So I had to find creative ways to be like, ‘Oh, your name got brought up in conversation with so and so.’ And to try and do that again, day after day, I had to get more and more creative. WM: “Well, I couldn't just like DM her randomly because we weren't that close. And I told our mutual friend, ‘I have a crush on Gabrielle.'” WM: “And then, two years later, I wasn't in a relationship anymore. She was in a relationship, so we just stayed friends for a couple of years.” We met because I was loitering there and she came in. And Wallace lived down the street from it. GK: “I moved to Bedstuy above a coffee shop that my best friend owned. Gabrielle Korn: “Okay, so we met because.” “So I bought a ring.” Below, Korn and May share details on how they met, proposed, wed, and continue to love and laugh together. “It was a period of time where you realize the person you want with you for when things are the worst is your person,” says Korn. Their relationship has survived a pandemic, a layoff, and family illnesses, many of which were jammed into the same few months. It’s been five years since Korn and May’s first date-a Feist concert-and roughly six months since their wedding-an elopement courtesy of.

“There is something romantic about it because you're not alone.”

But when I made a joke about keeping the romance alive through conversations around budgets, Korn’s laughter paused. (To be fair, I was asking them to vocalize emotions like true love, so who could fault them?). There were girlish giggles and smiles from ear to ear. Within minutes of discussing their relationship, the two showed me something different. Korn, the former editor-in-chief of Nylon and author of Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes. Gabrielle Korn and Wallace May are two highly-lauded individuals within their respective fields.

Yours for the Taking by Gabrielle Korn