The groom decided early he would not accept an arranged marriage, and then embarked on a journey that brought true love with the ups and downs.

Tracey Jenell Knuckles and Christopher Leslie White were married Saturday at the Convent Avenue Baptist Church in Manhattan.

Anna Scott Robertson and Daniel Wetherbee Wildman were married Saturday at Meridian House in Washington.

The couple were married Saturday at the First Presbyterian Church of Englewood in Englewood, N.J.

Alison Zero and Trevor Martin Jones were married Saturday by Carissa Uschold, a Universal Life minister, at Hurd Orchards in Holley, N.Y.

Dr. Jamie Meehan Roach and Ian Alexander Charles Murray were married Saturday at St. Elizabeth’s Church in Edgartown, Mass. The Rev. Dom Damian Kearney, a Roman Catholic priest, performed the ceremony.

Alexandra Jane Roberts, the daughter of Annette R. Roberts and Paul G. Roberts of Newton Centre, Mass., is to be married Sunday to Dr. Eric Goralnick, a son of Elaine M. Goralnick and Murray Goralnick of Los Angeles. Rabbi Herman Blumberg is to officiate at the Wequassett Inn in Chatham, Mass.

Gwendolyn Marshall Radsch and David Melvin Roy Mendelsohn were married Saturday at the Picnic House in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Eileen Regan, a Humanist celebrant, officiated.

Lindsay Vern Burton and Thomas Vietor Sheehan were married Saturday at Grace Episcopal Church in Keswick, Va. The Rev. Julie L. Norton, the church’s rector, performed the ceremony.

A singer, upon discovering her Appalachian roots, begins to claim it as her own.