Tell me your love story!

I met my FH at my moms house during my senior year in high school. He had came over with a mutual friend that him and I share. We became friends which grew into best friends and then 6 months after we met we began dating.

We met at a rock music festival near me (4.5 hours from FH) that he attended last minute. Like literally I think it was the day before he decided to go with a guy who he wasn't really friends with but more like acquaintance. If he decided not to go, there would be no us

I’ve been giving FH enough attention (especially since he’s been helping out with all the wedding planning so we’ve been doing lots of weddding stuff together lately), but the challenge for me has been that wedding planning has been stressful so I’ve been trying not to be too negative about it around him since I don’t want him to feel like I’m not super excited about our wedding or getting married to him, because I truly am, it’s just getting there is the hard part (well it feels that way sometimes, but I know everything will work out)!

Anyway, about our love story, we met on an app called Coffee Meets Bagel, LoL! We got along right off the bat. He is seriously the sweetest guy and I feel so lucky and grateful that I found him in this big crazy world. We have been engaged for almost a year. I had moved in with him a few months before then. I knew he was going to propose because we went ring shopping together. He just proposed at home but did it in a cute, thoughtful way with a nice little set up. Living together has been wonderful and I love falling asleep next to him every night and I would also say waking up next to him but he usually up before me, lol. He does lots of cute little sweet things like makes coffee and oatmeal for me in the morning when I’m still groggy and does a little happy dance when I get home from work.

We met at a bar. He was sitting next to one of my friends. I walked up to him and started talking to him about the music they were playing. He initially lied about his age (said he was younger because he thought I was younger), but came clean right away. We chatted for the rest of the night and had an instant connection. He asked me out on a date to go to a fundraiser a few weeks later.

As an aside, it turned out that he was renting from my friend. I said to her: "You had a cute single guy my age living in your house and you never told me?" She said she thought we wouldn't get along.

And, our first year was rocky. There was no denying that we had a connection, but he had some self-esteem issues when it came to being in a relationship. And, I was so inexperienced in relationships that I made some dumb mistakes too. At one point, we broke things off completely and didn't even talk for like a month.

I tried to move on, but ran into him and we started talking again. About 3 months later, we decided to officially give it a go again, and have been together ever since. That was just over 6 years ago. Everything has been wonderful overall. We have so much fun together and just enjoy spending time together. We've been living together for just over 3 years, and will have been engaged for just over 2 years when we get married this June.

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This is such an incredible and inspiring story! Congrats to you both, and I hope and pray that you live a long happy life together!

P.S. My fiance bought my ring on the eclipse day! What a day!

My fiance and I met during a meeting for a Missions trip we were going on at church. My first thought "this guy is quiet and weird and I hate his shoes (found out they were motorcycle boots)." I had been dating a guy for over 3 years and it was rough.... I was in denial of breaking up, stressed out, parents didn't really like him, he was a bit controlling, and our personalities just did not mesh. We had tried to take breaks but always ended up back together.. Anyways, I go on the missions trip which was my second one to the same place, (17 people,2 vans, northern Italy). During the trip I knew many things in my life were about to change, yet I had an immense peace. One night we were traveling back to our hotel, from visiting a church 2 hours away. On this car ride, someone had me sit up front to help my now fiance with the GPS (he didnt need it, he is a living gps seriously). Anyways, we are sitting up front, everyone is sleeping in the van and I told him "well, I have to try and keep you awake before you kill us all because your driving so tell me your testimony." He went on to tell me about his life, what he does, where hes been, why he was on this trip, etc etc etc, and I literally felt like my jaw was on the floor. He was so calm, and super genuine. I just thought "God, who is this guy?" As the trip unfolded we really didn't spend much time together (I was still dating the other guy even thought I knew it wasn't gunna go anywhere). On our loooong flight back, our whole group was separated. In the middle of the flight I was looking down reading, and I see a piece of paper in my face. I look up and it's him handing me a little note. He wrote "It was great getting to know you, I think you are a very cool person and I am praying that I get the chance to get to know you more." (MELT)... Fast forward, he got to know me more haha. I got back to Florida, my job changed, my church changed, and I was no longer dating that guy. I had a complete life turn around. My fiance and I began to get to know eachother better, and I soon felt that he was my future. A year later, we went on the same trip to the same place, to help the same church, and two days after returning home, he proposed. I couldn't be happier and so thankful. I thought I knew what I wanted/needed, but God had something different. My fiance completes who I am not, and fulfills things that I didn't even know I yearned for. I apologize if this was super long, This is my story and I love it.

Fh and I met back when we were 21 (now 40) working at Costco back when it was Price Club. We were up for the same job, I got it, and he was my right hand. We both were in serious relationships and had a strong working friendship. I always knew there was something about him and for years after he left Costco, I would always ask his friends how he was. He would come in once a year before their annual camping trip to shop and I looked forward to catching up with him then. Fast forward to 2013 - I am divorced and he joins Facebook. He had just gotten out of a 10 year relationship and one of our friends tagged him somewhere - Friend Request sent and a message asking how he was. We started to date August 2013 we made it official in December 2013, moved in with each other May 2015 and we are getting married Sept. 2018. I still find it funny when I worded our save the dates that I am marring him ... after all these years. Best friend request I have ever sent.

I met my FW in high school. We flirted and I gave her my phone # and she never called me (she got nervous)!! I started dating someone else eventually and we lost touch. When my ex and I broke up my FW texted me and we started talking and became friends shortly after. We dated off and on for a few years but always kept coming back to each other. No one else ever compared. It was almost a magnetic attraction to each other. When I moved back home for school I basically asked her if she wanted to do this for real. 2 years later we are getting married! 🍾🥂👰🏼

I met my FH online! We were both ready to be with the one we want to marry, but with our crazy lives just weren’t meeting people, and for him he just wasn’t meeting the right people for him. From the first time we talked it was serious for us! I love you came in 3 weeks he said it first and he texted it- he told me “I love you to death!” And I had a moment of second guessing like “is he saying what I think he is??”❤️ He is the sweetest most generous person I know and he is working incredibly hard to help save for our house! We want to have the money saved to pay off a good chunk of our house before we get married. I can’t wait to marry this man!!
Fun story- When he met my dad the first time he was so nervous and determined to earn his approval he didn’t make eye contact with me the whole night and only talked to me if I spoke to him first. He would start to look at me out of the corner of his eye but it would make him smile so he’d have to look away really quickly. hahahaha I said something about it after and he got all sheepish and said, “I was trying not to be obvious!!”

I love this thread idea! So cute! It's so easy to get caught up in wedding planning that you lose sight in what is behind all the planning in the first place- your love for the person you are vowing to spend the rest of your life with. I know I've been super stressed out lately and I catch myself snapping at my FH or breaking out in tears over things I know he cannot control. I make sure to apologize afterwards, but I always feel bad about it.

Anyway, our love story is a ride from start to finish, and I still laugh when recalling it and telling it to people who haven't heard it yet.

Anyway, my FH and I both attended the same college and we were both in the marching band. He played the trumpet, I was in the color guard.

Truthfully, we both didn't know either existed until we hopped on a bus for an away game and sat near each other. I remember sitting next to my friend on the bus, talking and waiting for everyone to get on, when this Indian kid comes onto the bus, joking and laughing with his friends. He gets near my seat and looks up to put his trumpet case in the above seat cargo area. Well, there was a flute or something blocking him so he pushed it out of the way and it fell to the floor.

One of the guys in the back yelled "Way to go, (last name)!" And he pulled out his accent, saying "Oh, they do not have these in my country!" (He was born in Cali, for the record, and he does not speak with an accent unless he wants to!)

He made me and my friend laugh the entire ride to and from the game, and we ended up exchanging numbers. I was seeing someone else at this time and so was he, and when both of these relationships ended up hurting us, we helped each other through them and ended up becoming best friends. We texted each other CONSTANTLY- like each text was a paragraph long. We just connected.

Of course, one day he confessed he had feelings for me. I did not feel the same I told him so, but expressed that I highly valued his friendship and didn't want anything to change. I loved him more like a brother, etc. etc.

He was hurt, but he worked to make sure we could maintain the friendship. And just as he was starting to get over his feelings, mine developed! I told him so and it took a little while, but we officially became a couple on November 24, 2014 after a year of being BFFs.

He proposed to me in September and now I'm SO excited to be marrying my best friend! He treats me like a princess, I want for nothing, he seems to know what I want and need before I say anything about it, and I'm entirely comfortable around him. I can't imagine spending the rest of my life with anyone else, even if he does sometimes drive me up the wall!

170 days!!!!

Aww I love reading everyone's How we met stories! INSPIRING!

I think ours is super weird, and honestly looking back it was so obvious..

SO we met about 4 years ago. I don't remember the date, we were both in relationships and we were planning on going to a car meet. YES, I was dating a guy who was super into cars, and going to meets and hanging out with fellow car enthusiasts. I had been tagging along with him for a couple months, we met quite a few people and we were going to meet up at someones house, and I was a little reluctant, we always met in public places. Anyways, so we got to this persons house, and I was totally turned off by the whole thing, I wanted to go and out walked my FH... I gave him the once over, LOL because here's this dude, coming out LATE, making everyone wait, and he's half dressed coming out of the shower. So we get introductions out of the way and went to the car meet.

Couple weeks later, we met up with a guy we became friends with, and he invited my FH, so we had lunch and for some reason, FH and I started talking and bonding a little. I decided he wasn't half bad.

We ended up hanging out pretty regularly, and he became a really good friend. In fact, after about two years we became best friends. His relationship had ended, and I was beginning to find out my at the time relationship was about to unravel, I found out that he was sneaking out and yeah, well lets just say that ended too. So having moved my entire life for my now ex, I had no family to move in with, and I was about to pack my car and move out of state to my moms, and he stopped me. He told me to stay with him for a bit because I had an established life there, a job, friends....why stop all that because my relationship ended.

At this point we both had some feelings for each other, later my mom told me she knew something was going on, even if it wasn't spoken..

I agreed to move in. I started "dating", I was on Tinder, and other apps, which I didn't even meet up with anyone I was talking to... I was always sorta hoping...

Well sure enough, we started to date and made it official in December 2015. We moved out of state for a fresh start, and now have a son. We got engaged Nov 22, 2017 & We get married January 19, 2019.

I met my FH freshman year in college and as soon as we met we became instant best friends! If you would have told me that we would have ended up getting married I would have called you a liar! I'm a strong believer that women and men can be just friends if that's what they want, and that's truly what we were: JUST FRIENDS. However, I couldn't deny that we had chemistry, but we both were in long term relationships at the time and looking at each other in "that" way just never occurred to us, but of course, everyone kept asking us when we were getting together. It was just weird to me Lol! We ended up breaking out of our relationships (for different reasons) and just needed time for ourselves.

So the story gets interesting because one night he was hanging with his guy friends and got drunk and came to my dorm room after just to talk, play games, and crack jokes, how we have always done. Then he begins to pour his heart out to me and tells me how amazing I am, and how I can make him smile every time, etc and he says that he really wants us to be together. So, knowing that he's drunk, I tell him "If you feel the same way tomorrow, let me know and we can go from there."

Then this jerk (obviously joking haha) never calls/text/or come see me the next day! But it was a lot to process for me too so I let it be! He was my absolute best friend and I didn't want to mess that up, so I acted as if it never happened. After that, we graduated college still being best friends. Nothing was ever weird between us, but that "what if" was always in the back of my mind. Then a year and a half later I go to visit him (he lived 3 hours away) and while we are at the bar he's basically like "You know what, you know how I feel about you. You are everything I ever wanted, so I'm making this official now."

Looking back on it, I think the story was hilarious LOL. He was so adamant on me playing a bigger role in his life and us having a future together, that he didn't even ask lol. But the feeling was mutual, and I think somehow he felt that too. But I promise, his proposal was SO much better

Yes I'm Guilty of the same but we are High School Sweethearts he always told me I was the one he would married I thought he was just talking but here we are making it official on 6/9/2018

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AWW I love this story! I want to hear the proposal!

Love this, I needed this today. I don't think I've been neglecting him or anything but I've definitely felt like maybe I talk to him too much about the wedding and not enough else!

I hadn't been having good luck finding anyone who was any good for me, either through friends, at bars, or online. I had taken a pretty long break from online dating because I was just starting to get overwhelmed and all the guys were blending together into one disappointing blur. A few days after I decided to start fresh with it, I was checking my apps at work one day, and stumbled across his profile. He was not my typical type, but instead looked like someone I would've gone for in high school but I thought I had "outgrown" all that and had mostly been going out with preppy, dull businessmen who were treating me like crap. Anyway, I had this weird feeling like I couldn't not talk to him so I sent him a message. We started talking and eventually met up for breakfast and I wouldn't say it was love at first sight but I knew it was something - or at least something different. We did not live close so it wasn't easy when we were first dating but we both made an effort, and now I can't imagine my life without him!

I met my FH during baseball season my senior year of high school in 2010. I used to record for our newspaper class and he was the third basemen. We started texting and ended up dating on and off for a few years. In 2013 I was dating someone else and had a son. That relationship ended pretty bad in 2015. My sister took me out to a movie to cheer me up. It was a premier so the theater was packed. FH came in with his then girlfriend and the only seats available were right next to me. It was sooo awkward. He messaged me about how awkward it was, but I didn't respond for almost a month. When he and his girlfriend broke up we started texting again. We got serious pretty quickly and moved in together. In 2016 we welcomed another little boy in the family and he proposed at our baby shower! Here we are 8 years after meeting, only 16 days from our wedding! He is my best friend and I can't wait to marry him.

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😂 It was really cute! He ended up taking me out to eat, but while we were at the restaurant, he had my 2 closest friends go into our apartment and set everything up! It was so simple, but absolutely romantic. I walked in the apartment first and my friends laid out his proposal on our dining table and when I turned around he was down on his knee.

Here's what I saw when I walked into the apartment! It could not have been more perfect

Proposal

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That is literally the cutest thing!

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Thank you!!

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Aw, Kaitlin! Such a romantic story It sounds like you two always kept an eye on each other, even when you weren't together. I love it!