Born without the hand that traditionally wears a wedding ring, Sara Hughes never dreamed of a diamond. Where would she ...
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There are also photos and stories from real women and the dresses they chose.“Baby Boomer and Gen X women just ...
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Are you and your partner from different countries, yet fluent in each other’s native tongue (or at least able to ...
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Ms. Wonderlin, who had been offering dating courses since fall 2021 but began catering specifically to texting issues starting in ...
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The demand can be high, according to Sonal J. Shah, a New York wedding planner who has overseen nearly 2,000 ...
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Theresa Fernand works with tarot cards, charms and crystals, or what she calls “tools for intuitive information, confirmation and extra ...
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Keep in mind that timing is of the essence when altering an R.S.V.P. “Most catering companies want a final guest ...
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Like so many couples before them, Constance Kelly Daniels and Emir Muhovic met at a bar. But they had taken ...
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After his first date with Shawn Patrick Lamb in January 2019, Jarrold Jenn-yu Wong began to cry. “It was first ...
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When Kyle Dixon Moore met Courtney Midge Seamon the week before Thanksgiving seven years ago, he knew he had to ...
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After matching on several dating sites in 2017, Joseph Michael Flaum was becoming increasingly interested in Allison Dana Port. She ...
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“Everyone’s ways of coping are different,” said Litsa Williams, 42, a social worker and a founder of What’s Your Grief, ...
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In July 2013, Emily Erin Todebush wrote Garrett Odhiambo Arwa an email pretending they knew each other.“I said, ‘Hey, you ...
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For Cherie Rochelle King and Ilka Tiedemann, it proved true that the third time’s a charm. First, they saw each ...
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Though Ms. Love was ready to leave the modeling industry then, it took her another three years to do so, ...
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Still, the two spent the next summer together and continued to casually date. They broke up when she left for ...
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Weddings may be a once-in-a-lifetime occasion for most people, but that doesn’t mean their wedding attire has to be stored ...
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“If the couple already has problems, you’ll see the nastiest things,” she said, “I’m like, oh my god, this is ...
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There was nothing traditional about my grandparents, other than, perhaps, my grandmother’s rabid interest in my love life.“I just want ...
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The love story of Mina Shankar and Dr. Aditya Radhakrishnan shares a theme with many others of late: he got ...
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In amusement park parlance, Leah Koch’s world had become a merry-go-round of disappointing dates when she met Matthew Blumhardt in ...
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Sarah Elizabeth Weiner was working as a law clerk when she matched with David Samuel Schulman, who was in business ...
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Before the end of 2017, she had relocated. Three days after her arrival, Ms. Flores was spending New Year’s Eve ...
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Warren Braxton Luckett was working as a wholesale wine distributor when he first encountered Karinn Andrea Chavarria in April 2016, ...
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But after their first date, they “talked on the phone every single night, with few exceptions,” Mr. Woods said. “We ...
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“I was making the biggest mistake if I didn’t try now,” he recalled thinking.Weeks later, when Dr. Yee took a ...
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Their wedding, first planned for New Year’s Day 2022, was postponed because of the Omicron variant. They were married April ...
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He then left his apartment in Park Slope, Brooklyn, to stay with Ms. Walsh in Harrisburg, Pa., where she was ...
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While Andrew D’Alton Eversden was studying abroad at the American University of Rome in the fall of 2017, one of ...
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After what seemed like light years, Stephen Daniel Sullivan grabbed Alexandra Lauran Ullman Wagner’s hand in March 2018 under the ...
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Emily Miller always wanted her wedding to have a storybook element. For her, that did not mean a ride in ...
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When Marissa Branch was 6, she made her first trip to Walt Disney World with her parents and grandparents. It ...
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Despite being raised on different continents and residing in different countries, Andrea Mendoza and Victor Aguilera were not deterred from ...
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To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.In May 2020, ...
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Soon after a meal of meatballs, bread, tortellini and Caesar salad, the guests at the wedding of Andrew and Danya ...
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On Saturday March 12, Bria Pugh found herself wide-awake at 4 a.m. She isn’t an early-riser, nor did she have ...
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When Janelle Ashley Clark accompanied her friend Tiara Lewis to a 2007 service at the Resurrection Deliverance Church International in ...
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On their first date at a San Francisco restaurant in April 2014, enough wine flowed and sparks flew between Elizabeth ...
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Hannah Cha and Anthony Kim Elfering met in quintessential rom-com fashion: They were seated next to one another at a ...
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By the end of their first date at Mother Burger, a restaurant in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, in late June ...
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In the days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Mr. Stambler’s father, Rabbi Levi Stambler of the Synagogue of Kamianske, said he ...
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Elizabeth Arasevi had no intention to follow custom when it came to choosing a wedding dress.“Any bride wants to feel ...
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Mendy DeWitt and Michael Vincent of Fordsville, Ky., were among the couples who shared the stage with Ms. Wigington and ...
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When Jafreen Momtaj Uddin and Shakil Sarfaroz Rabbi matched on Salams, a Muslim dating app, in June 2021, they immediately ...
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In September 2015, Henderson Moore Blumer could sense the panic of fellow art student Suzanne Zoe Joskow.She was in her ...
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In June 2021, Mr. Dansby surprised Ms. Combs with a proposal with help from her former boss at Harvest Hands, ...
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On Jan. 28, 2020, Sharon Deckey Mussalli was scrolling through Instagram when she came upon a black-and-white photo of Shaun ...
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By the time Sneha Medappa Maruvanda met Dr. Mark Ross Edelstein in person, she feared they might not have anything ...
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Rest assured, romantics: All the weddings canceled over the last couple of years have found a happy home, and that ...
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This year, nearly 2.5 million weddings are expected to take place in the United States. That total, which comes from ...
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The photographs of trashed flowers still haunt florists. In 2020, when much of the world went into lockdown because of ...
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Before the Omicron surge caused dozens of people to drop off the wedding guest list of Bryan Terrell Clark and ...
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When Rachel Seals matched with Elliott Averett on Bumble in October 2016, his profile referred to the rugged “Parks and ...
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Stephanie Ann Quintero and Eric Michael Wall did not know each other when they walked out of a Dallas hotel ...
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Erik Braverman and Jonathan Cottrell’s wedding at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, where Mr. Braverman works as a senior vice ...
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Around that time, Mr. Winick had begun to write a blog called “30 Days of Mindfulness.” After drafting entries, he ...
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Frankie Sandmel met Elaina Marshalek in January 2017 while the two were at a retreat for Jewish activists in Berkeley, ...
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“As corny as it sounds, when I was talking to Jason I felt like I had known him my entire ...
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“After that it was just date, date, date, date,” he said.A few weeks later Ms. Stern accompanied him to a ...
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Two weeks after the Scotch party, Mr. Shorter was maneuvering his way onto Ms. Quiles’s calendar. A flirty text dialogue ...
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My focus has been on creating more diversity in our pages and making our section more inclusive, and that was ...
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A small group of friends and family gathered under a yellow canopy by a small pool, but the main audience ...
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Marriage stories from around the world continued to fill the Weddings pages of The New York Times in 2021, proving ...
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“My father always said be true to your own life and your own reality,” Mr. Guthrie said. His reality, and ...
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As the calendar flipped to 2021, Mr. Pinzone became ready to propose, but was nervous about it. He was 40 ...
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From counterfeit dresses to vanishing vendors and stolen gifts, there are many ways unsuspecting couples could fall prey to wedding ...
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I stood at my kitchen counter and eagerly ran my scissors down the packing tape. It was about a year ...
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Constance Ahrons, a prominent psychotherapist and mediator who challenged negative stereotypes about divorce and sought to show couples how they ...
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Zack Lewis and his date, also named Zack, had yet to disclose their surnames when they met at a gay ...
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He went on to share what he knew about me. “Dinushka has been a kind, loving, caring and thoughtful child, ...
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It didn’t take long for Melissa Shields to envision a future with Holly Lorka after they met in July 2019 ...
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Angela Schiller and Robert Swift Jr. first noticed each other in August 2015 at a Black Faculty and Staff Caucus ...
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David Raleigh had been having trouble hailing cabs when he shoved Rick Bahl into the back of one at the ...
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Dr. Sarah Santucci and Kevin Zhang have always shared a love of plants.The pair met when Dr. Santucci stopped by ...
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LONDON — Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who is fighting extradition to the United States on espionage charges, has been ...
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When Andrew Katz decided to accept a job in Washington in the summer of 2015, Marysa Greenawalt, his girlfriend of ...
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Audrey Han and Dong Frank Han met in the summer of 2012 when they sat next to each other at ...
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Malala Yousafzai, who at 17 became the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was married in England on Tuesday, more than ...
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“I was very attracted to her,” he said, and vice versa. That weekend, he invited her to a friend’s barbecue ...
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On their first date, at a New York restaurant in late February 2020, Jessica Rosenblum told Steve Young that he ...
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Josh Rosenthal is an owner of the Grand Bevy Corporation, a mixology and creative beverage company in Los Angeles that ...
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On their first date in October 2014, Randy James told Ashley Finigan he loved her. Twice.“Usually, I would have bolted,” ...
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When Anna Johnson and Trivante Bloodman first met at Mississippi State in January 2013, he seemed eager to strike up ...
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When Nicole Pellegrino was married on Sept. 4, she wore an opal ring that belonged to her mother, Diane Pellegrino, ...
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If Gabi Conti learned anything from the exercise in extreme dating she undertook as a writer for Cosmopolitan magazine in ...
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Gillian Stoss first spotted Zach Lent 16 years ago at a basketball championship. The team from her elementary school, St ...
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When a mutual friend sent a picture of Danielle Dorsi to Najee Fortè, it left Mr. Fortè speechless.“She was drop-dead ...
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Brian Ellner was appraising the cheese spread at a party in Bellport, N.Y., in April 2018, when Jarrett Olivo walked ...
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“Men love shortcuts, they like noninvasive, minimal downtime devices that they don’t consider cosmetic but more like upkeep,” said Dr ...
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Drs. Kate Carlisle Stoeckle and Jeffrey Russell Arace broke the rules when they first met.Their meeting took place in 2013 ...
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Eva Maria Theresa Janerus, recently divorced, sought the help of a matchmaker in June 2019 to prepare her for the ...
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Indiana Touchette has inspired many songs for indie country singer Alexandra Kay. Her music has paid homage to their relationship, ...
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Lauren Sabbath wasn’t sure how much of her past she should divulge on her first date with David Clayton Jr., ...
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Raisa Marie Lopez-Rhoden and Ndubuisi Ugoeze Richard Okereke met at a Halloween party in 2008, when she was dressed as ...
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Many brides are choosing to style their own hair these days, whether to avoid the fuss of sitting through hair ...
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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Under the watch of a ceremonial honor guard, the bride walked slowly down the aisle as ...
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A year into his relationship with Abigail Pesta, Joel Oestreich, a political science professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia, moved ...
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Elizabeth Catherine Wessel is definitely a love-me-love-my-dog person. So she couldn’t be happier when Trooper upstaged her in February 2017 ...
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Cortney Norris and Thomas Lowery weren’t supposed to go on a date.Ms. Norris, 38, a Latin teacher at the Dalton ...
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Cary Gitter texted his friend Sylvia Khoury out of the blue in September 2017 to ask about her friend Meghan ...
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