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Well-Mannered

Wedding Q.&A.

When to send out thank-you notes, and how to inform guests of a change of address.

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Vows

Finding a First Kiss and Love Right Back at Home

By NINA REYES

Tim Gruber for The New York Times

Tchao Thao and Susie Vang at their reception at a classical revival house in Cottage Grove, Minn.

A reporter goes back home and finds her biggest story waiting for her.

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Field Notes

Standing on Ceremony for a Couple of Regulars

By JAMES BARRON

Devin Yalkin for The New York Times

From left, Chris Barnes, Jacqui Squatriglia, Robert A. Beattey Jr. and Thomas E. Corcoran IV. Mr. Barnes and Ms. Squatriglia, who own the Flaming Saddles bar, officiated.

Owners of a Hell’s Kitchen bar fully embrace the idea of hosting weddings.

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Emma Mead

They Were Singing and Dancing in the Rain

By BOB WOLETZ

The Broadway couple might never have met but for one of those backstage moments upon which so many plays and movies are built.

Suzy Cho

A Tale of Recovery Leads to Romance

By VINCENT M. MALLOZZI

The groom’s harrowing ordeal as a child left the bride amazed.

David Adler and Cole Crittenden

Mr. Adler is a program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Mr. Crittenden is an associate dean at Princeton University’s graduate school.

Ann Clark and William Kendall

The bride is the vice president for marketing at Wall Colmonoy, a materials engineering company; the groom is an executive director at the New York City Department of Buildings.

Marki Grimsley and Benjamin Zabar

The couple met at Dartmouth, from which they graduated, both cum laude.

Dorna Moini and Troy Pospisil

The bride is a lawyer; the groom is the chief executive and the founder of InCloudCounsel, an online legal services company.

Anna Selberg and Colin Samuels

The couple was married while rafting on the Colorado River.

Rebecca Israel and Hannah Ellenson

Ms. Israel manages an office-space site in San Francisco; Ms. Ellenson is an associate director for leadership development for the New Israel Fund.

Wedding Album

Unique Wedding Accessories

The Vows section of The Times publishes an occasional series of readers’ wedding-related Instagram photos, called Wedding Album. This month’s theme is unique wedding accessories.

Slide Show

Highlights From Bridal Fashion Week

Held shortly after a month of ready-to-wear presentations conclude in Paris, Bridal Week in New York City is a relative bastion of traditionalism.

A couple posed for wedding photographs against a backdrop of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong on Oct. 1.

Sinosphere Blog

Love Blooms Amid the Umbrellas in Hong Kong

By MICHAEL FORSYTHE

The barricaded areas in the financial district have served as a backdrop for wedding and graduation photos, as young Hong Kongers intertwine their personal lives with the historical significance of the protests.

Lens Blog

Same-Sex Couples, at Ease at Home

By RENA SILVERMAN

Sage Sohier’s photos of same-sex couples were inspired, in part, by her father — who never admitted he was gay despite having lived with boyfriends.

This Land

A Couple Gaining Independence, and Finding a Bond

By DAN BARRY

After a federal inquiry in Rhode Island turned the workplace of their repetitive jobs upside down, a couple with intellectual disabilities is marrying, learning to budget and adjusting to a new freedom.

At Tarboosh Hookah Bar in Clarksville, Tenn., Madison Sloan, from left, mingled with the owner Fatah Hantouli, Jennifer Kennedy, Abdel Hantouli and Wael Qoutmosh. Clarksville is great for single women, with its ratio of 145 employed men to 100 women.

The Upshot

The Best Places to Find a Mate (Who Has a Job)

By DAMON DARLIN

Clarksville, Tenn., might be fun for single women. We look at other places where, according to research, the odds are good for both sexes.

Unhitched

Together on the Road to Divorce

By LOUISE RAFKIN

Valerie and Clark Tate’s wedding took place in 2000, and while they “unhitched” in 2007, they remain legally married, share a home and are raising their son together.