Weddings and Engagements

November 6, 2020

From the Chest X-Ray, He Saw a Romantic Future

Dr. Mary Oakley Strasser’s unhesitating response that she saw Seurat, not Picasso, in a medical X-ray won the heart of her fellow medical student, Balaji Pandian. […]
November 6, 2020

Sometimes the First Sweater Could be the Right One

Andrew Todd Eddins walked into an L.G.B.T.Q. tennis party in November 2003 in the Bronx near Yankee Stadium, with some trepidation, or as he put it: […]
November 6, 2020

All the Feelings on a Brooklyn Stoop

Timah Kabba had to brace herself on her first date with Gaby Núñez Santiago at Lord Hobo, a restaurant in Cambridge, Mass., in May 2018. “I […]
November 6, 2020

There Was No Deleting His Dating Profile

When Cleo Samuel came across Tony Ryals’s profile on eHarmony in September 2018, she liked it so much that she sent him a smile emoji and […]
November 1, 2020

Learn the Etiquette of Virtual Weddings

With weddings this year being delayed, downsized or split into two — video ceremony now, party next year — many guests have some only-in-2020 etiquette questions. […]
October 30, 2020

Don’t Write Off the Persistent Man From California

A few matters might have stood in the way of a relationship between Mallika Pereira and Dr. Kennedy Cosgrove. She is a committed planner and he […]
October 30, 2020

On-Again, Off-Again, but a Cabdriver Knew They’d Get Married

Sarah Beverly Koatz and Stuart Hopkins Winchester had no idea where their relationship was going in March 2013, but the “Cupid Cabbie” did. By the end […]
October 30, 2020

From Melbourne to New York, Oceans Couldn’t Keep Them Apart

As rain pelted the London streets, Stephanie Hains and Christian Nilsson were scaling an iron gate at 2 a.m. The two, who met on Tinder and […]
October 23, 2020

Making a Name of Their Own

In April 2018, Erik Simpanen was a graduate student at Brown living in Providence, R.I., when he swiped right on the dating app the League. He […]
October 23, 2020

Setting a Record at the’ Retirement Community

Mia Aplin Rollins and Samuel Sebastian Pihan, both 25, set a record on Oct. 3 as the youngest couple ever to get married at RiverWoods Exeter, […]