So what is your story?

TinaL99

What is the story of how you & DH met, fell in love, & got married?

Mine will follow!

TinaL99

DH & I met back in 2000.  We were both working at Wegmans.  I came back from a year away at college.  I didn't do so well there so I decided to continue working at Wegmans and attend my local community college.  We met in June.  DH asked for my phone # in August but I thought he was still engaged at the time (he had already broken it off, but I didn't know that). 

We were friends so we decided to join a bowling league together with 2 other friends.  We officially started dating in November and moved in together around February (crazy, I know).

We broke up for a few months in 2002.  It was pretty awful.  I moved out and lived with my Grandma for a while.  We finally got back together, got a new apartment and had never been happier!

I did not think we were going to get engaged for a very long time, and I was ok with that.  I was still going to school (got my BS in May 2004) and we didn't have a ton of money to be planning a wedding.  Little did I know that DH was ready to surprise me with an engagement while we were on vacation in Ocean City, MD in August of 2004! 

Then we married in October 2006 and here we are!  I don't think I have ever loved him more than I do now...cue sappy music!

ljo128

My H and I went to school together from 6th grade through high school. I developed a crush on him watching him play basketball our Junior year. Typical high school, I told his friend I liked him, he told his friend he liked me, eventually he asked me out. We started dating in May of our Junior year in HS (2002). We both went away to school (me to rural CNY, he to Buffalo). We stayed together throughout, I moved to Buffalo after I graduated college (May '07). We moved in together in May of '08 and got married this past November.

I don't believe in "soul mates", but I think growing up together gives us a bond that I could never have with someone else.

LauraBeth1401

We met online on match.com actually.  Once you are out of college, it's hard to meet people who are about your age that you see on a regular basis that you might have stuff in common with.  My closest friend lives in Chicago, my other friend is much older than me and that leaves my baby-mama-drama-filled-pot-smoking friend who did not have friends worth dating (tried it for a little while with one who had half a brain but it didn't work out).  So, I tried match.com.  We had our first date and really hit it off in November 2007.  We both knew early on that we would get married and got engaged in September 2008.  Married last May.  He had been divorced and didn't have much of a life outside of running his business so that is how ended up on match.com.  It's not for everyone for sure, but it worked for us.  Been happily ever after since!

battybtags

We met online at American Singles. We started emailing back and forth but I was hesitant because he lived over an hour away from me. I sort of kept dating other people while chatting with him that lived in my area. I think for almost a month he didn't hear from me (and he always brings that up!). I got an email from him after awhile and decided what the heck! 

He drove to my town for our first date (11/2/03)-he picked me up at my aunt's and met her and my Mom! We went to dinner and he came over for a bit. We've pretty much been inseperable since! I moved to his town in 8/04 for a job I landed there then moved in with him the following summer when my lease was up.

We got engaged in Dec 2006 (yes it took him forever! I was ready to give up!) and married 7/19/08.  We had our DD June 2009 and will eventually have another!

Honeydew1894

We met as grad students at Union in 2005. We were both seeing other ppl, but in time, our friendship grew into something more. Once we were single, we started seeing each other in January 2006. We moved in together August of 2006, and have been together ever since! We were married in July 2008, and it's been amazing!

Labbie

We met through Match.com, BUT they never gave him to me (or me to him) as a match.

I was so frustrated with who I was meeting, I finally just plugged in Rochester, age range, non-smoker and hit the button. Needless to say I had pages and pages of guys come up. I was paging through them and his headline caught my eye.

It said "I live in a van down by the river."  I am a huge Chris Farley fan, this headline caught my eye. I sent him an email, and the rest is history. Ironically, he was so frustrated too, and had just changed to a goofy headline to see what would happen.

If it wasn't for Chris Farley, I may never have met my husband.

MoxyMissi

I met DH waaay back in 1996 when I started working with him at my public library.  He was apparently going to ask me out but then found out I was 15 (he was 19).  We were friends at work, and I ended up taking him to my senior ball as friends.  We started dating about two months later, and in the fall I moved to Boston for college.  We did the long distance thing for a couple of years, and I moved back to Rochester after I graduated in 2002.  He proposed in 2003, we got married in 2004, bought a house in 2005, and now here we are!

prncsstp

we met back in 2002, while we were students at SU... he had classes with my roommate (and also had a crush on her), and invited her, and me (by defacto roommate reasons), to a party....

 well, he and I hit it off, and we have been together ever since!

After 5 years, in 2007, he proposed on the top of the Eiffel Tower, while it was all glittery and lit up, and I did jazz hands to say yes! ... the funny thing? I had the ring in my purse all day, nd didnt know it! It was a warm day out, and Nick didnt need his coat, so he kept his jacket in my bag, with the ring in the pocket (and I had wondered why he was pestering me all day to make sure I had my bag! I thought he was being paranoid about pickpockets!)

I never pegged him for the romantic type, and now Paris holds a special place in my heart :-)

 We were married this past May at Hendricks Chapel at Syracuse University, where we met... it all came full circle

goosh24

Technically I have known my DH since I was about 3 or so.  We're from the same community, my sister and he were in the same grade and had the same group of friends, and his sister and I went to preschool together.  Never really had any interactions with each other, except maybe saying hi, but since we're 3 years apart in age, that was pretty normal.  When I was a freshman and he was a senior, my sister told her guy friends to leave me alone, don't hit on me, etc.  I can remember talking to DH once that year, when he asked me if I liked his facial hair and I said yes.  (Funny part is now he always has facial hair and I miss his clean shaven face, so this has haunted me).  I transferred to Oneonta in 2004, where DH was living and teaching in that area.  My sister always wanted me to give him a call, hang out, but I had a BF and was not interested at all.  After that break up, when I lived 2 blocks from him, my sister and some friends came over and we all hung out, then did the same thing the next day.  A day after that, he asked if I wanted to hang out in Oneonta and take a walk and that was really the start of our relationship.  Our relationship moved fast and we basically moved into each others lives and apartments within weeks.  We got engaged in March 2006, and married in June 2007, bought our house July 2009, and now our baby is due in June. 

NikCole

We met back in '99, right after I graduated HS. He had just moved to Buff from Bing, and we were both working at the Gap. I thought he was cute, but never thought I'd date him, or marry him!

He came in one day just to grab his paycheck, and I was on my way to Wegmans for lunch... he said he was going too, and offered to drive (he just got a new car that he wanted to show off We started talking about past jobs we'd had, cuz he had worked for Wegmans before. I told him I used to work at Ted's (a local hotdog joint) and he had never heard of it. I told him he had to try it because "they have like the best hotdogs ever" (he makes fun of me for that line to this day!) Fast forward a few weeks... as I was leaving work he asked me if I wanted to go to Ted's for something to eat later... I didn't even realize he was asking me on a date... I asked him who was going (a bunch of people we worked w/ all used to hang out together) We went to eat, and then planned on going out to the movies, but there was nothing we wanted to see, so we ended up back at his place and watched Good Will Hunting (on VHS!)

We dated on and off for about 4 years (broke up for about 8 months) He never wanted to get married or have kids, which led to us breaking up. He obviously got his sh!t together, and we moved in together in May '03, got engaged July '04 and were married Sept '05. 10 years later, and I've never been happier!

pmpkn219

We met on match.com when I was in med school. I had relocated and knew no one, had no friends. I thought it would be worth a shot. I put up a quote from 50 First Dates and he got the reference. We were both each other's top matches too, so I guess Match was accurate

 As we talked on AIM and emailed, we came to realize we lived Next Door to one another- 2 different apartment complexes, but literally I could hit his building with a stone thrown from my door, and I do Not have a good arm!

So we met over a lukewarm truly mediocre pizza, but despite that romantic start, I knew pretty fast that this was the one, and he did too. He moved in about 6 months later and we never looked back!

sugarland726

We met in college, both working at the cafeteria in September. I had a long term boyfriend so nothing came of it. In March I decided to pledge a sorority and they had a party with one of the fraternities, which just happened to be DH's. We had a great time and started to hang out more. Then I dumped my boyfriend and started going out with DH. He proposed at the top of the CN Tower in Toronto in April of 2006, 3 years after we started dating and just before we graduated college. We got married in April 2007, bought our first house August 2010 and got pregnant October 2010.

Veryluckyone

We met on eharmony.com in 2005.  We started talking online in March 2005.  We ended up meeting in June of that year.  Our second date he met my parents...poor guy.  We moved in together October 2006.  We got engaged June 2007 and married April 2008.  And now we are expecting our first lo very soon!

stargirl0508

We met online in 2006.  We emailed back and forth for a few weeks before meeting in person - March 18, 2006 - a Rochester Amerks game and dinner at Aja Noodle, then out for coffee after that.  He was in Buffalo working on his PhD at UB, I was teaching in Rochester.  Pretty soon one date each weekend turned into alternating weekends at each others places.  I actually knew he could be "the one" on our second date.  I remember leaving his apartment and talking to my college roommate on the phone on the way home telling her I could "spend alot of time with this guy, I mean ALOT of time."  I didn't want to say "marry" for fear of jinxing it.  :-)

So, yeah, weekends together all spring and summer, and we went to a wedding of one of his coworkers in September of that year and at the reception just started talking about who would be in our bridal party someday.  Early 2007 we started talking about timelines, like when we would want to get married, move in together, finishing up his PhD, next steps, all that.  We started looking at rings in March 2007, he called my parents to discuss marriage with them in April 2007, and we got engaged May 5, 2007.  

We wanted a spring 2008 wedding, but ran into a few roadblocks, and ended up with July 19, 2008.  

In a month or so we will have been together 4 years, but it seems like much longer, in a good way!  :-) 

wendyj

One of my bff's set us up. They were working together at the time. December 2001, she mentioned to me that there was a guy she wanted me to meet. I brushed it off. A couple weeks later, she insisted I stop by the restaurant to pick up dinner on my way home from the meeting I had. She somehow convinced me to stop during a blinding snowstorm for pizza. Turns out, she wanted dh to see what I looked like. I had no clue.

In early January 2002, my friend arranged for a bunch of her coworkers, including dh, to meet up after work at a local bar, and had me and another friend tag along. She introduced me to dh, and we didn't spend much time together at first, because we're both kind of shy, but with my friend's prodding I went over and started a conversation. We ended up hanging out the rest of the evening, and he came with my friends and I to a diner for a very early breakfast. He asked me out, we set up a date, but he never asked for my phone number. He ended up getting it from my friend.

We were pretty much inseperable after that. We got engaged at Niagara Falls in July 2003, and married October 2004. We bought our house in June 2006, had our son in May 2008.

chrissie3416

We met at Bourbon Street Bar and Grill in Colonie in 2002.  I was there with my girlfriends hanging out.  My DH came over, asked to see our karaoke song book, plopped down next to me and stayed there the entire night.  He asked for my phone number that night, and called the next day.  We've been together ever since.  Moved in together in 2004, had DD in 2005, got married in 2007 (we did things a lil backwards) and here we are today!

YouandMe912

My H had just graduated from College and moved back home for the summer. I was nannying the 5 boys that live in the same circle his parents live. They have a swimming pool and the boys love to use it!

Needless to say all of a sudden my H started coming outside and swimming with us more and more. Then we would get drinks together after work etc. All of a sudden we were dating.

We got engaged in May 2008, married just recently in September 2009. 

badtzmaru22

We met during our junior year of college in 2002.  He lived three hours away, but was down at my school for a party.  It turned out my college friends were his high school friends, and he was visiting them that weekend.  We hit it off right away, but I was not sure about the distance.  It ended up working out great - I had school to concentrate on during the week, and then saw him on weekends. 

We got engaged in the fall of 2004, and planned to get married the next fall, but he ended up in the hospital instead!  We finally got married in June 2006.  We were long distance until the fall of 2005, even though he'd already bought a house.  I was a bit in denial about leaving my job and a city that I loved, but it all worth it!

JenJar

I don't post here often anymore, but I love stories like this   So romantic...

DH and I met way back when we started junior high.  Right before we started high school, we started dating.  You know....one of those young love things that aren't supposed to last.  Well, it lasted!  We fell in love   We decided spearately what schools we went to for college and ended up choosing the same college.  My parents weren't thrilled about that at first, but it honestly was the best choice for us.  We have been through soooo much together.  We didn't rush into anything.  It wasn't until a year after we graduated college that we got engaged.  So, after 10 years of dating, we were finally married.  Two years later, G was born.  He's definitely my everything.  I can't imagine life without him, and now that we've moved to a new state (and are on the way to another new one) we are even closer than before.