Weddings and Engagements

November 11, 2016

Social Q’s: Mending Fences (Even When You Really Don’t Want To)

Social Q’s By PHILIP GALANES My problem? You and idiots like you, full of straight white male privilege, who never understood the life-or-death stakes of sexism, […]
November 4, 2016

Vows: Seeking a Driver’s License Led to a Marriage License

Vows By VINCENT M. MALLOZZI The road from the first to a second kiss shared between Marlena Baldacci and Ryan Militana, a stretch of 14 years, […]
October 28, 2016

Vows: Geneviève DeBose and Tosin Akinnagbe: He’s No Shakespeare. Romeo? Maybe.

Vows By TAMMY La GORCE If Geneviève DeBose were something other than a seventh- and eighth-grade English teacher, she might have been less dismissive of the […]
October 21, 2016

Vows: For a King of Night Life, a Sunny Bride

Vows By ALEX WILLIAMS Aside from occupations like submarine crewman, Everest Sherpa or space-station astronaut, few professions would seem to lend themselves less to the daily […]
October 14, 2016

Vows: The Gift of the Goat Sealed the Deal

Vows By STEPHANIE ROSENBAUM KLASSEN Last November, Shaun Reed, 32, drove up a winding road in Ione, Calif. In the back of the vehicle, unperturbed by […]
October 13, 2016

Social Q’s: When to Step In

Social Q’s By PHILIP GALANES A friend of mine got very drunk and nearly killed himself when he drove his car off the road. When I […]
October 6, 2016

Social Q’s: An Affair to Forget

Social Q’s By PHILIP GALANES My husband’s co-worker is going to be the best man at a wedding. But he has shared with several colleagues his […]
September 30, 2016

Vows: A Union Built in and on Stages

Vows By SARA OLKON Seven years ago, Austin Cook walked into a barbecue potluck filled with strangers in downtown Chicago. Love was not at the top […]
September 28, 2016

Wedding Album: The Proposals Were Awkward (But the Answers Were Yes)

Andrew Fox of New Castle, Pa., had it all planned. He would propose to his girlfriend, Heather Terwilliger of Fredonia, N.Y., Tuesday night during their first […]
September 23, 2016

Vows: Drawn to a Jazzwoman and Her Trumpet’s Clarion Call

Vows By ABBY ELLIN On their first official date, Bria Skonberg, the jazz trumpeter and vocalist, and Matthew Papper, who would later become the artistic director […]