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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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Eventually Saman Akhtar had to know what Mohammed Islam was thinking. “I actually directly asked him: Do you like me? ...
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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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“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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Every January we collectively set intentions to become better versions of ourselves. With the desire to refresh, reset and renew ...
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By the time they checked out, his four-string rendition of the theme to “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” had ...
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In fall 2019, Portia Carryer was mourning the loss of her beloved dog, a German shepherd named Rilke. That’s when ...
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The spreadsheet that Nicole Alison Woon and Jeffrey Ryan Chheng use to record the restaurants they’ve patronized in Seattle, nearly ...
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Alexandra Levy Olsman and Zachary Isaac Frankel lived across Rittenhouse Square from each other at a young age and went ...
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Alexandra Levy Olsman and Zachary Isaac Frankel lived across Rittenhouse Square from each other at a young age and went ...
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When Rohini Pragasam and Chris Walton met for a first date in April 2018 at a Japanese restaurant in Manhattan, ...
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For Dr. Mariann Channell and Benson Woo, life is good.“We have thoroughly been enjoying each other’s company,” said Dr. Channell, ...
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“Hal is one of the sweetest, most caring people I’ve ever met,” Ms. Root said, “and I really knew how ...
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Erica Ingraham had her eye on Adam Koster from the moment they started working together in 2015 in the town ...
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In September 2016, Renate Hartman attended the Association for Women’s Rights in Development International Forum conference in Bahia, Brazil. Also ...
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Darien Monk doesn’t wish a broken espresso machine on anybody, but once upon a time she wouldn’t have minded if ...
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One Monday in 2014, Christopher Justin Hanson sat down for a job interview at the headquarters of Covington & Burling, ...
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At around 5 a.m. one day in the fall of 2016, Olivia Alexandra Barket received an unexpected knock on the ...
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In the early days of their relationship, Kayla McCulley and Matthew Spencer created a book club — for two.“We both ...
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Over the summer, Lucas Robinson sat on his couch in Los Angeles, popped on a pair of virtual reality glasses ...
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Jennifer Law and her husband, Matthew, at their wedding in 2008. He died of the virus in November. Some feel unacknowledged, ...
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“He said, ‘don’t worry about bringing a lot of clothes, people don’t really care about getting dressed up here,’” she ...
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Spaces for Sober SinglesAfter eliminating alcohol from their lives, some sober individuals exclusively date nondrinkers.Outside traditional dating apps, are online ...
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If Stephanie Williams didn’t know she was going to marry LaMarr Coles III after their first phone call, she sensed ...
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Ugene Bynum knew he might not be able to fix Stacy Prather’s broken laptop, but when she and her godmother ...
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Carrie Sun and Christopher Cerrone met on April 20, 2018 in Manhattan after a classical music concert held at St ...
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Pearl Losoya and David Velasco appeared on each other’s radars as far back as middle school in Union City, Calif., ...
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Randy Nuñez and Sasha Nuñez-Carvalho were married in October while he was quarantined with the coronavirus in San Diego and ...
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At the beginning of their sophomore year, he met her friend Jen Buchholz, who was also learning CPR in preparation ...
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When Luke Rivett spotted Sunney Kohlhoss on March 1, 2019 at the Well, a bar in Los Angeles, both had ...
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Ms. Oud also notes the importance of proximity when dating. With video, there is no established distance. “If I gently ...
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I was at my gynecologist’s office. “At 39, I’m scared I’ll never get married or have kids,” I told him.“Think ...
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Usually when temperatures drop, couples hold their wedding indoors, away from the cold. But with social-distancing requirements and restrictions on ...
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Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered to celebrate a wedding inside a cavernous hall in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood earlier this month, ...
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Aliza Aber and Jonathan Browning had a marathon of a first date.After connecting on OkCupid in March 2017, they met ...
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Mary Kate Vollmer and Evan Sloan didn’t intend to cause a ruckus with their Nov. 2 wedding in the automotive ...
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A hurricane ruined Yoelvis Valdez’s plans to propose to Anabel Santeliz. And their wedding was first postponed because of a ...
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Irene Fan Yuan came right out and told Colin Armand Evran that what he was wearing — an oversize, worn ...
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Ron Jacobson recalled the moment when he knew he would marry Sarah Miller, whom he met through the dating app ...
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On Halloween night, under a blue moon, Vivienne Vermuth and Jason Perkins, both dressed in black, were married after a ...
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During the March coronavirus lockdown, Melissa Fahlstrom, the owner of Sugar Whipped Bakery, a Plattsburg, Mo., business that specializes in ...
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After seeing Jennifer Miles in a bikini in 1998 while mowing her father’s lawn on Lake Wawasee in Indiana, 15-year-old ...
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When Mitchel Aaron Scott and Evelyn Ruth Danforth were first introduced in January 2011 at a dorm party their junior ...
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When Cleo Samuel came across Tony Ryals’s profile on eHarmony in September 2018, she liked it so much that she ...
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In early March, Liana Elizabeth Cramer and Samuel Leonard Aronson traveled to a remote lodge in South Africa. Shortly after ...
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Words we never get tired of hearing at weddings are often open bar and buffet. But thanks to the coronavirus ...
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More than three years after they met, Sean Christian Casey finally asked Elaine Gabrielle Joseph on a first date.The pair ...
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As rain pelted the London streets, Stephanie Hains and Christian Nilsson were scaling an iron gate at 2 a.m. The ...
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In July 2018, Dr. Samyukta Mullangi, now 31 and a first-year hematology-oncology fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in ...
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On her way to the wedding at Holiday Acres Christmas Tree Farm in Manvel, Texas, on Nov. 10, 2018, Madison ...
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