Emily, a NICU nurse from Silver Spring, and Michael, a data analyst from Annandale, recognized each other on a dating app as having a mutual friend. They exchanged numbers and met for dinner at Union Market for a first date that would last six hours. Three years later, Michael proposed on the National Mall at
Lauren, a physician assistant from Virginia, and Aaron, a director at a consulting firm from Michigan, met on Bumble and dated for two and a half year before getting engaged on a vacation in Maui. Their August wedding at Raspberry Plain Manor in Leesburg included 225 guests, and was designed in a palette of white,
Phoebe, a clinical guidelines specialist, and Lee, a principal product support engineer both from Virginia met on Coffee Meets Bagel. On their first date, they bonded over a shared list of bucket list travel destinations, and the surprise to them both that their pets his dog and her cat shared the name “Oreo.” They talked and sipped bubble tea
Lara, an attorney from Reston, and George, a physician from Italy, met on Bumble. She thought he was handsome and had an easygoing charm; he thought she was professional, sophisticated, and sexy. For their first date, they met at a wine bar halfway between their houses, in Occoquan. After nearly two years of dating, George