how we all met

[Ladylethal 12]

Met online on a message board and then started chatting on MSN in April 2002.

Met in person for the first time in July 2003.

We got married more than 3 years later in November 2006.

We started the K1 in April 2006.

[Nessa 23]

it was not an online social networking site, so i vote other - met online in a yahoo game room.

more than a year

more than 3 years

[amberdima 6]

met on a plane from paris to JFK. i was heading home from studying in europe. he was connecting flights from belarus to the states on a college summer work program. we were drunk. we made out in the plane's bathroom and then in the stewardess quarters. we married 11 months and 2 wks later.

Mile High Club :dance:

Love it!!

yeah, my teacher was quite upset with me and still will not speak to me cos she thinks we had sex. i should have invited her to the wedding!

[Swenglish 0]

We met by chance. I was studying abroad in Sweden my junior year of college, was out partying one night with friends, and my SO and I struck up a conversation.

The rest is history...and here we are almost 5 years later. Still not married though, waiting for NOA2!

[NotworkSte 19]

I knew her for a while, but more a case of knowing of her than knowing her. We work for same company, a large one with call centres all over the world. Our paths crossed via email a couple of times over the last few years but, in the way these things are, we communicate with a lot of people so she was just an email address.

Summer 2008, she was in Edinburgh as part of a sarbanes oxley team. We never had any direct contact, thought perhaps the fact I can tell you exactly where she was sitting in the room ought to have set off the first warning sounds. (auditors are the bane of my life when they emerge from the US in the summer to travel the world to tell us how we're doing it all wrong).

Jan 2009, sent to Egypt as part of an investigation into opening a new site and my boss says "C will be with us, can I ask you to stay on a few days and look after her when you're there?" So we get to Egypt never having spoke directly in person, only over occasional email and conf call and...

.. we hit it off. And I don't mean we just got on. After the second days we were inseparable (not in the couple way) and felt like I'd known her for years I fell for her in those first few days, in a big way, like I never have with anyone before. At the end of the week we went to the pyramids and I kept going to hold her hand and stopping myself. It's not professional! Can't hit on a colleague! She won't be interested! We spent the last night in her room drinking coffee and chatting till I had to leave at 5am and when I got ready to leave I knew I was in love with her. I hugged her good bye and was desparate to kiss her but I didn't. If only I'd have knows she was saying with her inside voice "please kiss me please kiss me"

Aaaanyway I might actually be getting to the point here, so if you've got this far, well done, not much more to go.

3 days later she was over with me in the UK and we were officially together. 11 Feb 2009. We were married on the 4 May. Best thing I ever did. The timelines are short, but it never felt rushed, and we even had time to plan and have the wedding in Northern Ireland.

[Aubrey 10]

We met online, but not on a social networking site. It was a game, and it was back in 05 or 06 (I'm not sure, though I imagine he knows). We ended up becoming good friends and he became my rock through my divorce. After awhile it was pretty clear we'd fallen for each other, and he came to the states to visit. The rest is history.

[JVKn'CVO 11]

Met in person, through work

N/A - met in person

1 year and 25 days

Saludos,

Caro

[Lili 3]

We met online, but not on a social networking site. It was a game, and it was back in 05 or 06 (I'm not sure, though I imagine he knows). We ended up becoming good friends and he became my rock through my divorce. After awhile it was pretty clear we'd fallen for each other, and he came to the states to visit. The rest is history.

I believe you met on GuildWars just like me and hubby! Congrats on the impending wedding!!

[bora bora 1]

I met my spouse in person (at a party) in Brazil while I was living/working there. We exchanged phone numbers before I left the party but I was sure he'd never call - though we spent hours together dancing and kissing.

But he called the next day, all day and we met again and the sparks were just as strong. He asked me out a week after we initially met, but we celebrate our anniversary on the date that we first met.

We got married 2 and a half years after meeting.

met on a plane from paris to JFK. i was heading home from studying in europe. he was connecting flights from belarus to the states on a college summer work program. we were drunk. we made out in the plane's bathroom and then in the stewardess quarters. we married 11 months and 2 wks later.

hahahaha, I was drunk when I met my SO and we made out all over the place that night.

[Ms. Squirrel 11]

I knew her for a while, but more a case of knowing of her than knowing her. We work for same company, a large one with call centres all over the world. Our paths crossed via email a couple of times over the last few years but, in the way these things are, we communicate with a lot of people so she was just an email address.

Summer 2008, she was in Edinburgh as part of a sarbanes oxley team. We never had any direct contact, thought perhaps the fact I can tell you exactly where she was sitting in the room ought to have set off the first warning sounds. (auditors are the bane of my life when they emerge from the US in the summer to travel the world to tell us how we're doing it all wrong).

Jan 2009, sent to Egypt as part of an investigation into opening a new site and my boss says "C will be with us, can I ask you to stay on a few days and look after her when you're there?" So we get to Egypt never having spoke directly in person, only over occasional email and conf call and...

.. we hit it off. And I don't mean we just got on. After the second days we were inseparable (not in the couple way) and felt like I'd known her for years I fell for her in those first few days, in a big way, like I never have with anyone before. At the end of the week we went to the pyramids and I kept going to hold her hand and stopping myself. It's not professional! Can't hit on a colleague! She won't be interested! We spent the last night in her room drinking coffee and chatting till I had to leave at 5am and when I got ready to leave I knew I was in love with her. I hugged her good bye and was desparate to kiss her but I didn't. If only I'd have knows she was saying with her inside voice "please kiss me please kiss me"

Aaaanyway I might actually be getting to the point here, so if you've got this far, well done, not much more to go.

3 days later she was over with me in the UK and we were officially together. 11 Feb 2009. We were married on the 4 May. Best thing I ever did. The timelines are short, but it never felt rushed, and we even had time to plan and have the wedding in Northern Ireland.

That is so beautiful, thanks for sharing. Got a bit teared up actually, because you wrote it so nicely!

[Aubrey 10]

We met online, but not on a social networking site. It was a game, and it was back in 05 or 06 (I'm not sure, though I imagine he knows). We ended up becoming good friends and he became my rock through my divorce. After awhile it was pretty clear we'd fallen for each other, and he came to the states to visit. The rest is history.

I believe you met on GuildWars just like me and hubby! Congrats on the impending wedding!!

Indeed. Small world. Do you guys still play?

[kaffy 2]

in person at work

married 2 years after first meeting

[venusfire503 54]

(note: I posted this in another vj message thread before, but I'll re-post it here for this general "how we met" poll too here...)

Hi Everyone,

What an interesting poll and post topic, indeed! Thanks for sharing all of your meeting stories, to those who have posted already. And to those who have yet to post, feel free to share your story and vote in the poll, too.

Now here is our (Ant and D's story), as told through my (Ant's) presepctive:

Our story begins about 10 years ago (2000), where we met each other online in a "writing group" on yahoo groups . The funny thing is that this group doesn't exist anymore, so as to the exact name of the online group where we met, who knows...(or at least I can't remember at the moment)...

Besides our common interest in writing, during that time, we also found out that we had similar medical conditions, so privately, we talked more about that, through yahoo messenger, e-mails, and heck, even through my online diary (by the way, that doesn't exist anymore either). We understood each other, and remained good online friends. So you would think that we would meet in-person then, right? But....

I was under-aged at the time and my husband was over-aged by many years...And that would be a legal no-no...

So we parted our separate ways, as he focused on his life and I focused on mine...

Ok, jump ahead 4 years later (2004), and at this time, we were both legal adults, and had both hit a low point in our lives. I was cleaning out my yahoo messenger list and found his name still on the list. And likewise, he was cleaning out his list, and found my name on the list too. Weird, that we would have each other's name on our lists, but deleted everyone else from it...So we continued from where we left off, and chatted through yahoo messenger and by e-mail as friends, but after awhile decided that we were more than just friends and decided to be boyfriend/girlfriend instead...

It wasn't until several months later, that we decided to meet each other in-person. It turns out that we only lived 300 miles/600 km from each other close to the border, with me being in Ontario, Canada and he being in NYS, USA. So we decided to meet in Canada (as I felt safer meeting where I was), and he drove all the way up to meet me then. Lol...that first meeting was very awkward socially for the both of us (aren't all first meetings awkward anways?), but we still had a good time together. So we decided to meet again and felt more comfortable with each other as we met with each other more often in Canada. Eventually we ended up living with each other part-time for several weeks at a time this way. We continued meeting each other this way for several years, since I had other obligations and could not visit and/or move the USA right away to see him.

Ok, jump ahead another 2 years later (2006), and we joked around the idea about getting married. But....

There was one catch: I had to visit him in the USA...

So several months later, as also mentioned in my VJ timeline:

Chapter 1 "Visited": Ant travelled from Canada to see long-term boyfriend D in the USA. Ant and D being harassed at the USA/Canada border (POE: Rainbow Bridge, Niagara Falls) for 2 hours was 'not a picnic in the park' for them. The Immigration Officer then made Ant get a B2 Visitor's Visa Passport Stamp and I-94 Arrival-Departure Card to visit for two weeks, even though Canadians are exempt from such requirements. However, what originally was a short visit was instead a 'rainbow crossing over' into a 'lifelong visit' for Ant and D in the USA.

Chapter 2 "Married": Ant and D had a small garden/park spontaneous elopement in the Niagara County Region NYS USA on 2006-04-28. A memorable and lovely occasion, on the eve of D's milestone birthday. D and Ant, as Husband and Wife, happily married and living in the USA. Together Forever!

Now jump ahead another 3 years (2009), and here is where I am now, as also mentioned in my VJ timeline:

Chapter 4/5 "Expected": Ant's Pregnant! AntandD are hoping for a healthy Baby!

Baby's Estimated Due Date (9 months waiting): July 2009

The Journey Continues, Our Story Continues.....

Anyways, thanks for reading our "How did Ant and D meet?" story! Hope you all liked it and found it entertaining....

Ant (The Journey Continues, Our Story Continues...)

Cute story!

Hope to hear of the birth soon... and hope all is well.

venusfire

[sara..... 371]

meet on muslim site when i was 18

meet in person when i was 20

still waiting to get married

[Lili 3]

We met online, but not on a social networking site. It was a game, and it was back in 05 or 06 (I'm not sure, though I imagine he knows). We ended up becoming good friends and he became my rock through my divorce. After awhile it was pretty clear we'd fallen for each other, and he came to the states to visit. The rest is history.

I believe you met on GuildWars just like me and hubby! Congrats on the impending wedding!!

Indeed. Small world. Do you guys still play?

Nope, I don't have much free time. So when I have some, I'd rather spend it with hubby!

How about you? Which hotel are you getting married at in LV?