Category: Weddings and Engagements

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.

In 1998, Timothy Braun and Peter Arnold fell in love fast. Once gay marriage became legal, they were so busy raising daughters and building a life that they never got around to making it official.

During the coronavirus lockdown, Joseph Caneco and Layne Hilton were both willing to step outside their comfort zones, if not their homes.

After Pamela Dillon and Stephen Dillon split in 2008, they became business partners. Over a decade later, they realized they were still in love.

When the Rev. Peter Manning learned that Garth Wingfield had also completed the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius, he thought, “Don’t screw this up.”

With more vendor availability and less social competition, the drearier months can actually be an ideal time to get married.

Eric Graves is a self-proclaimed dog person, but Julia Tiller, and a few of her feline friends, brought him to the other side.

During a night of stargazing, Ali Angco was trying to be a wing woman for a friend who liked Ian Chua. But she accidentally charmed him instead.