This Monday a new season of The Bachelor started on ABC. Unfortunately, I’ve got to admit that I watch it every year, despite fully realizing it’s pretty much a wasted hour of every week. I love to see them fall in love…even if it is a short-lived TV sort of love. Also, this weekend, one of Mr. Chickadee and my good friends went on a date set-up by a popular dating website.
Together, these two facts have got me thinking about ways to meet significant others. Mr. Chickadee and I have an unoriginal story, as we went to high school together. However, our relationship really took off after talking a LOT online. It was really a way for me to get to know shy Mr. Chickadee before we started dating.
So, what’s your dating story? Did you meet in any interesting circumstances? Any internet set-ups out there? Tell me how your love story started!
Ooh… good topic!
Mr. Pants and I met at match.com. I had just given up after meeting a LOT of duds who just weren’t right, and he had just moved from NY to Seattle. He was here for two days and found me just before I took my profile down!
The rest, as they say, is history! 
I guess we met online. Via craigslist twice. The first time I had a room for rent in an apartment and he was one of the people me and my other room mate interviewed. I let her make the final decision since she had to share a bathroom and she picked an aspiring male model that only lasted three weeks before she kicked him out. I never thought I would see FI again since he didn’t get the room.
Then almost two months later I answered an ad to buy a single Kraftwerk concert ticket. FI turned out to be the anonymous seller and he quickly realized who I was. We ended up going to that concert together as acquaintances and that became our first date.
We met as strangers twice on Craigslist to rent an apartment and to buy a concert ticket. I will be walking down the aisle to a string version of one of the Kraftwerk songs we loved at that first concert.
Hotness and I met via Match.com as well- gotta love online love. But I wasn’t emailing him regarding his hotness, more of his interest in church, I needed a home church and he was uber excited… That one email led to another and we’re gettin’ hitched in May.
we met on Myspace. we were both students at the same university but probably wouldn’t have ever met each other otherwise.
Mr A and I met online, while he was overseas in Iraq. He just randomly IM’d me one day. Said,”I notice you live in NH, what’s it like? I’m thinking of moving there when my deployment ends” We talked casually here and there.. Hey, hi.. how’s it goin.. as we were on an 8hr time difference. I sent him some NH links so he wouldn’t waste what time he did have online searching for important links. He said, “when I come home, I owe you a drink for all your help”
I didn’t think anything of it.. and 3 months after he was home, and a little more chatting- he took me out! Such a good time! So comfortable.. and we’ve been inseparable ever since.
My FH and I met on MySpace. He randomly messaged me at some point stating, “I’ll make all your Narnia dreams come true.” The obscurity made me respond. 
Oddly enough, we know a lot of the same people - but we met at the right moment - it was perfect timing or maybe even fate?
We met on facebook.
I clicked on “Patsy Cline” in my music interests to see who else liked her, since that’s a pretty odd musical interest for a college kid. He was one of the eight people that had Patsy in his profile and I friended him. A few months later he messaged me out of the blue, we had a blind date, and it’s been (relative) bliss ever since!
ps - Miss Chickadee I noticed you were from/are living in Peoria, I’m from Bloomington! Small world, huh?
FI and I met at a volunteer event. Turns out we worked for the same company but different buildings and hadn’t met each other yet. He signed up for one of my volunteer events and was, technically, working for me that evening. Cusiously, he kept signing up for my volunteer events (hmmm) and eventually we started going out for a drink or snack after events and pretty soon were spending weekends together and going to movies and concerts . . . 6 months later we were “offically a couple” and 2 years later planning our wedding
We met on a cruise ship. I was on vacation with my family, and he was playing piano during his break from med school. We were on the same excursion in Grand Cayman and I eavesdropped. A few days later, on New Year’s Eve, I had enough liquid courage to introduce myself, and we spent the rest of the night/morning talking. When we both got back to Texas, we went on a real date and hit it off!
We met swing dancing. I had a crush on him for over a year. We would flirt but nothing ever became of it. One day we were chatting as we left the building and he invited me out for coffee. We quickly realized that we had the same kind of humor and clicked. Plus great chemistry! The rest is history…
We met through… Livejournal. *wears nerd hat*
Specifically, one of the people on my friends list was a high school friend, and had FH on his friends list (follwo me so far?). He made us friend each other and exchange phone numbers because he said we’d be perfect for each other and needed to get married. We laughed at the time, but after we met…. our friend will be standing up in our wedding.
We met at a fraternity party! I remember being embarrassed, because we only really got talking after we had danced together to a few songs… I realized that I actually kind of liked him, and there I was drunk dancing with him! I figured, oh well, I’ll probably never see him again, but needless to say I did
Another Match couple here! I was about to give up too- actually had just had a horrible date a few weeks before and was about to take a break when he winked at me! We talked online for a couple of weeks, then on the phone for a couple more weeks, and then just out of the blue he asked if I wanted to meet for coffee that night. So I did, and it was great- it’s been 2 and a half years!
Kate: Mr. Chickadee & I are from Bloomington actually! We’re in Peoria now because he’s working for CAT.
I came to NZ on a 6 month working holiday and got a job on my second week here working for the Police. I met my H2B there and we started dating 3 weeks after that. We’d been together 3 months when he first proposed, and I said yes to the 2nd proposal 15 months later!
Another match.com couple here. But at the time we met, we lived about 2 blocks from each and never would have met without that website.
My husband and I were both interns at Boeing, and we both joined a softball team. He’s great. I’m terrible, but for some reason, we ended up dating anyway.
Just like you, Miss Chickadee, the boy and I met in high school. I was a sophomore and he was *gasp!* a senior! So I felt pretty cool to be dating a senior boy. Anyway, it’ll be nine years this November since we’ve been together– I can hardly believe it!
My DH and I met online - sort of. Both of us had friends convince us to create Yahoo personals profiles - me while I still lived in Minnesota 3 years ago, him a few days before our story starts. One night 2 of DH’s friends were at his house, and for fun decided to browse the personals after dinner. The first one he pulled up was me, and he yells to his friend in the other room “Hey this girl is in youth ministry in Danville, do you know her?” Sure enough, he was a volunteer in the ministry I worked for. So he got my e-mail address and gave it to DH.
We met in February 2006, he proposed in May on my birthday, and we got married last October! We will celebrate one year of bliss on the 8th. It’s been a beautiful whirlwind - who would have thought that God would have to move him and I to CA for us to meet?
we met in college while working at the same research/medical clinic.
P and I were in the same senior seminar photo class at university. Apparently he was thrilled when he found out I (and my friend whom he also had a crush on) was in the same class since he had seen me in the darkroom the semester before and had been crushing for a while. He asked me out while on I was on a date with another guy–awkward–and then called me the next day.
I didn’t even want to go on our first date; I had been working overtime and was tired and cranky but I ending up going anyways. Eight hours later I realized this was the man I was going to marry and that was nearly seven years ago. (I also ended up pretty much moving in with him four days after that, but that is another story…)
Yup, we met on Lavalife. And so did our friends who just got married, though they tell everyone they met “through mutual friends.” Even their parents don’t know the truth! We’re pretty open about it however even though I’m slightly embarrassed admitting I was using a personals site to find someone.
we met during our sophomore year in college. i had befriended his two future room mates the year before, but hadn’t kept in touch with them. The night that classes ended for the fall semester I finally called them up and ended up going over to their dorm room at 1 am (they were night owls). all 4 of us hung out for the entire night and then the entire next 2 nights until everyone went home for winter break. the boy and i ended up having our first class together the next semester - a history of silent film class (gotta love art school) that required us to watch a movie together in a movie theater every week. after 2 months we were still “just good friends” because we’re the two most painfully shy, awkward people ever. even our required-for-class dates didn’t help either of us make a move. he finally asked me out the day after valentine’s b/c i had gotten flowers from a secret admirer the day before (not him - a guy who i wasn’t interested in) which finally scared him into taking action. going on 6 years now, we still love movies and staying up all night.
long story short - we met through friends in college:)
my FI and I met through an online site. just like Laura S’ friends, we usually tell the “through mutual friends” story although some of our closer friends know the real deal. i’m not terribly embarrassed but it avoids the one eyebrow raised look that i get when i tell ppl we met online. needless to say, i doubt there will be a “how we met” story in our wedding programs. ha!
Woohoo MATCH!! I was actually the one with a profile. My hubby was bored one night flipping through the site. He claims he IM’d me since it was free (I’m smart like that with my match name) and I was cute. After two weeks of chattin’ til 2am every night we had our first date and 15 months later we were married!
Funny story from the first time I met his dad and step-mom. I was in the kitchen talking to his step-mom and he was in the living playing with his younger half sisters. She asked how me met - I of course go into the online story. He overhears and gives me this look - apparently he had told them we’d met ‘through a friend’. Ooppps
We met in the chat room for a city that neither of us was living in. We were strictly online friends for about six years before we had so much as a phone call! He kept telling me I was going to have to marry him and I was like, “Haha, whatever.”
We’re both lawyers - litigators to be exact. We met in the courtroom when we were on opposite sides of a case! We were each covering for someone else that day, we continued the motion hearing to another day and never did argue against one another…
I LOVE Match.com!
After being a newly divorced mother of one (a girl about 15 months old), I just wasn’t interested in meeting someone in a bar or a club that I really didn’t even have time to go to. So I turned to Match, and it was great. I went on a few crappy dates, one really good one with my FI, but I wasn’t sure how well we would do since we are sooooo different. So I kind of blew him off. Then about two months later, I called him again and asked him out. We had an awesome date and have been together since! It has been two years!
We met when one of my best friends dragged me out so I could met a guy she had a crush on. He didn’t know she had a crush on him and asked her to set him up with me. Actually she told me his exact words were “I want her, can I keep her?”Believe it or not my friend still speaks to both of us. She says it was clear that we were meant for each other and she couldn’t be mad about helping that happen.
One of my good friends is married to FI’s cousin. We met at their daughter’s first birthday party. And the rest is history!!
Craigslist couple Yippie!!! He sold me a couch. I thought he was cute so I told him my friends and I were going out that night and he should drop by the bar and he did!
7th grade homeroom… just like Winnie and Kevin.
Yahoo Personals. I live in Salt Lake City and am not Mormon, which makes dating rather difficult. So after running a search that excluded that religion I was left with about 10 guys who were in my age and interest range and my husband turned out to be one of them. He always tells people we met at a party, but I tell people the truth just to tease him.
I was the quirky drive-thru girl, and it was his first day at his new job down the road. I got to see him for every breakfast. I figured he must have liked me since he was sacrificing his health so he could flirt.
We actually met while i was at my friend’s bachelorette party. FI is a DJ and at the time worked at a *whispers* male strip club. Drinks and shots and dollars and lots of laughing and i couldn’t keep my eyes off the dj. And his voice! (ive always been a sucker for deep voices) So on my way to the bathroom, interestingly enough, RIGHT past the dj booth, over the mic he says “You don’t think you are going to walk past me and not talk to me, after giving me the eye all night, do you?” I blushed and my best friend who was walking with me (girls go in groups to pee, right? ) pushed me up into the booth. Apparently, he told her later on “Im going to keep your friend” which neither of them told me until three years later! We casually dated, but things didnt work out right, we both had some things to go through but ultimately got back in touch and the fireworks were instant. We’ve been together almost 3 years as a couple now. I guess he really IS going to keep me!
We met in our college’s choir. And in our business classes. Our sophomore year we had almost every single class together both fall and spring semesters. The first time he talked to him he came up behind me and started hitting my shoulders and said, “hey look, I’m hitting on you.” I could not stop laughing about how corny it was. I later began tutoring him in accounting, and eventually he got the courage to ask me out. Four years later, we’re married and couldn’t be happier. 
We met at a poker table. We’re both avid poker players. We were at a mutual friend’s house, and…well, the rest is history. We’re getting married in June.
My fiance and I like to joke around that we had an arranged marriage. I used to work with my mom and my fiance’s mom. One day, my fiance’s mom asked my mom if it would be okay if she asked me for my phone number to give to her son. She thought that I was a sweet girl. My mom said it was okay, and gave her my cell number without asking me. A couple of days later, my mom said that I would be getting a phone call from him. We talked on a Friday, and had our first date on Saturday. I had never seen pictures of him nor had he, so it was a blind date. We have been inseparable since. In our programs we thanks our moms for meddling in our love lives.
Miss Chickadee….
My FH works for CAT out here in CA! We’re actually planning our wedding in Peoria! How fun! Welcome to the CAT family…
I walked up and introduced myself to the shy guy standing all by himself during a scholarship interview weekend at our college while we were still in high school. He just recently told me that at the time he thought I was really cute, but he was too scared to introduce himself. We were friends all first semester, and over Christmas break we spent hours chatting online. We had our first date in Orlando while we were there for a youth convention, and he officially asked me to “consider the possibility of dating” him a few weeks later. No joke, those were his exact words. This January will be two years since we started dating, with a tentative wedding date in July of 2009.
Am I the only one that finds it odd that I posted a comment on this post earlier yesterday, and now my comment is COMPLETELY missing? What happened? (I had been the 2nd one to comment on the post originally…now it’s not there at all. :()
Faithsista: The post yesterday that you commented on was actually a repeat of an earlier post (this one) that somehow showed up again on the site. That one was removed, so only this one is showing up now. I did receive your comment though!
We met online too, in an 80s music trivia chat room. we were discussing the lionel richie song HELLo, and the weird video with the clay head of lionel … and we just kept talking..for months..then years..then he packed up all his stuff and moved from florida to ny and we got married!
Miss Chickadee, Peoria, IL
Age and Occupation: 22, Freelance Advertising
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 22, Mechanical Engineer
Engagement Date: February 10, 2007
Wedding Date: June, 2008
Blogging Since: September 13, 2006
Venue: Methodist Church/Country Club
About Me: My parents always said I should wait until graduating college before getting married…Mr. Chickadee and I finally graduated this past spring and we didn’t waste any time getting straight down to business. It’s been four long years, but the wedding planning is finally underway!
we met online through our blogs despite going to the same college and nearly rotating around the same social outlets. there were many chances for us to meet but didn’t…until i graduated and moved back home [i was an out-of-state student]. we all laugh about it now.