Two weeks before Melissa Leigh Hochman of Brooklyn met Dr. Alexander William Peters of Manhattan in January 2017, their train ...
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Chris Wiggins moved to Manhattan with two friends in 2013 after they graduated from the University of Central Florida in ...
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Mr. Pasqualone agreed. “The biggest thing that has brought us together has been the concept of family,” he said, choking ...
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“We talked about investing in youth, the Jesuit tradition of giving back, and the loss of his older sister,” a ...
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On a summer evening in a previous century, Garrett Foster, then 27, summoned up his courage and entered a gay ...
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Date No. 2 took a while. But at the bar at the Baccarat Hotel in late April, Ms. Katz decided ...
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In 2014, Derek Owens and Chelsea Segal randomly sat next to each other at the orientation session for their two-year ...
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Mosheh David Oinounou and Alexandra Lauren Sall were shushed a few times as they whispered nonstop during a hefty lineup ...
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A little shark-bait subterfuge was necessary, Chris James judged, to get Anthony Gavranic into exactly the right spot for a ...
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The entire world, it seemed, knew that Taylor Hollenkamp had received a marriage proposal.It was written about in The New ...
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It took him nine months. But on a rainy morning in March 2016, in the Rittenhouse neighborhood of Philadelphia, the ...
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Connor May originally planned to propose to Kaitlin Brown, his girlfriend of three years at the time, after they had ...
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In August 2019, Anna Freimuth, the daughter of Matthew Freimuth, was unofficially wed to one of her stuffed animals, a ...
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Mason McDowell went to a Wichita, Kan., job fair in March 2020 expecting his hands to get sweaty and his ...
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Damon Holick could hardly believe it when his mother called in April of 2021 to say she thought she saw ...
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“I think at first we thought it wasn’t going to stick, especially when Trump became president in 2016, and then ...
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Alexis Joondeph-Breidbart let Ryan Linden know before their first date that if he wanted to win her over, he should ...
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In 2011, Eddie Rosenbaum had just returned to his hometown Cleveland from a year in Rio de Janeiro, when he ...
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Six weeks after Dr. Lauren Grossman and Glenn Kramon were introduced by mutual friends via email in November 2015, they ...
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Emily Bick was in New York, visiting her parents over the winter holidays in 2014, when the online dating service ...
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Matthew Hayes was immediately attracted to Anne Muscarella when they first matched on the dating app Bumble in February 2018 ...
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Having a long, dark, Burt Reynolds-style mustache can be a blessing or a curse, depending on the circumstances. For Sean ...
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Just as was likely true of the diplomatic event at which Hillary Liepa and Dwight Lin met, in November 2013 ...
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Stephen Klein recalled answering his phone on May 27, 2002, and being told that his mother was taken to a ...
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“My next thought was, Oh, this is a date, because we had been flirting,” she said. “He had also paid ...
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Brandon writes: My fiancée, Ashley, is against wedding traditions like the garter toss and particularly the “cake smash,” where bride ...
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Dr. Olivia Janssen was clear that she did not want a public proposal. So when Andrew Perra got down on ...
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It was supposed to be just a one-night stand. Instead, Karina Lopez, 33, and Curtis Rogers, 35, have been together ...
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Despite now undertaking a doctoral degree in psychology at Pepperdine University, Mr. Song, 26, continued to land D.J. gigs. In ...
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John Zey was 50 years old when he asked Avis Ranney permission to date her 46-year-old daughter, Kris Ranney, in ...
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It was through music, not movement, that Julie Benko and Jason Yeager first introduced themselves as a married couple to ...
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As a child, Kevin Brousard loved the surf vibe of his hometown San Clemente, Calif., where his family lived for ...
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Though Dr. Jennifer Berman devoted her life to urology and studying women’s sexual health, she made room for “divine organization.” ...
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The bride and groom were in the middle of exchanging vows when something landed on David Levi’s head. “I particularly ...
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It’s usually rare that anyone upstages Stephen S. Miller, or Mama Rose as he’s known in some corners of the ...
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Samuel Parker gave Madeline Hollander a piece of jewelry before they had gone on even a single date. It was ...
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With so little to do in April 2020, Danielle Lavey and Drew Feldman quickly learned they had easy banter. That ...
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When Christine Sun and Michael Hurwitz first encountered each other, at a party hosted by the University of Virginia business ...
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On the morning of April 24, Emily Arnold and Youssef Ait-Khouya walked over the dunes at Coral Pink Sand Dunes ...
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Jaeyeon Janice Park and Dr. Joseph Jisoo Hong began dating shortly after meeting on the dating app Hinge in December ...
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Deborah Rachel Reich got a preview of Dr. Matthew Michael Levitsky’s hectic schedule in June 2019 when she asked if ...
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While he opened the safe, she did. “I’m reading the entire Wiki on mayflies on the couch,” she said. On ...
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The shift toward personalized rings actually began before the pandemic, especially among millennials and Generation Z couples. But lockdowns and ...
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In Unhitched, couples tell the stories of their relationships, from romance to vows to divorce to life afterward.Trent and Denise ...
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Not everybody who signs up for dating sites is looking to date. Amanda Lauren, a Playboy and Maxim model, joined ...
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Elizabeth Conway and Kyle Manley were brought together in an old-fashioned sort of way.Theirs was not a relationship born of ...
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If it were not for Christian Zavala’s spontaneity and bravery, he and John Berno would not have met. The two ...
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On the last day of Raquel Smith’s freshman year of high school, in 2006, she found herself on a card ...
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The soundtrack of Emily Margaret Shakeshaft’s childhood became a means of comfort and grounding as she grew older. One of ...
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We all remember our first childhood friend. The one you were always excited to see. The one who made every ...
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When Nick Cugini received a Facebook friend request from Stacey Chen, he was intrigued, and a little amused.The two, who ...
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Michelle Lorenzutti and David Alperin began dating in 2019, but in some ways their love story started much earlier, when ...
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If the April 16 ruse Michael T. Matthews concocted to convince his girlfriend, Amy Marshall, that she would have to ...
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Mary Alexandra Kougeas Crowley perked up her ears when Justin Warren Douds sang “I’m just a bachelor. I’m looking for ...
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Bria Schirripa can easily rattle off many of Michael Buccarelli’s admirable qualities.“He’s extremely loyal, very family-oriented and has a really ...
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When asked what they believed brought them together in December 2017, Dr. Christine Gruessner and Przemyslaw Grabowski each offered an ...
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Talia Brown Thall, a Toronto-based stylist and personal shopper, had plenty of support when she decided to scentscape her February ...
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The home of the first same-sex couple to legally marry in California will become a historical landmark, the San Francisco ...
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Deborah Breisblatt and Jeremy Lizt met on the Jewish dating app JSwipe in January 2020, when pandemic pods were not ...
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Two friends and a sea monster brought Caitlin Kiernan and Kenny Kaplan together. These were not your average friends, nor ...
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Amy Katherine Larko and Blake Falanga, best friends since seventh grade, made a pact in 2011, the beginning of senior ...
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From there, they built a platonic relationship that lasted for a few years. They privately knew that some romantic feelings ...
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Alexandra Ossa and Alexander Wong went on their first trip as a couple in January 2017 on a drive to ...
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Emorie Broemel, a senior director of government relations at ViacomCBS, never imagined she would meet her future husband at the ...
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Mr. Dixon is a project manager at Raw Development, a construction company based in Los Angeles. He graduated from Stockton ...
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It all started with one mom and one hug. This mom was Sara Cunningham, who lives in Oklahoma City and ...
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Historically, marriage was an economic proposition, but it has shifted over time to a choice representing an all-consuming relationship, said ...
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During the ceremony, Mr. Harris read a number of emails from friends, “filling the space with the wishes of our ...
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Some have found that making new friends during the pandemic is as easy as opening the front door.Danielle Festino, the ...
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When Christopher Jones met Marissa Follo Perry at a bus stop, his infatuation with her was immediate. It was a ...
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In Taiwan, one of the few places in the world to offer marriage leave to couples heading to the altar, ...
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New York Luxury Bridal Fashion Week, held virtually April 6-8, proved that weddings, no matter how small or nontraditional, will ...
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Before Covid hit, Christine Callahan and Samantha Brody, the founders of Ella & Oak, a company that focuses on bridal ...
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After a long absence from the dating scene, Courtneye Barrett made her presence felt three years ago on Bumble, when ...
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Kaitlin Ruby Brinkerhoff and Ian McCann consider the two weeks spent quarantining in a freezing recreational vehicle in Canada last ...
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The coronavirus disrupted much of the bridal fashion industry, driving down sales and forcing designers to showcase their collections virtually ...
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Her dress, borrowed from a colleague at CVS, was almost an afterthought. “She had said earlier in the year, ‘I ...
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Deany Keith was 16 and living with her family in Corning, N.Y., when her brother, Preston Douglas Powers, a soldier ...
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Gambling, infidelity, moving away from a shared religious faith. These topics, once hidden behind closed doors, are now discussed openly ...
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Last November, Lance Gross, an actor known for his roles on various Tyler Perry productions including “Tyler Perry’s House of ...
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Anthony Smith, a pastor at Houston’s Tabernacle of Meeting Church, performed the ceremony preceded by a demonstration of biblical humility ...
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This March, as the world marked one full year of the pandemic, my mother and stepfather celebrated their second go ...
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Eventually Saman Akhtar had to know what Mohammed Islam was thinking. “I actually directly asked him: Do you like me? ...
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Ms. Barkley provided a hint. “She had mentioned to me that she saw someone on TV propose with a Ring ...
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Ms. Barkley provided a hint. “She had mentioned to me that she saw someone on TV propose with a Ring ...
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It took just 60 seconds for Meghan Markle to forever alter the trajectory of brides.Ms. Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, ...
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In early July, Tony Hawk and Catherine Goodman, rounded up their six children, Riley Hawk, 28, Spencer Hawk, 21, Miles ...
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Ashley Singleton and Nathan Arrowsmith took a photograph together within minutes of meeting each other in 2017. The image doesn’t ...
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On Cinco de Mayo in 2019, Candace Brisco went out with a group of friends. Later that night, she couldn’t ...
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In the years leading up to 2019, Lane Harris watched the landscape around her home in Ithaca, N.Y., become overgrown ...
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Ms. Hunt’s transition from publicist to D.J. was a slow metamorphosis. She grew up in Chesapeake, Va., and graduated from ...
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“We added a number of things we originally didn’t think we’d need; a fancy weed eater, an extendable ladder, lawn ...
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On Feb. 14, Ms. Smith and Mr. Aspiazu returned to the park to marry. Ms. Smith, in a backless yellow ...
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Battered already by a year of coronavirus devastation and postponements, couples in Texas who had hopes of marrying in mid-February ...
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In 2014, shortly after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Shannon Leon moved to Washington and rented a room in ...
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When Lesley Friedsam took a three-week boating excursion to Antarctica in 2003, it was planned months in advance. Peter Damisch ...
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Since reopening last summer, the Breakers has hosted weddings with an average guest count of 50 to 100; its largest ...
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Humor and perspective were similarly useful below the water. “We’d say things like, ‘Life sucks, but at least the ocean’s ...
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As weddings are moving away from big bashes to small-scale affairs because of the coronavirus, couples are embracing the fact ...
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This year, even those who typically go all out on Valentine’s Day are reconsidering it. Caitlin Kiernan, 50, and Kenny ...
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