Daniela Blum and Dr. Robert Flowers didn’t quite intend to be the first couple to be married at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau this year.

On their third date in Houston, Dr. Daniel Vener asked Andrea Allen if she could picture moving to New Zealand with him in about a year. She said yes.

Kavi Packiam and Stephanie Rodriguez met at a Manhattan nightclub and became official less than three months later. However, the pandemic and distance got in the way.

“I wanted to shoot my shot,” Chip Dizárd said of his courtship of Conswella Gilmore.