Amy Katherine Larko and Blake Falanga, best friends since seventh grade, made a pact in 2011, the beginning of senior year at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill. If neither was seeing anyone seriously they would go to the senior prom together. “I met a girl today,” Mr. Falanga
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Cantor Rachel Goldman doesn’t often stay for the reception at the weddings she officiates, to “keep things professional,” as she put it. But this one, in June 2016 in Los Angeles, was different. Both mothers of the bride and groom had known her deceased grandparents, as did some guests, so
Read moreAfter weeks of rumors and retractions, Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez, two of the world’s great New Yorkers, announced on Thursday that they were ready for something new. Something apart. As the magnolias and cherry trees burst into blossom and vaccines go into arm after arm, many New Yorkers are
Read moreFor Sarah Elizabeth Williams Gelfand and Scott David Schilson Jr., the intense atmosphere and demanding coursework of the N.Y.U. masters of laws in taxation program — intended for lawyers who wish to deepen their knowledge in that particularly abstruse area of jurisprudence — weren’t impediments to falling in love. “It’s
Read moreThe night Noah Wunsch met Kelly Connor there were more pants in the room than people. It was February 2015. Mr. Wunsch and Ms. Connor had each traveled from New York to Los Angeles for work. Mr. Wunsch, who had a job in business development for the cool-kid fashion magazine
Read moreAntia Adams couldn’t blame Carl Mumford Jr. for issuing a warning with his February 2019 marriage proposal. “He said, ‘If you lose this one, that’s it,’” Ms. Adams said. Mr. Mumford had already given her two engagement rings. She lost both. Ms. Adams and Mr. Mumford live in Savannah, Ga.,
Read moreHere are a few creative ways to connect with your remote guests and integrate them into your celebration during the pandemic. By Alix Strauss As couples continue to look for ways to move forward with their wedding plans during the coronavirus pandemic, guests are also looking for ways to feel
Read moreJochen Chang revealed his inner Prince Charming when he and Leigh-Ann Michelle Laughlin started dating in 2019. “I found him very chivalrous,” Ms. Laughlin said. “His language was very Jane Austen-y.” It might have been otherwise if she hadn’t put him in a royal frame of mind. “Leigh-Ann looks like
Read moreTamar Elisheva Jonas, from the Bronx, and Elliot J. Shalom, from Brooklyn, each moved to Israel — she in 2015 and he in 2017 — and then met in May 2019 on a blind date in Tel Aviv. “The intention from the first date was it could potentially lead to
Read moreThis past March, as Ben Chase and Rachel Schur watched a string quartet perform Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” in a candlelit church in Manhattan’s East Village, Mr. Chase leaned over and whispered something into Ms. Schur’s ear. There was a swell in the music, and a glint as Mr. Chase pressed
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