Matthew Robbins Design and Robbins Otoya Senior Event & Wedding Planner Melissa Deane and Scott Simone, the managing editor of Yahoo Life Shopping, first met as she was moving into their Brooklyn apartment. She had just packed up her life from Ireland, and they were sharing a flat with two other roommates.  Over the next six months, they became fast friends. Once Melissa moved out, their romantic relationship began. “Some may say it was the greatest love story in the history of Craigslist,” Scott laughs. After seven years together, Scott proposed during their European holiday in Flore ..read more

After interior designer Madeleine Grace Howe said, “Yes,” to model-turned-restaurateur Greg Franck Balaguette’s romantic at-home proposal, the two sailed around Manhattan in celebration. Once the excitement settled, the couple decided they’d have a civil ceremony in NYC and seven months later, they’d host their wedding at Meridian House in Madeleine’s hometown of Washington D.C. Aana Create photographed each weekend event all of which the bride planned herself.   “The wedding venue, Meridian House, was the only venue we looked at. I had been to a wedding there in 2007 and though ..read more

“It’s not very romantic or exciting, but we met on Hinge, while we were both living in Los Angeles,” cookbook author and recipe developer Alexis deBoschnek says of how she connected with Ryan Nethery, a director of photography. “Both of us went into the first date with low expectations—I had just quit my job and was about to go to Europe for a month. Ryan had moved to L.A. six months prior,” Alexis shares. “We ended up going on three dates in a week before my trip and texted the entire time I was gone.” A sure sign they were committed to each other? He picked her up from LAX when she got back ..read more

Sydney Priore and Rahul Ghosh’s love story began inside the four walls of their AP Biology classroom, but it was a slow evolution from being high school friends to a college-aged couple. The next six years were spent long-distance because of graduate school and their burgeoning careers with numerous flights between Atlanta and New York. After nine years together, Rahul proposed on Martha’s Vineyard. It’s a special place for Sydney, as she spent summers with her grandparents there and has early memories of her relationship with Rahul on this island. Once engaged, there was another surprise in s ..read more

Lily Moore went to college with Peter Breining’s sister, Tory, and over the years, she’d spend time with his family at their house on Fishers Island. One thing led to another, and their acquaintanceship blossomed into a friendship-turned romance—with Tory’s blessing, of course. After a year-and-a-half together, Peter proposed two days after his birthday in a floral-filled suite at The High Line Hotel in New York City. Fun fact: this particular hotel was the former home of Lily’s distant relative, writer Clement Clark Moore, who famously wrote: “Twas the night before Christmas…” Originally want ..read more

Isabella Alicia Brown and Sean Clinton Brown, who now run sailing charter business Sail Tahoe Blue together, went to the same high school and knew of each other but didn’t officially connect until years later at a dive bar in their hometown of Los Gatos, California. After seven-and-a-half years together, Sean proposed on the island of Madeira in Portugal. They were going to check out a surf spot, and he pulled over to a beautiful outlook. “There was a dirt trail that led out to a bluff above the cliff. Sean waited for me and held out his hand. . .This is when I knew something must be up becaus ..read more

Maria Cecilia Brennand Campos and Pedro Henrique Prado Berto met at a mutual friend’s birthday party on the last day before Brazil shut down due to the pandemic and used the unexpected time to get to know one another. They quickly fell in love. A little more than a year later, they formed a civil union for legal purposes—which inadvertently sparked the idea of a wedding.  “There was no proposal!” Maria Cecilia says. “I got promoted at work and had excellent health insurance, so I asked Pino if he wanted to do ‘união estável,’ or stable union, which is one level below official marriage in ..read more

Seven years after Le Creuset Category Marketing Manager Emma Cissel and Daniel Bybee first crossed paths at the College of Charleston, he proposed where it all began, their alma mater. While on the way to dinner, he suggested they take a look at the Christmas decor in the Cistern Yard. There, he dropped to one knee and asked Emma to marry him, surrounded by twinkling lights.  Once engaged, Emma and Daniel chose The Ponte Vedra Inn & Club in Florida for their spring ceremony. “I debated a few locations both in Charleston and destination, but after getting further into planning, I reali ..read more

Doctors Tina Ramineni and Steven Lange met in medical school, and after four years together, he proposed along the beach in La Jolla Shores in her hometown of San Diego, California. “He played our song, as a photographer captured the magical moment,” Tina remembers. “A few sea lions even crashed our photos!” Having grown up in Southern California, the bride wanted a “colorful coastal wedding,” she explains. The couple fell in love with Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes with unobstructed ocean views for their springtime nuptials. Weddings by Susan Dunne brought their vision to life, as Any ..read more

Shortly after Stan Golubchik proposed to Jennifer Bergman on a trip to San Miguel de Allende in 2022, she booked their first wedding vendor: photographer Jessica Mangia, whom she discovered on Instagram. “Despite not having a wedding venue, date, or planner, I reached out to Jessica because I loved her ability to capture timeless, artistic imagery with an old-world, editorial aesthetic,” Jennifer says. “We connected immediately. It could’ve been because she was born on the same day as my husband; however, it was definitely because she is honest, helpful, and hilarious.”  Originally, Italy ..read more