How did you meet?

[AuroraBorealis]

And when did you know your DF/DH/DW was "The One?"

I'm a hopless romantic and I love hearing stuff like this!

Congrats, all you DIS-brides and grooms!

 

[bfrosty]

I met my wife through a mutual friend.

The night I called my friend and talked to her. I needed to get up to the point of asking her out on a date, but before I could she said, "Hey..I know someone that you need to meet". "She works at the bank and loves softball". So, we met at the ballpark the next night (Friday) and hit it off bigtime and went back to her parents house. She asked me to a St. Louis Cardinals baseball game the next day and I accepted. I knew about the 3rd date that I wanted to spend some time with this girl...turns out to be 16yrs so far.

(present day) 13yrs of wonderful Marriage and two loving children later...we are both huge Disney Fanatics.

A "Blind Date" is how we met.

 

[DVCGirl49]

DF was a volunteer firefighter and I went with my college roommate to the firehouse to visit her fiancee who was also there volunteering. I was totally not expecting or planning on meeting 'the one' that day and was dressed in a old pair of jeans and a sweatshirt with not a lick of makeup on. DF was scrubbing the heck out of a very dirty coffeepot while I was sitting with my roommate and her fiancee talking about knot tying (my roommate's fiancee was trying to one up me on his firefighter knots....but I was a Girl Scout and damnit I know how to tie knots too ) Anyway I was either too involved in the knot tying conversation or just not thinking about meeting someone that day that it totally went over my head that DF was hitting on me more or less the whole time. As it turns out, after my roommate and I left, DF was quizzing my roommate's fiancee about me and if he could have my phone #. He called me at school the next day and we went out on our first date a week later to the Annual Firemans Banquet....and the rest I guess they say is history.

It's now been 7 years and we moved in together about a year ago and are getting married next Feb. I am SOOOO glad that I was having one of those dress down days when we first met. It is really nice knowing that he liked me as is without having to get 'all done up' (I am SOOO not a makeup girly girl) and makes it more fun when I do actually get all done up.

 

[hiwaygal]

My DH and I met on the internet.

We started chatting online on the very day my dog got really sick. Normally, I wouldn't have given out my phone # so soon, but I needed to be able to watch my dog and sitting at my computer wasn't going to work. So he called...and HE talked for hours (which was good, I needed the distraction).

After talking on the phone for just a week, we decided to meet at a computer sale/show on a Saturday morning. He lived about an hour away so once he left, there would be no way for me to contact him.

Unfortunately, my dog went downhill very quickly. I went to visit him at the vets office that Saturday morning (December 14, 2002) and it was clear that it was the end. It was awful and I wasn't in the mood for anything but crawling under the covers and crying...but I didn't feel right standing someone up. So I went to meet "this guy".

I told him what had happened and he was the most understanding and caring person about the whole thing. I think he even cried with me (which impressed me because another person I was sort of dating at the time said "it's just a dog" ).

Anyway, we kept talking online and on the phone, had a few more dates...and about 4 months later when I needed emergency surgery, he ended up moving in to help me out.

We were engaged on Christmas Day 2003 and married on September 16&20, 2005.

I've never loved anyone as much as I love him.

 

[tmli]

We met here on the Dis..... He lived 1400 miles away from me, in Manitoba. After doing the LDR relationship for awhile, flying back and forth a couple times of month, a trip to Disney....he moved here the beginning of October last year. In December he proposed in front of the castle and we are having our Disney Wedding in August.

I knew very early on....however because it was long distance I was afraid to believe it! Well he gave up his job, left his house and all of his family and moved across the country to be with me!! The weekend he was moving here I took a few days off....flew out there and we drove back hauling a uhaul trailer!! We stretched it to 3 days and it was an incredible way to start our new lives together!

Well it didn't take me long to believe it after he was here. He is an incredibly kind and giving man, a wonderful step father to my son and best of all is a Disney Nut just like me!!

 

[sunsh1ne]

me and my fince meet 8 years ago while i was a freshman in highschool and he was a sophmore. we both were tech for our plays in high school. One day i had a firedrill during lunch and i saw him outside and i asked what class he was in, he also in lunch. from then on we ate together. another girl liked him and i tried to set them up. (at this time i had a boyfriend). a couple of months went by and we were goign to go to the movies the three of us, me the girl, and mike my df. she ended up not goign and we have been unseperable ever since.
-side not 5 years after we started dating we saw the other girl and all she said was wow things have not changed.

 

[dee slack]

we also met on a blind date - matched by our mum's!!!!! I was recently divorced and he was recently split from a long term relationship (both of us about 6 years, and both our partners cheated on us). As soon as I saw him I liked what I saw, and during the evening I just felt so drawn to him. We moved in together after 11 weeks, and finally got married after 5 years together. We will have been married 11 years in August, and still crazy in love
We don't have kids so spend a lot of time together, and I even work with him!

 

[Nala2007]

We also met online, but it was by accident.

I had been single for almost a year, but the "ex" sometimes would make up screen names to talk to me or what have you. Well one day I receive an IM, while I'm on the phone with BFF. I tell BFF "ugh, the ex just IMed me"...well usually I would just block it, but I decided to say hi back...so the guy tells me he is new on the island, his name is Hunter...blah blah blah...wants to know where the hot spots are. I give him directions to this place in Waikiki and say "call me if you get lost"...and while still on the phone with BFF, laughing and saying "Ex is ridiculous, he's saying his name is Hunter, how stupid and soap opera-y"...

NO CALL...so three days go by and I "knew" it was the ex. Day 3, I get a phone call..."Hi, it's Hunter"....I was like and I say "oh, well sorry man, but I only gave you my number because I thought you were my crazy ex" and I hang up on him.

So fast forward 4 more days and I get this ridiculous random text message from him (Hunter, not ex). I still can't remember to this day what it said, but I remember laughing about it for hours so I decided to call him and invite him out with my friends. All I remember is when he got out of his vehicle thinking he was the most beautiful man I'd ever seen...

Actually we kept it platonic for months even though all of our friends kept trying to get us together and were convinced we were being "sneaky" lol...When we finally did get together, nobody believed it for about a month. Ha, anyway this year will be our 3 year anniversary

 

[PirateKitty]

We met on the internet. I had just about given up on dating, and I saw his ad and his title said "where is my princess?" I responded, we exchanged emails for about a week, and he gave me his number. We met about a month later for our first date. He didn't even try to kiss me after our first date...I thought he wasn't interested, he says he was very shy and didn't think I liked him. We began seeing each other on a regular basis, and took our first vacation to North Carolina about 6 months after we met. We're getting married on the very beach that he first said "I love you" this October.

 

[JJClemson]

Wow, I love hearing how everyone met

DF and I met when we were freshmen at Clemson University. He was on the men's crew team and I was on the women's crew team. We hung out w/ the same people everyday, but we never really talked one-on-one. At the end of our freshman year, I invited a lot of the guys on the team to my sorority's date party. Everyone of the guys, except my DF, ended up meeting a girl and hanging out w/ her all night. So, I hung out w/ DF all night and we had the best conversation ever School ended for the year the following week and he went home to OH and I went home to NJ. We each missed the other one a lot but never talked. When we got back to school in August, we started dating and still haven't stopped 5 1/2 years later

I knew he was the one shortly after that. 9/11 happened within the first month we were dating. I was going to school in SC and had a hard time being so far away from my family. I went home during Christmas break and I realized how much I belonged there and not in SC. I came back to school though. DF saw how miserable I was in January and called my parents without me knowing it. My parents showed up in SC that weekend. After months of anti-depressants and a very supportive family and now DF, I stayed in school and am glad I did I knew any 19 year old guy who is willing to go through all that for a girl must be special, and I was right

 

[Stucas]

I met my Fiance online too. Of all places we met on hotornot.com lol. I was talking to him for a while after before we met, mostly short occasional hellos. The night I met my fiance I was with another guy, who ditched our movie plans last minute and I really wanted to go out so I asked Kevin to come. Best choice I ever made. By the end of my first week with him I knew I was going to marry him. We're getting married 5 years to the day of that first date.

 

[disneydreamgirl05]

I love stories of how people met!!

Mine's pretty much normal with a few twists.

I met my fiance in high school. Yes, we're highschool sweethearts. The twist was that he was dating my best friend at the time!! So we remained friends for a while. They eventually split. They were really better friends. A year later, my best friend comes up to me and asks me to go flirt with him. She was trying to get him not to go back to his ex at the time. I know, silly, but hey, it worked!! We went out on a date a few weeks later and then the worst happened. We got a call as we were leaving the movies saying that his parents had been in a huge car crash. Well after racing to his house, we ended up falling asleep on his couch and that pretty much sealed the deal!! Three years later, we're engaged and planning our wedding!!

 

[Cinderella Fan]

DH and I met when I was working in the local town hall - October 1999. I was the head of the Tax Dept., so he came in all the time to pay his water bill and buy car decals (I found out later how MUCH he trades cars... ). Then, one day he came in to pay his real estate taxes - he came to my office and asked me out to lunch. Of course, I said "no".

But, my co-workers kept pushing me into it, so about a week later I finally agreed. We had been inseperable ever since. We moved in together in Feb of 2002, and got married last December.

 

[princessdisneybelle]

I met my DF when i was a freshman in high school. We were casual friends. I invited him to my Sweet Sixteen party. The months leading up to that we became best friends. He came to my party. (we hadn't seen eachother in over a year). Something sparked. But we were both in other relationships. The funny part is we found out later we both had "crushes" on each other for years and never told the other one. After both our relationships ended. We started dating. Have been very happy ever since.

 

[Belle1981]

We met working for Disney in 2001. I was on the international management program. I was supposed to train at All Star Movies and at the last minute it got changed to All Star Music. In my second week after Disney University training I walked outside and was chatting with some fellow cast members. Next thing I knew this handsome guy comes out and says "hola como estas" trying to be a smarty pants thinking that most of us looked like we didn't speak spanish. When he walked out I got this feeling like "Oh this guy is going to be trouble!" Much to his surprise I speak Spanish fluently (as well as 4 other languages). Once I picked his shocked jaw off the floor we started chatting about everything (in english this time!) It was over from that moment on....We were inseperable! We were together all day everyday! I knew he was the one when I had gotten EXTREMELY sick and was off of work for a month he was there by my side no matter what. He was there in the morning, during his break, on his lunch hour and then after work. I looked like death and he was there holding me telling me no one ever looked so beautiful! When my program was up 18 months later I moved back to Toronto and we have been doing the long distance thing ever since! We see eachother every two months in person and talk on the phone when we get up, we see eachother on the webcam at night and then we talk again before going to sleep. It feels like he lives down the street not 3000 miles away! He truly is my best friend and I can't wait to spend our lives together! Now we are trying to decide which country to live in. I am a Canadian girl through and through but who can pass up Florida life?
Sorry for the rant but I wanted to share our story with you!

 

[buf68]

DH and I have actually known eachother for most of our lives. His stepmother used to bring him to church whenever he would be at his father's house. My dad was friends with her and always made sure to tell me that she brought her stepson and that I should go make him feel welcome. So I did. We didn't really hang out or anything at all growing up, it was just that casual interaction. I found out one day from his stepmom that his car had caught on fire, so I asked for his phone number so I could call him and say hi and that we missed seeing him at church....Well, in the meantime he moved to his grandparents house (near the church again) and I moved off to college. One night I was driving around with friends, and we stopped to wait for someone, so I was scrolling through my phone for someone to call, and I called him. We talked a few mins and then he had to go but said he'd IM me. We chatted online later that night and the next few nights, and then on the phone for 2 weeks after that....and then he came to visit me and we started dating. I don't remember a specific moment that I knew he was "the one", but there were a few things in general. First, he was so kind and helpful with my father (who is terminally ill with Lou Gehrig's disease), and he was so supportive to me. Second, he opened up with me like no other guy I've ever met about his relationship with his father and just so many things. We went and looked at wedding rings after dating for only 2 months! But, we had been dating about 8 months when he finally bought the ring (while my family and I were on a 2 week disney vacation!) and didn't give it to me until almost our 1 year anniversary. 10 months after that we said I Do, and I convinced him that THE place to go on our honeymoon was disney (he had never been there)....
Now disney is the place we BOTH want to be...we keep talking about how we HAVE to go back!

 

[hulagirl87]

My DF and I met back in high school. I was a year ahead of him and we became friends. We went out on one date and it just didn't click for me. He on the other hand got a big crush and when I turned him down he didn't talk to me anymore!! We went our seperate ways and 10 years later we bumped into each other at Best Buy! We were in the store talking in the DVD aisle for about 2 hours. We went out 2 nights later (his birthday) and have been inseperable ever since. Timing is everything!!!

 

[luvsmickey]

I met DF in Blockbuster!!! Yes the movie rental place! I had gotten off work and was actually hiding from a boy at work that told me he was going to follow me home (he was constantly joking like that, long story in it's self) Anyway, I was looking through the Pre-viewed movies and he, now DF, was crouched down looking through the bottom rack and looked up at me and said, "I can share" and I said, "um, ok" and then he asked if I had seen the movie he was looking for and I told him it wasn't there. Then we just started chatting about movies. And eventually he said, "you're not from around here, are you?" and I told him I was from New Orleans. He then told me he was born in Louisiana! Weird! We talked for another HOUR! (yes still in Blockbuster) And then he told me he'd show me around town since I really only knew where I lived, worked and blockbuster! lol Anyway, he gave me his phone number and and I said better yet, I'll give you mine. I had no intention in calling him first! ( I figured he'd never call, like all the other guys I'd met while I was here!) Anyway, the next night I was on the phone with my brother and low and behold I got an incomming call, weird, who was calling me, it was HIM!!! I got off the phone with my brother and called him back. We talked for 6 hours!!! We had three phone dates that lasted 5 hrs or more each time, and then we decied to go on a real date! Two weeks later, I didn't want to leave Virginia! I knew he was the one, and here we are a year and a half later, with the wedding in aprox. 2 months! I can't believe I had to move across the country to find the man I was going to marry! It was definitely fate!

 

[PrincessShanShan]

I had been divorced for almost 11 years (married my high school sweetheart the first time at age 18). After all that time, I had finally decided I was happy with my life the way it was and didn't want a man complicating it (besides my son). My uncle is a pastor and he called me out of the blue one day and said there was someone he wanted me to meet. I had been divorced for 11 years and he had NEVER done that before. I reluctantly agreed and thought I'd do it just to get my uncle to leave me alone. I met dh at church and talked to him briefly. He seemed nice enough but he's 11 years older than I am and like I said, I just didn't want a guy complicating my life. He invited me and my son out to lunch but I made an excuse and said goodbye without even giving him my number (which is unlisted). Two days later I got a phone call from him. He called my uncle and got my number. We ended up talking on the phone for almost 7 hours. He called again the next night but we only talked four hours that night. By the time we hung up, I knew he was the one. Fifteen months later, we were married. We've been married 14 months now and I've never been happier in my life!

 

[Moonpie]

I just have to say that everyone's stories are so sweet!
I have really enjoyed reading them! Thank you all for sharing!

My husband and I met on the internet too. We were both regulars on a message board about...of all things a tv show called "Gilmore Girls". I noticed his wit, and sensitivity, and sense of humor just from reading his comments. And...on that particular board I was a bit of a "joke-ster" and I replied to him like this..."Wow! I sure hope you're a guy, because I love your comment so much that I think I wanna have your babies!" It was just a joke...but it started a series of "kidding" around comments, and jokes that led to us seriously talking about our lives, and finally talking on the phone. After many visits, phone calls, a year and a half later he moved to California from New Jersey, and we got married in November 2006.