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Rob and I met through his best friend Michael. Soon after, Rob, some friends, and I drove up to Paterson Falls. We spent the night talking and getting to know each other, had our first kiss, and have been together ever since…
I met Nadav at his best friend Justin’s birthday party in Manhattan’s Meatpacking district …
Jeff and I met through a string of chance connections. My friend invited me to tag along to a party she had been invited to. The party was held at another friend’s house, who happened to be roommates with Jeff…
Despite going to the same high school and having the same circle of friends, Ritchy and I didn’t meet until years later, when …
Adam and I met through mutual friends when we were 16 years old. We were friends for years before we began dating…
I had a crush on Shane since I met him during homeroom our junior year of high school. We both attended the same college…
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…
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!
Claudio is the chef of a Continental restaurant and bar that I have been dining at for years. Little did I know, he had noticed me for a while…
I’ve known Kenny since the sixth grade. We sat next to each other and were always friends. High school ended and a couple years later we reconnected…
Bryan would say, “We met in a bar,” but to me, fate was involved. I worked and lived in the city, but had a side job as a bar manager in Rockland County for fun…
I’ve been friends with Paul’s sister, Allie, since I was eight years old and I’ve always had a crush on him growing up and …
On a beach trip with my girlfriends, we met up with several of our guy friends, who that day brought along David…
Our story begins roughly 10 years ago in Fort Hamilton High School when Marco saw me in our sophomore history class…
My close friend Brittany married Mike’s brother Dom, so we had a mutual group of friends growing up…
Andrea and I went to high school together but didn’t start dating until after we graduated college…
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…
One of my best friends, Katie, set me up with Dave during our junior year of college. She knew we would bond over our New York roots and majors in finance..
Matt and I met at Rutgers University. We had two classes together and had definitely noticed each other…
Mike and I met in high school and eventually went off to separate colleges. After we graduated, we returned to our hometown and reconnected…
We were both invited to a mutual friend’s summer house in Belmar, NJ. When I arrived, Paul introduced himself and we hit it off immediately…
John and I were high school sweethearts. We went to elementary school together and sat next to each other in first grade. After knowing him almost my whole life, we began dating on New Year’s Eve in our senior year of high school…
The moment we walked into The Estate at Florentine Gardens, we knew it was our venue. It literally took my breath away.
Ari and I saw each other on a dating app. We met the next day at a wine bar on the Upper West Side. It was while sipping our first glass of wine that Ari mentioned he was a rabbi living in the suburbs…
Anthony and I met through a mutual friend, and with a shared love of food, music, travel, and animals…
DJ and I were set up by good friends. We were both at their wedding but didn’t meet each other until our “blind date.”
Matt and I met at Rutgers University. We had two classes together and had definitely noticed each other…
Jonathan and I were working as caterers at The Brownstone and became good friends. Eventually, our friendship developed into a romance…
Gerri Ann and I met when we saw each other out at a bar. We knew of each other because I worked at the member’s only club her family belongs to.
Max and I both grew up in the same town and met while working at a local bakery together. After years of flirting, we officially began dating…
Scott and I grew up not far from each other on Long Island. We met after graduating from college when we both moved back home…
My brother went to law school with Guillermo and introduced us at one of the school’s functions…
Dominick and I met when his best friend married my cousin. We were both in the bridal party and started to bond when he was entertaining their flower girl.
Frank and I met at Seton Hall University. After being friends for about a year, I finally kissed him during Memorial Day weekend …
Bobby and I grew up a few towns away from each other and even had some of the same friends but we never met until after college…
In college, Rick lived down the hall from me and we quickly became best friends…
Joe and I met during college at Loyola University. We were friends for two years before we started dating…
On the day of the wedding, Kerri got ready at home with her best friends, her mother, and her mother-in-law.
Aimeé and I always say our love is circular because we met twice. We went on a first date, and for some reason fell out of touch.
As college students, Fitz and I spent a summer interning in New York City and we regularly met for lunch…
It was the summer before our senior year of high school, and I met Vinny at my friend Lauren’s birthday party …
Nick and I met at Mohegan Sun Casino. I was there for a girls’ weekend and he was there for a friend’s bachelor party.