Weddingbee boards

Hi,

It's the weekend so I thought I'd put up a few nice easy polls for fun :-)

Met my FI at pharmacy school (yep, we're both going to nerd it up as pharmacists) but what really attracted me to him is that he a) is brilliant b) is suuuuper handsome, but also c) that he's really easy to relate to on every single level. I have to say that I voted for first noticing his smile. He has an amaaaaaazing smile and that really is the first thing that caught my eye. It's kind cute in that we were both very much attracted to one another, but each of us thought that the other was way out of our league. Somehow we managed to interact more and began our journey together. Sooo happy :)

Btw, great thread!

We met online, so it was totally personality!  In his profile, he talked about the importance of family and having things in your life that you are passionate about it.  Before we even met, I knew he was something special.

Once we met in person, his eyes totally lurred me in :)

I first met my husband when we were cast as romantic leads in a musical.  At our first rehearsal, I watched him walk in and he was so handsome and he had the most amazing smile I had ever seen in my life.  Just this wide open beaming smile.  I absolutely knew, with my own womanly intuition, that we were going to have sparks and it was definitely going to lead to something.  And BOY did we have sparks! 

We began dating very shortly after that initial introduction, moved in together 4 months later, were engaged 4 months after that, and married after 18 months of engagement, or two years after meeting.  I also was nominated for a pretty prestigous regional award for my role in that musical and I am pretty sure it was because my real life falling in love coincided with the falling in love of our characters.  It was easy for me to play the part.

When he went in for a kiss! (and his personality lol)

Hahaha, we were friends for almost 2 years first and he had a girlfriend so I never saw him as anything but a friend. Well, they broke up, and 2 months later there were a series of umm miscommunications? He thought I maybe had the hots for him, so he invited himself over to hang out, and I was sooo worried because we'd never hung out along together and I was thinking "omg, what if we actually have nothing to say to each other and this gets awkward??" Right before he went in for the kiss there was one of those moments when you just *know* what is about to happen and it was really the first time I saw him in a romantic way.  I spoke to a friend later that night and told her what happened and said "I better be careful, because if we kiss again, I know that I will fall head over heels in love with him"....good thing I wasn't careful!

like the song goes.... "something in the way she moves, attracts me like no other lover"

yep, it was her walk. then her personality. then her smile.

I would say it's a combination of interest in me (yes yes, I know, how lame), personality and sense of humor and similar value systems. We are very pragmatic people so it's important to get along on many different levels for both of us

This requires a little bit of back story to explain. SO and I met through craigslist on the platonic/friends boards. So for several months we were just friends. I actually had a long-distance boyfriend at the time we met.

I suffer from very severe depression and, at this point in time, I was in a rebellious phase and refusing to take medication, which is a bad scene for everyone involved. Anyway, I had gotten to the point where I was having suicidal urges multiple times a day. I didn't tell anyone about it. I was terrified. It's very scary when you don't actually want to die but your mind is insisting you try. So, one day, when the urges had been particularly bad, instead of driving to my night class, I drove to the hospital and sat in the parking lot. I figured, if I did hurt myself, at least I was already at the hospital and could quickly get help. And then I realized that I had to talk to someone about this. It wasn't something I could shut up about any longer. I was in the hospital parking lot, for heaven's sake, waging war in my head about whether to kill myself. It doesn't get any worse.

So I picked up my phone, and here's the weird thing. At this point, SO and I had only known each other for a few weeks. I had known my boyfriend for months. And my mom had gone through this exact thing when she was younger (thanks, genetics!), and we are extremely close. I could have called either one of them. But I didn't want to. I had a sudden, overwhelming urge to call SO. I didn't want to tell him what I was doing or what was happening. I just wanted to talk to him.

Turns out he was actually in the middle of a tutoring session (he used to do that on the side for extra income), helping an older woman figure out her new computer, so he couldn't talk to me. But just hearing his voice for five minutes made me feel better.

After I went home I started thinking about why on earth I had called him instead of my boyfriend or mom, who both seemed like better choices for such an intimate topic. That was the moment I realized that maybe there were more-than-just-friendly feelings going on.

It's a pretty awful story, but ever since then, he's just been my rock. He's solid and calm and steady. I think that's what drew me to him. Even now, when I'm medicated and much happier, I still have off days and need to turn to him for that special quality he has. He keeps me grounded and centered, and, after living so long in my chaotic mind, that's exactly what I needed in a partner.

Damn, I do love that man :)

I said eyes, smile might be second.  Before he even spoke i remember seeing those gorgeous blue eyes.