David Darwin first learned some of his circus skills as a shy and awkward teenager; over the years it got easier to meet girls.

Mr. Davis is a lawyer; Mr. Howe writes children’s books.

The couple met at Dartmouth.

The bride was until March an associate counsel at a New York company that verifies securities trades; the bridegroom is a counsel at an investor protection agency in New York.

The bride is a marketing and outreach manager at Primary Source, a nonprofit organization ; the bridegroom is pursuing a Ph.D. in music history at Harvard.

The couple are both neurologists.

The couple met at Duke, from which both received law degrees and from which the bride also received an M.B.A.

The bride is a writer; the bridegroom is a picture editor with The New York Times.

The couple met at Churchill College at Cambridge University, from which they received degrees.

The couple marry on an island in Connecticut.