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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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…
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…
Alyssa & James | Falkirk Estate & CC | Central Valley, NY
James and I met in high school. Our first date we went to see a movie…
Victoria & Nicholas | The Estate at Three Village Inn | Stony Brook, NY
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!
Carolyn & Josh | Hilton Pearl River | Pearl River, NY
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…
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…
Kimberly & Mark | The Park Savoy Estate | Florham Park, NJ
Mark and I met on OKCupid, an online dating app, and our first date was at Fire & Oak in Montvale, NJ …
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…
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…
Ilana & Alexander | The Roundhouse | Beacon, NY
Ilana and I met as kids growing up in Miami, Florida. By the end of high school, we’d grown into close friends, and going off to college in separate states didn’t cause us to drift apart…
Gia & Nicholas | Falkirk Estate & CC | Central Valley, NY
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.
Briana & Steven | SkyView Golf Club | Sparta, NJ
The first time Steve asked me to be his girlfriend, I said no. We had known each other since freshman year of high school, and after keeping in touch through college, I was weary of ruining a great friendship.
Aimeé & Olubunmi | The Garrison | Garrison, NY
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.
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 …
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…
Rebecca & Bryan | The Garrison | Garrison, NY
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…
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…
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 …
Marissa & Joseph | Hotel Du Village | New Hope, PA
We were set up for a blind date by family friends and he took me to an Italian restaurant. We hit it off right away…
Alexa & Joseph | Grand Oaks Country Club | Staten Island, NY
Joseph and I met when we were freshmen in high school. We were just 15 years old when we went to the movies with friends we had in common…
Amanda & Tyler | Bear Brook Valley | Fredon, NJ
Ty and I went to the same high school, but a couple years after college we met through mutual friends.
Kaitlin & Paul | Nanina’s in the Park | Belleville, NJ
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 …
Jason & Rachel | The Roundhouse | Beacon, NY
Jason and I met in college, where we lived next door to each other in my freshman dorm. We started dating the following year…
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…
Morgan & Eddie | Hotel Du Village | New Hope, PA
Eddie and I have known each other since we were six years old. We were next door neighbors…
Taylor & John | The Park Savoy Estate | Florham Park, NJ
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…
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.
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…
Jennifer & Michael | Stone House at Stirling Ridge | Warren, NJ
Mike and I met online. We had our first date at Olive Lucy’s in Morristown and quickly became inseparable.
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…
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…
Jessica & Joseph | Nanina’s in the Park | Belleville, NJ
Our love story began at a tiny Irish pub in Hackensack, New Jersey…
Hillary & Kevin | The Bernards Inn | Bernardsville, NJ
Kevin and I met while vacationing in Bermuda and have been together ever since…
Jenna & Andrew | The Garrison | Garrison, NY
Andrew and I went to high school together and began dating at the end of our senior year…
Karley & Joe | The Roundhouse | Beacon, NY
Joey and I met the summer I moved to Queens from upstate NY. We were at a mutual friend’s party in Manhattan…
Joann & Christopher | il Tulipano | Cedar Grove, NJ
Chris and I met at Rutgers Law School, but our first date was after we both graduated. We dated for three years before Chris proposed…
Catherine & Matthew | Grand Oaks Country Club | Staten Island, NY
Matt and I both grew up in Brooklyn. I went to college with some of Matt’s neighborhood friends and the summer after my freshman year, they introduced us…
Katie & Stephen | Hilton Pearl River | Pearl River, NY
I met Stephen in high school through a friend, seeing him at social events and track meets. We reconnected in college, at a track meet, years later.
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 …
Peter & Matthew | The Garrison | Garrison, NY
Peter and I met on a night where we were both expecting a casual night with friends at a bar …
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!