Love through the Years -Liesel Schmidt While the term “childhood sweethearts” may not be fully accurate as a descriptor for Courtney Butters and Sam Ybos, the two have known one another since the first grade, when they both attended Our Lady of Lourdes in Slidell....

Both country fans, it seems that a meeting between Chelsea Loupe and Travis Hood at a Gretchen Wilson concert in 2018 was not chance, but written in the stars. “Neither of us were originally planning on attending, but nothing else was going on that night,” says...

Love and Marriage… -Liesel Schmidt There’s a certain order to things: Boy meets girl, they date, they fall in love, boy asks girl to marry him, girl says yes…and while Elizabeth Nader and Randy Tumminello may have followed said order for the most part, Randy may have...

Bumbling into Love -Liesel Schmidt It only took a few months on Bumble for Jenna Luteman to see Jordan Folse’s profile and swipe right, and when the two of them actually met, they both realized they were a great match. “He was so cute, and I loved his sense of humor,”...

Love Worth Waiting For -Liesel Schmidt As seventh graders, McKenna Veca and Daniel Crain could never have foreseen that they’d ever get together—much less that they’d end up falling in love. But after starting out as friends and then beginning to date four years later...

Sliding into Love -Liesel Schmidt People joke all the time about sliding into each other’s DMs, but for Ashley Giambelluca and James Theriot, that was the very ice breaker that started their relationship. “Jimmy was out with his friends for his birthday, and I was out...

Eric & Megan By Liesel Schmidt  While it may seem likely to Megan Atkinson and Eric Bertucci that they’d crossed paths before actually meeting in April of 2017, the pool party that precipitated their actual introduction is something they’ll never forget. After...

Whitney Ward and Brennan Kent might have known each other since grammar school and played countless games of basketball against each other at their mutual friend’s house, but it wasn’t until adulthood—and, of course, the undeniably powerful force of two mothers...

While Amy Fairbank and JeanPaul Guidry may have always known each other through their parents, it wasn’t until adulthood that they finally got to really know one another. Years of hinting and planning by both sets of parents to, as JeanPaul puts it, “marry their...

When Erin LeBlanc met Vincent “Cenzo” Caronna in the fourth grade, there were no thoughts of the future that might happen. School mates from then on, the pair didn’t actually consider more until college, when serendipity threw them into the same classes. “After...

It took guts for Russell Reynolds to talk to Courtney Brondum after seeing some of his buddies get turned down by her; but when he did, he found that the girl he thought was so beautiful was more than just a pretty face. After three years of dating, Russell knew that...