How did you meet?

[DisneyFairy19]

I met my Df in High school. I was a junior and he was a senior. We met in an art class. He told me that when he first walked in he thought I was beautiful.. I didnt like him at first, but we got to know each other and I fell in with him.... And we started seriously dating May 21, 1999.. Been together ever since.. I wouldnt trade it for the world..

 

[Tink11302]

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[Maggimus]

I'll add my story,too!

I used to take this little boy Alex home from church on Wednesday nights because he always walked, by himself. I felt bad and noticed it a couple of times and had been taking him to and from church for months. One night as I pulled into his aunts house (He lived with his aunt because his mom was a drug addict and disappeared alot).. and he started getting so excited (he was about 14 years old)... "YAY!! My cousin Shane is here... this is so awesome!"... and I notice a white jeep cherokee limited in the driveway-- really nice, and me, a young girl says "is he single and hot?" just kidding around with Alex. He laughs it off and says "I dont know..." and got out of the car really excited. I drove home not thinking another thing about it...

...at the time i was very independant and single and really happy to be that way. I was very content and didnt want a boyfriend but wanted to focus on school (I was a senior in HS taking a lot of advanced placement classes and was an honors student trying to get into Georgetown).

I got a telephone later that night from Alex. He's like "Hey, someone wants to talk to you".. and im thinking to myself why in the world would some creep who doesnt know me want to talk to me-- is he THAT desperate!! So we talk for a little while... and me, being the goal oriented person .. ask "What do you do for a living" (he was only a little older than me but already graduated from HS... I was interested in knowing this before I even spoke another word to him)... he says "Im in the car business.."... So I proceed in telling him my dad is a GM at a local Ford dealership-- he goes on to explain that he knows my dad-- my dad actually hired him at that dealership once. Small world. So we get off the phone and I ask my dad about him.... my dad (the typical dad who doesnt want his little girl to date) tells me that he looks like this ugly red headed guy at my school. Im like "really?" and he said no he was a good guy. Shane and I talked on the phone a couple times but never had seen one another.

We started talking on Wednesday night (after church)... and by friday night he said he "had to meet me after Alex spoke so highly of me" and after he knew what a 'good person I was' for taking Alex home after church since he had to walk. He insisted we go on a date and I only agreed to do so if I had a friend and her BF come along too-- so we went bowling and out to eat. Everything was perfect and literally... from that night on I just knew! We hit it off so well-- we had great conversation and hes a real jokester... I like a good sense of humor and thats something Shane definately has.

After our date I asked him if he tried to take every girl out that ever showed him interest and he said no. He actually had just gotten out of a really long term relationship and hadnt dated in a while-- but apparently Alex had put a good taste in his mouth about me. I never date the desperate... and I was certainly never the desperate type growing up.

We dont really see Alex a whole lot anymore-- but I guess sometimes doing good deeds, and being at the right place at the right time can make all the world of difference...
And that, my friends, was all she wrote...

 

[disneygirl725]

I met my DF at the gym. I had a full-time job plus a part time job at the mall, so I didn't get to the gym all that much, so it was almost fate we were there at the same time. We both kept looking at each other. Then I was doing an ab machine and he's walking around the track and he looks at me and says, I'm running out of gas?!?! Apparently, he was tired.

We both were staying at the gym extra long trying to talk to one another, but neither of us had the courage. Finally, one day, I found out I failed the CPA exam, (which 3 years later I have decided to take again) and I was bitter. So I just went up and started talking to him. We walked around the track for 2 hours talking to each other, then he called me the next day and we talked for about 3 hours (and he HATES talking on the phone). We had a date the following day and the rest is history.

I'm not sure if there is a moment I knew he was the one, but at the one year point I think we both knew it would be forever.

After 3 years he finally popped the questions, and we are getting married May 10, 2008!

 

[JandJ]

I love reading everyone's stories!

DH and I met through my BFF, Carol. In 2004 Carol, who lived about 2.5 hours from me, threw a big party at a club and invited everyone she knew. I didn't want to go but I knew it would be a good chance to see people I hadn't seen in awhile, so I made the drive and stayed at her house. Carol knew Jonathan through an ex-boyfriend (Jonathan's best friend) and Jonathan lived about 20 minutes from her, so even though she hadn't seen him in a couple of years, she invited him to the party too. Jonathan also did not want to go to the party, but a friend of his said "go, you might meet someone!" I was totally not looking to meet anyone - I was getting ready to move to Orlando with another friend of mine and just was not looking to meet anyone at all! I guess that's why I met him We talked for 4 hours that night

Our first date was 2 days after we met, I went to a baseball game with Carol and her date and we met up with Jonathan after the game. He and I broke off from them, got some food, talked and talked, and he drove me back to her house around 3:00 am. He was such a gentleman! That really impressed me. I had to get up and drive home and go to work the next day and he called me to make sure I got home o.k. - none of that stupid "wait 3 days to call her" nonsense. Our entire courtship we lived 2 hours apart! We spoke on the phone every night and e-mailed every day and we drove back and forth every weekend to see each other.

Nine months after we met he proposed. It was the most wonderful surprise proposal I could have ever imagined Later he told me "I knew I'd marry you, so why wait?" Nine months later we were married at Disney. I always wanted a Disney wedding and he wanted a small wedding, so the Disney Intimate wedding was perfect for us. Carol was the only non-relative at our wedding - she had to be - without her we would never have met (plus she was my rock that day since my mom passed away).

Now we've been together almost 3 years, married about 17 months, and I couldn't be happier or more in love

P.S. Carol just got engaged last Autumn and now I get to help her plan her wedding

 

[pepples22]

I met my DF on the Internet.

The site was one of those dating ones; I was just having a giggle to some of the losers on there during work. One Saturday back in May last year, I logged on and I had a message, it consisted of one line "how do I become Mickey on your monitor?” I had a picture of Minnie Mouse staring at her computer with Mickey on the screen on my profile. I knew I had to reply. We started to chat and I gave out my mobile number.

We chatted most of Saturday and Sunday and we met on the Monday. I met at his house (not advisable but I knew it was right) and he gave me tour and showed me his fridge. The fridge had a "technical spoon" (the door was loose and needed to be held up). I then looked into his eyes and knew he was the one for me!

By the following Saturday of meeting, I was given a key and told I could move in anytime I liked, so I did.

June 19 we went into Rochester, I have never visited there (I have lived in Kent for most of my life). He took me to Italian restaurant for lunch and a look around Rochester. He then pulled me into a jewellery shop giving me a line “lets go find out your ring size”. They measure my finger and he told me to pick a ring from a tray, so I did. A week later he picked up the ring and purposed in our living room. It was so sweet.

September last year we began planning our wedding in Disney. And now we are counting down the days till we get married.

 

[heatherlynn444]

oh this is so fun! i love hearing everyone's stories! we met my sophmore year, his well, second junior year lol. (he graduated in 5 years) of college. it was the first weekend back to school fall of 2004, and there was an intermural sand v-ball torunament. I am obsessed with v-ball and missed it so since high school.
I had dated a guy in high school and my freshman year of college and he dumped me spring my freshman year 3 days before our 3 year aniversary (nice, huh?) so when i went back in the fall as a single gal i was determined not to date at first haha. well, i made a team, and DH shows up to the tournament and his team is awesome (they had mathcing shorts and wore nothing else haha), and they beat everyone and won the whole thing. he watched me play and said they played a lot and if he could have my number (how cheesy) he would call me to play with them some time. he actually did call me and we have been together ever since!

 

[Lynn5700]

My fi and I met in Highschool and we started dating the end of our Sophmore year.

Before we knew each other our families did. My mom used to babysit his older brother and sisters when she was like 16 years old,my uncles went to school with his dad and my grandparents were friends with his grandparents. We would have went to school together but his family had moved. I went BCIT which is a trade school and highshcool.If you live in Burlington County students from all over can go to the school. If I would have went to my sending district then we would have never met.

Here is a little story about how we were meant to be together. We have been dating since 2000 and like 2 years ago we were watching a home video from 1987. It was memorial day and we were both 3 years old. Anyway,my Dad was taping the parade before it started.I was in the street close to the curb dancing.Across the st was my fi's aunt so my Dad was saying hi and as he was zooming in on her there were two little boys sitting on the curb and it turned out that it was my fi and his older brother.

I just think its unbelievable how we crossed paths and never even knew each other and that we ended up together.

I kind of knew he was the one when we first started dating.We were young but I don't know it just felt right.He is a great guy and they are so hard to find so I feel very blessed.

 

[kicks1282]

Awww I love these stories too!!

DF and I met in college. We actually had two classes together in our first semester, but we had different friends. We talked occasionally and even sat next to one another in Probability and Statistics! Never once then did either of us think of hanging out, let alone dating! We did have one another's screen names though and we'd send homework tips back and forth every now and then.

Over winter break of that year, I was online at home early in the morning. He was on as well and I decided to send him a message. We chatted for a little while and said we'd see one another in a few weeks.

We ended up having only one class together second semester, but it was accounting and he found out I had taken some in high school so he sat next to me, thinking I could really help him out. He played hockey for our school's club and got hurt at the very beginning of the season so he couldn't play for a month. In that time, we started a study group and I found out one night that he loved playing and watching hockey (I grew up near an arena and have been a HUGE hockey fan all my life). The Olympics were on and when he asked what I was doing for the weekend, I told him I was watching the games. He asked if I wanted to come watch them with him (his dorm's lounge had a big screen TV and an added bonus air hockey table - I love to play). I agreed and we ended up watching all night long. Every weekend after that, we were inseparable and we started eating together at the dining hall.

I know the exact moment we were meant to be together - it was our last day together that semester before summer break. He stayed at school for the weekend after finals were over and we went to Hersheypark (where I worked for several summers). When it was time for him to go, I got extremely upset and was sobbing by the time we got to the train station. When he got on the train, he waved out the window to me with tears running down his cheeks too.

That summer, we talked every single night. I kept a journal and decided to write my summer entries as letters to him. I gave him the pages from that summer binder when we went back to school in late August and after he read all of them, he said he knew I was The One. That was cemented two years later when he agreed to go to Florida with me on the College Program.

We got engaged on a trip right after graduation with 15 other classmates watching. I was the only one who had no idea he was going to pop the question then. We bought our first house together this past December and are counting down the days 'til our wedding and Disneymoon at the end of this month.

 

[jmmastra]

Aww everyone's stories are great!
DF and I met 7 years ago at a hotel I was the managing. He was a guest staying on business for about a month. During his first few nights there he and a coworker decided it would be fun to push each other around on the luggage carts. I saw the two racing up and down the hallway. As funny as I thought it was, I had to go yell at them. From that point on DF would come to the desk to say hello. I was actually dating someone else at the time, so I had no interest in him, nor was I going to date a hotel guest. But he persuaded me to go to lunch with him. After lunch...still no interest. Somehow he convinced me to go out again.......and still no interest (I always go on two dates before I make a decision). Then he announced his company offered him a job in my area and he was moving. So I thought we could at least be friends. After he moved his car died and I ended up driving him to and from work, so we spent a lot of time together....once I really got to know him I changed my mind and he we are seven years later!

 

[purplegirl247]

What a great thread topic!

My DF was working as a lights/sound tech at an improv comedy club when I met him. I always joked that my friend and I were groupies because we went to see the show every Wednesday night "to see the cute boys." At some point, DF asked me for my number; I thought it was just to make plans for the whole group but later that week he called me personally to chat. We spoke for two hours. At one point, he actually said that he felt like he'd known me forever and told me "don't be scared, but I actually have this vision of you in my head in a wedding dress. isn't that weird?"

We started dating about a week after that. His parents have a crappy marriage, and he had this impression that all marriages were like that, so early on he said, "I don't see myself getting married unless I'd been with someone for...I don't know...four years or something." His longest relationship at this point had been six months, so obviously he had thought of a ridiculously high number that we would never reach.

Well four years and three months after our first date, he popped the question. I'm including the bit of his vision of me in a wedding dress in our vows (he always blushes when I tell that story, but it's so sweet!); we're getting married in a little over six weeks.

Oh, and like some of the other posters, I had just broken things off with this guy I had sorta kinda been "seeing" when DF and I met. The other guy was actually a friend of DF's. I didn't know this for several years, but I guess DF asked his friend if it was ok that he ask me out because he didn't want to step on any toes. I thought that was very gentlemanly of him and am SO GLAD that he did. I can't imagine being with anyone else other than DF, much less that other guy!

 

[Eeyore3838]

my DH and I met in Middle School. We had the same woodshop class. He used to cut out all of my wood pieces (because I was afraid of the bandsaw). I did all the rest, and wound up winning the woodshop award for the school! (He about died when I told him that years later! ) We didn't actually start dating until Junior year of high school (1999). After middle school, he moved far away so his family could start a business, but it didn't work out, so he moved back about 6 months later! We were just married in January!

 

[WDWAurora]

Ok, I'll add ours. We met early in our freshman year in college at the Baptist Student Center. We met at a football game, but were both too interested in our own things to really pay attention to each other. As the semester progressed, we hugged everytime we saw each other, but nothing happened. Then, right before Christmas we started hanging out more. We were talking online NONSTOP during the Christmas Break. We came to the conclusion that we had to see each other as soon as we got back. From that moment on, we were together. There were no doubts that we were getting married starting from about May-June on. It was just a done deal. We dated nearly 4 years before getting engaged, due to college, money constraints. We were engaged about 8 months. We've been married a year and a half now, and I wouldn't trade him for anything! It just worked.

 

[Belle Amy]

Our story is not nearly as sweet as anyone elses.

DF had just broken up with his girlfriend of almost 4 years and was having a tough time of it. He had moved out of the state to try to escape the memories, but couldn't stand being out of Florida.

He came back and tried to make things work with her again with the same results....

He was good friends with my roommate, and our couch was offered up for a temporary fix to his problem.

I had been in a long term relationship the year prior, and was inches away from getting married to the wrong guy...as a result I was being as wild and crazy as possible.

So he moved in, and the the next week or so is something that I'll leave out when explaining to our kids how mommy and daddy met. But we became very very close, and realized just how much we had in common. We went through many scary feelings, both unsure of the strength of our love for each other in such a short period of time.

But here we are, four years later, planning our wedding...

We don't have a fairy tale start, but we will sure have a fairy tale wedding!!!



It just fits that every aspect of our relationship should be untraditional!

 

[KStarfish82]

My fiance and I met in college. We both were on the swim team and became friendly very quickly. However, he had been "seeing" someone and I had the hots for our assistant coach. (He was only a few years older!) Well, my fiance was hurt when his almost-girlfriend began seeing someone else and he began to try to get closer to me. We were really friendly and spoke online, at practice, bus rides to meets, etc..

On Friday the 13th (Dec. '02), he asked me out and I accepted. We have been together ever since and he proposed last Dec. Planning on getting married at WDW in 2009!!

 

[Summer-Caitlin]

My DF and I have known eachother since I was 5. He was my brothers best friend when they were kids, and being the younger sister I was always hanging around my big brother.
When I was 16 and lived in Malta, I told my mother that I had always had a crush on Steven. When I was 17, I returned to the UK. I looked so different from when I left at 15, I guess I looked really grown up. When I had been in Malta, I had started to work 2 jobs and had a boyfriend, and he was not good to me at all. I grew up fast and I think everyone realised how much I had changed. In the UK, my brother knew I had a crush on Steven, and didn't encourage it. I started dating again and at 18, my current boyfriend and I broke up and I called my brother, crying down the phone. He happened to be at Steven's house, so Steven heard the whole thing.
Steven started coming round to our house more then and one day I was going to the library in the city and Steven said he was walking that way could he walk with me? I of course said yes, he was really shy and although we had known eachother for so long we had never really talked that much. We spent an hour talking and laughing, then we said our goodbyes.
We both had consoles (PS) and we both played Micro Machines, he would call and use his lap times as an excuse to talk to me.
One night, when he called, my brother was out. Steven asked if I would meet him that Mon morning and we could go for a walk. There were really nice fields up where he stayed, so I agreed.
We spent about 3 hours walking in those fields and I was expecting him to say he liked me, but nothing We started to walk back and I felt miserable. He was walking behind me and suddenly blurted out, 'I've liked you for years, I mean REALLY like you.' I kept walking and was sort of shaking and I said 'I've liked you for years too'
He thought he had misheard me, so ran up to me and turned me around.
'What did you say?'
'I said I've always liked you' shy smile appearing.....
He beamed at me and took my hand and we began walking to my home together, silent and content with our own thoughts.
We began discussing what our intentions were. It had always been known that I wanted to return to Australia and in 6 months time I was due to leave. Steven said he would rather have 6 months with me than nothing. We decided that because we weren't to know if we would work at all it was better to not tell my brother straight away. Too late, us walking hand in hand down the street, my brother was walking towards us.
He didn't say anything there and then, but he called me on my cell an hour later and asked why he saw us holding hands......After some hard times from my brother, it was accepted we were together, and Steven and I became inseperable, we saw eachother everyday and we moved in together 2 months after we started seeing eachother.
We have had some bumpy roads, people saying we would never last, but 8 years on we are still together. I decided to stay here for him, but together, in a couple of years we are definately moving abroad. Ready to start a new chapter of our life together

 

[myprincessgirlisa]

it was almost 13yrs ago, but here it goes....

We met at a bar & it started out real slow...he would call & ask me out & I would blow him off...finally I went out with him. It was fun.

The day I knew he was the one was when I had gotten into a REALLY bad car accident with my family & he drove out to stay with me all weekend.
What a guy....I even remember just before the accident, we went to a carnival with my sister & nephew(he was 1), he had played a game & won a stuffed animal & gave it to my nepew...i thought that was so cool

I love that man

 

[MickeyAnne]

I met my fiance when I was 18 years old, he was 17. Both of our older brothers were managers at a record store and got us jobs there. We first met in July of 2000 but I was getting ready to go away to school in August so I didn't pay him much mind. When I came home for Christmas break, I worked a few hours just to save up some money and thats when I got to know him. I spent those weeks home trying to drop hints and get him to notice me. I was telling all of my friends about him and I just really liked being around him. Unfortunately I wasn't getting any of those signals back from him. I finally just asked him if he would go out to dinner with me one night and he obliged but still I didn't think he was interested. SO I went back to school ready to forget about him but then I got a call from one of our mutual friends...
Long, long, long story short - He wasn't getting my signals and so he wasn't recriprocating. We started dating, doing the long distance thing, not too long after that. I ended up moving back home for school after that semester and I know that was mostly to be with him because I think I always knew that he was my future. That was six years ago and we are still those silly fun loving teenagers that we were when we met just with more mature goals. It is almost like we are made for eachother yet completely opposite from eachother. We compliment eachother so well and I can't wait to BE married to him.

 

[hmgolden]

DH and I met our freshman year of high school - we were in the same homeroom and our lockers ended up being next to each other (we had the only teacher I know of that didnt' assign lockers alphabetically!).

We dated for a while in HS, but mostly we just hung out out all the time as friends. We started dating again when we went to college and did the lost distance thing for 4 years until we graduated. We got engaged a year and half after graduation.

I don't really know when I 'knew' DH was the one, but we went to sneior prom together. My mom really wanted me to wear a white dress, but I refused. I told her the only time I was going to let DH see me in a white dress was our wedding day

 

[TinkBride]

It is so neat to hear everyone's stories!

Here is ours........

DF and I met on a christian dating site. We were both raised in christian homes and we were tryin to find someone who shared the same beliefs.

Ok.........

I married my high school sweetheart of six years when I was 20. After four months I found out that he had not been faithful.....to make a long story short.....it ended. I was a girl who never believed in divorce, and I tried to make the marriage work, but he wanted no part of it.

DF had just gotten out of a six year relationship with a girl, and it ended pretty sour as well.

So, needless to say we were both at a point in life, where we didnt really believe in love or "forever" because we had both been burned and very hurt by people we loved.

So.....I made the first move. I lived in Ohio and he in Indiana. I saw his profile and he sounded too good to be true so I took a shot and sent him an e-mail. He e-mailed me back the next day and then he IM'ed me. We began chatting and he said when he saw I was divorced he thought about not responding. But, he said he didn't want to judge a book by its cover, so he gave it a shot. It took no time at all for us to realize that God had put us int he right place at the right time....

We met two weeks later in person.....i moved to Indy five months after that....we were engaged 9 months after we met in person.

Fun facts:

- The first place we laid eyes on eachother was in a Wal-Mart parking lot!

- He told me he loved me before we even met in person (that is how much we knew we were meant for eachother.......)

- When he got my first e-mail he was logging into the site to delete his profile, because he was going to give up dating for a year until he finished school.

- He had never searched anywhere but Indianapolis because he was not interested in a long distance relationship.

- We met our exes on the same day and broke up with our exes only two days apart.....odd.........

- i told him the first night we met in person (jokingly of course...but not really....obviously... ) "If you are not interested in having a Disney wedding....then we need to end this now.....cause that is where I am getting married" - I am serious....I actually said that!