How did you meet?

Amanda+Adaam

I just want to know how you all met your SO. I love love stories

motoLyn

I sat across from him at a birthday party, at the time I was dating someone else, but Steffen was sun burnt red so I asked him "what happened to you?" he told me he had been surfing all day.  We became friends cause we kept running into each other at social events.  A year later after breaking up with my ex Steffen and I started to spend more time with one another, just hanging out and going to try new places to eat, try new activities as good friends over the summer.  We went from seeing one another once or twice a week to three four times a week.  

My roommate made a comment about whether we were dating or not, at that time we both said no.  I didn't think I was his type.  I had to leave for a vaca for two weeks, I missed hanging out with him.  Being in Hawaii made me think of him cause of how much he and I loved the beach and nature.  The day after I came back he wanted to come over and hang out, we were sitting on the couch watching TV when he said to me "I've been thinking about us"  He told me then and there that he missed me very much and that he didn't want to lose me to another guy.  So he asked me to officially be his GF.  

My roomie told me later on that the two weeks I was gone he moped around saying how much he missed me and wished he was with me.  Its been getting better and better with each passing day.  I'm glad I met him, everyone but me and him knew how good we were for each other.  

I agree I love a good love story!

heyimbren

BF is a friend of a friend. Long story short: friend showed me some funny picture with BF in it. I then realized that BF is hot, and asked friend if BF would be creeped out if I added him on facebook (yes, I was that lame. I was 16 at the time and that's how I rolled). I figured if he thought I was super creepy, I'd never have to talk to him again *shrug*

Anyways BF is a super nice guy and we just became friends. It only took him 2 years to stop shaking my hand and finally hug me, and another few months after that for me to jump on it. It worked out well. The story of how we started dating is way more awkward than how we met.

catemeg

We met playing kickball.  We were on the same team, and I joined the league two weeks late, so I was sitting there waiting for the game to start when he walked up.  He was tall and really good looking, so I immediately assumed he was gay (a very logical conclusion if you live in DC) but it didn't take long to realize that wasn't true.  I just couldn't believe there were hot, single guys in DC!  Then all the girls in our league were throwing themselves at him, so I didn't want to deal with all that so we were just friends.  We became really good friends, he got me an interview with his company as I was job hunting, and then I got hired so we were going to become colleagues.

After about 3 months, everyone was asking us if we were dating, and we kept denying it because we didn't want to risk the friendship by trying anything.  And then one day, about a week before I started work at his company, he was over my house for dinner.  He was supposed to go on a blind date that night, but ended up blowing her off to stay in and play Monopoly with me.  After thoroughly kicking my butt at the game, we got in a bit of a goofy wrestling match.  It took about 6 hours for him to finally get up the nerve to kiss me, and I ducked!  I told him I thought we should stay just friends because of a mutual friend who would be hurt because she liked him, because we'd be colleagues, and because we were such good friends.  And when I heard that last statement come out of my mouth, I thought, "Well, that's a pretty dumb reason!" so I said, "Screw it" and kissed him!  We've been together ever since.

ekathleen684

It's not too interesting or romantic. We met in school. He was in a few of my classes and we became friends over the course of my junior year. We started dating June before my senior year.

breezerb

We are actually originally from the same small town and our parents are friends but Matt is 4 years older so we never really ran in the same crowd (When I was a freshman he was a senior).  Then one day my boyfriend at the time and I went to a small party at his friends house in the city and Matt was there.  He was dating a girl I went to school with but we ended up chatting the whole night (my BF was too busy with others to notice I guess).  A few months later we were both home for christmas and ran into each other at the local bar and discovered that we had each broken up with our BF/GF and were single.  Unfortunately we were both a little tipsy already and although we talked until the bar closed neither of us could remember the phone #s or email addy's we had shared the night before.  The next day Matt called everyone under my last name in the phone book until he found me.  He asked me on an official date and the rest is history. 
 

PaigeMcC

I'm lazy so go here: http://paigemcc.weebly.com/our-story.html

and it's all laid out in a prudy story.  lol

Penny66

When I was 17 my Mom had a job at a furniture store, she decided that she was going to purchase me a night because I didn't have one at the time and I was using a floor tom (a drum) as a night stand. The day my Dad and I went to pick it up at the store I had dance class before it so we went straight over to the store and I didn't get a chance to change into street clothes. We went to the pick up dock and this tall guy with long hair walks out and ask's my dad for his paperwork and then goes back inside. I was a huge mess complete with leg warmers so I literally hid under the dash of the van until the night stand was loaded in my Dad's car. The next few weeks I begged my mom to give "the hot guy on the dock" my phone number but she wouldn't do it.

A few months later my brother ended up getting a job on the same dock where the "hot guy on the dock" worked. So one night my Dad and I had tickets to see Les Miserables and we were running early so we decided to stop and see my Brother at his new job. We walk in and we were talking to my mom then she said "Penny, why don't you go see your brother." I asked her where to go and she said "Go down that hallway, then follow the yellow brick road to the big red doors." I thought my Mom was being crazy but I went down the hallway, and yes there was a yellow brick road complete with an Emerald City castle. I slammed open the red doors and I started yelling at my brother about something, I look to my right and I see "The hot guy on the dock." I was feeling pretty confident because I was dressed in a paints suit my hair and makeup was nice and I look over to BF and say "Hey your hot." We have been inseparable since then.

KD+BC

Bill and I went to the same high school, he was a senior when I was a freshman. We actually didn't know each other but I became friends with his younger brother. We finally met the summer before my senior year of college at a party I went to with some friends including his brother. We met on a Tuesday, had our first date on Friday, and "officially" started dating the following Tuesday. We've been together for over 5 years now.

loves2shop4shoes

FI and I met a little over 3 years ago.  I was transferring from my college in CT to a college in Boston.  Well, at transfer student orientation, FI was my student advisor.  (He was a student that worked with the Office of Orientation and he helped new students get acclimated, pick classes, etc.)  I remember thinking that he was different when I met him, but I wasn't sure why.  Well I friended him on Facebook after my orientation session and he and I kept in touch throughout the duration of the summer.

When I started school, he and I bumped into each other at this welcome back bbq event that the school hosts every year.  We agreed that we should hang out.  He and I hung out just as friends for about a month.  We really enjoyed each other's company and started hanging out every day.  Well, one thing led to another and eventually we'd started hooking up.  After a week or so of that, we went out to dinner on an actual date.  That night, he asked me to be his girlfriend.

At the time, I really didn't want a relationship, so I said "WHY?"  And he said, "Well, we see each other every day, we go out on dates, and we're already hooking up, so I want to make it official.  And I don't want to share you with anyone else."  So I agreed.

We've been together ever since.  And it's only gotten better with time.

HeartOverMind

We had an Economics class together at a community college and our instructor liked to have "story time" to make class more enjoyable and he was telling a hilarious story. I was in mid-laugh and I noticed this guy staring at me. I was a little freaked out and I kinda turned away.

At the end of class, I started looking at him and noticed he was actually very attractive despite that fact he kinda freaked me out. The next week, he stole the guy's seat behind me and I was once again freaked out (but also flattered). I was just sitting there running my pen over paper, but the cap was still on the pen, I could feel him staring at me and he asked me, "What do you write with your pen cap off?" I was so embarrassed, I turned and quickly answered, "My name." He laughed at me and I ignored him.

During class, he kept touching my arm and I ignored him because I was paying attention to the instructor and I didn't know how to respond to this guy clearly trying to hit on me in the middle of a lecture. At the end of class, he walked out and I followed him. (Totally not like me) I passed him up and walked in front of him and waited for him to catch up to me, which he did. He apologized about bothering me during class and I said it was alright. Then that was it. But then, I totally did something that my shy nature would never let me do before, until then. I caught up with him and I told him my name and I asked what his name was! Then we walked and talked and it was really cool. Finally, we had to part ways and he said he'd see me on Monday.

Monday came and he sat down right behind me again and he remembered my name! I was hooked!   

zipis1

We met at Anime Club through a mutual friend (she went to highschool with him). Then the next year two other guy friends, the utual friend, BF, and I all moved in togther. BF and flirted heavily but never went forward with anything because we were both chickens and concerned that if things didn't work out things would become unbearably awkward around the house.

A year later we said screw it and started dating. And all was good :P

jemmini6

I'm the lame one....we met at a bar.  I hate saying that because it sounds so trashy, but really, when I go out with my friends, I try to completely avoid being hit on.  That's why I tell BF that I must have known he was special right away because I actually talked to him...even with his lame pick-up line..."You're short".

We talked for 2 and a half hours at the bar that night, went on our first date the next night, and have been together ever since.  We both count our anniversary as the night we met, which our 2 year is coming up in about 3 months.

StarGazingHiker

We met at school. I went to my best friend's dorm to pre-party before a concert and I noticed this hot guy there, but since there were a lot of people there that I hadn't seen in FOREVER... (I had practically been in quarantine since I was recovering from Mono and it was my first time out with the girls in a few weeks) I never had a chance to try to talk to him. Well, later on, I asked my friend about him and she said she thought he had a girlfriend, but would find out. The next day she told me he wasn't interested so I kind of put it out of my mind.(He said he wasn't interested, but he was. He was just dealing with a messy girl using him to get to his roommate/anger her boyfriend type of deal... she was crazy)

About 2 weeks later, she called super excited and said he had asked for my number and she had given it to him. Right after we hung up, he called and introduced himself and asked if I wanted to get dinner sometime. I said yup and he said "great." and hung up.

About 2 minutes later he called back because he forgot to tell me when/what time.... Well, date night came, we had dinner and hung out everyday after that.

About 2 weeks later, we decided to make us an official couple and here we are 6 years later!

jilly2121

I went down to Atlantic City for a girl's weekend, we went to a club and my friends boyfriend was there. He ran into a friend that he knew who had brought Mike. I was of course hammered and I ended up sitting next to Mike talking from 12 am until 4 am. During the convo I realized we never stood and I have this issue with short guys since I'm tall. I thought oh no what if this guy is really short!

Once he stood up and I saw he was 6'2 we were good to go. We exchanged numbers and I realized my friends were gone. He helped me find them and ended up kissing me right then and there. The next day he asked me out on a date and the day after as well.

A week after dating he asked me to go to his cousins birthday party. We were in the car and he asked me to be his gf. I was a little weirded out bc I was like dont people date first, I was expecting this whole "dating" bullsh*t that guys put you through before giving you a commitment. I said yes and 2 years later I still cant belive the chance encounter of finding the man I want to marry!

dwest2201

Like Paige I am lazy... so I C&P'ed this from our wedding website...

They met for the first time at the beginning of their senior year of high school in 2000 through a mutual friend.  They all hit it off, became friends and began hanging out as a group.  Jon was interested in her then (she was oblivious) but Jon's friend called "dibs" on her and Jon played the part of "wing man" to his friend.  Shortly after Jess and the friend were dating but they all remained friends.  Jon dated other girls and the two of them along with their respective dates and a group of other friends attended Moeller's Senior Prom together in the Spring of 2001.  After graduation all of the friends went their separate ways for college.

Jessjoy727

These stories are so cute Ha and they are giving me something to read while I'm in class. Anyways, here is my story:

My close friend Tina is a well known wedding photographer (sargeantstudios.com for all the central florida brides...she will be doing my wedding  I'm actually on her website under the portrait section in a yellow dress if you get bored ) and she did a charity shoot for a homeless shelter here in town. My now boyfriend was there with her and I thought he was cute so I added him on facebook because I had seen him at church.

About a month later, I had completely forgot that I had friended him on facebook and my friend Tina messaged me asking if I was still seeing another guy I had been hanging out with. I told her that I was still hanging out with him but I wasn't happy with how things were going . She ended up telling me that Jason ( my BF) had messaged her asking if I was single and if she thought I might enjoy grabbing some coffee or ice cream one night. She didn't like the guy I was with so she didn't even wait for my response.

She gave him my number and he called me and asked if I would go to dinner with him. I had seen him around church but we had never talked so I was a little nervous but I agreed anyways.  We officially met the moment he picked me up for our date and the rest is history!

He says to this day that the only reason he asked Tina about me is because I originally friended him on facebook!

aperitisa

Haha....mine is easy.......

eHarmony.

leia1979

Bowling! We were on separate teams in the same league. We chatted a few times during league night and decided to go meet for practice on a weekend. It was a disaster! He asked me out after that, and I turned him down. Then probably a couple weeks later we stayed at the bowling alley until close to midnight talking, and he invited me to see his friend's band play that Saturday. We had our first real date a few days after that, and it's been fairly smooth sailing since.

He does like to remind me on occasion that I turned him down at first. I then usually counter that he stabbed me with a fork! (I'll save that story for another occasion.)

[Deleted User]

I was working for the Census Bureau, mainly out in the field testing applicants wanting to work for them, but we took a testing hiatus and they brought me into the office to work for 4 months.  About a month after I started in the office, Joe started (he had actually worked there a few months earlier for a few weeks, but we hadn't crossed paths then). 

We flirted for about a month or so, but neither of us did anything about it.  He smoked at the time and had 2 cats...I have asthma (#1 trigger is cig smoke) and I'm allergic to cats, so I actually tried to talk myself out of liking him.

Well, one of our co-workers noticed the flirting, so for about 2 weeks, she subtly started asking us questions about ourselves, just to make sure we were right for each other. Then she talked to us individually and said she wanted to play matchmaker.  We were both excited about it since we each liked the other.  I gave him my phone # the next day, we talked on the phone for a couple hours the first night and every night for the next 2 weeks before our 1st date.

That co-worker will be sitting as an honored guest at our wedding and will be listed in our programs as our matchmaker.

TopazAngel

It's a tad scandalous, I suppose. He was home visiting family for a week from the Marines, and I had just moved into the area. A woman who's known him practically forever, and whom I'd recently befriended, invited us both out to the bar/club that evening. I didn't get there until almost closing because I worked late and then had to shower, etc, so the three of us left and ate at Village Inn (like Denny's, for those who don't know the place) and then went and stole street signs together! I gave Corey a ride home later (he was still kind of drunk) and he hugged me repeatedly, like he wanted to kiss me but was restraining himself. It was adorable. I gave him my number and left it at that.

I'd been avoiding the phone calls of a sweet but overly talkative old photographer I know in California, and so I mistook Corey's Camp Pendleton-area cell number for my other friend's. I thought he never called me! I saw him again a couple weeks later and gave him hell for not calling me. He looked hurt and insisted that he had, he even left voicemail! (Which I hadn't checked)

Our near-miss turned into what I thought was probably destined to be a one-night stand. *blush* But we kept talking for the month until he got out of the Corps, and kept hanging out after that, and realized we really, really liked each other's company. He did most of the chasing--I was emotionally pretty skittish for a long time. IHe said the L word first, and when I went back to college cross-country, he flew out every few weeks to see me until I decided I should just move in with him! 'm so glad I got caught though. Every day with him is a gift

Narwhal

Umm. We went to elementary school together, he's two years older than I am.  Then I switched schools in junior high and he stayed where he was, but then in high school he switched to the same as mine.  I dated all of his friends (and I do mean all) in high school.  We started dating during his first year of college and he waited about six months to actually ask me to be his girlfriend.  Then I ended up at the same college he went to (by chance, I really wasn't trying to follow him there) and... here we are.

bethsmiles

We met our freshman year of college. His dorm room was on the floor below mine. There's not is not romantic or long story with it. We met, we clicked, we started dating...haha I guess its kinda boring.

Bec20

BF and I are high school sweethearts.  I actually hung out with my friend with his group of friends (her cousin was in the group) because I had a crush on another guy, but I was chicken so nothing ever happened there.

I had seen him before, but we didn't talk.  We even danced at our semi formal together, since neither of us had anybody to dance with.  But we really started talking about 5 weeks later after he got back from the school trip to Italy with some of my friends (I've kicked myself for not going since everybody left, but that's a whole 'nother story).

He and I started talking as a group with my friends.  He added me on MSN after 3 weeks, with the lovely greeting of "Ottawa sucks :P" (my favourite hockey team had lost three games in a row).  That was April 15th, we started dating 21 days later on May 6th.  We were both too scared to admit we liked each other, so we gave hints to let the other one know who we liked... even when it was obvious it was each other, we both nervous to guess who it was.

heyimbren

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_not-engaged-yet_did-meet-1?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special Topic Wedding BoardsForum:136Discussion:a05a598c-a051-4267-adef-755db17d91cePost:9ef984b5-d193-4124-95ea-4ff9d83a0e14">Re: How did you meet?</a>:
[QUOTE]We are actually originally from the same small town and our parents are friends but Matt is 4 years older so we never really ran in the same crowd (When I was a freshman he was a senior).  Then one day my boyfriend at the time and I went to a small party at his friends house in the city and Matt was there.  He was dating a girl I went to school with but we ended up chatting the whole night (my BF was too busy with others to notice I guess).  A few months later we were both home for christmas and ran into each other at the local bar and discovered that we had each broken up with our BF/GF and were single.  Unfortunately we were both a little tipsy already and although we talked until the bar closed neither of us could remember the phone #s or email addy's we had shared the night before.  <strong>The next day Matt called everyone under my last name in the phone book until he found me</strong>.  He asked me on an official date and the rest is history.   
Posted by breezerb[/QUOTE]

Breezer, I like how proactive your BF is ;) I feel like he's the kind of guy who would go out shopping all on his own..................


for a pony that is.

Beads921

Neither of us have a freaking clue! We knew each other for about a year before we started dating, and because we weren't into each other in the beginning, it didn't really register. We were in high school when we met, and you meet new people all the time there, so he was just another one of those people. We rolled with different social circles, but had a lot of mutual friends, so I'm assuming that's how it happened. We actually rode the same yellow school bus for that year, but we didn't really talk there.

hollyb78

I'm living four hours away from my hometown, going to school. With my school schedule, I was actually able to go to my hometown best friend's new year's party. She actually works with my BF, and had been thinking for a while that we would hit it off. I met him at the party, and thought he was interesting and funny. I resisted starting a relationship for a while because I live so far away and I'm so busy with school, but finally I gave in. We've been officially together since Valentine's weekend. The long-distance thing bites, but I graduate in May and am planning to move back.

cutie02girl

We met the weekend after my boyfriend of 6 years and I split. We had a mutual friend and I went to hang out with my cousin for the weekend to get my mind off the recent breakup. I met Gavin and I fell in love with him... but he wasn't interested so I went on with my life and he went on with his. He dated a few more girls and I dated a few more guys... in January last year our mutual friend sent me a Facebook message and told me he was going to hook me up with a friend of his so I could "finally date a good guy"... low and behold it was Gavin. We've been together ever since

flyjawn

we met on a dating site and i was on the fence at first because i didn't believe his profile.  plus he was in a different country and i was not looking for a long distance relationship.

his emails were funny though and then when we talked on the phone we really clicked.  about 3 weeks later he flew out to see me, we had a fantastic date and he basically told me he knew that we were meant to be together.

we've been together ever since.  (and i found out all the profile info was true  )

deburnin

BF and I went to the same high school. We were actually introduced to each other junior year at a musical rehearsal by a mutual friend (who's wedding we stood up in this past December). At the time I was obsessing over some other guy and he was dating someone else so we went our separate ways without a second thought. Senior year of high school we met up again and he was dating a foreign exchange student and I was pretty disappointed and then proceeded to continuing obsessing over the same guy from junior year (fail). They broke up when she went back home and somehow a few months afterwords we started IMing each other. 

Our first date was watching "The RIng" and he taught me how to play chess (I pick on him all the time for that now lol). I was really nervous about just being a rebound because he was pretty broken up about his ex. Took me awhile to get over insecurities about how they would still have been together if she hadn't had to go back. Wow, haven't thought about that in years. We're actually very good friends now!

BCRockies

BF and I lived in the same apartment building. His roommate was in my program at college and invited me out to the bar one weekend. BF and I started talking and were inseparable the remainder of the evening.

The following Friday, his roommate invited me out for lunch and I went. Lo and behold, he invited BF as well. After this, BF and I exchanged info and the rest is history.