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The Daily

'Modern Love': He’s Gay. She’s Straight. They’re Newlyweds.

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.4102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Jacob Hoff and Samantha Greenstone call their unlikely love “a soul connection."

Transcript

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0:00.0

Love now and...

0:02.8

Love now.

0:03.5

Love was stronger than anything.

0:06.8

And I love you more than anything.

0:10.9

There's to love.

0:11.6

Love.

0:15.1

From the New York Times, I'm Anna Martin.

0:17.6

This is Modern Love.

0:19.2

Every week, we bring you stories about love, lust,

0:22.9

heartbreak, and all the messiness of relationships. Now, typically, these conversations come

0:28.5

from the Modern Love column. But today, we were inspired by the Vow's section of the paper,

0:33.2

and we're talking to a pair of newlyweds, Jacob Hoff and Samantha Greenstone.

0:40.5

Right away, the details of their wedding stuck out to me.

0:44.6

Like, for example, the song Jacob chose to walk down the aisle to.

0:49.2

I wanted to come down to the Phantom of the Opera.

0:53.4

There's this moment this woman just screams, and it's like, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun.

0:59.6

And I was like, that's what needs to happen as I appear in a mask.

1:05.0

And then Samantha also wanted to put her own spin on the wedding.

1:08.9

I love Titanic.

1:10.3

There was a point where I wanted to have a sinking Titanic on top of our wedding cake, but my mother

1:15.5

and the wedding planner said, no, you ought to have an event where thousands of people died

1:20.0

on your wedding day.

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