How did you meet FI?

Marina007 · December 2010

I'm sure this thread's been done multiple times before, but I'm bored. Tell me the story of how you and FI/H met!

(Totally inspired by EmilyinChile's story about her H - very good story!)

kellyjellybelly · December 2010

I know this will come as a shock... but I met H at a bar. White Star in Chicago actually. We had a bunch of mutual friends and we were all out one night. Nothing really too interesting

cougarette · December 2010

The summer before I started high school I went ice skating with my sister and friend. H was there playing hockey with his friends. They started showing off and when they got off the ice we exchanged numbers.

Beachy730 · December 2010

H and I met on a school bus we rented on a way to a Buffalo Bills game. We both ended up buying season tickets with mutual friends in a group of almost 50 people, and met on our way to the home opener. We hung out all day tailgating, during the game, and when we all went to a bar after. He asked for my number, and text me 2 days later. We started talking all day everyday, and started making sure we would see eachother every weekend since we lived about 2 hours apart. We went to the same high school, I graduated a year before him, and knew all of his friends, but we had never met eachother before that day.

salt78 · December 2010

I met H in a bar like 7 years ago through a mutual friend (he was living with a roommate of mine from college at the time). I thought he was really cute and nice, but we were both in other relationships so we just became friends, but I always kind of had a thing for him. Four years later I was home from the west coast for Christmas and H and his roommate (my old roommate) were having a New Years party. I had gone out for dinner with roommate friend and he was teasing me and saying how now was finally my chance since we were both single. I went to the party and ended up kissing him at midnight. Rest is history. NYE is our third anniversary.

Caitlinmmk · December 2010

I met my FI in 8th grade core class. We were sat next to each other and had to be seperated not 5 minutes later because we kept talking. We still can't seem to stay quiet lol

Pirata13 · December 2010

He was an actor in a theatre festival I was emcee for. We kind of eyed each other up the whole festival. H is very shy, but luckily his co-star is an acquaintance of mine so he told me H had been asking about me. So at the banquet we talked a little, then I drunk Facebooked him when I got home. A couple weeks later we went on our first date and were engaged 7 months later!

mica178 · December 2010

We were both doing fellowships at the same school. I rotated through H's department for one month, and we went out to lunch once, but I had no idea if he liked me or not, until he asked me out on the last day we worked together. Our first date was two weeks before H moved across the country, but apparently we made enough of an impression on each other that we ended up doing the long-distance thing for a year before moving to be with each other.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown · December 2010

So, I used to work with this awesome guy, Steve. Steve is a lot older than me, but we became good friends. About 4 years ago, Steve celebrated a milestone birthday.

Well, it just so happens that Steve's grad school roommate and close friend, who was living/teaching in New Zealand for the time, decided to take a week-long vacation to LA to coincide with Steve's birthday.

Ta-da! That guy on vacation was my husband. We met at our friend's birthday. Yes, Steve was a GM in our wedding. We met in October '06, started dating after he moved back to the states (Boston, where he's from). Seven months later he got a job in LA and moved here to be with me. Less than 2 years after that we were engaged and have been married 2 months.

FutureMrsTR · December 2010

I had a friend (Phil) that I had recently reconnected with from high school text me one day asking if me and some friends wanted to go out on his friend's boat the next weekend. I was really bored at work so my answer was "HELL YEAH!" So I got my one friend to go with me and I was actually dreading it the morning of because some of Phil's friends are really weird.

We got on the boat, H was driving it, and did introductions. I had only spoken to him for about 5 minutes (gotten the basic name, where we grew up, where we went to college, what did you major in, etc) and I told my friend I was going to marry him. It's stupid to think that when you don't even know someone, but I just had a feeling. Turns out he really liked me too and by the end of the night Phil had spilled the beans about my crush to H and H was thrilled and the rest is history.

I found out later that when I got that text message from Phil, he and H were sitting in a bar talking about how they needed to get some ladies on the boat. Since my name starts with an "A" I was the first girl Phil came across in his phone and sent a text to. Lucky me

Marina007 · December 2010

I met FI in 2nd grade. We were in the same class for 2 years - his only memory of me is him thinking I was gross because I licked a marker.

I moved, and met him again in High School. We were in the same circles, but not friends.

I move to Canada for university - we see each other briefly during the summers. After I graduate, I get a job at an accounting firm in London, and the summer between graudating and starting my job, there, we randomly kiss on a night out. Summer romance ensues.

I move to London in the fall, and we decide to see how things go. We make it a year, and I apply for jobs here, move back and we move in together, in the world's smallest apartment. 3 years later he proposes! Happy

hz80408 · December 2010

His mom was a 5th grade teacher at my elementary school, so I'd "known of him" since 5th grade, but our paths crossed in 7th at a church friend's bday party. We started talking on AIM, started dating in 8th.

FutureMrsTR · December 2010

Ooops mine was long. Phil was also our best man and my friend who came with me that day was a BM.

Marina007 · December 2010

I love these stories!!

[Deleted User] · December 2010

I'll try to make this short, it was through my college friend who went to highschool with H. We went on a trip, ended up staying at H's apt, friend tried to discourage us from getting to know each other for some reason or another. H was persistant and after awhile I warmed up to the idea of dating him. Happily ever after.

tenofcups4me · December 2010

We first met at a party in his dorm room in college. Ended up friends with the same crowd, and later with a mutual best friend, but weren't really friends. Heard about each other through the years, ran into each other once or twice.

20 years later, I went to visit my best friend in his new city, the city that DH lived in. We were both in the process of divorcing. We got together, along with a bunch of other people, for drinks and immediately hit it off. Love at first sight...after 20 years.

heather011 · December 2010

These are awesome stories

I met my H in university. We both took Western Civ as an elective and he happened to be sitting at the table in front of me. The prof liked to do group discussions, and she put our tables in the same group. We talked in class every week and I thought he was cute but I didn't know if he felt the same way. Before exams, our whole group exchanged emails and we ended up talking on msn (remember msn? Does anyone use that anymore?) all the time. Then, we found out we were going to the same university Christmas party. I sought him out, we kissed, and the rest is history.

This New Years will be our "official" 6 years of dating and we got married in August

ichellemay1 · December 2010

FI and I met through an internet dating site. We chatted online and on the phone for a week or so before we met. We would talk for hours - pretty much every day. We had our first date on July 8th. We continued to talk on the phone for hours every day. He would spend weekends at my house since he was living over an hour a way. By the 21st, we decided to be exclusive. On the 26th he came over to spend the weekend and just stayed.

We have been together almost 3 1/2 years. He proposed this past August, and we're getting married next November.

annakb8 · December 2010

One of my good friends from college, Julianne, invited me to a party up in DC for people from Florida. She told me a friend of her brother's, Robbie, was in town looking for jobs and would also be coming to the party. We all went to college together but I had never met Robbie before, this amazed Julianne since I knew most of her brother's friends. Anyway I didn't think I would ever see Robbie again since he didn't officially live in DC. He never left though, even though it took forever for him to get a permanent job and he probably should have moved back home to Florida but he just kept living up here, mostly to be with me. Now Julianne, who introduced us, and her brother Dave are both in our wedding party. People still think its weird we never met in college.

mandysmear · December 2010

party. drunk. spoke 3 words. all night.

opalsky007 · December 2010

We both played tuba in our college marching band and hit it off talking about Monty Python and swing dance. Over seven years later, we're still dancing.

kellyjellybelly · December 2010

though now that Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johanson just broke up, i may have to reconsider this marriage. I'm pretty sure that's a valid reason for divorce.

kcscejal · December 2010

At a party with copious amounts of alcohol. Very romantic, I know.

doctabroccoli · December 2010

Oh boy. Here we go.

FI would check me out in calc class freshman year. I ended up going to a party at his fraternity house because of a mutual friend of one of his frat brothers. We apparently met at said party, but I was too shit-faced to remember. That's right, I don't remember meeting my fiance.

The next day, he approached me at a physics review session as I was telling one of my friends that I was just gonna go back to my room cause I had a headache after hitting my head on a ledge on my closet door while putting away my vacuum cleaner. FI butted in saying, "Just admit it. You were having sex with your vacuum cleaner in your closet, weren't you?" I then proceeded to ask who he was, and he was super embarassed about what he said considering I didn't remember meeting him.

So, fast forward a couple months, and I start hanging out at his frat house more with friends. After we all went home at the end of the school year, we started talking on AIM for like 5 hours every night until the wee hours of the morning. Then, out of the blue, he was like "I want to come visit you before I have to leave for drum corps for the summer, but that's in like 3 days." Mind you, I lived in Missouri, and he lived here in Ohio. So, I had to explain to my parents that this boy that I had never mentioned wanted to drive 20 hours round trip to visit me for 24 hours. Yeah. Well, he did make the trip, and we had our first kiss. We then talked every night while he was on tour. Naturally, I assumed we were a couple, but apparently he didn't, because when we got back to school in August, he was all like "So, shall we make this official?" My response was "I thought it already was!" So our anniversary is debatable.

Fast forward 8 years, and we're finally getting married.

kellyjellybelly · December 2010

I am really glad to see I'm not the only lush who met her H whilst drinking

Marina007 · December 2010

Awwww.... tenofcups! So sweet!

SEWF · December 2010

FI and I had mutual friends. One of my friends was trying to "get" with him, which we all know just means she wanted a fuckbuddy (I didn't know any of this until after FI and I got together). They never did anything, and then she introduced us after a play I was involved in. We realized how much we had in common and started dating. My friend was so pissed when she found out that she dropped me as a friend. Last I heard, though, she got married a couple years ago, so I don't feel too bad.

annakb8 · December 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_did-meet-fi?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:5c797678-6f29-4531-85c5-a1c23d6255bbPost:302fdba5-fa38-4b62-9239-e4d35c780ec4">Re: How did you meet FI?</a>:
[QUOTE]I am really glad to see I'm not the only lush who met her H whilst drinking :)
Posted by kellyjellybelly[/QUOTE]

There was a lot of alcohol involved with me meeting my FI.You are not alone.

mica178 · December 2010

There was a lot of alcohol involved in H and my first date. He fell for me because I'm an Asian who doesn't turn red after 4 drinks. :P

Beachy730 · December 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_did-meet-fi?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:9Discussion:5c797678-6f29-4531-85c5-a1c23d6255bbPost:302fdba5-fa38-4b62-9239-e4d35c780ec4">Re: How did you meet FI?</a>:
[QUOTE]I am really glad to see I'm not the only lush who met her H whilst drinking :)
Posted by kellyjellybelly[/QUOTE]

Oh we were tailgating at a Bills game, there wasn't a sober person to be found. His first text he sent me literally said "do you know how I ended up with a bruise on my ass?" Pure romance right there.

kcscejal · December 2010

Fi the night we met: "I'd ask for your number but I broke my phone earlier slamming it on that table." and "Stop moving wall." How could I not fall in love with that?

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