A Life Graced With Love Letters and Notes Lisa Wiltse for The New York Times The wedding of Christina Daigneault and Simon Van Booy at the Whitney Center in Hamden, Conn. Christina Daigneault and Simon Van Booy are anomalies in a digital world: they write letters and thank-you notes; the kind that require stamps. They both have personalized stationery: correspondence cards from a small engraving and letterpress shop in Oyster Bay, N.Y., with their names printed across the top. He writes her love letters on other stationery, from hotels all over the world, and she tucks tiny notes into the freezer or nestles them within the pages of a book he is reading so they might flutter out like confetti when he removes a box of pizza bagels or arrives at a certain passage. But they do live in a digital world, and their first contact was by e-mail. Ms. Daigneault, who owns a public relations agency in New York, sent Mr. Van Booy, then a freelance culture critic for The New York Sun, a pitch for an article in 2007. Mr. Van Booy did not write the article, but recalls being charmed by Ms. Daigneault's elegantly composed e-mail. Neither gave the exchange much thought. At the time, Ms. Daigneault was dating someone and Mr. Van Booy was married. In early 2010, Mr. Van Booy came across a photograph of Ms. Daigneault on his computer. He had saved it after looking her up during their first correspondence. He is the author of several books, including "The Secret Lives of People in Love," a story collection, and most recently the novel "The Illusion of Separateness," and said he collects images of faces for characters, and Ms. Daigneault's was one such face. She inspired Rebecca, a character in his novel "Everything Beautiful Began After." "She looks very French," said Mr. Van Booy, now 38, who grew up in Wales and England. She has eyes that taper at the ends like almonds and a peculiarly shaped head that many of the 18th-century painters liked. By 2010, his life had undergone wrenching changes. His wife, Lorilee, died in 2008 and he was raising their daughter, Madeleine, alone. Mr. Van Booy, who also teaches part-time at the School of Visual Arts, sent Ms. Daigneault an e-mail: Would she like a copy of his short story collection, "Love Begins in Winter"? Ms. Daigneault was surprised (not unpleasantly) to hear from him. Her life also had seen changes: she had just moved back to New York from London after her relationship had ended. She read the book, and a few months later they met for coffee and met again a handful of times over the next year. Ms. Daigneault, also now 38, noted the "natural energy and synergy" and nonstop conversation that always outlasted whatever they were eating or drinking. But again, romance never occurred to either of them; he had just begun a new relationship. In February 2011, she won tickets to Gluck's "Iphigénie en Tauride" at the Metropolitan Opera. She invited Mr. Van Booy, an opera buff and by now unattached. "There was extreme chemistry," she said. It was obvious. For Mr. Van Booy, the night had a "very distinct feeling." "The world was just really exciting when I was around her," he said. Everything was fun and glamorous, and it was as though a melancholy has been lifted off of my life. They did not speak of it at the time, but both say they fell in love that night. The next day, she canceled a date she was to have gone on that evening. In April, she met Madeleine at an outing at the American Museum of Natural History. By June, Mr. Van Booy and Ms. Daigneault were a couple. Lucas Hunt, a poet and friend of Mr. Van Booy's, said his mood, normally somewhat melancholy, lightened dramatically during that time. "I started calling Simon "the happiest man in the world," " he said. Because he started getting really glowy. I asked him if she made him happy. He said, "I just want to make her happy." " Both had plunged into the unfamiliar before. Ms. Daigneault, the only child of two harness racers, grew up on a horse farm in Old Brookville on Long Island. After graduating from Marymount Manhattan College, she worked for political campaigns and as an aide to a state assemblyman before becoming a lawyer. Then she gave up the law for a new career in public relations. Mr. Van Booy first arrived in the United States on a scholarship to play football (the American kind) at Campbellsville University in Kentucky.