Weddings and Engagements

September 2, 2016

Vows: For the Rock Star, Love Has Finally Landed

Vows By MATTHEW SCHNEIER The rock star and the music lover met at a record store, fell in love and got married. There were only 16 […]
August 27, 2016

Vows: United in Love, But Living on Separate Coasts

Vows By JESSE McKINLEY Of all the skills needed to be a successful museum director — curating collections, charming donors, keeping the lights on — perhaps […]
August 12, 2016

Vows: From Reality Show to Reality: A Bachelor Finds Love

Vows By LOIS SMITH BRADY In December 2010, Ames Brown was traveling home from Uzbekistan when he got a call from “The Bachelorette,” the reality TV […]
July 21, 2016

Vows: Two Men Gone Country and Their Dreamgirls

Vows By LINDA MARX Cooper Boone is a study in contrasts. He has square-danced for nuns and saw fit to croon the theme song for Powdermilk […]
July 15, 2016

Vows: For Obama’s Speechwriting Team, the Message Finally Got Through

Vows By SARAH WILDMAN When Kristen Bartoloni came on board as a researcher on the White House communications team in 2011, there was one rule she […]
July 15, 2016

Social Q’s: When Is It My Turn to Talk?!

Social Q’s By PHILIP GALANES My sister-in-law lives far away. She calls to check in every week or so and runs through a laundry list of […]
July 8, 2016

Vows: Ethan Nichtern and Marissa Dutton: Meditations on the Cool Boredom of Love

Vows By ERIC V. COPAGE The problem with Hollywood’s romantic comedies, Ethan Nichtern explained during a talk in Manhattan on meditation and desire, is that they […]
July 7, 2016

Field Notes: Sand Sculptures Making a Splash at Beach Weddings

Field Notes By ALIX STRAUSS When Anthony Rossomando told his mother about the sand sculpture he and his fiancé, Stephanie Angelone, were having made for their […]
July 1, 2016

Vows: He Said No. Then She Did. But Proposal No. 3 Was the Charm

Vows By VINCENT M. MALLOZZI When Adrianne Mathiowetz proposed to Janaka Stucky in September 2011, he balked, so she bolted. “I worshiped him and he rejected […]
June 25, 2016

Fear of Zika Virus Is Putting a Damper on Destination Weddings

Fear, if not the reality of the Zika virus and the mosquitoes that carry it, has not only cast its shadow on the Olympic Games in […]