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Mr. Parfait and I just celebrated our two year dating anniversary over the weekend, and it got me reminiscing about our first date!
Ours started with dinner at the Cheesecake Factory--a classic fav. We drove to Chicago to see a comedy show at the famous Second City. We walked around the city, hand in hand, looking up at skyscrapers and trees lit with pink for Sweetest Day. We talked about being old, brownstones, 3-D movies, things that are pink, and things that made us double over with laughter. I had never laughed and smiled so much in my life. It was an impossibly perfect first date!
What was your first date like with your significant other? Any hilarious or embarassing stories, or was your first date perfectly peachy-fuzzy-fun?
Our first unofficial date was spending about 2 hours in Toys 'R Us after One Act Play practice!
Our first official date was dinner at McDonald's & to the movies to see Hoodwinked. We were poor high school students, lol...but it was a perfect first date for us. 
ours involved shopping for laundry detergent and dog food at Wal-Mart....at midnight ;)
Well, since we were both living in New Jersey at the time, we did it Jersey style and went to a diner for brunch. Diner food and hours of stimulating conversation had me hooked.
Wow..I honestly cannot remember our first date. We met in high school and used to go out a lot as friends with other friends to the beach at night.
However, the earliest date I can remember of just us, which was around the time when we really started going out...was going to the Addison Gallery of American Art at a time when they were doing "flicks on the lawn".
They would have different movies every week out on the lawn of the museum, and we went quite a few times...I actually don't remember any of the movies we saw..lol. But I do remember the first time he put his arm around me. It was so new for both of us. * le sigh*
Well, technically I guess our first date he came to my house (he was late and my parents almost didn't let him in), and we watched a movie. Our first "real" date though was out for Chinese food and then back to the house for another movie (I know, we're still boring). Come to find out from his parents, that was the first time he'd ever had Chinese (no wonder he asked me what to order there!). :)
-Bella
Well my first date w/ bf was actually a pre-date! We met on match.com and we'd talked online for about two weeks when he asked me if I'd like to go to dinner and a movie with him. I agreed and we set a date for the following Friday. Then I suggested that maybe we should go get coffee a few days earlier so that if we didn't click we didn't have to spend an entire night faking it, and he agreed (I am super romantic... haha). So we decided to meet for coffee that Wednesday, which just happened to be valentines day! (although neither of us acknowledged that!).
The crazy part is that we had a blizzard hit that monday that shut the town down! I didn't own a snow shovel so I had to shovel a path to my car with a cookie sheet (I wanted to wear cute high heeled boots so I needed to have a clear path!). I was late because the roads were so bad. Oh! Then I ended up paying for our drinks! (We had a bet going the week before, about what I don't recall, and the loser had to buy the coffee. I lost). I tease him mercilessly about the fact that I treated on our first date! haha. We met at 7 planning to drink our coffee and part ways. We ended up shutting the place down and I couldn't wait for our "real" first date that Friday-- on which he paid by the way!
@corgitales, what a sweet story! i love the cookie sheet snow shovel!
We were fixed by his aunt and my SIL. So our first date was a blind date. We had emailed a few times and talked on the phone but we hadn't met in person. We met at Applebee's and had dinner and talked for hours. I was pretty low key but neither of us wanted to leave.
technically we never dated.
we were friends for over a year, we were dive buddys so would see each other every weekend and maybe during the week and we went to movies and talked on the phone also and then one day he held my hand as we crossed the street... and that changed everything :)
We met online, so we agreed to meet in person for dinner at Islands, halfway between his place and mine (we were 40 miles apart back then). It's funny, we both said "if we like each other" we'd extend the date... luckily we did. ;) We went mini-golfing right after. :)
Oh, what a fab topic idea!
On our first date (alone...we double dated with my sis/bro-in-law the very 1st time), we went down to B-More. Visited the aquarium, ate at the Cheesecake Factory, and walked around the inner harbor. It was November and FREEZING. We kept walking because we wanted to kiss each other, but were waiting for the right moment to move in. That moment happened to be next to the water in the bitter cold, with Christmas lights strung on boats reflecting into the water. Perfect.
...Then we went back to his place and made out. :D
Our first date was at a local restaurant in Dallas called Breadwinners. They have amazing food and different specials on each night. The night we went was half price wine bottle night, so I suggested we get one. Only, I didn't know that Mr. Fro Yo was not a drinker at all. Not wanting me to think he was strange, he agreed to splitting a bottle, and even managed to gulp down some wine. I noticed that he wasn't enjoying it though, so I asked him about it and he confessed. It was super sweet! We had an amazing time and now we split dessert instead of wine. :)
Depends on which you count as our first date: The night we met, we talked for hours until 5 or 6 in the morning. Our first "proper" date, I went to his apartment to watch PeeWee's Big Adventure, and then spent the night (we just cuddled, though). :)
well since we met on the net about nine months before when we met in person it was very natural i think we went out for dinner and watched movies. i remember how calm and non-nervous at all and it felt like i had known him for like 10 years or something... and i remember laughing and giggling all night.
Our first date was a ski weekend in Salt Lake City. I began the date by saying, "Just so you know, I'll never date you..."
He was a perfect gentleman and by the end of the weekend I was dying for a kiss!
@parfait:yours sounds so romantic!! we just are a very natural couple. i don't remember us arguing EVER although i know we have. we were talking about it yesterday and i thnk i don't remember it because i never once thought oh i should leave you screw you it's too hard, i always think he must not understand my point of view because i know he has my best interest at heart... i love him so much he's so awesome <3
eta i used to think that girls that gushed about their boyfriends/fiances/husbands were crazy. now i realize that i was just not with the right person because i've become one of those crazy girls lol
Um, our first "real" date was applebees. Then i was classy and shacked at his place and we made out. He said i made him do the "airplane" because i wouldn't let him have wandering hands.
Our "fake date" was the night i wandered into his apartment with my boone's farm, petted his dog, and he confessed this monstrous crush. He told me he was going to kiss me and I told him i'd hit him and he did it anyways and we made out. I also stayed with him that night and he went to go take a final in the morning. His friends came into his room at the fraternity house and found me half asleep on the top bunk and laughed and said good morning. I remember plopping my face down and going "aw shoot".
Yeah it sounds a lil trashy. I'm over it! It turned out to be the best dumb thing i ever did!
Our first date was on Valentine's Day. We were just friends before that, and he was appalled that I had never been on a vday date, so he took me out. We went to a really great steak house then we went to a local pub and shot some pool. We're both pretty big drinkers so we drank A LOT and just laughed and talked all night. I ended up sleeping in his bed because I couldn't drive home (his place was only a $5 cab ride), and he slept on the couch. Then he took me out to breakfast the next morning. :) We were basically inseparable from then on.
We went to see the movie Orange County. And in the car on the way there I made sure he knew it was a date, not a hang out, just for the record... it was senior year of high school.
We live 92 miles apart, with him south of me. Our first date was dinner by my house on his way even further north for a visit to his parents. We met at a restaurant that used to be called Thaiphoon. We had a great time talking, but our time was limited because he had to keep driving for 6 more hours after we parted. Toward the end of our meal, the waiter decided to try to change the dead bulb in the lamp over our table. He ended up making it explode!!
We like to joke about the sparks on our first date!
He didn't know what to plan, so we just drove up and down a highway until we decided to stop for dinner. His truck was brand new and still had paper tags, so he joked with me that I should tell a friend where I was in case he was secretly a kidnapper :) It was super stress-free and gave us a great chance to talk!
We met because he is part of a build crew for Home Depot (yay HD!) and I was working part time as a cashier there. He used to come by my register and turn on all of the Christmas singing snowglobes to annoy me. Then he started coming in randomly on his days off to return stuff (I was the returns cashier). Turns out he was buying extra so he would have a reason to return it! One day when he came in, I looked at his signature on his return reciept, looked him up on MySpace from my phone at work, and emailed him something funny about being an Aggie (I went to Texas, the rival school).
He emailed back in like 2 seconds flat.
We talked for a week or so more, and went on our first date a year ago. We went two-stepping at a honky-tonk and sang Kareoke. I kissed HIM on the dance floor while "Blues Man" by Alan Jackson was playing. We went to Ihop afterward with a huge crowd of people, and he drove me home well after 3 AM. We kissed on the stairs of my apartment for an hour, then started freezing and came in.
He stayed the night (I KNOW!) and the next day we grilled and saw Zack & Miri. We have only been apart 2 days since then.
We worked together, so I kept asking him out to go hiking, he never saw those as dates. We finally awkwardly admitting to liking each other after an after-work happy hour outside my house. Finally our first-official-real-both-parties-considering-it-a-date-date was to a movie: Finding Nemo.
I always laugh at ours. We went to Chili's and then went home and watched The Office at his place. We really got to know each other (we worked together) by texting... one of our common interests was The Office and we would "watch it together" while texting each other at our own places. When The Office first started Michael would always take clients to Chili's or they had their parties at Chili's - basically Chili's was their sponsor so whenever they could get Chili's in they did.
So we thought it only fitting to eat at Chili's and then watch The Office; it was a Thursday. I still remember what he wore and how he smelt and what he ordered. I am a dork. I giggled the whole time, I knew I was in love with him already.
@Soon2BeMrsC: Heehee, we still have inside jokes from our first date, too.
@lauren611: Sounds like an easy, breezy first date. Lovely!
@texaslawgirl: OMG, that's too cute. And you remember so many details!
@lemondrop: Aww, I love Pixar movies. I guess romance can blossom even during a kiddie movie. :)
Our first unoffical date was going to see a customer in the hospital after a hip replacement, finding out he'd been discharged to in-patient physical rehab and going to dinner , during which I texted the whole time trying to get out of a coffee meetup with an ex-boyfriend...
Our first OFFICAL date was either going to a popular carribean place or watching Mary Poppins and eating oatmeal cookies with pumpkin ice cream.
Our first date was 1 1/2 months after we first met. He was on his way back from the beach and "happened to be in the area." My FI picked me up from my parent's house (I just moved back to my hometown & didn't have an apt yet) where he proceeded to drive his truck off the side of the driveway and get stuck in the ditch. He met my dad really soon as he helped push his truck out. My Fi drove me an hour away and took me to a double feature at the drive in theater. The date ended about 9 hours after it started & we realized how late it was. I remember it got cool that evening and I was wishing he would scoot closer to me and keep me warm.
Our first "official" date was to a gourmet pizza place in Cambridge, MA. It turns out he wanted to take me somewhere really fancy and do it up for our first date, but I was really stressed b/c I had just arrived back in town from x-mas & new years in Hawaii w/ my family, and I was about to head out the door again for a conference for work that I was totally unprepared for. I really just wanted to do something low-key before jetting out for another trip. Luckily, once I got back from my marathon month of back-to-back trips, he was still there waiting for me. The rest is history :-)
Our first date was on King St. in Charleston--we shopped, attempted to go ice skating (I don't do that!) and had dinner. It was so fun and I would do it again in a heartbeat! In fact... Maybe I will in a couple of months! :)
Our first date was the night after I had kissed him at a party. I had just eaten a sandwich and HUGE bowl of soup when he stopped by our friends' dorm room to see if I wanted to go have dinner. Of course I said yes!, but so did a wierd girl from down the hall and we were both too awkward to say no to her. Also, he left the next day to spend the rest of the semester working in another state. When he came back to visit 2 months later we went on a real date, back to the same resturant and it was amazing - no third wheel this time!
Getting stuck in a ditch, eating pizza, awkward third wheels...haha, love it! It all makes for good stories, and we know everything turns out perfect in the end. :)
@KMSull: I have to try this Mary Poppins+Oatmeal Cookies+Pumpkin Ice Cream combination. I'd have the happiest food coma ever.
@cinemaparadiso: Recreating your first date is a sweet idea! Most of the dates are things we can do on any old weekend.
lol. Our first date, he conned me into it. I came home in a huff about guys. and announced to my room mate and her friend that I was just going to say yes to the next guy who ask. Immediately, he said "Tomorrow? Chillis? 7.30?" and I really didn't want to go but I said yes anyway because well, I didn't want to back down from my own challenge. We went to Chillis and he talked THE WHOLE TIME. Seriously. Apparently Cosmo or one of those dumb magazines like that told him the number one complain girls had about guys on first dates was that they didn't talk enough. So he decided to compensate for the entire male population.
We'd been corresponding on MySpace for a week and I was planning on leaving Ireland in the next month or so so he said he would join me for something on my 'to see/do before leaving Dublin' list. So we met at the train station near Dublin Zoo and spent a couple hours at the Zoo. had a really good time, really easy going and laid back and then when we got back to the train station where he'd parked he asked me if I wanted to get dinner. YES. and then after dinner (and lots of conversation) he asked me if I wanted to go get a drink. YES. and then while we were having a drink he held my hand. He walked me to the street so I could get a taxi home and before we got to the taxi rank he kissed me. Yay. :0)
Love all the stories - life is funny, isn't it???
We went to a tiny club to hear two bands play and ate Korean-Japanese fusion. He was terrified about taking me out to eat because I'm a vegetarian (he had never met a vegetarian!)
technically, our first date would have been when we went to our Senior Prom together in high school -- except we went dutch and I asked him as a pity date after his ex gf, my friend, asked me if it would be okay for her to bring the guy she cheated on him with to the prom... and I felt bad, because they'd just broken up. J and I were friends too, so I asked him so he'd have a date at least when she showed up with the 'other guy' - who ended up saying no anyway, and his ex took another friend in our group's younger brother, a sophomore, haha.
Our first 'real' date, eight years later, was when he took me to the one western restaurant in town here while he was visiting this summer, it was pouring rain and we only had one umbrella, so we were both half drenched by the time we got there, but he ate mediocre western food in China for me (even though we could have gotten amazing Chinese food, and that's what a good hostess would have done for her guest, haha). Afterwards we watched Rent - well, I watched Rent, while he laid with his head in my lap while I ran my hands through his hair for two hours. We were both about as happy as we've ever been, haha.
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