Reader Buzz: How Did You Meet?
October 17th, 2006 @ 4:41 pm by Reader Buzz
Mrs. Bee here.
This past Sunday at Miss Butterfly’s bridal shower, we got to talking about how all of us met our significant others. Two met their husbands through their blogs, another met her fiance through her blog, and yet another met her boyfriend through her blog. 
I guess you could say that all of us are really into blogging. 
How/where did you meet your significant other?
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while attending uni
We met while we were both in school: me in college and him in law school. We were working as servers at a local bertuccis, and he grew a crush on me. we went to his law school formal. A few days later, I called him to hang out, and the rest is history! I didn’t like him at first… but my friends pushed me to keep seeing him. I’m so glad they were right.
we met over the phone! he was the IT support guy, and i called in b/c i broke my company/work computer, he was the person responsible for helping me fix the problem. at the time i lived in denver and he lived in dc. 3 years later, here we are engaged =)
outside a club, in the parking lot drinking… now isn’t that romantic 
I met my husband at a rehearsal dinner.
My best friend since fourth grade and Eric’s college roommate were getting married in my hometown of Minneapolis, MN. I spotted Eric across the room and prayed he did not have a date! We talked that night, and again at the wedding. We lived in different states, and when I went to work on Monday morning, I found a dozen red roses on my desk that he sent me from Texas! After weeks of talking, he invited me to visit him in Texas–and he also asked me to join him on a 7-day cruise leaving from Galvastan!
Eric and I ended up having OUR rehearsal dinner at the same location where we met, two years later!
I first met Paul at my first job, he was my boss. This was almost 10 years ago. We dated for a few months back then but broke up. Then I found him on Friendster in ‘03 and stalked him until he gave in. 
http://www.greatboyfriends.com
Got to love the ‘net! I’ve recommended a number of other girlfriends to the site and they have all been really lucky finding matches!
via blog
I hired him!
in high school. We were in marching band together.
as previously mentioned- a wedding
we met through our blogs via one of the many college webrings. as we talked, we realized that we narrowly missed running into each other on campus about a million and a half times and that we probably did see each other in passing. i like to say our relationship is a mix of the movies ’sleepless in seattle’ and ’serendipity’
I moved from Mississippi to Oklahoma the summer before my senior year of high school. He was the first guy I remember meeting on my first day of school. We were friends for 3 years, dating other people, before we started dating.
We were housemates, both renting rooms at this random old lady’s house. We’ve been sharing a bathroom from the very beginning!
A bar in college…then we bonded over VT football and beer pong. Such romance! hahaha. Must have worked, 6 years later and we’re planning a wedding near our 7 yr anniversary!
on my first date with my first boyfriend (not him) over ten years ago.
My boyfriend and I met at a high school dance! Hehe, we started dating 3 1/2 years later! =oD
on the internet lavalife.com
we made out at a frat party, so trashy and i can’t wait to tell my grandkids that.
A friend of mine was working on an idea for a Documentary film on the whole online dating scene. I was recently single and a filmmaker as well so she thought i’d make a good guinnea pig. I had never even thought about online dating and thought it would be humorous and interesting if nothing else. So, I agreed and signed up on one of the dating websites. The first guy who contacted me seemed genuinely very interesting and was adorable. We IM’d each other for about 2 or 3 weeks every night for hours until we finally agreed to meet. And that seriously was it. I had the best first date of my life and we’ve been together ever since. And my friend had to find someone else to help her out. Totally crazy how things happen when you least expect it. Four years later and we are engaged. I would have never done it if it wasn’t for her so I owe her a huge thanks.
We met in the dorm cafeteria at our Uni. It was the first day back after Xmas break–Mr. Blueberry had just moved back on campus, and we sat at the same table at lunch. Now we’ve known each other almost 2 years (wow…seems like it’s been longer than that!)
4th grade, Korean school
I was 18, and he was 20…we both worked at Walmart, of all places. He pushed carts, and I was a cashier.
He said I seemed fun, as the first time we talked, I joked about necrophilia.
We’ve been together ever since!
Through an online personal ad. It was through the Spring Street Network, which runs the ads accessed through Salon, The Onion, Nerve, and many other sites. My BF was the first, and only, guy I met in person. (I chatted with a few others via email.) Early on, I wondered a few times if I was settling too quickly, but that’s silly, he’s an amazing guy. I was just very lucky. Halloween is our one-year anniversary of living together, and early December will mark two years of dating. And I’m hoping for another landmark in the near future.
We met in the summer of 2000 while teaching at a summer school. I was dating someone else at that time. Fast forward 2 years…and luckily(!) things didn’t work out with the other person and we ended up together! We’ll be getting married after 5 years of dating.
we met at a high school dance
online! we were literally 2 hours drive away back then. on the first day of chinese new year 3 years back, i logged on to some cheesy MSN love-relationship chat site, and not quite a boom, this one guy chatted me up like he’s known me for ages. we were on the phone for half a year since then without meeting each other, his voice and content-of-conversation were all i had to be attracted, finally. heh.
he moved over to where i lived a year later and we’ve just gotten married on 17th september 2006!
awww that’s so cute w. all these online meetings! It goes to show that true love can be found anywhere
I met my fiance through a friend’s friend…who SHE knew from yahoo chat…so technically if it wasn’t for the internet…we too would not have met!
oh your typical story, we met while i was high on painkillers and vodka. i had to use the bathroom at his place of employment. it’s been joy since. PS the painkillers where only because I’d torn some knee ligaments and the vodka…my friends dragged me out to party after being bedridden for 2 weeks. Oh yeah…I don’t take the painkillers, but the vodka stayed(as did the guy) tee hee hee
we went to the same high school. he was actually trying to court my best friend. my fiance and i didn’t really like each other at first, but we connected at one of the football games. a few years later(since everyone left after h.s) we saw each other again. and it started from there.
Marching Band. He was the sexiest sousaphonist I’d ever seen. I played trombone and then was on colorguard. I spent a season warming up behind him before we finally dated 3 years after meeting.
I met his best friend during a stint at Harvard’s summer school. I was dating someone seriously at the time, but two years later that relationship ended. His best friend seized the opportunity to introduce us - over instant messenger. She said she thought we would make “great friends.” I was in NH at the time, but planned to return to DC for school the next semester. My future fiance had just accepted a job on Capitol Hill and was interested in getting the inside scoop on the area. We conversed over IM and through email until I moved to the area and then he suggested that we meet.
After notifying my closest friend about where I’d be (because you can never be too careful), we met in Dupont Circle. I knew something very good was going to happen between us instantly- he had a great smile and a very gentle demeanor. Our introduction didn’t happen overnight, but it was definitely worth the wait.
I have to laugh at Shortcake’s comment! I’ve had a crush on many a sousaphonist in my day. In fact, my first boyfriend (the one I broke up with before meeting my fiance) was a sousaphonist I met during my high school colorguard days!
I met him through my blog when he left a comment. It’s kind of weird because I always thought that meeting through the internet was scary, but it’s been 4 years of dating so it can work sometimes.
In our senior year tai-chi class. He was reading a comic book that I liked and I walked right up and interrupted him. He brought in a comic book for me to read the next class and gave his contact info. I recognized his screenname from off my current boyfriend’s IM list and it turns out they lived on the same hall/dorm in their freshman year. Two years later I broke up with my boyfriend, IMed him to watch a Jet Li movie with me and we’ve been practically inseparable ever since.
He hired me! He was actually my boss for a while. I finally quit the job to work elsewhere but we stayed together. We are getting married in 45 days!
I had just broken up with my boyfriend of 3 years. Ok, ok.. he just broke up with me! I was still in that depressed, didn’t-want-to-get-out-of-bed stage. It was the day before Thanksgiving 2004. This is typically a night that everyone goes out because they don’t have to work the next day. My roommate and bestfriend was going to this neighborhood bar with her cousin. She asked me if I wanted to go. I declined, just wanting to stay in bed as I had already done for the past three days. She literally told me, “Get your butt out of bed, take a shower, and meet us at the bar!” How could I refuse? So I did. I got to the bar and started talking to this guy who clearly was not the type of guy I would ever talk to. He wasn’t dressed to stylish for my test and the word “dork” crossed my mind a few times. Well, more than a few times. We proceeded to have the the normal first meet “chit-chat” What’s you name? Where do you live? Blah..blah. The conversation got to the “what do you do for a living” question. He proceeded to tell me he was a rodeo clown and on the side he was a tugboat captain. That was it! Time for me to go home! I did give him my phone number. What the heck, I guess it actually felt good someone wanted to talk to me. Four days later.. that’s right, four days later… he called me. Almost 2 years later we are still together. I already picked out my ring back in April and I’m just waiting for him to give it to me. I love telling that story. Remember, you never know what could happen when your NOT looking!
I met my fiance in the 6th grade Aww!
At a bar…I can’t believe I’m the only one (who will admit it maybe?). As mentioned, yes, a great story to tell the grandkids.
However we were both there with mutual friends, who turns out, “wanted us to meet that night”, so he likes to say “our friends introduced us”. haha. Although I must admit I wouldn’t have spent so much time talking to him that night if he hadn’t been a friend of a friend (this is NYC=tons of crazies!)
We were in the same class junior high and I had a huge crush on him but never told him. When we went on to high school I lost track of him. Fifteen years later, we we re-introduced and a year after that, he asked me out! I told him about my crush on him long after we started dating and he said it was fate that brought us together. *teehee*
We met on Match (before all the cheesy tv commercials) I didn’t go to bars etc, graduated from school and work in a small office, so I really didn’t have a good avenue to meet new people and thought that Online Dating gave me the only real shot. Well, after meeting a couple losers I met him and we’ve been together for a year and a half- we would have never met any other way!
I never, ever thought I’d do online dating (not because there’s anything wrong with it but because I’m both shy and a hopeless romantic and always thought I’d want to continue to meet guys the traditional way) but I did a free trial at Match mostly as a joke and because I saw a cute guy I wanted to contact.
He wasn’t interested and after a week I was about to quit the whole thing when I saw FI’s profile. We emailed for a week before meeting in person and that was it! The very first person I met through my first round of online dating, what are the odds?
We started chatting on the website plentyoffish.com while I was still away at school last year. We met in person a few days after I moved back home and hit it off immediately. Six months laters we’ve been engaged and living together for three months. The best decision I’ve ever made!
Hubby lived with a guy I was dating in college. He himself had a serious gf at the time. We never said more than “hi” to each other back then. Everyone graduated college and moved on. We broke up with our respective significant others in the interim.
Three years later we meet up at a mutual friend’s party. We had not seen each other since college and I was surprised at how easy he was to talk to. A month later we started dating. A year later he proposed. We got married last May
I met my fiance online,we met roleplaying.
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Our mothers set us up. We had been friends in grammar school and hadn’t seen each other in more than ten years, but our mothers had remained friends. One summer in college I was interning in the town where he lived and my mother called his mother and “suggested” he take me out. We of course both said no to our mothers’ meddling. They eventually convinced us and we have been together now for four years and engaged for one. Needless to say our mothers are thrilled and routinely talk about us behind our backs! All I can say is sometimes mother does know best.