Category: Weddings and Engagements

For Two Circus Performers, Love Takes Flight on and Off the Ground

A shared passion for acrobatics, costumes and bicycles led Ryan Murray and Juanita Cardenas to a wedding ceremony held in midair.
A 40-Foot Wedding Cake in the English Countryside

Plus: getaways to a Portuguese villa and Athens’s art hub, portraits of queer tenderness and more recommendations from T Magazine.
Couples Are Going All in on 1970s-Themed Weddings

After years of tamped-down celebrations, some couples are embracing the glimmering, gaudy energy of the ’70s, from the Dead to disco.
Slutty Vegan’s Pinky Cole Marries in Atlanta

Atlanta buzzed with Pinky Cole’s plant-based creations for Slutty Vegan, while Derrick Hayes brought Philly cheesesteaks to the South. When they met, they shared a deep connection despite their culinary differences.
It’s Time to Adjust Our Expectations About Wedding Night Sex

If you fell asleep on the big night, don’t worry. So did many other (still) happily married couples.
How Engagement Rings Explain What’s Happening in the Economy

A major jeweler claims the pandemic may have prevented people from meeting their future fiancés, cutting demand for engagement rings. Inflation and anxiety among shoppers haven’t helped.
Sharing the ‘Call for Service’ and a Life Together

Sofia Gross joined the Navy about a year after she and Michael Haft, a former Marine, began dating. She planned much of their wedding from a military base in Bahrain.
‘Bachelor’ Sydney Lotuaco Gets Her Final Rose With Nick Wehby

Sydney Lotuaco, a contestant on “The Bachelor” more than four years ago, may not have gotten the final rose, but she did meet her future husband, Nick Wehby, as a result of her appearance on the show.
They Tickled Each Other’s Funny Bone, and Everyone Else’s

Abby Barr and Jed Feiman, two comedy writers who regularly riff off each other, also kept their wedding guests laughing.
A Funny Thing Happened on Her Way Out of a Comedy Club

Sarah Berkman and Phillip Dinner were standing in a stairwell in New York when they bonded over Nashville. A little over a year later, they began living together in Nashville … with her parents.
Sober or in Recovery? Here’s How to Plan a Dry Wedding.

Organizing a wedding without alcohol is not without pitfalls: Will guests partake in mocktails and so-called functional beverages, and still have a good time? Are zero-proof spirits worth the cost?
From Fairly Low Expectations, a Wonderful Surprise

Ross Uhrich and Jessica Carter Altman, the daughter of Lynda Carter Altman, who played Wonder Woman in the 1970s, expected their first encounter to be brief. It wasn’t.