Collocations for romance - noun

brief
broken
whirlwind
They married after a whirlwind romance.

budding
the budding romance between Richard and Elise

holiday (BrE), summer
office
Have you ever had an office romance?

online
Everyone knows that online romances never work out.

teenage
interracial (esp. AmE)
We're seeing more interracial romances in the movies.

fairy-tale
It ruined their perfect fairy-tale romance.

real-life
the true story of a real-life romance

doomed
failed
He was still recovering from a failed romance.

have
They had a brief romance in the eighties.

begin, start

blossom
begin
end

true
interracial (esp. AmE)

find
People find romance in strange places.

be in the air
Could romance be in the air for the young prince?

bloom

love and romance
Most of her songs are about love and romance.