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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Christopher Michael Repotski and Michael Sean McClenney have been traveling to Provincetown, Mass., for Labor Day every year since 2016 ...
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Establishing a joint Google calendar may not be a standard marker of a flourishing romance, but for Efrain Guerrero and ...
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Soon after he began dating Rexanah Wyse, Eric Morrissette began receiving text messages that he found suspicious.The messages would arrive ...
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Amy Ogbonna and Samuel Oiwoh both swiped right on the dating app Tinder in December 2014, but neither of them ...
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The pandemic has reshaped many of our relationships in significant ways. For Meaghen Brown, the writer of this week’s Modern ...
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On an early September afternoon in 2015, Raquel Begleiter and David Godow met while eating pizza at a mutual friend’s ...
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It was ultimately a dating app that introduced Sree Arimilli and Sandheep Surendran of San Francisco. But more traditional and ...
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With that, the wheels of a Hollywood-style proposal were set in motion. But not before Ms. Gist and Ms. Brown, ...
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Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado gets one question a lot about his Sept. 15 wedding to Marlon Reis. “People say, ...
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When Leslie Arffa was asked what she thought were Samir Doshi’s best qualities, she cleared her throat, and hesitated with ...
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A wedding in Hawaii usually conjures images of sandy white beaches and clear blue waters. But Alexa Wilhelm and Ikaika ...
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On what they considered their first official date — a Halloween party in 2012 at a pub in New Haven, ...
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The following weekend, she and Mr. Wiley and other classmates went out for a night on the town, and while ...
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In September 2017, Joseph Ernest Glisson Deaux checked his phone during work and saw a text from a woman he ...
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Justin Cooke and Erik Wallin couldn’t get married without showing their 194 guests around Brooklyn. It wasn’t a long trek, ...
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It all started at a bar on St. Patrick’s Day in 2014.Valeria Estefania Dueñas was at the Brass Monkey in ...
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In November 2017, Varun Anand sat next to Hannah Smith at a bar in Manhattan’s West Village. They were attending ...
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The first time Dana Rhoden spent time with Michael Baran was in 2010 at a mutual friend’s wedding in Coral ...
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So the government doubled its army of so-called work coaches, who help people on unemployment benefits find jobs. It hired ...
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“Laminate vows” was included on the prewedding checklist for Catarina Salvador Espírito Santo Cristovão Neto.After all, when you’re getting married ...
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Isaiah Bryant said he wasn’t much for traveling before he met Emily Maretsky.He’d gone abroad with USA Ultimate, which is ...
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If there was one constant in the courtship between Rashmitha Vasa and Varun Murthy, it was distance.They met in Columbia, ...
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Three years ago, as I contemplated ending my marriage, I looked out my kitchen window and saw my husband mowing ...
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One evening in March 2020, Angeline Disante, 29, was tasting teriyaki steak on a stick to be served at her ...
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Mutual friends from their teen years had told Sapna Maheshwari that Devjoy Sengupta was a “keeper” at 17. She was ...
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“There’s that old paradigm that even though we think we’re self-aware, there are parts of us that are still wounded, ...
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DJ Kaiser and Tom Saggio didn’t necessarily plan to marry last September — it just happened. The couple had bought ...
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Marvin Alexander, a makeup artist in New York City who decided to shift from the fashion industry to bridal during ...
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Sara Saxner and Daniel Coughlin met by pure accident in January 2017. “We literally backed into each other dancing to ...
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If not for the political turmoil of the last few years, Eric Ostrow and Scott Linder would probably not be ...
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Three years ago, David Gracey was going through the breakup of his marriage of 25 years. He still lived with ...
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Although the summer opened with promises, or threats — depending on your perspective — of a “hot girl summer” and ...
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Brittany Muszynski remembers the old saying about all brides being beautiful. But when her own wedding was approaching, she started ...
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Kendall Anne Michaelis and Michael Joseph Harrell started out as high school sweethearts. They met and began dating in 2005 ...
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“Her legs are a lot shorter than mine and I kept turning around to make sure she was there, but ...
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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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