Talia Brown Thall, a Toronto-based stylist and personal shopper, had plenty of support when she decided to scentscape her February 2019 wedding at the Omni King Edward Hotel in Toronto. Ever since she made her first scent purchase when she scored her first job, where she worked in high-end luxury store sales, Thall was fixated […]
By Laurenzo Overee A wedding involves more than two people. We have probably made that statement in the past, and we’d like to emphasise how true it is! But this time around, we’d like to shine the spotlight specifically on bridesmaids. Bridesmaids are like your maidens-in-arms, ever ready to assist you with the big day […]
From there, they built a platonic relationship that lasted for a few years. They privately knew that some romantic feelings remained, but they ignored them for the sake of preserving the friendship. They didn’t speak much about their past romance. A turning point came in 2017. On the day of the presidential inauguration of Donald […]
Alexandra Ossa and Alexander Wong went on their first trip as a couple in January 2017 on a drive to the mountains of Asheville, N.C. At some point on that trip, the love connection between Ms. Ossa, 31, and Mr. Wong, 35, temporarily short-circuited. “I threw out the L word and didn’t get one back,” […]
Emorie Broemel, a senior director of government relations at ViacomCBS, never imagined she would meet her future husband at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland. As a Democrat, it was one of the last places she expected to find love. “I joke that it’s my secret shame,” she said. She was also too consumed […]
Deborah Breisblatt and Jeremy Lizt met on the Jewish dating app JSwipe in January 2020, when pandemic pods were not yet a thing. They went on dates, 11 to be exact. And then the coronavirus surfaced, and along with it, a shelter-in-place order. Mr. Lizt suggested that Ms. Breisblatt move in with him. “Either we’ll […]
Mr. Dixon is a project manager at Raw Development, a construction company based in Los Angeles. He graduated from Stockton Unified School District while in prison. Originally from Alameda County, Mr. Dixon now lives in Los Angeles. He continues to fight for his exoneration. “His hope is to once again become whole,” Ms. Lewis said. […]
By Laurenzo Overee Sustainable weddings are all the rage these days. But what does it mean? Does it have to be an outdoor affair? What if it rains? There are probably 101 questions in your mind when you consider a sustainable big day. La Belle provides a list of the most common considerations to help […]
New Brunswick, N.J., is fewer than 50 miles from New York City, but for Dr. Marianne Jacob and Andrew Shenoy, who were married April 17 at the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in Lower Manhattan, even that relatively small geographical gap was sometimes difficult to bear. From 2016 to 2019, the couple dated while […]
Julie Peak and Dr. Samuel Haywood have never lived in the same city. Ms. Peak, a principal of the consulting firm SullivanCotter, currently works and lives in St. Louis with her two young sons from a previous marriage, John and Oliver. Dr. Haywood, a urologic oncologist at Cleveland Clinic, lives and works in Cleveland. The […]