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The short story is we met at a bar.

The longer story is that he was in town for training for a new job and his hotel was a block away from the bar. The company didn't provide a rental car, so his entertainment options were limited. My friend's dad owned the bar, so it was like our Cheers. I spent the night chatting up this great guy from 1200 miles away and thought nothing would ever come of it. But I ran into him there again a few nights later, and we exchanged numbers since he'd be back in town in a few weeks. 11 years, a few cross country moves, and two kids later, here we are.

While camping with a singles group between Houston and Dallas, Memorial Day weekend 2010.

14 years ago at the gym.

Back story: I was complaining to a co-worker about my love life and how I would never meet any good guys - he told me the guy I was looking for was at the gym - a few months later I joined the gym and met DH

I met my husband while I was studying abroad halfway around the world! It’s an awesome movie-worthy story, but I’m afraid of losing anonymity if I post the details.

@Iced Tea: lol that makes me wonder if you are a celebrity on the DL

My DH and I met on the first day of welcome week in the dorms back in 2002. His roommate had a fake ID so they hosted a preparty, lol

I guess you could say we were fixed up! A colleague of mine kept saying she knew someone at a different school site that she thought would be good for me, but I kept putting off meeting him because I was skeptical. Months later, he was in her classroom working on something and she told me to swing by to check him out. I did...some hilarity ensued and that was it!

We met sophomore year in college through mutual friends, then had many classes together including a semester long project where I never did any of the work (its still a joke today that I'm a terrible group member!). But we weren't much more than friendly acquaintances.

Then we went on a school trip to Ireland. It was like an old fashioned ship-board romance - something about being on the trip together (and ALOT of Guinness) formed a bond and we fell in love!

I'm 75% Irish, so I like to say that I went to Ireland to discover my past and found my future.

We've now been together for 11 years, married for 4 this fall.

At church, 2009 or 2010. Started dating late 2011.

We met at a bar 10 years ago!!!

We met 13.5 years ago. My roommate was dating his roommate and we met playing Cranium. We got married straight out of college (he was still in grad school).

We met in university - he lived with people I was friends with through my program. We were friends for a few years because he had a girlfriend but they split up, and then I lived in another city, but I moved home and we went on our first date the same day, 17 years ago last week.

We met on eHarmony almost 9 years ago and will celebrate 8 years of marriage next Tuesday.

We also met online on eHarmony. But then on our first phone call, we discovered we'd met in person 10 years earlier.

He was best friends with my cousin's husband in high school and had been the best man in her wedding. I was also a bridesmaid in that same wedding party. The funny thing was we could both remember lots of details about the wedding, but we couldn't remember each other at all! We were both in different relationships at that time, so we hadn't really noticed one another.

It's been 7 years since we met (the 2nd time, which we count as our "real" meeting) and 5 years since we got married.

@Littlebit7: first week of college too!

@avivoca: we got married straight out of college too.

@looch: awww

@crazydoglady: I love that we are both in teacher marriages birds of a feather.....

@Iced Tea: so curious!

@Sams Mom: so interesting!

In 2009 I was in a very unhappy relationship. A coworker was like "I totally have the guy for you, too bad you have a boyfriend!" and I loved his name. I broke up with douchey boyfriend (who I was living with!), the coworker arranged for future husband to take a shift when I was working (summer job in a restaurant). So I guess we were set up- a week later we met in person, he asked me on a date, and that was that!!

We met during a beach party week on the Jersey shore
Didn’t even exchange numbers before we went home to different states, but I got his number afterward from the mutual friend who organized the vaca. That friend married us at our wedding 3 years later.

@DesertDreams88: @crazydoglady: I’m jealous of teacher marriages! My school is rampant with them and I just dream of what fun stuff we could do with all that time off together. Oh well, my DH is still pretty great

@looch: Our international program that year produced three marriages. It was a boom!

@ChitownRo: @DesertDreams88: I will consider writing the story and then deleting it within a day. It’s a fun story.

@Iced Tea: Please do! You've got me so intrigued!

My husband and I met in a college cafeteria. I was studying Japanese at the time because I have always been into Japanese culture, video games, anime, etc. Sitting at one of the tables was this guy talking to his friend, and he was really cute. I'm not even sure how I knew he was Japanese, but I have a spot spot in my heart for Asian men I'm really shy, so instead of sitting down next to him and saying something I just put my Japanese book on top hoping he would notice, which he did XD From there we became friends and started dating shortly after. It's interesting because you don't see a lot of Caucasian women with Asian men, but it's worked out for us. At least most of the time XD He's a Japanese citizen (has his green card) so there have been some cultural clashes, but what marriage is conflict free We've been married 11 years and have a 19 month old daughter, and I'm 6 months pregnant with a little boy