Vows

Steven Blier and James S. Russell

By KATHRYN SHATTUCK

Tina Fineberg for The New York Times

NEW YORK, APRIL 28 James S. Russell, right, puts the ring on Steven Blier. Robert Hughes, center, officiated.

So dismal was the love life of Steven Blier, the artistic director of the New York Festival of Song, he emphatically declared in the summer of 1996 that he was “Not. Dating. Capital N, capital D.”

Allegra Ford and Joshua Thomas

Allegra Charlotte Ford, the daughter of Anne Ford of New York and the late Giancarlo Uzielli, weds Joshua Thomas, with whom she owns a fitness center in Massachusetts.

Kristina Roddy and Earl Hunt II

By VINCENT M. MALLOZZI

The couple met in July 2006, but started dating after crossing paths again 18 months later.

Mary Kathryn Covert and Michael Steel

The bride, a vice president at a consulting firm, and the bridegroom, the press secretary for House Speaker John A. Boehner, marry in Mississippi.

Pooja Kumar and Jonathan Welch

Doctors, who received their medical degrees from Harvard, marry.

Corbin Petro and Jessica Gelman

The chief financial officer of the M.I.T. Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, an annual event in Boston, marries one of its founders.

Rebecca Harvis and Jeffrey Kohn

The bride teaches first grade at the Chapin School in New York; the bridegroom is an associate at Acadia Realty Trust in White Plains.

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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

Jennifer Wu and Andy Woo

By JANE GORDON

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

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.

The Registry

If the Ring Finger Isn’t a Green Thumb

By MARIANNE ROHRLICH

Newlyweds with or without a green thumb or a yard can enliven any home with these gifts.

Slide Show: Gifts for Enjoying a Touch of Green, Indoors or Out

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.

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.