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not really..but I found it pretty funny that my fiance said that in grade school he and his friend would jump into stationary trains that belonged to a plastic factory, just to collect the plastic pellets. Um yeah, my dad worked at that factory forever (I'm 100% sure he was working there while this happened, because we was there for a good 15 something years), so its pretty funny.
Yes! FI and I worked in buildings next door to each other every day for over three years before we met. We would have gone to the same Starbucks, same lunch places - our buildings are literally separated by an alley - and if I weren't on the 11th floor and he on the 2nd, we would be able to see in to each other's offices.
But we met online! Too weird, right? Just goes to show that people in DC don't stop to look around often enough. :-)
I'm a former teacher and used to frequent a local eductional store in my area and recently found out my FI worked there for years and his brother was the manager.
My fiancé and I didn't meet until our senior year of college but we were in some of the same lectures, went to the same football games & even have pictures at the same Halloween party. (We found out when we recognized eachother's friends!) I truthfully believe that we met at the right time (and our mutual friends who have known each of us for years but never introduced us) and I’m glad we waited. We both have changed a lot since we lived in the same dorm our freshman year (we went to a large state school) and we met at the perfect time to fall in love :)
This happened to us. New Years 2007 was a really snowy bad night, but my sister and I went out anyway. After my husband and I met and were planning our first New Years together (2008), we found out that we had been at the exact same bar the year before and didn't meet. Oh well, he was only out prowling that night, so I guess I was better off meeting him 8 months later.
Oh, I always wonder that! My FI and I went to rival highschools in the same area, he graduated a year before I did though. I always wondered if I saw him out and around our area!
You should check your old pictures from football games! A while after my mom and dad got married, my mom was going through old pictures of my dads from before he met my mom. She found a picture of my dad posing with friends at the beach... and my mom was sunbathing on a towel in the background! Weeeird huh?
No, just because he's from MI and I'm from PA. But after we met and had our initial attraction since we work in the same industry I would constantly see him or find out we were at the same party or meeting (by that point we had both moved to NYC). It's one of the things that kept our 'spark' going. We never spoke to each other because it was way too intense and finally one day he couldn't take it anymore and asked me to be official :)
yup! we had TONS of near misses. he stayed in the same dorm i did my freshman year [i had moved to a dorm closer to campus my sophomore year, his freshman year] and i was constantly there visiting friends still living there. then we were in the SAME dorm for a year and had friends living in the same apartment complex, and even circulated around the same parties. and it turns out he had meant to stop by a meeting of a club i was in but never did.
but when i think about it, it probably was a good thing we didn't meet when i was still in school because 1) i wouldn't have thought to give him a chance and would have missed out on a wonderful person! and 2) i was too busy chasing after another guy in that group. lol.
Yep we used to vacation on the same small beach...my parents eventually bought the house he vacationed in!
Not exactly me and my fiance in the same place same time...sice we've known each other since highschool, but a wierd coincidence: My grandparents/mom lived in the house his grandma now lives in....small world...and its a big city!
This didn't happen to me but it did with my parents! My mom's dad worked at an oil company so they were always moving around but it was usually back and forth between the same 5-6 areas. When my mom was 9 they were living in this one small town in Northern California. She entered a local roller skating competition (she was really good! Still has some of her trophies!) and my dad, who was four years older than her, remembers watching her practice for the competition... he and his brothers were actually making fun of them... And my mom remembers those three boys! Fast forward 6 years after moving a few more times my mom's parents decided to settle down in one town so my mom wouldn't have to keep switching high schools. They happened to settle down in a town nearby and my mom actually became friends with another guy who was friends with my dad. By that time my dad was in Vietnam and so she started writing to him and the rest is history! They were married for 35 years before my dad passed away. I just love their story! It always makes me smile.
Husband and I werent, as he is from Ohio and I am from Upstate NY. But my brother and his wife were born in the same hospital, 3 hours apart (Him on halloween at 11:30pm, her on November 1 at 2:30am) and my mom and her mom were in the same recovery room. They were also at the same sports awards dinners through high school, and my brother dated her college roommate (although never met her then because she wasnt at the apartment any times he was there.) Weird right?!
FI and I went to the same high school and even shared some common friends. For whatever reason we managed to avoid speaking to one another until our final year and we hit it off really well. We laugh because when we go through old photo albums (yikes, pre digital camera ages) we can actually find the other in the background.
It doesn't matter though. I think if we met sooner than our final year, we probably wouldn't have dated because we were entirely different people then. Funny how much growing up takes place over 3 or 4 years.
My FH and I went to the same college, three years apart. Then we studied abroad in the same city of the same country, two years apart. Then after graduation we both went to work in the same random small town, just a few months apart. Then we both moved to the city where we ended up meeting, and finally our paths crossed!
No, but I have a good friend who met her husband on an online dating site. And then found out that there were about 5 of us that knew them both, all from different places - it was very random and small world, as we live in NYC so there are a LOT of people here!
FI and I actually went to the same preschool. But no one can remember if we were there at the same time. Our parents also live less than a mile apart and his mother's best friend knows my mother through Girl Scouts. We still didn't end up meeting until high school.
My fiance and I grew up in different cities, but they are very close together. We found out we had gone to some of the same concerts and such from back in high school, and of course we had been to a bunch of the same things in university because we were in the same small faculty (though he was a year above me). I think the weirdest though, was I had a picture up from when I sang in a special choir with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra to premiere two Canadian pieces. He recognized the performance; he attended it and was sitting about 20 feet from where I was singing! Fancy that.
Yes! Several times!
We found out after we started dating that we have a mutual friend, and once I was with her when she bumped into him at the mall and I said "oh, he's cute" and she told me he had a girlfriend. That was about four years before we met each other, and I didn't recognize him, so we didn't realize that happened until later she was like - um, you're dating Josh? And I was like, yeah, you know him? And then she told me that story. So crazy!!!
All the time - our town that we grew up in is pretty small and we went to different highschools that shared the same field.
We knew of each other but didn't KNOW each other!
In our last year of highschool (we had 5 years of HS in Canada when I was HS and our drinking age is 19) we used to hang out at the same pub and we even have a picture of doing Karaoke together with a big group - but we never really talked because I was in a serious relationship at the time!
I love that we have a common history because it goes to show that things happen at a certain time for a reason - I bet if we did know each other then we probably wouldn't be together now!
YES! In fact, we technically "met" quite a few times. He's my best friend's oldest brother, and while I'd met the rest of his family, he had already moved out, and I didn't ever really know him. He remembers a time that I came into his work and, being aware of who he was but not really knowing him, I said, "Hey, you're Sarah's brother!" That was YEARS ago, and he still remembers being really confused. haha.
Also, I was an usher for a play my freshman year of high school, and my job was to hand out the programs. After we started dating, (7 years later) we were cleaning out his drawer and found the program from that play (his sister was in it)! I definitely handed it to him and he still had it! haha.
We came so close so many times! My freshman year in college (and FI's senior year in HS) I used to go to this diner all the time that was near the school. Like, every Sunday morning for hangover food and after rugby games and many, many times during the week to slap together a publication I worked on! Well, that year FI and his friends went to that same diner EVERY NIGHT. It was like their hangout spot. Go figure.
That's the biggest one. We were at a few of the same parties together and pieced a couple of events that we were both at but the diner thing cracks me up/blows our minds!
Actually yes, kind of neat...when I was 16 and he was 18 we actually lived 2 doors down from eachother, we didn't know eachother and never met BUT I always seen him outside with his motorcycle and thought he was a hottie :) so later on after dating a few months we realized it and still laugh about it ;)
Its not as strange as some of you other girls. But years before I met my FI we were at MANY of the same parties & never met. My FI was in a popular frat that my friends and I would go to their parties quite often, I don't remeber ever seeing my FI there, although he gets a little grumpy knowing that I hung out with some of his frat buddies, and will say stuff like " I can't believe you made out with THAT guy" LOL!
Husband and I realized we were at one of the same phillies games when we were like 13 years old! AND we found out that our yellow labs (who both died before we met) were from the same litter! Neat!
We sat in the very same row for an entire semester during a freshman Anthropology class, but we never noticed each other, which still astounds me because when I met him in another class two years later, it was love at first sight for me- a can't think straight-fluttery chest feeling-sick to the stomach reaction as soon as he walked through the door!
Once we got together, we realized that our parents had the same first date. All four of them were at a Police concert in Ann Arbor. And my parents weren't even from Michigan. They were even sitting in the same area of the venue!
Weird!
Yes! FI and I did not grow up in the same area but we went to the same university and lived in the same dormitory hall on the SAME floor. We never met at school and only connected 4 years after graduating, through mutual friends. When we met, we found out we actually had many mutual acquaintances and friends! Weeeeeird, right?? It's soooo meant to be! ;)
We have the WILDEST EVER near miss. In the same subdivision.
I'll try to give the Cliffs' Notes short version here.
We met out at dinner. He and I talked and then he gave me his card and we talked on the phone for several weeks after that but couldn't go out b/c of thanksgiving and the crazy holiday stuff we were doing. We finally met up again and this time it was for a real date.
During that date we found the following out:
We figure we were destined at some point to meet, but only when the Good Lord knew we were ready for each other!
These stories are so cool! Its like you're destined to be together!
That didn't happen to us, that we know of BUT. Recently I posted a funny picture of myself in kindergarten with a few of my classmates, just because I thought it was funny. Well, one of my FI's groomsmen was like OMG, I'm in that picture! I was like get the heck outta here. So he went home, uploaded a very similar picture to prove we were in the same place at the same time when we were 5.
Yes! In college we were at two different parties together and never even knew it. This has been confirmed by friends. One party was actually a joint birthday party for his ex-girlfriend and my ex-boyfriend's best friend. Oh and this party was held in the house that my then boyfriend lived in at the time.
The other party was over a year later and hosted by one of my closest friends. We were both single by this party. We never knew that we were both there. A friend of mine confirmed that he even took a picture of me (in a group shot) that night!
About 8 months after the last party I met him in a bar with friends. It's weird because I saw him across the room and just knew that he had to be mine:) Why the heck had I not noticed him before that?! haha
@ aynzipan: holy cow! Your parents and his parents were all at the very same concert at the same time and it was both couples' first dates!? That's crazy!
This happened to us a lot, same parties, same bars, we even stayed in houses that were across the alley from one another. But, I think that when we finally met, it was the perfect timing. He is 9 years older than me, so I would have been way too young for him if we had met earlier.
love these stories! I don't think I ever met my guy before I met him. He's from MI and I'm from Ohio, we went to different colleges here in Columbus, and I'm not a big concert person. :) Plus we met online, not via friends and we have never found any mutual friends or aquaintances (sp?). Yay for match.com
My FH used to come up to Buffalo to visit his best friend after she moved from VA. I used to visit the SAME town in VA where he lived for over 8 years before finally moving down there. I totally break it down to being nothing short of fate that we met. Silly as it is, we were also @ the opening a the Krispy Kream here in Buffalo but not @ the same times, lol. Small world!
We were at some of the same concerts when I was in high school and he was in college. Of course we didn't meet until years later when I was 24 and he was 27.
These are all great stories!
We went to college together so we have a lot of mutual friends. Since he's older and was more involved on campus, a lot of his friends were authority figures to me! Like my RA in my dorm was his roommate's boyfriend. I'm sure he heard complaints about a wild freshman from his friend's boyfriend / my RA -- not knowing it was his future wife!! Also, he dated briefly a girl that I was in a club with who I really despised -- and she definitely complained to him about me :) Oh, well, look who got him!
Despite all these people in common, and going to several on campus functions at the same time, we met by total chance in our apartment clubhouse when he was looking for a hammer and I lent him one. And it was definitely the right time -- any sooner and we would have probably hated each other!
Yes! My freshman year I had a class with this guy that always wore a white Nike hat & OSU warm ups. Before one of the midterms this guy sat not 6 feet away & I was trying to get up the nerve to say "HI" when another girl that he obviously knew arrived and started talking to him. :(....... After we were dating we were looking at some pictures of his when I saw one with him in the white hat! It all clicked! Sometimes I wish I had met him and could have been with him 2 more years but I don't think at that point I would have appreciated him & how he spoils me the way I do now. Who knows I'm just lucky he was able to come talk to me the next time!
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The "attraction" post on the main page had me thinking about this. FI and I are from towns about 45 minutes from each other. So after we met/got to know each other, we found out that we've been to the same concerts and such when we were teenagers, which is to be expected since we grew up in the same area.
However, we were in the same place/time once in a crazy situation. I grew up in a town that's kind of like Varsity Blues. The town shuts down for HS football games. There's pep rallies every Friday in the fall and the team is practically worshipped. There are "spectator busses" that take people to away games.
Me and FI's high schools were football rivals. So needless to say, when they played at our high school, it was packed. FI was a tight end on his school's fball team. During one particular game, when FI was 17, he broke his hip at my high school while playing! I would have watched him be carried off the field and everything, and we didn't even meet until five years later! It is truly a small world.