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And Nobody Noticed It Was a Fake Cake
My daughter’s picture-perfect, and inedible, wedding cake was a D.I.Y. bargain. Guests ate another cake — that did not taste like Styrofoam.
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Photo CreditTim Halberg The Attendants Made the Toast. (The Couple Brewed the Beer.)
Home-brew beer has been finding a place at weddings, where it’s being served to guests during cocktail hours or given out as favors.
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Conservative and a Vegan in New York. Wait! You Are, Too?
The couple met at a Student Animal Legal Defense Fund, but soon realized they had more in common than a conviction that eating meat is immoral.
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Photo Credit When Your Friend Grabs Your Cellphone
Although the couple overlapped at Cornell for one year in 2011, it wasn’t until they each moved to San Francisco in 2015 that they finally met.
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Photo CreditRandy and Ashley Studios Love Is in the Air, at Terminals and on Tarmacs, Too
That long line at the airport? No worries! It might be a wedding party waiting just for the ceremony to start.
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Photo CreditHilary Swift for The New York Times If We’re 40 and Single, Let’s Get Married. Deal?
Marriage pacts are a fantasy for some friends, and a fallback plan for others.
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Photo CreditMichelle Mishina-Kunz for The New York Times From a Hawaiian Island to a New York Island, and Back
They grew up on Oahu and went to rival schools but didn’t meet until after they moved to New York.
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Photo Credit Cedric Moreau, Orlando Reece
The couple were set up on a blind date in New York in 2014.
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Photo Credit Brooke Hargrove, Jensen Bouzi
The couple were married at the Grosse Pointe War Memorial in Michigan.
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Photo Credit Nicholas Clark-Spear, Mark Badum
The couple met at a party in one of Columbia’s dorms in 2005, and began dating several years later.
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Photo Credit Annabel Moorman, Adam Stoler
He gave her a T-shirt from the Bell in Hand Tavern, which said “I Was There and the Rest is History,’’ a year after their first date there.
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Photo Credit Sona Bajaria, Keith Barrett
The couple were introduced through mutual friends in 2001, but didn’t have their first date until October 2015.
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Photo Credit Side by Side and No Finish Line in Sight for Alexi Pappas
Alexi Pappas, the Olympic runner, and Jeremy Teicher, a filmmaker, became a team of two in college. And there’s a tree that says so.
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Photo Credit Worthy of a Romance Novel, With a Touch of Mystery
Lauren Pomerantz, an Emmy-winning writer and producer, met Elizabeth Higgins Clark, a writer and a granddaughter of Mary Higgins Clark, on Tinder.
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Photo Credit A Near-Death Experience Led Them to the Altar
“The brevity of life had never been more apparent to us, so we decided to tie the knot.”
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Photo Credit ‘Mayor Pete’ Gets Married, Then Takes His Husband to a Pride Party
Peter Buttigieg, a rising star in the Democratic Party, once wondered: “How does a sitting mayor in Indiana who’s gay find a date?” Now he doesn’t have to.
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Photo Credit Another Royal Wedding. This One Newark Style.
The wedding of Rebecca Jampol and Randy Harris Jr. was all about celebrating the creativity, culture and heritage of Newark.
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Photo Credit Long Distance Brought Them Closer Together
The couple met at Penn and maintained an on-again-off-again relationship that finally became serious when they traveled overseas for work.
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Photo Credit A Romantic Turnaround for Two Political Scientists
He led an orientation for new Ph.D. students in American government when they met at Georgetown, and now they each teach politics at Princeton.
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Photo Credit Two Monthly Poetry Readings for an Audience of One
They both push for a better food system, and exchange poems on the seventh of each month to mark the day they met.
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Photo Credit 32 Floors and 1 Subway Ride Later
The couple met in 2012, after a chance encounter in an elevator at the Midtown office building where they both worked.
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Photo Credit She Found Her Leading Man Backstage
Mary Thomas, then 18, and Richard Kennett, then 19, were members of the same theater group. Romance blossomed when the group traveled to Europe.
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Photo Credit Plan Your Wedding at Home. Tonight. It’s Easy.
In a few hours you can make decisions on your rings, dress, reception and honeymoon locations. Here are a few websites and apps to inspire.
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Photo Credit How to Save on Wedding Flowers
Rent, reuse, don’t be picky, go big and you could even do it yourself. You might save thousands.
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Photo Credit Money-Saving Tips for Wedding Guests
Set a budget and stick to it, whether for travel, clothes or gifts.
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Photo Credit Make the Friends Happy. Don’t Have a Wedding Party.
A growing number of couples are opting to not have bridesmaids and groomsmen. They want to spare friends and family the hassle and expense.
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Photo Credit The Marriage Is Over, but the Jewelry Is Mine
Give back the ring and other bling? Nah. It could pay for summer camp. Or be made into a bracelet or necklace.
