Maybe it was all that history, so many happy times, so many sad times, too. Whatever the reason, when he asked in the spring of 2021, I simply said yes. My preferred choice of venue: town hall, with a guest list capped at zero. When we rolled into the county […]
Weddings
Written by Leah Dolan, CNN The havoc wreaked by Covid-19 on the wedding industry was bound to leave its mark somehow. With 2020 ceremonies across the globe postponed indefinitely or canceled altogether, determined couples adapted as best they could: slashing guest lists by more than two-thirds and matching their outfits […]
The New York Times recently announced it is hiring a weddings editor to cover topics related to “how we meet, date, marry and separate.” In addition to other requirements, the job description says that the editor needs to be “highly skilled at hard fact editing.” That might sound a bit […]
A bride-to-be is putting her foot down on Washington D.C.’s dancing ban at weddings, calling it a “disappointment” Wednesday on “Fox & Friends.” Margaret Appleby said she’s filing a lawsuit against D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser for her latest coronavirus restrictions, as standing and dancing are forbidden during wedding season. Despite the wedding […]
It was a drizzling spring day in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and the “Dirty Dancing” soundtrack was playing in what used to be a mechanic’s garage at 57 Conselyea Street. The place is now a whitewashed room filled with red hearts. The current tenant, Julie Guinta, was clad in a triumphant marigold […]
Susan Shek Photography A professional bridesmaid in New York City who has been in more than 125 weddings finally got her own fairytale ending when she married her fiancé on the city sidewalk where they first met. Jen Glantz, 33, is the founder of Bridesmaid for Hire, a company that […]
Julie-Ann Hutchinson and Kyle Burton, Baltimore-based health care professionals, went to extraordinary lengths to ensure their 40-person St. Louis wedding last September ran smoothly. They hired a “covid safety officer,” a nurse who, for $60 an hour for five hours, checked temperatures, asked guests how they felt, and handed out […]
Carmen Myer and Aaron James have made it through plenty of storms together, and many more over the years as children, including Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Gustav. The most recent, and perhaps most nerve-racking, occurred just three weeks before their wedding. A fierce February storm brought freezing temperatures throughout Texas, […]
Adina Kamkhatchi and Isaac Mizrahi should have met years ago. Their lives were entwined; they just didn’t know it. Both grew up in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, in a tightly knit community of about 40,000 orthodox Sephardic Jews, mostly from Syria. Both spent summers in Deal, N.J., and vacationed […]
On March 15, New York state began allowing weddings and other catered events to resume. But those who are planning and attending have a list of COVID-19 safety measures to follow. WXXI’s Beth Adams talked to a couple of brides-to-be and the managers of local venues about their biggest concerns. […]
Insider recently spoke to a Michigan-based wedding photographer. He was exposed to the coronavirus at two weddings in 2020. He said masks and social distancing were required at both events, but guests ignored the rules. Visit Insider’s homepage for more stories. One wedding photographer found out he was exposed to […]
When Mary Martin Young was growing up, in the 1960s and ’70s, she spent Sunday mornings volunteering at a hospital in Alexandria, La., alongside her father, who was a doctor. There’s a piece of advice that she remembers him repeating. “Nobody in that morgue woke up and thought they were […]
