Lauren & Kris | Birchwood Manor | Whippany, NJ
I met Evan the year before we started high school and we instantly became best friends. We earned our undergraduate and master’s degrees 1500 miles apart but remained close …
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I met Evan the year before we started high school and we instantly became best friends. We earned our undergraduate and master’s degrees 1500 miles apart but remained close …
All it took was five seconds for our lives to change forever. I was hurrying along 56th Street in Midtown when a man across the street caught my attention.
My college roommate had the perfect guy for me, a friend from high school. Our friend groups collided, we all had a night out, and Steven asked me out.
Veronica and I have been friends for most of our lives. We don’t remember how we met, but we both remember when our relationship escaped the friend zone.
Chris and I connected online through a mutual friend. He was in his sixth year as a neurosurgeon and I was teaching violin to elementary school students…
I moved to Israel to volunteer in the IDF as a social worker. I was a lone soldier placed in a kibbutz, which is essentially a communal settlement.
We met through the dating app JSwipe in the midst of a massive snowstorm. The weather prevented us from meeting in person, so we decided to …
Meeting each other was such luck! We both were living in New Brunswick, NJ, where Josh was temporarily working on a political campaign and I was starting graduate school…
Chris and I met on Bumble and soon had our first date. It actually wasn’t the best! Chris was so quiet, but the next day he was diagnosed with strep, so …
We had friends in common but had never met. The first day I met her, I told a friend she was beautiful and passionate, and I wanted her to be my girlfriend.
Brad and I met at work when we were both summer interns in finance at the same firm and after graduation we were both placed on the same team.
Nick and I met in college and we started dating shortly after graduation. After about two years of dating, Nick’s proposal was quite the surprise!
Chris is best friends with my first cousin, so we’ve been family friends for years! Five years after we began dating, Chris proposed on the beach in Aruba.
Michelle and I met at our crossfit gym. We saw each other about a year before our first date at an event and she incorrectly assumed I was dating someone.
Carol-Ann was my manager in the Medical ICU where I was a nurse. We agreed it was hard to meet someone. I went on a date with her son and that was that.
Ethan and I met six years ago. Our first date was at a local sports bar in the city. We realized we lived directly across the street from each other
We went to high school together. I always had a crush on him and we met when I was a lifeguard at a local camp and he was a camp counselor.
We matched on Hinge in June of 2020. This was during Covid, so for our first date we met in a park in Montclair. That first date was a picnic and …
We met the old-fashioned way, through a friend. I was in med school at Penn and one of my guy friends was Chris’s best friend from Dartmouth undergrad and …
I was in my company’s cafeteria and saw a very handsome man. I sat by him but we did not talk. I had never seen the same person twice during lunch, but …
Lauryn and I met while working together at a BBQ restaurant called Blue Smoke in NYC. She was the hostess and I was the server/bartender…
We first met in a less than romantic setting: the final moments of an ESPN company Christmas party.
Anthony and I knew each other before starting to date. Our parents grew up in the same town and were Nutley High School graduates. Coincidentally, Anthony became best friends with my cousins…
Frantz and I attended the same high school but became friends much later in life. Our road down the scenic wedding aisle began with a beautiful engagement at my best friend Ann’s house during her annual Christmas party…
Matt and I met when we visited a mutual friend’s vacation home in upstate New York. We didn’t live near each other, so a relationship seemed unlikely…
Sara and I met in middle school and it has been a long time since our first movie-theater date! Our parents picked us up and dropped us off, and we became boyfriend and girlfriend…
Julian and I met during the summer through mutual friends. On our first date, Julian picked me up on his motorcycle and we went for dinner and ice cream.
Gavin and I met at the New England Conservatory in Boston. We were both studying music and met while working together at the school’s performance space.
One of my good friends was dating one of Daniela’s good friends and we met each other on a night out in NYC. We hit it off and soon had our first date.
Dan and I met while we were undergrads at Lafayette College. He was a senior and I was a sophomore and after he graduated, our relationship grew.
Vincent and I met in the hallways of our high school. On our first date at a local pizzeria, Vinny turned to me and said, “When I saw you in the hall, I told my sister one day you would be my wife.”
Kim and I met on Instagram. I followed her, she followed back, and then one day she responded to one of my posts. We kept talking and exchanged phone numbers, meeting for our first date three weeks later…
Bryan and I met our first day of work and became good friends. After five years, he confessed (via voicenote!) that he wanted to be more than friends.
We were on staff at a summer retreat for a few summers and finally realized we had strong feelings and made it official after a walk under the stars.
David and I met in high school. We’re in each other’s prom photos, but with different dates…
Anthony and I met at a family-owned restaurant in Wappingers Falls. I was bartending my way through nursing school when he convinced me to go on a date…
John and I met the end of August, 2016 at a potluck for football players, cheerleaders, coaches and parents to kick off the football season.
Anthony and I met our junior year of college when we were 20 years old. On our first “real” date we bonded over the Yankees, family and friends, and Disney…
Mike and I met in high school when I was a freshman and he was a sophomore. He remembers seeing me at a homecoming game and asking his friend who I was.
Rob and I “met” many times since age nine but never got to know each other. Finally, at age 23, a mutual friend from high school invited us both over.
I had a college intern who went to school with Xiao. He asked me to come along with him one day, not expecting me to fall in love with Xiao, which I did!
I was serving at my local church and Josue came by one day. I was welcoming people. A year later he asked me to have coffee and from there it just grew.