Tag: Valentines
Amy Forbes and Andy Murr have proven to be a sure bet for love
Amy Forbes’ mother often said, “Weddings — such a good place to meet people!” It turns out she knew what she was talking about. Forbes and her husband, Andy Murr, met at the wedding of a friend. “It’s always so annoying when mothers end up being right,” said Murr. The fateful wedding was held in […]
Weekends in Rome sealed the Doerings’ relationship
A romantic rendezvous in Rome is where Bruce and Lynn Doering of Ridgewood Place started their 50-plus years together. They were both students at Stanford University in Palo Alto, where they met — she a sophomore from Las Vegas and he a junior from Montana. Bruce spotted her in their Italian class and, as he […]
The Griffiths: Nearly seven decades of love on McCadden, June
After 67 years of marriage, Stephen and Louise Griffith are still going strong. The two met at Stanford University at a party for the new freshman class. It was on the baseball diamond and, all these years later, the two remember it well. “It was a lot of fun,” said Louise. “I was looking forward […]
Magic is in the air with Katrina Kroetch and Brendan McGuigan
Brendan McGuigan doesn’t believe in soulmates, but he told us that he knew very quickly that he’d found his in Katrina Kroetch. McGuigan, a marketing consultant who grew up in Mendocino, California, met Kroetch, a native of Portland, Oregon, two years ago on Tinder. The dating app was something Kroetch had tried a couple of […]
Lizzie and Steve Blatt: an artful romance that spanned an ocean
Lizzie Pearl Rudoff met Steve Blatt in London in 2007, and they married in Steve’s backyard in Windsor Square two and a half years later. The path that brought together the British mother of two and the divorced Los Angeles business manager was unexpected and marked by tragedy, art and more than a little fairy […]
Tim and Jane Paulson celebrate golden year in Hancock Park
On a beautiful fall afternoon in the backyard of their Hancock Park home of 38 years, Tim and Jane Paulson threw a big family party to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. Toddlers ran around, food was catered and the weather was golden. Jane had always wanted a fall wedding. When Tim proposed to her in […]
