featured couples.]Mr. Scarvelis, who graduated from U.C.L.A. with a bachelor’s degree in English, ...

Sarah Casey Botwinick and Jason Gabriel Pollack were undergraduates at Lehigh University at the same time, though they didn’t meet ...

In 2014, Naina Rishiraj’s uncle died from a heart attack at 60. He had been working his entire life with ...

In November 2020, Andrew Quintero rented Blu Mar, a seafood restaurant in the Hamptons, to host a large dinner party ...

Kimberly Lauren Stokes and Dexter Clay Mason did not meet until adulthood, but their paths could have crossed much earlier ...

During the 2018 production of “Ragtime” for the AfterWork Theater in Manhattan, Molly Antoinette Shoemaker and Cody James Wymore were ...

Giving gifts to wedding guests is still a common tradition. A 2023 study by the Knot showed that 52 percent ...

Ms. Zappone says she has observed a shift toward shorter guest lists since the start of the pandemic. “I always ...

The objective of alumni weekend for Camp Ramah in the Berkshires, based in Wingdale, N.Y., is “to create Jewish marriages ...

While scrolling on the dating app Hinge, a college friend of Alexis Lane Brugger’s came across Timothy Wang’s profile and ...

When Cody Bennett Austrie began his freshman year of high school in 2007, an older classmate caught his eye. Stephanie ...

Malika Rose Andrews has established herself as a well-known presence in broadcast sports journalism, so it may be hard to ...

Selena Evelyn Coppock has been reading The New York Times Weddings section since she was about 12. “It all seemed ...

In June, The New York Times published a list of hot spots in New York to meet people. Many people ...

“There is NO obligation to come if you can’t!” part of the message read.Shared with a group of friends, the ...

Aspen Matis said she was turned off by Daniel Jordan Weingart after he stayed with her for a week in ...

After connecting with Kathryn Elizabeth Mullen on the Hinge dating app in April 2020, Weston Hjalmar Skillicorn suggested meeting at ...

With Election Day less than three months away, political discourse is often inescapable. But the months leading up to it ...

Nicole Crowder and Mike Ballengee immediately connected over “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” and consider themselves opposites who would ...

The celebrations hosted by the Ambani family have thrusts the trend into the spotlight. Wedding professionals say couples are spending ...

Nicholas McClure and Jinie Kwak were both in a state of transition when they matched on a dating app almost ...

Julia Liverton and Marco Santarlasci instantly clicked after meeting two years ago, and each knew after just a few months ...

Safi Rauf, a Muslim humanitarian, was held captive by the Taliban for 105 days. Secret calls on a smuggled phone ...

Paulina Krzysztoszek and Cory Bolotsky, who met in Mexico and continue to live a nomadic lifestyle, have grown their relationship ...

Kelly Alise Lyles sipped Champagne while chatting with Ronald Bernardus Cornelis Franciscus Verstappen on the phone for the first time ...

Gillian Tett was “resolutely single” until she met Henrik Jones three years ago. While on an introductory walk, she “realized ...

Kevin Rivera and Selina Schultz knew each other growing up in Brooklyn. But he wasn’t quite on her radar until ...

Fashion experts cite the influence of the British royals, along with high-profile events like the Kentucky Derby for the resurgence ...

In the summer of 2023, Christopher William Sater and Traci Ryan Green hosted a combined engagement party and baby shower ...

It began with an Instagram comment.In the summer of 2016, Lauren Cassandra Garroni created an Instagram account with her friend ...

It’s second nature for Kara Ann Loewentheil to get her feelings out in the open and deal with them. Matthew ...

On Friday afternoon, Sneh Zala, 24, waited for celebrities to arrive on the red carpet for the wedding ceremony of ...

When Radhika Merchant married Anant Ambani, the youngest son of one of the world’s richest men, Mukesh Ambani, over the ...

Joseph Abraham Gorman and Matthew Joseph Capbarat’s first meeting wasn’t a blind date by design. But it ended up feeling ...

Ona Ferens and Samuel Haselden may have unknowingly crossed paths at the same gym before ever meeting each other ...

During Karli Nicolle Gray and Elizabeth Catherine Smith’s first dance at their wedding, the two kept whispering to each other, ...

One month before their July 2023 wedding, Shrestha Maharaj, 28, an analytics and insights manager based in South Africa, and ...

Magic was in the air the first time Michelle Navarro and Christopher Zegunis met. It was 10 a.m. on a ...

Raj Thakker first met Trisha Vijay on the Bollywood dance team at the University of California, Berkeley in September 2014 ...

Jamauri Amir Bogan got Kaylah Kasmir Howard’s attention the only way he knew how in fifth grade.“I teased her,” said ...

Madison La’akea Te-Lan Hall Chock and Evan Christian Bates have had a long, intense journey together as skating partners for ...

When Alexandra Weinstein received the photos from her wedding in Anguilla in November 2023, she loved them all. At first.A ...

Stephanie Alise Fleischman knew “it was pretty out of the norm” when Zachary David Kuperman planned their trip to Italy ...

Lucie Lott said knew she would marry Eladio Fabregas even before the two had spoken.Their paths first crossed in September ...

Jacob Samuel Mills Riglin had been waiting to ask Agnieszka Ewa Lal on a date for more than two years ...

When Eric Tyler Rothman threw a tennis ball at Courtney Arielle DiGia’s head with the word “prom?” on it at ...

The internet celebrities Kouvr Annon and Alex Warren married over the weekend on a bright, sunny day in California. Their ...

As Alexis Major walked down the aisle to a violinist’s rendition of John Legend’s “All of Me,” she could see ...

To James Arthur Dolce, the possibility of crossing paths with Ashley Lee Tyrner was, as he put it, a “one ...

As someone who worked in public relations, Elise Audie Nikolaisen was amazed by Bailey Wright Carlin’s “ability to make things ...

Jonathan Randall Kay, a foodie with a sweet tooth, could not resist. As soon as Marc Elliot Rofsky mentioned during ...

In 2012, Tinder introduced its swipe feature. Other apps followed suit, making the feature ubiquitous, and matchmaking was never the ...

Kanako Abe noticed a cute guy with “mysterious, deep-set eyes” on an Amtrak train headed from New York City to ...

On a July morning in 2022, Shira Avia Zilberstein had a bone scan, a routine test when dealing with Crohn’s ...

Edgar Giovanny Angel and Dianna Guadalupe Mateos can’t quite remember if they danced to a merengue or a cumbia song ...

Tyler Charles Eyre believes he never would have met Yasmin Khorram, whom he considers his soul mate, had her family ...

When Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India abruptly changed her country’s constitution in 1971 and abolished the Privy Purse, a ...

When Lauren and Jackson England tied the knot with a safari wedding in Ranthambore, India, in January, they wanted the ...

Juliet has been to many weddings, and she’s a pro. While the happy couple are exchanging vows, she comes out ...

Rupert Murdoch, who retired from the boards of Fox and News Corporation last year, walked down an outdoor aisle under ...

Wendy Mazur said her “jaw hit the floor” when she saw her favorite pop singer, Goldford, walk out with his ...

On a weekend evening in April 2016, Jonathan Runge Stewart came home to his apartment in Manhattan’s West Village from ...

When Betsy and Gabriel Martinez planned their wedding for April 23, 2023, at the Cordelle, an event space in Nashville, ...

Even in a country known for grandiose weddings, Anant Ambani, the son of India’s richest man, and Radhika Merchant’s three-day ...

Jorge Ruivinho saw Sabrina Elisa Marzaro’s picture on the dating app Hinge in January 2022 and had to know more ...

The twangy guitar picking begins and the crowd cheers. It’s time for “Love Story,” the ninth song on Taylor Swift’s ...

Weddings have a way of bringing pre-existing issues with friends or family members to the surface. Take a peek in ...

Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist were the first couple to meet and marry on “The Golden Bachelor,” ABC’s spinoff of ...

Elena Isabel Bauer and Joshua Daniel Fagel’s relationship started as what they both refer to as a “D.F.M.O.,” or a ...

In August 2018, Svetlana Dotsenko and Fabián Alejandro Poliak were visiting the Peterhof palace complex in St. Petersburg, Russia, when ...

Roland John Passaro looks back at his time growing up in the 1950s with a sort of wistful tenderness, especially ...

Wedding accessories are often the unsung accents that play a pivotal role in enhancing a look. Cynthia Smith, a wedding ...

When Zach Horrall, a social media specialist at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and Corlan McCollum, a children’s librarian, got engaged ...

Like many single people attending friends’ weddings, Alexandra Telford Dale and Patrick John Kohout were each given a rundown of ...

Though Tanya Tanwar Sareen’s brother died in 2015, she feels he had a hand in introducing her to her future ...

In February 2020, when Krystle-Jayne Mei-Ying Ng first saw the dating app profile of Hanna Sophia Rinderknecht-Mahaffy, one crucial detail ...

In October 2022, Dr. Olivia Arden Sacks’s professional life as a surgical resident was consumed by long hours, an academic ...

When Zach Horrall, a social media specialist at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and Corlan McCollum, a children’s librarian, got engaged ...

Amy Shack Egan describes herself as an “anti-wedding” event planner. The company she founded in 2015, Modern Rebel, creates what ...

Weddings are steeped in tradition, but where did those traditions come from? And how do those customs differ in other ...

Last fall, Emmali Osterhoudt was at a Goodwill store in Birmingham, Ala., when she stumbled upon a Galia Lahav wedding ...

In January, Tessa Tookes tried on her dream wedding dress at a bridal boutique in Ontario. When the store employees ...

About two weeks ago, a woman who goes by the name Reesa Teesa created a 50-part series on TikTok to ...

When a member of one of India’s wealthiest families gets married, big-name guests and showstopping pomp and circumstance are nothing ...

In October 2020, Melissa Cuc was visiting friends in South Florida. They were excited about attending a party that weekend ...

Graduating from medical school takes a lot of hard work. Falling in love while you’re doing it takes a whole ...

When Zachary Ian Miller first met Jill Diane Rafson, he faced a tough question as a football fan: playoff game ...

Loyal readers of the author Kristen Nicole Arnett may not be surprised to learn that the night she met Kayla ...

In weddings, as in football, the will to win may be nothing without the will to prepare. That’s why Laura ...

The soccer World Cup final in December 2022 ended with a nail-biting win for Argentina. For Yuna Yang and Christopher ...

Katherine Ward Tsyrlin was friends with one of Alan Gerard Harbron’s roommates, and when she heard stories about him and ...

Getting sick is not usually something for which people are grateful. But Victoria Virginia Voos and Corey Alexander Buresch certainly ...

Carissa Anne Bauman had no idea who Dylan Taylor Jakobsen was when he handed her a flier on Dec. 26, ...

While searching on TikTok for ideas for her April 22, 2023 wedding, Mila Tweel came across several videos of former ...

In June 2021, Shoshana Beth Heerter was swiping so perfunctorily on Tinder that she inadvertently swiped left on Rahul Kishore ...

A ‘Flawless’ Proposal That Took a Few Tries — and the Fire DepartmentIn 2021, during the holidays, Michael Greene bought ...