OK So as cliche as this sounds - I really do think that there was something in my heart screaming out at me when I first saw my FH.  We were both in high school - He was 17 and I was 15!  I guess looking back now that does sound pretty young and I was never a firm believer in love at first sight, but when we made eye contact for the first time we both agree to this day that there was just "something" there.  Correction - the first day we actually met was my first day of 8th grade - hahaha and he was a junior in high school.  Of course, having an older sister, she scared the boys away for a while - and surprisingly, he was the only one she liked from the beginning!  Good choice sis - thanks!
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.  ~Emily Brontë

Well I have one of those kind of unlikely set up stories lol.  I had actually been in 2 previous relationships that were just awful, the first one was 2.5 years long and slightly abusive to say the least, the second one I had while living in Georgia for a couple of years, it lasted 1.5 years and was simply neglective and pointless.  After that relationship I vowed to settle for nothing less then what I felt was right for me.  I was single for over a year by choice, there were guys who were interested in dating me but I kept them at a "friends only" distance for fear of being in another long pointless relationship. 

Anyways, I moved back to California in November of 2006, I had a bit of a rough start and was still trying to get my life settled back in.  In February of 2007 I started working a temporary job at a conference center and eating lunch with my supervisor and her friend from another department.  After a couple of weeks the friend from the other department says to me "I know someone you would be perfect for, he works with my husband".   I was very skeptical about being set up, I mean I barely knew this girl and she didn't know much about me.  But she was persistent in saying I was perfect for this guy but told me very little about him other then "he is a really nice guy and knows how to treat a girl".  So after talking about it for a couple of weeks he finally sent me an e-mail introducing himself and telling me a little bit about him.  My response e-mail told him I was interested in being friends but whatever happens happens, and asked him to send me a picture.  He sent me the crappiest picture possible.. you couldn't even see his face because he was holding his friends newborn and was looking down at her. 

Anyways we continued to chat a little bit back and forth through e-mail for a week and finally exchanged phone numbers.  On my drive home from work that evening I got up the guts to call him (March 26, 2007 to be exact).  Little did I know later that night he would be picking me up and taking me out bowling.  I don't know what either of thought of each other at first, he wasn't like anyone else I had dated.. he was a gentlemen and I mean that...he opened doors for me (including the car door.. he still does).  I'm really shy when I first meet people, and he probably won't admit it but I think he was being shy too lol. 

2 days after that he picked me up and I went to play basketball with him and his friend, it was as if we had already known each other for awhile and hadn't just met the other day.  After that we continued to go on dates and spend time together.  He would pick me up, take me out, and walk me to my door at the end of the night and give me a hug.  It wasn't until a couple weeks of dating that we even kissed.  Soon after that we were spending every evening together and going every where together.  3 weeks after dating he took me as his date to his friends wedding that he was a groomsmen in, we weren't even official yet.  A week after that he asked me to be his girlfriend. 

We've been inseperable ever since, and even though it seems like we've rushed into engagement, it doesn't feel like it and the beginning months of our relationship were strictly emotional (no sex, to be honest he was a virgin).  It was a great feeling to be with someone I knew was genuine and not trying to get in my pants. 

We ended up moving in together last September, on New Years Eve we celebrated our 9 month anniversay (10 months of knowing each other) and just after midnight he proposed to me.  There is no one else in this world I could see myself being with for the rest of my life.  He's everything I've ever wanted or needed.  (on top of that any man who cooks, cleans, does laundry, and takes out the trash without being asked to do so is a keeper LOL).

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Engaged: January 1, 2008
Getting Married: September 19, 2009

I was 16 and my FH was 18. It was the summer of 2002 and we both worked at a minor league baseball stadium. Dan (my FH) was the manager at the Dip n Dots and Lemonade stand where I was stationed one hot summer afternoon. We talked a little and had a few laughs that afternoon. I never worked with him again that summer, and didn't see him until the next summer when baseball seasoned started. We dated off and on for about 2 years, then when we were both doen with college we knew that we were meant for eachother. That was almost three years ago :)

I have one of those "we almost didn't meet" stories! In 2004 I was working at a bookstore and one Saturday I was reading the local newspaper for that area, and there was an advert for people to audition to be in a musical variety show. Now I love singing and at that point I was sick of the choir I was in, but when I looked at the audition date it was the very next day, and I was supposed to be at work. No way I could get off at such short notice. So I went, "oh well, I probably wouldn't have got in anyway!" but I had already copied down the contact number and I stuck it in my pocket just in case. But when I got home I threw it away, figuring it was pointless. About a week later this friend of my mom's was visiting and she was telling us that her daughter had just joined a community theatre group and they were doing a musical show. I felt this pang of regret, and my mother said, "why don't you call the guy anyway and ask him if you can audition late?" and I said I'd thrown the number away the week before - but guess what? My mom had forgotten to throw out the rubbish in my bedroom that week, so the number was still in there, buried way down! It's so bizarre because my mom is totally tidy and organized.

Anyway, so I called the guy, got a late audition, and joined the show. There was this guy in the show that I started liking  - but really, he was too young for me and actually we had nothing in common other than that he was really sweet and funny. Anyway, as we were getting ready for the show, we had to build sets, so the director brought along his housemate, who was also the best friend of my crush, to help paint designs. Yup - Future Husband. I didn't think anything about him either way at that time, but I started spending all this time at the director's house so that I could see my crush (sooo lame), so naturally I kept seeing FH (Jeremy) too! Then crush started dating this other girl, and they were actually totally suited so I got over my crush pretty fast. Then about three weeks to a month later I started realising how great FH was. We had the same taste in movies (he actually had a dvd I'd been trying to see for years) and he was really sweet and funny and sensitive too. So one night after a Christmas party, it was late and everyone was a bit tipsy except me - but I was drunk on tiredness - I plucked up the courage and told him I liked him. Then this other girl came bursting in and we were just staring at each other the whole time she was talking. So I escaped and went to go get some lipbalm from my bag, and he followed me and just walked right up to me, grabbed me and kissed me. It was fab, even though my legs were shaking from nervousness!

The next day we had our first proper movie date, and we've kissed every day ever since (except when he's away working :-( haha). We got engaged on Christmas on our 3 year anniversary.

On October 31st 2008 I marry my One True Love!

Oh that is so great! I wish somebody could meet their special someone at my wedding...what a great story!

On October 31st 2008 I marry my One True Love!

I love reading everyone's stories! 

My fiance and I have a horrible meeting story.  Haha.  I had been on-again off-again semi involved with a friend of mine for 2 years, and he was having a birthday party last winter.  We had had a huge fight the night before, and I almost didn't go to his party but decided to at the last minute.  He kept talking about how a friend of one of his friends was supposed to be showing up...I remember thinking it was odd that someone was going to be there that I had never heard of before...anyhow, then Mat arrived.  I thought he was adorable and we started talking...I thought it was so weird that he seemed so nice and down to earth and could be friends with the birthday guy (who is not the nicest of people).  We all went out bar hopping and I had just enough alcohol to be confident enough to kiss Mat towards the end of the night.  I felt kind of guilty, but I had just about given up on birthday guy EVER being able to commit, and had recently started to wise up to the fact that he and I weren't good together and that he just liked to keep me around as an accessory or something.  I figured I'd never hear from cute boy from the party (Mat) again...but the very next day he called me and asked me to have dinner.  So I went...free dinner!!  It was a lot of fun, but he told me that night that he was going to be deployed in 8 months.  I hated that, but continued seeing him b/c he was adorable and fun and I really liked him.  Then gradually...we became more and more serious and fell in love and 8 months later, the day before he left for his deployment, he proposed and I said yes.  Not at all what I imagined meeting my husband would be...but I'm so glad things worked out the way that they did.  I definitely now have newfound faith that all situations have a purpose. 

I met my FH in high school. I knew who he was but I never really considered liking him. We really didn't even talk as friends. Well, one night I was messing around on AIM and this person IM'ed me. I didn't know who it was or how they got my SN. Welll, it was him! A mutual friend gave him my SN, b/c he asked her for it. Apparently, he'd had a crush on me since he saw me. He thought I was beautiful. Anyways, we got to talking on AIM..like ALL the time. I liked him but I wouldn't let  myself admit it because he was a nice guy, unlike the guys I was used to dating. Well, eventually I got over that and he asked me to prom, and we started dating about a week after he asked me. We've been together for four years. I knew he was the one only a few months after he asked me out. We  just enjoy spending time together...we never get tired of each other. I love his family, and I just see him in my life forever. He's a great guy!

My FH was in my home town for deer season one night with three of his cousins because they were bored and had nothing to do and i lived in a small town of about 1500 people so it was one of those towns where you know everyone and if you didn't know them you got to know them regardless who they were. So we ended up hanging out for the entire night driving around together with my friends and his cousins. I ended up dating one of his cousins because he had a girlfriend at the time. We lost touch after a couple of months. Five years later, he had broken up with his girlfriend that he was with for six years and he still had my phone number and called me and told me how his life had changed a whole lot since his break up, due to the fact that his girlfriend had cheated on him numerous times with two of his cousins he was close to, one being the cousin i dated. So we decided to go on a first date because i told him i always found him very attractive. So we went to dinner and i had one margarita and was kinda buzzed and was so shy and he was telling me he had moveable foot pedals in his truck so you can adjust the pedals and i said "I'll see it when i believe it." To this day i always end up saying things backwards because i'm head over heels for him!! So since then we have been together for two years and 3 months. I could never be more happier than i am with him. He is my other half.

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