When Domenico Montanaro finally met Courtney Katharina Norris in August 2018 after a lengthy online correspondence, he was immediately drawn ...
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Maria Teresita Angeles Asuncion Cruz celebrated her 80th birthday on Sept. 7, the same day she married Dr. Emilio Parpana ...
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On Nov. 20, 2021, Mr. Cronin proposed to Mr. Barlowski by inviting him to the venue of their first date ...
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In late December 2017, Sasha Renata DiGiulian arrived in New Hampshire to ice climb Mount Washington, the highest peak in ...
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As kindergartners in 1967, Kim Susan Hirsh and Jonathan Adam Fingerhut ran through the schoolyard of Thelma L. Sandmeier Elementary ...
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On Wednesday afternoon, 20 couples gathered in front of a stage at the National Mall in Washington to recite their ...
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“I remember thinking to myself, ‘Relax, you’re still getting to know each other,’ but I couldn’t help how I felt,” ...
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Harriett Falvey is a creator of couture keepsakes. She designs and constructs the delicate, time-honored accessory that a bride wears ...
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Late one night in October 2018, Max Ujdak and Katie Wall — now Katie Ujdak — were sitting in front ...
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Extreme weather — and heat in particular — now factors into almost every aspect of summer wedding planning, from picking ...
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Weddings are steeped in tradition, but where did those traditions come from? And how do those customs differ in other ...
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“I was so surprised that someone was so prepared to love me so much during that process,” she said.In May ...
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Marissa Katarina Bergmann was attending a rooftop party in Bushwick, Brooklyn, in May 2021 when she was approached by a ...
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An awkward elevator ride was all Rosemary Kalonaros and Christena Pyle needed to kick-start their relationship.They recalled meeting in passing ...
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Hamza Shabbir Choudery was trying to play it cool. He had casually asked his colleague Zabreen Akhtar Khan to grab ...
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Two years ago, Ms. Lee started Madison Conner Designs, a bridal alterations business. At first, she said, her young age ...
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For years, Kelley Louise Carter entertained a fantasy about how she was going to meet the love of her life ...
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Although Mr. Leavitt is not formally trained in meteorology, his interest in the weather began when he was employed, from ...
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A Complete Bridal WardrobeBrides are no longer focused on selecting just one beautiful dress. As more pre-wedding parties are being ...
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In his response, the Ethicist noted: “I’m not sure marriage is the right arena to fight the many genuine inequities ...
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A year ago, when my daughter got married, we all had to navigate through more than the usual pitfalls in ...
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A few days after their wedding on June 3, 2017, Lorenzo Vinti and Gregory DelliCarpini Jr. honeymooned in Thailand and ...
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From breakup bangs to back-to-school trims, a change in hairstyle has long been a visual shorthand to recognize major milestones ...
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Legislation that allows any layperson to perform a marriage on a given day in New York may not seem like ...
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My daughter recently got married in Washington, D.C., and it was a beautiful day. There was a freak snowstorm, however, ...
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David’s Bridal, the retailer that boasts it sells one out of three wedding dresses in the United States, filed for ...
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“One of the first things I learned about Ross was what a fanatic he was about The New York Times,” ...
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Sandy Pena, a wedding planner and an owner of Ultimate USA Weddings, based in Manhattan, said she has seen an ...
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At their in-person wedding welcome party for about 80 guests, with fire pits and s’mores in Pescadero, Calif., a friend ...
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Ben Hart, who lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, runs ToastWiz, an A.I. wedding speech-writing business that provides best men, maids ...
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In a relationship open to perusal by millions of followers, the podcasters Cody Michael Kolodziejzyk and Kelsey Lang Kreppel have ...
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After finishing up a game at the Punta Borinquen Golf Club in Aguadilla, P.R., Angelique Velez Sina went to a ...
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“How’s your French coming along?” The familiar voice, accompanied by a light tap on my shoulder, surprised me.I turned and ...
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As editors of the Vows and Modern Love columns at The New York Times, we read love stories every day, ...
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The dance floor is a hallmark of a wedding — it’s where guests can let loose and memories are often ...
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From the moment Matthew Alec Davis and Dr. Marc Mahoney Beuttler first made eye contact, they each felt an instant ...
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For 10 years, Eileen Patricia Fitzpatrick and Robert Mitchell Minondo refused to ruin their close-knit friendship. So they never even ...
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I don’t wear my wedding ring anymore. I haven’t for the last 20 or so years. I’m not divorced, nor ...
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“I remember seeing her out of the corner of my eye, how she brought people into the conversation and how ...
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Wilson Grad Conn wasn’t going to let his dating inexperience become a liability when he started seeing Rachel Lyn Honig ...
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In the summer of 1992, Niffer Marie Desmond and her friend Caitlyn Meeks hosted a late night radio show called ...
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In July 2019, after a committee meeting of their homeowners association, Dorine Ruth Seidman, 77, asked Harvey David Starin, 76, ...
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Paula Sapion Miranda and Deidre Lillian Olsen were both skeptical about finding love, but that began to change one blustery ...
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Synonymous with love as it is with Old World charm, One if by Land, Two if by Sea, located at ...
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The comments started the day I became engaged in December 2018: “You’re going to be such a beautiful bride.” “I ...
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Born without the hand that traditionally wears a wedding ring, Sara Hughes never dreamed of a diamond. Where would she ...
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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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