When Elizabeth Nan Rasmussen met David Maynard Amini at a party hosted by the magazine Edible DC, she knew instantly that she needed him in her life, just not necessarily as a boyfriend. Their mutual friend AJ Dronkers, the magazine’s associate publisher at the time, introduced them, but Ms. Rasmussen, …
On the night the Philadelphia Eagles won their first Super Bowl, defeating the New England Patriots in February 2018, Shamus Joseph Clancy posted on Twitter what was intended to be a throwaway joke. He had no reason to think it would introduce him to his future wife. He posted the …
Nicolas Gianni Heller and Naomi Jenny Otsu describe themselves as “such millennials.” They bonded over being awkward in front of a camera, and they prefer to avoid the spotlight because they “hate being perceived,” Ms. Otsu said. “We need to get past our cringe.” So when they celebrated their wedding …
The first time the filmmaker Chike Antoine Ozah laid eyes on Kellie Montoya Brown, a journalist, she was larger than life. Actually, her image was peering down at him from a billboard advertising an NBC affiliated television station in New Orleans. It was late 2018, and Mr. Ozah was in …
On March 21, Keri Ann Meslar and Trevor Thomas Galko stood in the back of the Convento Santa Clara, the sprawling ruins of the Santa Clara Church in Antigua, Guatemala, arm in arm, watching their friends and family singing and dancing during a surprise firework show to close out their …
When we called my parents to tell them we were engaged, my father said to my mother, “Is she pregnant?” I was 41, so this was a reasonable question. But I wasn’t pregnant. I was dying. Troy and I got engaged one month before I received a terminal diagnosis. Getting …
One of the things Jason Robert Santiago loves about his job as a New York City bus driver is that behind the wheel, he can get a lot of thinking done. Last fall he figured out how he was going to propose to Tiffany Antoinette Roller, for example. Years before …
Jerald Jerard Creer and Kent Michael Williams chalk up the almost 15-year delay in becoming a couple to a struggle to communicate — one that had nothing to do with Mr. Creer’s Deafness. Since June 2009, when the two met on a Carnival cruise ship, Mr. Williams had been texting …
The March 21, 2020, wedding of Julie Samuels and Joe Hillyer in Montclair, N.J., ushered in an unparalleled time for the Vows and Mini-Vows columns. Because of the coronavirus pandemic and its crowd-size and social-distancing mandates, couples had to get creative about how to pull off weddings. Ms. Samuels and …
Philip Kanis still remembers the techno warehouse party he hosted in Sydney, Australia, in 2013, when he was assessing the room from the top of a staircase and Mishti Rahman walked in with a mutual friend. “She stood out a lot in the sea of black T-shirts and black jeans,” …