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Passion: strong feeling or emotion (google definition).
Is that all it is?! Really?! I’ve felt so much more! Come on, google… give me more!
I think of my relationship with Champ as one that kind of began with simple physical attraction and quickly, and I mean quickly, evolved into romance and passionate lovvvvvve. Yeah, well we were college kids, you know?
Like many, many couples, Champ and I met when we were in college - very young, and probably not completely ready to meet our “mate”. When we met, I was in a carefree time in my life where “the one” was “the last” thing on my mind. I think Mr. Champagne was in the same situation, as his involvement in track as a sprinter was his #1 priority and I’m pretty sure partying was #2. If you can believe this, before we met, we had each pointed one another out to our friends… it’s true I swear! I had seen him one day in our greasy college dining hall and I thought to myself “I’m gonna marry that guy”. Now, I’m usually full of overly ambitious statements, but I really believed this one!
Champ’s side of the story wasn’t admitted to me until long into our relationship. But I guess around the same day I had pointed him out to my girls, he pointed me out to some friends in that same infamous dining hall (which also happens to be where I gained the freshman 30 - er… 15).
Somewhere in the same time frame, my friends and I went to a party that just happened to be in the same building where Champ lived with a bunch of his friends. When the elevator door opened on the wrong floor, he was there! Of course we let the door close, and probably squealed some obnoxious noise (which I’m positive he heard), and “casually” let the door open again. He asked us into his party, and that was the beginning of my relationship with my best friend. We had funnnnn too - so much fun!
Although Mr. Champagne and I were great together, we were very young. We didn’t stay together all through college, but there was always something about Champ that I just couldn’t get out of my mind. He was my magnet, and I was still crazy in love with him. Right after college, we realized that we were finally grown up enough to try things again and he joined me as my date to my brother’s wedding.. Once it was decided we were “us” again, that was it- I knew we would never be the same. I was finally stuck to my magnet 
Anyone else take time apart because you meet when you weren’t completely ready for “the one”?
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Aw. When I read ‘he was my magnet’, I heard in my head, ‘he’s my lobster’! (from Friends, natch).
Ha! Yup… my FI and I dated very briefly when we first met in college. We both were crazy and decided to be best friends. We were best friends for 6 years and even dated other people. After my last relationship broke off, we finally ended up together again.
We then confessed that we still had feelings for each other the whole time we were best friends.
Crazy. 
The boy and I dated for about six weeks when we first met during the summer after my Freshman year. We were already three hours apart and when I transferred to a school another hour away, I decided I wanted to enjoy my freedom and do the college thing by myself for a while.
The next year he invited me along on a Spring Break trip, but our breaks were different weeks and I had to say no and we lost touch again.
FINALLY, he called me during Thanksgiving break Junior year and said he wanted to see me and we both decided at that point that there was no point in putting it off anymore. We’ve been pretty happy ever since, despite the long distance.
You guys are such a hot couple! Welcome to the hive (I forgot to say it on your intro post)!
We moved in together less than 6 months after knowing each other, which was too fast but so fun! It ended up that I felt the need to move out to regain my space and grounding and to realize what our relationship was really about. We didn’t last long not dating but did spend some time apart. I decided to go on living in my own place until we were both ready for an engagement (2 years of living apart). We were married on Saturday and again live together in wedded bliss! Time apart can definitely strenghten and ground a relationship!
@Cricket/kayteebug/kelly: That’s so sweet! Time apart def was good for us too.. made us realize that we couldn’t be apart!
I can’t wait to hear more about you, Mr. C., and your wedding plans!
Wow yalla re a good lookin couple!
My FH and I met in the summer or 2001; talked and emailed as friends until late spring of 2003 when we had our first kiss. Again, talked and emailed as friends until we became a couple in the spring of 2005. We were long distance for the next 18 months. 16 months after moving in together, he proposed! We will have known each other for nearly 8 years when we marry.
Wow. You two are some hotties!! What a great couple! Can’t wait to hear more!!
Your getting married when I am!
Smokin hot dress Champagne. You two look so cute together!
honestly FH and I wanted a break thought of it..but couldnt go through with it…we were stuck and didnt even realize it…OMG I’m crying here!! Goodness I think there is a hormonal change in me ever since I became engaged!! Soo happy for you and your magnet
It’s so great to hear others with a similar story!! My fiance and I met over the summer at a party but he went back to school in Virginia and I stayed in Boston. We started with flirting over AIM (ha!) and email, which led to drunk dials which led to us spending all of winter break together. (We are from home towns next to each other.) We tried to do the long distance thing and it ended in a disaterous visit to Virginia over Valentine’s day. Needless to say we broke up, remained friends, seriously dated other people … but when all was said and done and we were both “grown up” and out of college and back in Boston … we fell into each other and haven’t looked back since. I always knew he was the one … my lobster! (hehe!)
No breaks for us, but I did have to comment and say that you are unbelievably, incredibly, stunning.
Wow! You make a gorgeous couple!
A beautiful couple! Yes fiance and I broke up a couple of times before deciding to get engaged… Sometimes you need to be apart to know that they really are the one!
My FI and I have been together since college as well (we started dating when we were 20). We’re now 26 and engaged. There have been a lot of growing pains that we’ve weathered together. We never broke up, but we did spend a year long distance which gave us some breathing room. He got a chance to adjust to law school, and I got to continue college life in my senior year. I think it was good for us.
Ok, my favorite bee signed off, if you continue like this you might be taking her position 
LOL You guys look really nice together and both have a real nice-beautiful-honest smile!!!
Im starving for more posts!
This is exactly the story of my boyfriend and I thus far! EXACTLY! I hope that we can have a similar ending.
I love hearing about how people meet. My BF and I met when we were in HS and only broke up almost 2 years ago for a short while, and reconnected, and going on almost 7 years!
You two make a beautiful couple and i’m really looking forward to hearing all about your wedding plans!
Yes, you two will make some beautiful babies!!
What a cute pair of photos - they visualised the growing-up you guys went through perfectly
i love how his head is always leaning over to yours in all the pictures. body languages says a lot about a person’s feeling, and all i see here is love. cute cleopatra and marc anthony costume. you two are one hot couple!!!
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Miss Champagne, DC/Vail/Colorado
Age and Occupation: 26, Eye Doctor
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Attorney
Engagement Date: March 13, 2006
Wedding Date: February 2009
Blogging Since: July 30, 2008
Venue: Small church ceremony with mountain-view log cabin reception
About Me: I'm a small town mountain girl with a city heart. Found my way to the east coast, and Mr. Champagne kept me here so we're planning a wedding from afar in my hometown Vail, Colorado. I'm secretly obsessed with reality TV, Wii games where I can shoot a gun, country music, and Caesar: Dog Whisperer. I also spend time pretending to golf, backseat driving, having one way conversations with our MinPin Maxwell, loving champagne, and wedding perfecting… I mean, planning. I use way too many repeated symbols and letters when I write, and I'll love Mr. Champagne endlessly…
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