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We met online, and pretty much everyone knows. It makes sense though, because there is no WAY we would have met in real life... we're complete opposites.
Match.com-- we just fudge as to when- because his divorce wasnt final-
My FI and I met online, and we've told everyone who asks. I've never felt judged at all - it's so common for people to meet online today!
Match.com-- we just fudge as to when- because his divorce wasnt final-
We met on myspace! It wasn't traditionally we met online. We live in the same area, went to the same elementary school, junior high and high school (he's just 2 grades under me). Apparently, we hung out in the same crowds, kinda, in HS -- but he says I never gave him the time of day, bahahah. And then just one day out of the blow I started to get messges from him on myspace a couple of years ago, and would blow him off and then one day I gave him a chance and look at where we are:)
We tell everyone, it's HILARIOUS! Don't worry about what people think. How you met shouldn't be THAT IMPORTANT, what's important is you both found your soulmates<3
We met online also! I typically stay pretty hush hush about this though and say through friends when asked how we met!
We met online too (JDate)... His friends all pretty much knew since he was on it for quite a while and went on a lot of (first) dates. I guess they would all have story time due to all the interesting people he met... My friends, also pretty much knew. As for acquaintances, at the beginning whenever someone would ask how we met, we'd make up a different story each time. It turned into a fun game. But now that we're in it for the long haul, finally decided to fess up when anyone asks.
Hehe yeah we met online and he tells whoever will listen. I'm the one that is the one that keeps it to myself or glosses over it really fast.
We met on yahoo personals and we tell everyone!! In our group of friends and family no one has met online, so it is our unique personal story and we love it:)
We met on Facebook and alot of ppl know and find it cute and funny that that's how we met. Now that I think about it, I don't think his parents know and my dad lol... my mom knows and she is so excited about it. If ppl ask, I'm not ashame to answer them and tell them the truth. :-)
We met online and everyone knows.
We didn't use a dating site or anything... we met through a social/professional networking site that focused on a mutual interest of ours. We got to chatting after he commented on a blog post of mine. We became friends online... then on the phone... then I flew out to meet in person and spend a vacation with him (and told my friends that i was gonna make him mine). We decided after three days that we should be together and get married someday. Four months later, he moved to MN and proposed.
We don't hide the fact that we met online. We're both nerdy so people kind of expect it from us, anyway.
We met online at Plentyoffish.com and we tell everyone. There is nothing to be ashamed about if you meet someone online.
We technically met on myspace i guess. his long time friend was my boss at work (6 years age difference between us) and he saw my picture through his profile, and sent me a message. we started talking through messages, then texting and talking on the phone, and have been together ever since our first date. We tell people about it, i think i made it a bigger deal than everyone else did since it wasn't the traditional way to meet someone, but i guess it's becomming more and more common now.
We didnt meet on an online dating siite, but we "met" on facebook, even though we had seen each other around. Being that my family is so traditional I tell them we met at school. O_o
We met in an AOL chat room and yes everyone know. My fiance is a huge procrastinator and so my mother always says that he is an ax murder and he is just too lazy to have done it yet. But to answer your question yes everyone, and I mean everyone including the preacher that is going to marry us knows we met online lol.
My FI and I met on craigslist :-D And yes, I used to lie about it and say we met in college (because we did go to the same college). Then he came out with the truth and now I'm not secretive about it anymore. I absolutely LOVED being able to "screen" the emails for what I was looking for in someone to date, and I recommend CL personals to friends!
It's complicated - we KIND of met online...we are both MJ fans and are members of a fan forum. Shortly after MJ passed away we both attended a memorial vigil but didn't know each other as such. A few weeks later was the MJ birthday celebration and we were both down for attending the event. There was a chat room adjoining to the forum that we both started using and a few of us were aware that we would be going to this event and made sure to meet each other. We all got along really well. The people that used the chatroom met in trafalgar square before going to the event so technically we "met" in trafalgar square (which is where he proposed to me nearly two years later). We became friends after this and chatted online and met up at other events, then later a smaller group of us started to meet up regularly outside of the MJ stuff, then we started meeting one on one (still as friends) and then...it just happened. So whilst we technically "began" online, we didn't meet with the intent to start a relationship, and it didn't start until about 6 months later.
We're usually fairly honest with people. We don't always mention the online part - not because we're ashamed but cos we didn't exactly start our relationship online. We tell people we met at an MJ event (and often get met with a bunch of MJ noises - "heehee, aow, shamone" etc lol) because we did, and apart from the people who were on the same forum or at certain events only one other person (my sister in law) has asked if we "met" online. It's not a secret though, if people want details we tell them.
I know other people who have met online ie started their relationship online who have felt embarrassed though. What I would suggest is when people ask how you met, you just tell them where you met as in where you first laid eyes on each other. That way you're not really lying lol.
I don't count our relationship as having met online but I suppose thinking about it we kind of did :)
Five years ago it would of been seen as LAME. But now it is SO common to be on Match, etc that it is just another Facebook.
MY bestie met her man online and there is no shame. The end product is this amazing couple that is getting married in August.
That is all people would see. An amazing couple that loves each other and is getting married. Be proud of who you are. Fate brought you together, with some help from Bill Gates!
My hubby and I met online and we share most of the facts with others. See story below...
My friends, family, and co-workers knew that I had tried various sites throughout my dating "career". I was tired of spending $ on these sites and felt defeated from going on date after date without finding a quality man. So, on a total whim after New Years 2008, I put an ad on Craigslist. Yes, I am admitting it here on the Bee...Craigslist! I think the title of my personal ad was, "What the hell!?", or something of that nature. I received many replies and actually enjoyed "weeding" through them to find men with good intentions. Out of the handful of men that I communicated with, I only met my husband! Since I was "on guard", I e-mailed, chatted, and spoke with him for about 6 weeks before finally meeting. We took things slow and here we are at "Happily Ever After"! 
So, to answer the OP's question. Yes, we tell people we met online. However, I'm not completely honest about what site we met on.
We met online- Myspace to be exact. I'm not embarassed that we met online necessarily, but more embarassed that it was via Myspace. He friend requested me, essentially just b/c I was "hot" (his words, not mine). I accepted him b/c he didn't seem like a total weirdo/douche/serial killer, and I also thought he was really cute. 2 months went by before he finally tried to message me and get to know me. We went from emailing, IM'ing, talking on the phone, and then finally met in person. 3 years later, we were engaged and will be married in September.
We didn't meet online, but my brother and his awesome gf did. I think many people these days start dating this way and that it's not a big deal. Maybe your family/friends would make a big deal out of it, but why not give them the benefit of the doubt? It's certainly nothing to be ashamed of.
We actually met online but at first we only told people how we met face to face (which is a really cute story in itself). FI parents are very traditional so we decided to keep the online thing on the low, since we wanted them to approve of our realtionship. Right before we get engaged FI decides we should not be ashamed of how we met so now if anyone asks again we tell the truth. We havent been called out on the conflicting stories yet but im sure its comming lol. If we had it to do all over again we would just tell the truth.
We met up because of Craigslist, but it wasn't looking for a date. Many people know our story but I think many are going to be surprised when they read about it on our wedding website. It's just too good for a story to lie about, you know?
We don't hide it at all! lol In fact pretty much every time I've told our story to people, I get a response of "That sounds like something out of a fairy tale!". :D We met through an MMO called EVE Online. We'd both been playing for 3-5 years (he'd been playing longer lol) by the time we met and it was truly fate (I see God's handiwork all over our relationship) that we ended up in the same group of people within the game! By another coincidence I'd heard of his name in game and we started up an MSN/game friendship. In yet ANOTHER coincidence he found out that I was going to Iceland for an annual huge game meetup called Fanfest. He'd gone the year before and loved it (so had I but we didn't meet then) and had wanted to go that year too, but didn't really know anyone who was going (and he's a bit shy) so he wasn't going to go until he heard that I was. 2-3 days later he had his trip to Iceland booked and we were planning when and where to meet up!
Personally I think that because we got to know each other as friends online (and just friends - Iceland was really the first time we thought/realized that maybe there was something more to our friendship!) our relationship worked so much better! In fact I'm not sure that we would have become a couple had we not been friends first. My husband is a wonderful man, and once he knows someone, he's not shy about talking, but for some reason he's not ever considered himself as someone that a woman would want. He'd written the ending to his life story already and in that ending he died alone as a bachelor for life. He admitted to me that he usually can't really even speak to women in real life, but that he already knew me so while I wasn't "one of the guys" I also wasn't a scary woman, if that makes sense. lol
Anyway, I love our story and I love to tell people about it! My life has been truly blessed to have my husband in it!
We met online 5 years ago and at first I was really embarassed about it and wouldn't tell anyone but my closest friends. Now that it's been so long and we're getting married soon I've gotten over that and I'm sharing it with everyone. I even put it on our wedding website.
My FI and I totally met on Craigslist. I first replied to one of his posts, and then we kinda fell out, not emailing anymore, and then a few months later, he emailed me and pretty much a month later, we were engaged! We tell anyone who asks, but make it a kind of joke, because he dated one of my friend in HS, had many of the same friends, but we never met.
We met through PlentyofFish and he was my very first date! :)
Our first actual physical "meeting" was at Starbuck's, so we usually tell people we met there.
My family and our close friends know we met online.
We've told everyone. Who cares what people think? I just tell them that I found someone who is so completely right for me that I'm glad that site was able to bring us together. Him and I may have never met if it weren't for match.com.
Though another couple I know didn't tell her grandma that she met her husband online. For their first meeting they met at a coffee shop, and that's what she tells her grandma.
i was honest from the start. My FI and I met off of yahoo personals...and you know we have one big tie that was so WEIRD...his first house he bought here was my uncle's old house that he owned in the late 70-80's (my uncle was the first owner) and his mom gets her hair done at the same place my dad's gf of 11 years works. so weird...small world. I am not ashamed of meeting my FI off the internet...it is the new thing to do. :)
We met on plent of fish and whenever people asked how we met, we told them. My best friend met her husband online.
Our friends know that we met online (on okcupid), but our families don't know. We didn't think they would take it well, so we told them we met through friends.
we met online but only a select few know the whole truth. we did meet on a non conventional dating site (not like match lol) and when we decided to meet in person we met at i hop. the story most people know is we met at i hop thanks to my daughter throwing her food at him. our story is not a lie, its just not the whole truth lol.
I know we don't really have a problem telling people we met online but the website where we met, myyearbook, is really shady so I leave that part out, lol.
My FH and I met online. Plentyoffish.com We dont have a problem telling people we met online. Our family and friends are cool with it! Most people these days meet online....its just like saying you met someone at the bar.
We met on craigslist. Like 3 people know. We told everyone we met through "mutual friends." lol. Looking back on it, it probably wouldn't have been a big deal. But on my side, internet dating is very uncommon and we met around the time of the whole craigslist killer thing so...we (I) decided mutual friends was much simpler answer.
Everyone knows! :) We met online when I was 14 and he was 16... LONG time ago lol
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We met online and just a couple of people know this. My friends, my brother and sister, some coworkers. But his friends and family don't know it. Funny thing is...they never asked us how me met. And I have such a hard time telling people, I feel like we are instantly getting judge instead of getting an 'awwwww!' Just the other day a friend of my fsil asked me in front of my fsil and I said, thru some friends of ours'- a lie!! :-( How did other beed handle this question?