Daniela & David | Surf Club on the Sound | New Rochelle, NY
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..
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Julie & Daniel | Grand Oaks Country Club | Staten Island, NY
After enough bad online dating stories that I could be a best-selling novelist, I was so surprised and lucky to find Danny on Tinder…
Sydney & Fitzgerald | The Garrison | Garrison, NY
As college students, Fitz and I spent a summer interning in New York City and we regularly met for lunch…
Liz & Mike | Oheka Castle | Huntington, NY
Mike and I met in high school and eventually went off to separate colleges. After we graduated, we returned to our hometown and reconnected…
Jenna & Voliva | The Ryland Inn | Whitehouse Station, NJ
Matt and I met at Rutgers University. We had two classes together and had definitely noticed each other…
Katie & Steve | The Westin Governor Morris Hotel | Morristown, NJ
Steve and I met during our first week of college at Cornell …
Gabriele & Brian | The Park Savoy Estate | Florham Park, NJ
Brian and I attended the same college, but did not actually meet until after we graduated…
Genna & Andrew | Hilton Pearl River | Pearl River, NY
Genna and I met on match.com. We joke about how we met because we discovered that I originally contacted her on JDate and she ignored me!
Kimberly & Zachary | Birchwood Manor | Whippany, NJ
Zach and I met in college and had our first date at a local bar near our school. Ten years later, I am now …
Kristine & Salvatore | Oheka Castle | Huntington, NY
Sal and I grew up in the same town, but our paths never crossed. We finally met on a trip with mutual friends…
Amanda & Robert | The Estate at Florentine Gardens | River Vale, NJ
Rob and I met online. He is a CDL driver and I am a manager for a non-profit organization. For our first date…
Melissa & Richard | The Crescent Beach Club | Bayville, NY
In college, Rick lived down the hall from me and we quickly became best friends…
Brianna & Antonio | The Surf Club on the Sound | New Rochelle, NY
I am a nutrition’s assistant and Tony is the manager of a construction company. I was good friends with Tony’s brother…
Jenna & Tim | Rock Island Lake Club | Sparta, NJ
My friend invited me to hang out with our college football team and as we approached, Tim’s friend kicked his chair out from under him, and then …
Dori & Samuel | The Olde Mill Inn | Basking Ridge, NJ
I first saw Sam when he was playing guitar in the courtyard behind Charlie Brown’s Steakhouse in Millburn, NJ. I introduced myself and requested a song…
Shanna & Matthew | il Tulipano | Cedar Grove, NJ
In high school, I was on the swim team with Matthew’s cousin Daniella and I met Matthew at her graduation party…
Kimberly & David | The Olde Mill Inn | Basking Ridge, NJ
DJ and I unknowingly lived within minutes of each other for years, yet it took an online dating app for our paths to finally cross after college, and …
Katie & Anthony | The Ryland Inn | Whitehouse Station, NJ
Anthony and I met through mutual friends at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT, but did not start dating until junior year…
Danielle & Kevin | Surf Club on the Sound | New Rochelle, NY
Kevin and I both attended Lasell College in MA, but our paths did not cross until right before his graduation and my semester abroad…
Victoria & Peter | Oheka Castle | Huntington, NY
I was living in Midtown, and visited my family in Huntington for Easter weekend. The day before Easter…
Noel & Max | Birchwood Manor | Whippany, NJ
Max and I met in kindergarten and went to the same school through 12th grade…
Meghan & Kris | The Olde Mill Inn | Basking Ridge, NJ
Kris and I knew each other from high school, but it was not until the summer before college that we started spending a lot of time together…
Caitlin & Daniel | The Estate at Florentine Gardens | River Vale, NJ
Both of us over 600 miles away from home, Daniel and I were living two houses down from each other at our college in Ohio…
Irene & Ritchy | The Brownstone | Paterson, NJ
Despite going to the same high school and having the same circle of friends, Ritchy and I didn’t meet until years later, when …
Allison & Jack | il Tulipano | Cedar Grove, NJ
My father’s friend suggested that Jack and I meet…
Krista & Andrew | SkyView Golf Club | Sparta, NJ
Andrew and I met at a bar when our friends, who were in the first stages of dating, brought us along as buffers…
Kara & Max | il Tulipano | Cedar Grove, NJ
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…
Jillian & Shane | Nanina’s in the Park | Belleville, NJ
I had a crush on Shane since I met him during homeroom our junior year of high school. We both attended the same college…
Ariana & Colin | Nanina’s in the Park | Belleville, NJ
Colin and I met on the night of a Lotus concert with mutual friends. I discovered he was moving to my neighborhood the following week…
Annie & Geoffrey | The Garrison | Garrison, NY
Geoff and I met at a sleepaway camp in upstate, New York, We were campers, but it wasn’t until we were staff members that we became friends…
Jennifer & Chris | Oheka Castle | Huntington, NY
We first met in a less than romantic setting: the final moments of an ESPN company Christmas party.
Giselle & Michael | Hilton Pearl River | Pearl River, NY
Mike and I met at a mutual friends’ wedding but our first date was not until three years later, when Mike took me to a Chinese restaurant…
Elein & Adam | Surf Club on the Sound | New Rochelle, NY
I met Adam at my best friend’s birthday party. A couple of months later at a concert, we saw each other again and sparks were flying…
Alexa & Michael | Glen Island Harbour Club | New Rochelle, NY
My close friend Brittany married Mike’s brother Dom, so we had a mutual group of friends growing up…
Dawn & Vincent | The Olde Mill Inn | Basking Ridge, NJ
I met Vin at a dog-friendly bar in Brooklyn. He asked me on a date a few weeks later, which turned into an epic seven-hour lunch!
Nicole & Daniel | Crescent Beach Club | Bayville, NY
We met on Fire Island when I was there for my friend’s bachelorette party and Dani was there for the weekend with friends.
Kristen & James | The Brownstone | Paterson, NJ
James and I met at the high school where we both work. He teaches health & phys ed & coaches football & baseball & I teach physics & coach softball…
Nicole & Mario | The Park Savoy Estate | Florham Park, NJ
When my family and I moved to Staten Island, we would regularly go to this local deli down the block, which Mario’s family has owned since the 1950’s…
Michelle & Nathan | The Park Savoy Estate | Florham Park, NJ
On Thanksgiving, mutual friends introduced me to Michelle. After our shifts at separate hotels in New Jersey, we all met for drinks…
Sloane & Daniel | Northern Valley Affairs | Closter, NJ
Dan and I matched on Tinder and went on our first date a few days later. He took me to the Jersey Shore for dinner and we hit it off right away…
Jennifer & John Paul | The Rockleigh | Rockleigh, NJ
John Paul and I were both in the bridal party for our friends’ destination wedding in Mexico…
Deirdre & Steven | The Westin Governor Morris Hotel | Morristown, NJ
Steven and I met through our mutual friend, Carly, while we were in college. We started dating after graduation…