First Date With Spouse

[Tattylou]

Met my DH in 1992, the summer that I was between 9th and 10th grade. We hung out with friends a few times in a group. First real date was when my parents actually let him pick me up in his car (he is 2.5 years older than me) and we went to see The Might Ducks.
We dated through high school and then broke up during college.... about 6 years later we reconnected in our 20s. Married almost 13 years.

 

[bjscheel]

We had been introduced one Saturday bowling with mutual friends. The following Friday he sent me a rose to ask me out "next weekend" but then he called that night to go out. I wasn't sure what we were doing so I ate some supper at home so when we went to a restaurant I just shared the appetizer and didn't order a meal. We had mozzarella sticks and my teeth wouldn't cut through the cheese and it just kept stringing out. I don't really remember this but my mom tells me we then drove by her work and seeing she was still there, decided we could stay out later so we went to the lake to sit on a bench and talk. I had prom the next night so I was supposed to be in bed at a decent hour. Apparently I was a little late.

 

[shoney]

We were teens, so we just "hung out" in the neighborhood. Our first real date was going to Red Lobster for dinner and then off to the drive-in to see Wildcats....never did see that movie

 

[antmaril]

1967 -- Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons at the Masonic Temple in Detroit. Late DH's mother drove us and picked us up because neither of us was old enough to drive.

 

[dish rag]

Went to the top of the Empire State Building. Then Times Square and Rock Center.

 

[MamaBelle4]

We worked together at a state park, my sister had "picked him out for me" and once I started talking to him, I realized she was right. He was 19 and I was 17.
He called me one night while I was working (apparently, his brother in law plied him with beer for the courage to ask me out) and asked me out. I said yes.

We met at a parking lot since neither of us knew where the other lived. We went to see Shrek 2 (so romantic, lol) then went back to my sister's apartment (who awesomely let me live with her) where we played cards and he got physically assaulted by my sister's half-blind and hugely pregnant friend. She wanted to see if he was good looking.

We left around 10pm to go back to my car. I thought for sure he left so early because he was terrified and was never coming back. Turns out, it was past his bedtime as he was working 2 manual jobs and thought he was out late. Hey, I was his first date, he didn't know.

Almost 14 years and 4 kids (plus one in the oven) later... guess we didn't scare him too much.

 

[Soulsearching]

High School Prom date! dated after that for almost six years. Married after college. Been married for 32 years!!! and never had a fight

 

[Wendy31]

Our actual first date was when we were seniors in high school during our first semester (October 1990). We went to see the movie "Quigley Down Under." I can't remember where we went to eat... maybe Dairy Queen?

But I don't really count that as our "first" date because, not long after that, he broke my heart & started dating my best friend who was a freshman in college at the time. I swore I'd never go out w/ him again, & then I started dating his best friend.

Fast forward to OUR freshman year in college when we both had returned to our high school for its annual homecoming in January. We went w/ a bunch of friends afterwards to Pizza Hut. After we ate, everyone else left, & we stood in the parking lot & talked for hours.

About a week later, I got a call from him asking me out, & I said yes. When I told my mom, she said, "I thought you said you were never going out w/ him again" to which I replied, "Free dinner. Free movie."

So, the date that I count as being our "forever" first date was February 8, 1992. We went to McDonalds (LOL! So much for the free dinner) & then to see the movie "Cape Fear". I wore black jeans & a multi-colored ski sweater w/ black ankle boots.

When I got back home that night, I went in tell my parents good-night, & I told my mom, "I think I'm going to marry him."

And, in April 1995, I did.

 

[MIGrandma]

DH and I met March 5, 1975 - a girlfriend and I had gone to see a movie and we were brushing snow off my Dad's car before we could leave and a car drove by us and a guy hollered and threw a snowball at us. My girlfriend wanted to follow them, so we did, ended up in Penney's parking lot and chatted a bit. We told them we were going roller skating on Sunday, they came and we skated together and that's the when we learned each other's names. Our first "date" was to an all night gospel sing in Grand Rapids, with his parents and two younger sisters. Our second date was a triple date with my two girlfriends and his two cousins, we went to a movie (can't remember the name of it though) and for pizza. Our third date we were finally alone. We were both seniors in high school (different schools). Engaged that May (10 weeks after meeting) and set our date for September 27, 1975. We'll be celebrating our 42nd wedding anniversary this year. My parents had a short courtship too, they met in May 1955 and married that October. They were married 53 years before Dad passed away.

 

[RedAngie]

I met DH at work. He was an outside consultant my company used for a project. We worked together 4 or 5 fives over the course of a few months. When the project was finished the group went out for a drink and he asked me out for lunch sometime, and I accepted. If he hadn't asked me, I was probably going to ask him.

We went out for lunch about a week later, but our first real date was dinner and an evening stroll in downtown Philly a few weeks after that.

 

[bdcp]

DH and I met in college in 1978, the day before classes started. We were in a large carpool (we lived at home) to the University. I was 18 and a freshman and he was 21 and a senior. Our first date was about 6 weeks after we met and it was to a place on campus that served beer and played disco music. We danced and drank beer (18 was the drinking age then) and two years and 9 months later we got married.

 

[My2Qtz0205]

We went to see Titanic with a group of friends!

 

[powellrj]

We went to the movie Lucky Lady and then back to the restaurant I worked at for dinner. The girls I worked with helped me pick out the outfit and we went back to show it to them.

 

[tazdev3225]

I'll never forget our first date. We had crossed paths a few times over the years but I never paid any attention to him. Our high school was going to the city championship and my brother invited me to go with his friends. My husband was the driver. We started talking and just clicked but he was going out with someone and I was dealing with some things so we became friends. He broke up with his girlfriend and asked me out about 10 months later. Our first official date - we went to the FIRE HOUSE to see fire engines. Seriously! My husband wanted to be a fireman and his ex told him no way. One of the reasons they broke up. I was the other. We got engaged 3 months later and married 3 years after that. We will be married 36 years in July.

 

[McKelly]

I met my DH at a mutual friend's birthday party. He called a month later to ask me to a Packer Party. I spent the entire afternoon making small talk with people I didn't even know, and barely spoke to him. The second date was dinner and a movie. I remember him showing up in a brand new BIG pick up truck and I had a short, tight skirt on and thinking - Great! How am I going to gracefully get up into that! He doesn't remember, so I must not have given him too good of a show!

 

[maxaroni]

Movies (The Jerk) and for drinks.

 

[runwad]

6/20/86, I was a sophomore in college he was a jr. We went to a bar for burgers then went to see Rodney Dangerfield in "Back to School". Married 5 years later in 1991.

 

[Micca]

We were co-workers, we went to an unofficial office Halloween party. We were engaged in January, married in May. 43 years next weekend.

 

[mamamary]

We met just in our neighborhood (lived about 4 blocks from each other). First date was 9/4/81 Blue Oyster Cult concert at Madison Square Garden.

 

[maslex]

Yep, it was July 1988. Was a blind date for us but we went with another couple (my friend and his friend worked together and decided to go on a date but he didn't want to go by himself so he asked his co worker if she had any friends to set up with his friend)

The four of us did dinner and a movie (Eddie Murphy's Coming to America and a pizza joint). During the ride over to the movies I find out that my blind date worked with my dad for a couple years. I remember my dad always coming home and sitting at the dinner table talking about "the delivery guy Paul" but had never met him.

This October, we'll be married for 24 years and have two boys.