Shopping for an engagement ring is an exciting occasion, with lots of options to explore, but it can be hard to know where to start. Once you have one or two anchors, the search gets easier. Maybe you already know the shape and your preferred metal color. From there, you can compare settings, metal materials, […]
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Cowboy boots can make a great wedding shoe, but choosing the right pair takes more than finding a style that looks good with a dress. You may be wearing them through the ceremony, photos, dinner, and several hours of dancing, and the venue can change just as much as the outfit does. When I’m choosing
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Tawkify and Kelleher International both offer professional matchmaking for people who want more help than they’re getting from typical dating apps, but each is targeting a different audience. Tawkify works with a broader range of people looking for high-touch matchmaking, while Kelleher is more selective and tends to work with high-profile individuals whose dating lives
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I knew what I wanted my engagement ring to look like long before I knew enough about diamonds to shop for one confidently. I sent my now-husband a pretty specific set of ideas: a pear-shaped center stone, a skinny white-metal band, and nothing so elaborate that the setting would compete with the stone. Then I
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When I’m buying a wedding gift, I don’t want to give someone something generic just because it looks respectable wrapped in a box. I want to feel like I’m making the couple’s life a little better after the wedding is over and they’re back to normal, laundry, work, and figuring out who stole the blankets
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I looked at engagement rings for years before I got engaged, which probably says as much about the way I make decisions as it does about rings. I knew fairly early that I wanted a pear-shaped center stone because I liked the way the longer shape looked on my hand, and I wanted either white
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One of my best friends used to squeeze dates into a schedule that already felt impossible. She was in med school, knew she wanted marriage and kids, and sometimes a first date meant going straight from studying or a long day into dinner because there simply wasn’t another free night that week. I watched her
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I’m married now, but I’ve done the dating-after-a-relationship-ends thing, and I watched one of my best friends spend years trying to find the person she wanted to build a life with. She tried It’s Just Lunch and a few other matchmaking services along the way, so I saw pretty closely what she hoped paying for
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