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Kimberly Stokes and Dexter Mason were connected in several ways as adolescents, but didn’t connect until college and, later, an auto event.

Former brides reveal where they splurged and where they scrimped for their nuptials — and what (if anything) they would have done differently.

Once a symbolic way for enslaved people in the American South to recognize their marriages, modern couples say that this tradition is a way to...