Vows

Jennifer Wu and Andy Woo

By JANE GORDON

Michael Nagle for The New York Times

POCANTICO HILLS, N.Y., APRIL 21 Jennifer Wu and Andy Woo with a well-wisher before their ceremony at Blue Hill at Stone Barns.

What’s a missing tooth — or two — on the path to true love?

Katherine Williams and William Cooling Jr.

The couple were married in Key Largo, Fla.

Alyssa Cherif and Zack Oakley

The bride is a manager with the United States Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy; the bridegroom is a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Navy, working as a nuclear engineer.

Katherine Grady and Albert Haber

By VINCENT M. MALLOZZI

For this couple married in St. Louis, being a significant other comes with its privileges.

Erin Simmons and Stefan Asbury

By ROSALIE R. RADOMSKY

The couple met at Tanglewood, where she was a fellow and he leads the conducting program.

Narda Ducheine and Kenneth Chin

The bride is a manager at MetroPlus Health Plan; the bridegroom is an analyst for Credit Suisse.

Margarita O’Donnell and Gareth Eckmann

The bride is a lawyer; the bridegroom is a construction manager at a real estate development company.

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Video: Vanessa & Davit

Davit Karapetyan and Vanessa Zahorian danced as Romeo and Juliet with the San Francisco Ballet. After the curtain call, Davit proposed to Vanessa.

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Previous Vows Couples

Molly Palmer and Lee Cowan

By WILL STOREY

The “balloon boy” story turned out to be a hoax, but the sparks they felt for each other were genuine.

MARCH 31 Marc Kushner, center, Chris Barley and Rabbi Samuel H. Weintraub.

Chris Barley and Marc Kushner

By ANNA JANE GROSSMAN

Two men found themselves converging on love, with career and religious journeys.

Field Notes

Untying the Knot, and Bonds, of Marriage

By ABBY ELLIN

More couples are choosing to bless the end of a marriage with some kind of spiritual or personal ceremony intended to help them and their families move past disappointment, anger and hurt.

T Magazine

Just 10 Looks | The Best of Bridal

By EDWARD BARSAMIAN

Here are some of our favorite styles from the fall bridal collections.

Field Notes

Jessica Schnaider, whose feeding tube diet filtered through the news media, said she went on the diet because she trusted the doctor (she has gone to him for 15 years) and had the money and desire to drop 10 pounds.

Adjusting a Waistline for a Wedding, but at What Cost?

By LINDA LEE

As soon as an article about some of the diets brides use to drop 15 or 20 pounds before their weddings was posted, readers began to respond in droves.

Field Notes

Jessica Schnaider, 41, spent eight days on a feeding tube, a process that costs $1,500 for 10 days, so she would fit into her wedding gown when she marries in Argentina in June. She had the tube removed early because she was losing too much weight.

Bridal Hunger Games

By LINDA LEE

Wedding photos (if not the marriage) are forever, so brides are increasingly going on crash diets, cowed by the prospect of wearing a revealing and expensive gown.

Your Questions Answered

Wedding Q. and A.

By PEGGY POST

Answers to readers’ questions about save-the-date cards and how to ask for a plus one.

Wedding Q. and A.

By PEGGY POST

Answers to readers’ questions about low-budget weddings.

Brigg McDonald, left, and Stephany Lee at their wedding ceremony Monday.

Becoming an Olympian, and Then a Newlywed

By JOHN BRANCH

While some Olympians have come out after their athletic careers ended, the wrestler Stephany Lee heads to London as one of the few active, openly gay athletes in the history of the Games.

Opinion

The Downside of Cohabiting Before Marriage

By MEG JAY

Don’t drift into living together; give it some thought and planning.

State Of the Unions

The couple in their Manhattan kitchen. They met in college and found each other more than 30 years later. They say not even serious illness can come between them now.

Confronting a Different Kind of Loss

By JANE GORDON

The couple met when they were in college and found each other again more than 30 years later. But that wasn’t the end of their story.

Xin Gao and Liane Young, at left in their apartment in Cambridge, Mass., met at a nightclub.

For Asian-American Couples, a Tie That Binds

By RACHEL L. SWARNS

Interracial marriage rates are at an all-time high in the United States, but Asian-Americans are bucking that trend, increasingly choosing their soul mates from among their own expanding racial group.