Successive dates went equally well. As it turns out, Mr. Ruiz had a litmus test of his own. He spontaneously invited her over one afternoon to his parents’ house to meet them, and then, to several other family gatherings, including a cousin’s football party. “I have a big, robust, Latino […]

DEAR ABBY: My daughter got married in a friend’s backyard three months ago. Her husband built an arch for the ceremony. He spent $285 on some very nice walnut, and they planned to keep it forever. Jeanne Phillips  With my daughter’s consent, my wife loaned it to a niece of […]

“The date, 1/23/21, it was just easy to remember it looked really cool on paper,” Brianna Mesa said. Brianna Mesa and her now-husband, Jared, got engaged in 2017 and in early 2020, they settled on a date and a venue to tie the knot in North Dakota. “We had invited […]