Ria & Russell | The Bernards Inn | Bernardsville, NJ
I met Russ on match.com. For our first date, we enjoyed dinner and a great bottle of wine at a local restaurant…
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Rebecca & Donald | Rock Island Lake Club | Sparta, NJ
Donald and I are both Broadway performers. We met during the preliminary readings of the Motown Musical show and quickly became best friends…
Nicole & Thomas | il Tulipano | Cedar Grove, NJ
Tom and I met through a mutual friend. We would lose touch and reconnect every few months, but started dating after running into each other…
Kristine & Jonathan | Bear Brook Valley | Fredon, NJ
Jon and I met in middle school. We went our separate ways growing up, but ended up reconnecting years later and we instantly clicked…
Pamela & John | Castle Hotel & Spa | Tarrytown, NY
There was instant chemistry and I knew there was something more than just a first date with him!
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…
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…
Ariel & Matt | Hilton Pearl River | Pearl River, NY
When Matt and I were teenagers, we chatted on AIM for a few weeks before he asked me on a group date to a movie theatre in our hometown…
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…
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…
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…
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!
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…
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…
Jennifer & Vincent | Stone House at Stirling Ridge | Warren, NJ
Vinnie and I met in high school, in honors biology. We spent years flirting, but remained just friends…
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…
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…
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…
Jenna & Andrew | The Garrison | Garrison, NY
Andrew and I went to high school together and began dating at the end of our senior year…
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…
Karen & Richard | Falkirk Estate & CC | Central Valley, NY
While attending Mount Saint Mary for graduate school, I worked as a graduate assistant with Richard’s sister Jackie…
Gina & Michael | The Olde Mill Inn | Basking Ridge, NJ
Our mutual friends, who were dating, introduced me and Mike at a fire safety event in our town and we spent the whole night talking…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Megan & Guillermo | The Park Savoy Estate | Florham Park, NJ
My brother went to law school with Guillermo and introduced us at one of the school’s functions…
Alyssa & James | Falkirk Estate & CC | Central Valley, NY
James and I met in high school. Our first date we went to see a movie…
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…
Allison & Jack | il Tulipano | Cedar Grove, NJ
My father’s friend suggested that Jack and I meet…
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…
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!
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…
Hillary & Kevin | The Bernards Inn | Bernardsville, NJ
Kevin and I met while vacationing in Bermuda and have been together ever since…
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!
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…
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…
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…
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…
Megan & Peter | Hotel Du Village | New Hope, PA
Peter and I are both United States Naval Officers. I am a nurse and he is a helicopter pilot. We were both stationed in San Diego and …
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…