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Hello ladies, I have read a few posts about where couples met and there are a larger number of online meetings than I thought! We are one, so its nice to know we aren't alone, but it got me wondering, how many met online and how many met elsewhere?
eharmony.com here!
I said other because he was technically a friend of a friend who I had seen here and there and he worked at the grocery store near my house (this was high school but he didn't go to the same high school as me). So kind of in person. But we started talking through MySpace after adding each other without the intervention of the friend and went on a date about a week later after talking online and emailing. So kind of in the internet too since we were never completely introduced in person.
Craigslist... but not through the relationships section... its a long story lol
I'm really happy that online meeting is becoming more of a phenomenon. (did i even spell that right?) I sort of feel weird sharing our story, though usually people have a positive reaction so that's good.
My fiance and I met in a Nirvana chat room when I was in 8th grade...Califoria and Maine...could that be further apart? But, we spoke forever, met in person the weekend of my 18th birthday....then lots of back and forth, and finally living in the same state. And umm...12 years later, engagment. Woohoo :-)
Hurray for Nirvana.
I met the hubs on eHarmony. We were matched and had our first date all within my first week of signing up. It was the best 60 bucks I've ever spent!
We met in person. I worked with his sister, he worked with my best friend at the time. We knew who each other were, but we were in relationships at the time. It took 2 years later for us to bump into each other again, and the rest is history ;)
FI & I met online on a dating website.
I kind of hate telling people though, we always get weird looks.
He would always partner up with me in our karate classes to fight, even if I was a white belt and he was a brown belt... I thought : "great, someone who has experience and can teach me! So generous of him!"; He thought: "I get to spend time with that girl that I like". Ha!
We met in person. We went to the same high school but didn't meet until senior year when he went to homecoming with my best friend (I went to a really big high school). We didn't start dating until my junior year of college though!
We met through mutual friends... but found out we went to the same college and lived in the same dorm building at one point!
Match.com here! We normally get an exclamation of "Wow! That stuff actually works!?!"
eHarmony and I have no doubt he is my soul mate!
We normally just tell people "through a mutual friend" so we don't have to go into details. But i'm glad to know there are lots other people out there who met online.
FI and met through our school's network in Friendster. We get the weird looks too so when we don't feel like going into details we say we met at school.
I worked with my FI's mom while he was completing his senior year of college in another state. She would talk to both of us about the other... and one (drunken) night, my FI emailed me. So we kinda-sorda met online. Emails back and forth for a few months until he came home for summer and we met in person.... four years later, here we are ; )
I still can't believe I met the love of my life on okcupid.com... But I did! :)
We met in person, but I had two serious relationships from okcupid.com before I met SO.
online, through a video game 
To be fair, he was a friend of my brother's first, and I only played the game for the chatting aspect of it. When my brother met him, he would tell me about some of the funny things this guy would say sometimes and I thought he sounded funny. Eventually it turned into me being behind my brother's shoulder like every single time DH was online and I'd say "what did you say to him? and what was his reply?? then what did he say??" and giggling like a little school girl even though it had nothing to do with me. Kind of funny that I had the little crush on him like that :p Eventually my brother gave him my user name so I was able to talk to him. We just stayed friends for awhile, started talking on the phone, then started exchanging letters, then he came to visit after I don't know, 2 or 3 years of chatting, and the rest is history!
We met on a blind double date. his best friend and my best friend from hs were dating and got us together to see a movie with them. It was weird because we both went to the same college and had mutual friends (he was even friends with my brother) but we had never met until he was finished and i had one more year.
@JoesWifey: Aww, why the face?
We met in a video game too, though you took it at a much more reasonable pace than we did.
We started talking in December, I met him in January, I'd moved in with him by April. The first month we started talking, we earned ourselves a thousand dollar phone bill. Oops. And that was two years ago this past April, so we've lived together 2 and a half years by now. We just knew :)
I met my FI playing hockey with some of my high school guy friends literally a month after we all started college. They went to RMU and happened to bring their roommate of a month to play. I was from a primarily female college (Carlow) and so I was not exactly expecting to find a man at that time. The first time I met FI I didn't like him at all lol! He was a very aggressive player and kept smacking me with his hockey stick to get the puck. He says he really didn't have any thoughts about me other than I was tough (I played goalie without any gear). After hanging out at the dorms with my friends, I gradually started to appreciate how great of a person he was (and still is). Apparently the feelings were mutual lol. He and I were each other first real kisses and everything! He took me to a haunted house because he wanted to see if I would hold his hand. I thought that was the cutest thing. Unfortunately, the kid who set us up ended up trying to break us up several times after the fact. We have both cut him out of our lives because he is a toxic person. While we were not appreciative of this kid's attempts to hurt our relationship, we at least appreciate that he brought us together :-). We have been together for 6 years and will have dated about 7 years at the time of our wedding :-D.
@polkadotbridetobe: LOL! I thought we were the only ones to use the "through a mutual friend" bit!
We were classmates/friends/coworkers in university, and then ended up working for the same company after grad. He just kept turning up everywhere, and finally wore me down.
@quietserenity lol neither DH nor I really like to tell the story. It's a little embarassing! People get the wrong idea about a person if they met through a video game. They start to picture the "World of Warcraft nerd" even though that wasn't the game and we're totally not like that! We try to just say "it's a long story" or "he was a friend of my brother's" if someone asks. However, people usually try to pry more information out, since we're from two different states, they start asking how that came about.
the amount of people that have met online is insane! here (in ireland) i think i only know one person who has met anyone on the internet that they arranged to meet up with in person
@hopeandpray: I know a lot of relationships start because of the internet now.
However, I have a hunch that this poll is slightly skewed. After all, we are on the internet message board. I think people who tend to use dating websites are more likely to use the internet for other resources too :)
@sweetpea1031: We actually meet online on myspace. He was searching for people who use to go to his school and I came up. Although we went to the school at different times his older than me. I use to think that if I didn't meet a guy in real life then there was no way I was going to meet him online. I'm glade that I became more open minded or I would of never met my soul mate.
We met at work. I saw him walking down the hallway and knew he was my husband; I just needed to figure out how to see him again. We worked at a place with 1500 employees who worked 24/7, so I asked my friend who'd worked there for 10 years. We plotted and I met him.
@judithsr: Nirvana is the best.
@vegan - we met on MySpace too - totally random though, no real connection although I tease him and tell him he was searching for single women in Dublin...glad I popped up in his results!
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