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…
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Chelsea & Michael | The Garrison | Garrison, NY
Michael and I met while waiting in line at a deli at Hofstra University. After running into each other a few times around campus…
Jacquelene & AJ | OHEKA CASTLE | Huntington, NY
AJ and I were friends for all four years of college, but it wasn’t until our last semester of senior year that we started to date …
Melissa & Eric | Northern Valley Affairs | Closter, NJ
Eric and I met on Cinco De Mayo at a bar in downtown Manhattan. Shortly after, we went to a wine bar where we spent the whole night laughing…
Carrie & Travis | The Westin Governor Morris Hotel | Morristown, NJ
Travis and I met in college and were friends for a long time before we began dating. Our first date was…
Jennifer & Jesse | Crescent Beach Club | Bayville, NY
We were good friends in high school, but did not begin dating until we graduated college and returned to our hometown…
Lucianne & Kenneth | The Vineyards at Aquebogue | Aquebogue, NY
Kenny and I met while working at the same payroll company. Our office had a candy bowl with bite-size candies and one day Kenny asked me which was my favorite…
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…
Jaclyn & Nadav | Northern Valley Affairs | Closter, NJ
I met Nadav at his best friend Justin’s birthday party in Manhattan’s Meatpacking district …
Jennifer & Jonathan | Bear Brook Valley | Fredon, NJ
A few months before Jon and I started college, my high school football team beat his high school football team in the state championship…
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…
Meena & Aakash | Westin Governor Morris Hotel | Morristown, NJ
I met Aakash when we were moving into dorms on our first day of freshman year at Rutgers University. We have known and dated each other almost 10 years…
Amy & David | Hilton Pearl River | Pearl River, NY
On a night out in NYC, my sister, Robyn, introduced me to Dave, who she knew from college…
Samantha & Francis | il Tulipano | Cedar Grove, NJ
Frank and I met at Seton Hall University. After being friends for about a year, I finally kissed him during Memorial Day weekend …
Gerri Ann & Vinston | VIP Country Club | New Rochelle, NY
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.
Annalise & Justin | Hilton Pearl River | Pearl River, NY
Justin and I met through a mutual friend who Justin went to college with. We went on a blind date to a Mexican restaurant…
Kristen & Jonathan | The Brownstone | Paterson, NJ
Jonathan and I were working as caterers at The Brownstone and became good friends. Eventually, our friendship developed into a romance…
Samantha & Michael | The Garrison | Garrison, NY
Mike and I met our first day at Brown University. He lived down the hall from me…
Jenna & Andrew | The Garrison | Garrison, NY
Andrew and I went to high school together and began dating at the end of our senior year…
Sabina & Anthony | Dyker Beach Golf Course | Brooklyn, NY
Anthony and I met through a mutual friend, and with a shared love of food, music, travel, and animals…
Sarah & Mark | Brooklyn Botanic Garden | Brooklyn, NY
I have been best friends with Mark’s little sister, Jakelyn (Jaki), since seventh grade…
Jamie & Matt | The Olde Mill Inn | Basking Ridge, NJ
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…
Stacey & Brian | SkyView Golf Club | Sparta, NJ
We met through our mutual friends and after discovering our shared interest in cars and motorcycles, we became good friends and eventually started dating…
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.
Debi & Mitchell | The Vanderbilt at South Beach | Staten Island, NY
Mitch and I met when we were 15 years old. We dated for a couple of years, then went on to live separate lives for the next 32 years…
Victoria & Peter | Oheka Castle | Huntington, NY
I was living in Midtown, and visited my family in Huntington for Easter weekend. The day before Easter…
Jessica-Lee & Joseph | Falkirk Estate & CC | Central Valley, NY
Joey and I met in Lake George when I was 15 years old on our family vacation. It wasn’t until a couple of years later that Joey invited me out to dinner …
Jennifer & Cliff | Falkirk Estate & CC | Central Valley, NY
Cliff and I met in our college theatre where Cliff ran the lighting board and I was the stage manager. We developed a great friendship…
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…
Amanda Scaduto & John-Austin Catero | The Ashford Estate | Allentown, NJ
John-Austin and I both attended Quinnipiac University. We met at a school party when I was a freshman and he was a sophomore and…
Alexa & Russell | Falkirk Estate & CC | Central Valley, NY
Russ and I were both enjoying dinner and drinks with friends, and after exchanging looks back and forth all night, Russ finally introduced himself…
Jessica & Steven | SkyView Golf Club | Sparta, NJ
Steven and I met as freshman in high school. We sat near each other in math class and hit it off. We dated for two years before going our separate ways.
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 …
Caitlin & James | The Ryland Inn | Whitehouse Station, NJ
I’m a special education teacher and James works in sales. We met on a blind date at…
Meghan & Michael | Falkirk Estate & Country Club | Central Valley, NY
Michael and I grew up in Nanuet, New York, just five blocks apart. Our parents knew each other from church and even have home videos of Michael and I…
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…
Alyssa & James | Falkirk Estate & CC | Central Valley, NY
James and I met in high school. Our first date we went to see a movie…
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…
Bari & Claudio | The Rockleigh | Rockleigh, NJ
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…
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 …
Milan & Prachi | The Rockleigh | Rockleigh, NJ
When we were just campers at summer camp, Milan and I became friends …
Katie & Jason | Northern Valley Affairs | Closter, NJ
Jason and I met at a mutual friend’s birthday party…