How did you meet your husband?

MrsChanceW

This is just for fun. I love hearing about how couples met each other. How did you meet your husband?

 I met mine at a town festival.All my friends had dates and I had just been dumped the month before and was sad and complaining to my friends that I would "die alone" and never meet anyone. (Yes, I am a drama queen.) I was up by the band dancing with my friends when all the sudden my Dad drags this really hot guy up to me. My dad says to this guy, "This is my daughter you should date her." I at the time I was mortified because it is very embarrassing to have your dad drag a handsome stranger up to you and tell him to date you. Anyway we danced the night away. He asked me for my number, called me the next day and we have been together ever since. That's how I met my husband.

R.Wilsonny

Hubby and I both are DJs. One day, my booking agent from Belgium called me saying that he had a gig for me in Paris and was I free on the date proposed by the promoter. I said yes, and my agent told me that my H was also booked for that same weekend then said 'you know him right? He's from NYC too.' I knew who my H was from seeing his name around, but never met him surprisingly because of what we do. So we went to Paris together and the rest was, as they say, history. This is the short short version of the story btw....we've been together for 10 years though and I remember this like it was yesterday

WendyGR

Match.com 

We even gave out matchbooks at our reception that had our names and wedding date and the phrase "a perfect match."

chrisnjay05212010

We were both working at this huge shopping outlet mall in our area. I worked in Maidenform and he worked for a little bistro across the way that all the girls used to get lunch at. Apparently he had spotted me before and told the guy he worked with about me so then next time i came in, his friend, hey this is my friend J, have you met him? From there we struck up a conversation and we've been together 13 years now.

DaBearsWife

H and I both lived on campus. I was restless one night and went for a walk around 2am. When I got to the end of 'dorm row' I found a large group of students playing some bizarre game they called Ninja. They taught me how to play and I jumped in. I played for a few hours but wasn't very good. When you were eliminated you had to sit on the stoop. H stayed on the stoop with me and chatted me up. They called themselves the stoop kids. They had a FB group and everything. After coming by the next few nights to play I asked H (the FB moderator) to add me to the group. He refused because I hadn't been hanging around long enough. I say it was his way of making sure I would keep coming back. He says it was strictly business. 4 years later we married!

jessica490

WendyGR said:

Match.com 

We even gave out matchbooks at our reception that had our names and wedding date and the phrase "a perfect match."

Haha, we did this as well but we didn't meet on match.com. Cute! H and I met through my best friend at the time. They worked together. Once we met things moved quick,

Disneygeek77

We met at church.  Well, technically we met at a BBQ joint after church. 

We were both in the singles group at our church.  One day we all decided to go eat BBQ for lunch.  I remember walking in the door and saw him sitting there with some other guys from our group  ( I had never seen him before this point).  It wasn't love at first sight, but I do remember him smiling and laughing and I sat across the table from him because I got a " nice guy" vibe from him. 

We were friends for about 5 months before we started dating. 

 

TarponMonoxide

At a club on New Year's Eve.

Leftie22

OP, sweet move on your dad's part! That's pretty cute. I met my DH online. Unlike many of the other posters, he had a really funny profile that made him seem like a total weirdo. I was too curious to resist writing him, because he seemed different and I thought if nothing else, meeting him would be a unique experience. Turns out he was cute, funny, and we had the same interests. We met for coffee, but ended up in a nearby antique store, trying on vintage clothes and laughing our butts off. I liked that I could be myself in front of him right away. Now it's been 4 years and he's still weird but sweet.

Lilyrose4242

I love reading these!

When I was little my parents took me up to South Dakota, we lived in Colorado, to meet all the family and family friends. H's parent's are good friends with my parents. According to his mom, H was fascinated with my red hair and wouldn't leave me alone so I hit him with a toy train. 18 years of being best friends and 3 years of dating later we're married.

MommyLiberty5013

Cool stories.

DH and I met on eHarmony. Both of us had just broken off relationships with other people (so we probably shouldn't have been dating anybody since we were both on the rebound). I was living in Richmond, VA and he was in Denver, CO. He traveled out to see me every 2 weeks (pilot) and every day we talked on the phone for 2+ hours. Our entire relationship and engagement was LD. We met in July 2005. Got engaged in January 2006. Got married August 2006. We have 3 kids now.

 

sillygoosegirl

We met in college, at the very beginning of my freshman year, his sophomore year.  It was the second club meeting of an informal club we were both involved in.  I didn't know him at all, but he walked up to me and greeted me by name as if we knew each other.  Then he introduced himself to my friend who was there with me.  DH doesn't remember this at all (I guess from his perspective, it wasn't weird), but it made a big impression on my friend and me.  It's not every day that a cute upperclassman kind of creepily just knows who you are.  The next night he asked me to dance the polka, which also made a big impression, but it was a mixer and by the end of the song he was gone.  I didn't see him again for a while.  And then when I did see him again, I thought he was the boyfriend of this other guy I was interested in within the social group I'd entrenched myself with (turns out, no, they were just good friends, as became clear when that other guy developed a girlfriend).  I made so many great friendships that semester, it wasn't until I had to go home for a month for Winter break that I realized there was one person I missed more than all the others put together.  We started dating basically as soon as we got back from break.  That was almost 13 years ago now.  

kc727

My husband and I met at church.

pittiemama14

H and I met while both working at Kmart our freshman year of college. I was his supervisor. We worked together for about 6 months before I worked up the courage to invite him to a party my brother was having, and the rest is history.

erollis

First day of Junior year art class. I ended up sitting in one of two open seats left. It happened to be across from DH. Our eyes met. He made me laugh and that was all it took. 12 years later we're still crazy about each other.

NavyBlue143

Plentyoffish.com

After a year on okcupid (gag) and being rejected by eharmony because they had no matches for me, was on plenty of fish for about a month, H emailed me because he recognized the local renaissance fair in one of my pictures. He claims he told his best friend after 2 weeks that he was going to marry me. We were engaged after 3 months. 2 year engagement, married just over a year.

lfk2013

We met on Match.com.

He looked eerily familiar on our first date.  Come to find out, we actually met in college (he was a freshman, I was in my last semester as a senior).  I remembered him because he mentioned wearing this hideous Hawaiian shirt with beer steins and kegs all over it and I remember thinking at a party "Who would wear a shirt like that in public?!".    I knew he was it for me around my birthday in September.  My mom, however, says she knew within a few weeks of us dating.  

jennifermcnatt

My husband and I met on E-harmony. Will be married for 4 years in April.

SURFERxGIRL

These are some cute stories! I normally just lurk here but I'll join in for this one.

DH and I met in high school theatre. His younger brother and I were both had parts in Dracula and DH was working on the crew, building the set. We didn't see each other that much, and didn't really talk to one another, but I became friends with his brother and eventually we all started hanging out. We started dating about a year later while we working on another production.

ebcrist

This is fun!

Our story is a bit of a love triangle. DH and I met my freshman year. I was introduced once to him briefly and casually by another friend, but I didn't really "meet" him until my college roommate and best friend re-introduced us and started organizing occasions for us to all hang out. I really liked how cute, smart, and quirky he was, but turns out, she had a giant crush on him. I was really shy  and never thought that he would notice me romantically, so I let her have all the drama that year until he actively asked me out instead of her. I loved my friend dearly, but I couldn't resist the boy. We were married two years later. (My best friend was a dear-heart and was in our wedding. I think she mostly forgave me....I'm not sure she ever entirely forgave him)

DLB&MRB

My DH and I are high school sweetheart. I met him when I was talking to another guy.  The guy was using my DH's phone to text me while we was at school and one day I texted the phone my DH responded back to tell the guy was gone. And it was all started with just "one text message."

Janessadawn

We met at one of the skeeviest dive bars in town. Really. It closed about a month after we met and it definitely wasn't a place where you wore your nice shoes. I'd just gotten home from the store when I decided to text my longtime friend to see what he was up to that night. My plan was to make a pot pie and watch TV, but for some reason his offer of "come watch my buddy's band with me" sounded more appealing. The band wasn't great, but during the set some guy walked over to where I was standing by myself and tried to get me to "rock out" with him. Against my normal character, I obliged. After the band we wandered around downtown talking for hours, and finally going to an all-night diner. We ran into his 2 sisters so they came with us too (nothing like meeting the family right off the bat). Some of his Army buddies were at the diner; he couldn't remember my name and introduced me as Janelle. I calmly corrected him and it's one of those stories that is still funny. I took him back to his car at 3 am where he asked (yes, asked!) if he could give me a goodnight kiss. Again against my normal character, I said yes, and the rest is history.

Wife Kitty

These are awesome stories! My husband and I remember meeting when we were freshmen in high school, but apparently we may have actually met all the way back in preschool. (I was in the class next door to his, so even though we don't remember back that far, we could very well have played together. We may even be in each other's family home videos, since we were in the same year and we would have "graduated" from preschool on the same day, and both of our dads filmed the event.)

At any rate, we attended both high school and college together, had a lot of the same mutual friends, lived in the same dorm building, and were pretty close friends throughout. We'd had a crush on each other back in our high school days and we used to flirt over AIM, but we were both too shy to actually admit our feelings and ask the other one out. Then when college came we both got into serious relationships with other people - I was dating my ex for five and a half years, and he dated his ex on and off for four years.

Both of our relationships ended at the beginning of 2006; he and his ex broke up shortly after the new year, and my ex and I broke up on Valentine's Day. I was upset, but that very night my husband treated me to a nice dinner at an Italian restaurant as a double date with our married friends. He held open doors for me, pulled out my chair, paid for everything and told me that even though I'd just had a bad breakup, I still deserved to feel special on Valentine's Day.

Two months after that we finally cut the flirting and just admitted that those feelings in high school had never completely gone away. We had our first kiss exactly sixty years to the day that my favorite grandmother had married the love of her life. I always took that as a sign from her and Grandpa that he was the one... and sure enough, six years later, he proposed. We were married this spring.

Kimbus22

First day of sophomore year of college.  I went to visit a friend because he announced he'd been at school for 1 hour and his new roommate had already gotten him drunk.  DH was the new roommate.

Sillygirl45

EHarmony. Figured the free dinners alone were worth the price of joining! Maybe I'm compatible to EVERYONE but I had a ton of dates and matches and had a lot of fun! H was very sweet and I loved his honesty. We've been together 5 years, married 3.

BulgariHeart

We met at a friend's 18th birthday party, he was the deejay. I didn't even want to go, my BFF at the time told me "No, you should go! What if the love of your life is there?" So I went. And there he was. That was 17 years ago.

Batgirl95

My husband and I met via on Facebook via a mutual friends status in December of last year....started talking online, then on the phone, officially entered a relationship in March of this year, met in person in April(we lived 7 hours away from each other), got engaged in May, and just got married November 9th :-)

skaitlin

My husband and I met because our families know each other. Our older brother's have been best friends since we were little kids. But we officially became friends when we were in high school and went to youth group together. We were friends for several years, and we started dating in 2007. Neither of us had a significant other before we became a couple. Now we have been a couple for 6 years and married for 3 1/2 months. 

aud5879

H and I served on a jury together in 2008.  I made cookies for my jury buddies one day (although they were really for him, lol).  We started talking, went out on a few dates and when he told me "I knew those cookies were for me", I knew he was the one.  We just got married on Nov. 9th this year. 

consciousdear88

Short boring version: we met at the mall.

Long more fun version: I got a job at the mall the summer before I started college working at a store that sold CD's and DVD's. When I started there, I had three managers: two girls who were fairly driven and work oriented and one guy who got things done at his own pace.

The store manager noticed that when she scheduled the guy associates with the guy manager (there'd be two or three of us on schedule at most for night shifts), barely anything got done. When I was scheduled with him, I'd constantly be keeping busy and would get tasks completed.
As a result, I'd CONSTANTLY get scheduled with the guy manager during nights.

My husband would come visit the store from time to time. Because the two would sit and discuss video games and movies, he would usually stop in during nights the guy manager worked. As a result, I was always there when he'd come to visit.

lisa2008boo

I was 13 and had just moved back to my mom's it was the summer before 8th grade. I knew zero people in my new town. School started and that weekend was the first football game for the high school. so I went with a few girls I had meet at school. As we were walking around one of the girls in our group started talking to a friend she had in this group of guys. We all kinda hung out the rest of the night talking and walking around. After the game was over my husband came up and asked if he could walk me home. I said "no I don't know you" I ended up walking with him and a few other friends. Before dropping me off at home he pulled me aside and asked if I would like to go out. I again resounded with a "no I don't know you". The next day at school we were in the halls between classes and he sent one of his friends over to ask me out for him again. I finally gave in he was annoying me so I figured I would date him for a week and that would be the end of it. We dated for a year broke up and dated a few more times in high school. Got pregnant our junior year it ended in a miscarriage and ended our relationship I thought forever. After high school we didn't talk for 2 years and dated other people. We finally got back together 4 years ago and decided right then and there if we dated again we would get married and be together forever. I told him if we broke up we were done he would never break my heart again. We have been together ever since. =]

He is my first love. Most people don't have that so young but we were blessed. We have been though a lot together and over the years it has made our bond very strong. He is my husband but he is also my best friend.