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[shemarie82]

How did you meet your SO?

How long have you known each other?

How long have you been married?

Tell us your engagement story (if applicable)

[shemarie82]

How did you meet your SO? She was my boss

How long have you known each other? 16 years

How long have you been married? 10 months exactly

Tell us your engagement story (if applicable) B took me to Tahquamenon Falls for a weekend since I had never been. I had intended to take her out on a row boat up to the falls to propose. She told me the whole drive that she wasn't going on a boat. We went to a brewery for dinner, so I did it there instead. In the end, it was much more fitting for her, since she loves beer.

ETF: words

[dke2010]

How did you meet your SO?
We were both homeschooled and he was invited by friends of mine to go bowling with our group. I was 16 and he was 17. We all went out for pizza afterward.

How long have you known each other?
We met in 2006, so 9 years.

How long have you been married?
We just had our 5 year anniversary.

Tell us your engagement story.
It was the beginning of December. He took me out to eat at a nice little restaurant right on the river. Then we took a short walk before driving to a nature preserve that has a look-out over the river. That's were he proposed. It was cold, but beautiful.

[Ruca]

How did you meet your SO? I was a hostess at big boy and he was a landscaper that came in for breakfast. When he came over to pay he left me his phone number

How long have you known each other? We met in 2006 so 9 years.

How long have you been married? We've been married 4 years.

Tell us your engagement story There was this gazebo by our old apartment and a few years prior some friends and us walked over there and we "got married". Well on our way to a Tiger's game we parked at our old apartment complex and he said we were walking to this near by restaurant because he said he had to go to the bathroom but he took me to the gazebo instead and asked me there

[shemarie82]

Yay Tigers Ruca

[wannabmama]

How did you meet your SO? Good old online dating.
How long have you known each other? 2.5 years
How long have you been married? Almost one year exactly (less than two weeks to our anniversary)!
Tell us your engagement story (if applicable) we were with my family on vacation in Hawaii, he asked me on the beach one night while we were stargazing

[michelleca]

How did you meet your SO? At a party. We had crossed paths several times before, and never actually met.

How long have you known each other? 7 years

How long have you been married? 3 years

Tell us your engagement story (if applicable) He asked me in front of my parents in a staged photo, so I have a picture of him down on one knee, which is nice. Poor guy though, he was so nervous.

[lavinia]

How did you meet your SO?
We met at work soon after I graduated college. We soon both got other jobs but we liked that place because it's how we met.

How long have you known each other?
We met in 2007, so 8 years.

How long have you been married?
Our 6 year anniversary is coming up on July 25.

Tell us your engagement story (if applicable)
He took me out to dinner then to an outdoor shopping place that had a little lake where they did gondola rides. He proposed on the gondola ride. He had been acting weird all week so when we got there I knew he was going to do it.

[mustloveerica]

How did you meet your SO?

We met online. I had gone thru a horrible breakup and I was extremely depressed. My best friend made me a profile on ok Cupid. I got online to delete it and I stumbled across Adam. He was just so adorable in his pictures. So I messaged him. Things went from there and I gave him my phone number. Weeks went by with no call. I finally got fed up and asked him why. He confessed that he was embarrassed that he hadn't told me that he is deaf. I eventually convinced him to give me his number and I face timed him instead of called. After just one call we decided to meet and we met at the county fair, which was a totally cliche and magical first date. We have been inseparable ever since.

How long have you known each other?
3 years

How long have you been married?
This last July 4th was our first anniversary :-)

Tell us your engagement story:
DH proposed to me at the same county fair almost a year to the date after we met. He proposed in a photo booth. I have the pictures to remember it by forever.

[BurritosAtEveryMeal]

How did you meet your SO? I ordered him online; Match.com. He was the first and only person I went out with. He cost $100.
How long have you known each other? It will be 7 years in Sept.
How long have you been married? A little over four years.
Tell us your engagement story (if applicable) I had been talking about Oct. 10, 2010 because I think numbers are cool. DH got it in his head that 10-10-10 would be a great engagement date, but he was sooooo nervous that he whipped out a ring after dinner on 10-9-10; I had been suspicious of his nervousness that weekend.

[carissa325]

How did you meet your SO? I was music director for a show at our local community theatre and he was part of the cast.

How long have you known each other? About 3.5 years

How long have you been married? 2 years

Tell us your engagement story (if applicable)
He proposed under the marquee at the theatre where we met. Right before he got on one knee he stepped on my foot so I jokingly tell people I said yes because I was in pain. We also go married on stage at the theatre.

[charliemcgoo]

How did you meet your SO?
He was a friend of my friend's boyfriend. She went to his birthday party at a bar, got drunk, and told him for an hour that he should date her "classy and artsy" friend. We still laugh at that description.

How long have you known each other?
Started dating four years ago this week!

How long have you been married?
Little over a year.

Tell us your engagement story (if applicable)
We went Christmas tree cutting, came back to my place, and started decorating the tree. The ring box isn't super traditional looking so when I turned he threw it in there (with a hook on) with the other ornaments. I was telling him some of the back story of some family ornaments my mom had just given me. Came to the ring box and said "I don't remember this one". When I finally got it open I was so shocked that I dropped it!

[doodler]

How did you meet your SO? We had mutual friends in HS and college. One of my good friends(and used to be a little bit more) is a guy that he grew up with and is good friends with too. Our paths used to cross at parties and such.

How long have you known each other? We started actually hanging out with each other and quickly began dating in 2004 after we both graduated college and moved back home.

How long have you been married? 3 years

Tell us your engagement story (if applicable) We had a beautiful park by our house that we took our dog to a few times a week. One Saturday we went for a walk and decided to sit on a bench by the water and chill for a bit. I was looking at the water and all of the sudden I looked over and he was on one knee with the ring in his hand. (I totally just teared up writing that!)

[amparo1981]

How did you meet your SO? He worked in the lab next to mine.


How long have you known each other? 8+ years (not quite 9)


How long have you been married? Not married yet, but going out for 6+ years


Tell us your engagement story (if applicable) We know we will married, but want to wait until we move closer to our families to do it. Not expecting a proposal, per se, because, well, we have a kid. Deciding on having a kid was kind of our "wanting to spend our future together" talk. But he insists on wanting to surprise me with a ring one of these days.

[pinkcat]

How did you meet your SO? At college freshman year. We were best friends for a few years before we started dating.


How long have you known each other? Sine 2005- 10 years already!


How long have you been married? 2 years next month.


Tell us your engagement story (if applicable) On our 5 year anniversary, we had booked a room downtown to spend the night and celebrate. When we got there, we gave each other our anniversary presents. He gave me mine first and when I opened it, it was a really cool box decorated with pictures of our first year of dating. When I opened that box, there was another box inside with pictures from our 2nd year, and this kept going for a few more boxes....when I got to the last box it had a picture of our new house that we had just purchased saying "Here's to our future together" and had some of our dreams for the future written on it. Inside that box was the ring

[lovetruly2015]

How did you meet your SO?
Over the phone through a friend my senior yeah of high school. I had just gotten a nextel that me and my friends wanted to play with, so of course she gave my number to someone I didn't know.

How long have you known each other?
Since 2006 so just over 9 years

How long have you been married?
3 years going on 4 this October.

Tell us your engagement story (if applicable) he took me to Greenfield village. He wanted to ask me at the chapel but it was closed for renovations so he asked me on a bench outside of it.

[singingsea]

How did you meet your SO? Working at pizza hut my junior year of high school.

How long have you known each other? 15 years.

How long have you been married? 7 years in August.

Tell us your engagement story (if applicable) He proposed while on vacation with my family down in Isle of palms, SC. We went out to dinner and took a walk on the beach right after and that's where he proposed.

[requiressnacks]

Love the stories!

How did you meet your SO? We met at a brewery. I was with my sister and it turned out that my sister had gone to college with a couple guys that were randomly at the same brewery. We all got to talking, and the rest is history. (My sister likes to take credit for finding me a husband.)

How long have you known each other? 4 years

How long have you been married? Less than a year

Tell us your engagement story (if applicable) We went to the casino and I booked a spa day while he gambled. I got back to the hotel room, he turned on John Legend and got down on bended knee. I was shocked and said No like a hundred times. Then finally I realized he was asking me a question that I should say yes to, so I did.

[jags8]

How did you meet your SO?
Middle school- just seeing each other around. But we really got to know each other in high school because he played baseball and I was a baseball manager.

How long have you known each other?
Technically summer before 6th grade, so 15 years. But we didn't REALLY get to know each other til high school.

How long have you been married?
It was three years in spring

Tell us your engagement story (if applicable)
DH took me out to the baseball diamond where we had games in high school. We were alone and standing on home plate. He was acting weird until he finally said "Well I have a question for you" and started digging in his pocket. I said "SHUT UP!" Then he got down on one knee and asked and I said "yes" and started laugh-crying.

[cjchio]

How did you meet your SO? We were bith in Band and the same youth group. Officially, we met once when we were little kids at church while his dad was acting as a lay pastor. We met again and started to hng out with the same group in middle school.

How long have you known you're SO? I've known him well for 15 years.

How long have you been married? Married 4, together 12.

Tell us your engagement story (if applicable) He proposed on a pretty walking path at a local park. It was romantic

[bl1210]

How did you meet your SO?
We were both dating each other's friends back in high school.  Both of those relationships ended LONG before we started dating. 

How long have you known each other?
Known each other 10; together almost 3

How long have you been married?
Just over a year

Tell us your engagement story (if applicable)
We spent Friday at the beach and got so sunburned. The next day, we explored the city. H said he needed to go see what this one shop was like. I kid you not, we rode for over an hour to this "shop" and it was a gas station. I was getting very aggravated. We made it back to walk in the park, were he talked for what seemed like an hour about this one kayak-er. He took my hand and said the sweetest things, then asked me to marry him.

edit: clarify

[jags8]

mustloveerica, your DH is realllllly cute. Just sayin.

[youdontsay]

I love reading these!

How did you meet your SO?
On the internet. I just got out of a bad relationship (so bad that I had a POF account set up and was dating other guys) anyway, I decided I was tired of dating and wanted to be a cat lady so logged into my POF account to delete it, and MH sent a message, so I replied thinking it was a free dinner. So we went out for sushi and the rest is history.

How long have you known each other?
Since January 2011


How long have you been married?
Since December 2014 so 7 months and one day!

Tell us your engagement story (if applicable):
MH came home from work and it was snowing out. He walks in the house and goes "did you see the Christmas lights outside? In the snow?" I thought there was something wrong with the lights so I'm thinking to myself "great, I have to fix Christmas lights during a blizzard". So he tells me to go in the basement to get my dog's winter coat. I bring it upstairs and we all go outside in the front yard. He gets down on one knee and asks me to spend the rest of his life with him. Or something like that, the town plow was driving by. Of course I said yes, and I couldn't have asked for a better proposal!

[hydrangea1019]

How did you meet your SO: our Greek organizations were paired up for homecoming our freshman year of college.
How long have you known each other? Since 2003 (12 years-ish)
How long have you been married: 7 years this coming weekend
Engagement story: DH took me to the beach where he first told me he loved me. He got down on one knee, popped the question, and I dropped the F bomb. I'm classy.

[teachermomtobe]

How did you meet your SO? A mutual friend set us up. To quote the friend it was "so you'd both stop bitching about being single."

How long have you known each other? 10 years

How long have you been married? 3 years

Tell us your engagement story We got engaged at the beach near my parent's house. He got a family ring from my parents that weekend and we went for ice cream and then to the beach. We didn't have a beach sticker so we couldn't get into the beach, then I got us lost thinking I knew where we could park and walk, then we finally found a place we could park and walk and we ended up finally at the beach. He kept insisting we go to the beach despite all the obstacles so in my mind I thought "he better be proposing" but it wasn't the first time he insisted on doing something and didn't propose so I didn't have my hopes up. Sure enough, we sat on a bench near the jetty and he got down on one knee.

[lgraceh]

How did you meet your SO? Another match.com success story here.

How long have you known each other? 2 years this past June.

How long have you been married? Almost 7 months.

Tell us your engagement story (if applicable) We had already been talking about marriage, and had been looking at rings. It was starting to stress me out, so we said no more wedding talk until we are actually engaged. We went to dinner to celebrate my birthday a day eary since I was going to a concert with a friend the next night. He was really calm and normal, but started talking about a wedding a few times. We got to the end of dinner and were waiting on our drinks and he pulled out the ring. He said something to the effect of, well, if we are going to plan a wedding, we better get engaged. I was so thrown off guard, that I don't really know what he said or if he even "asked" me. Haha.

[joy]

How did you meet your SO? College.

How long have you known each other? Forever. Since 1998, so 17ish years.

How long have you been married? 4 years!

Tell us your engagement story (if applicable) He brought me back to our alma mater and we took a walk around campus. He was nervous as shit. I figured out what was going to happen about halfway through the walk so I got nervous as shit. I got a fiance, a ring, and kidney stones that day. It was all very fun.


EDIT: My husband did not get down on one knee.  He took out the ring, looked at me, and in the sweetest/scardest/most adorable voice ever, he said "I want to marry you."  As I said, I was also nervous as shit and had been feeling very overwhelmed about getting engaged.  I knew this was coming for a few months and it was a really scary to me.  But, once I saw him and heard what he said, my response was the easiest thing in the world: I want to marry you!

[Deleted]

How did you meet your SO? Myspace!

How long have you known each other? Just shy of 10 years.

How long have you been married? 6 years in August.

Tell us your engagement story (if applicable) We were on vacation. One evening we were having sex and I said "what do you want to do to me" and he pulls out the ring from under the pillow and says "marry you." I did NOT see that coming. Not even a little.

[sleepymonkey]

How did you meet your SO? At a bar. I was there with my friend and he was by himself. He kept looking at us and we thought it was weird he was there by himself. He ended up coming over to talk to us and we found out he had just moved to town to go to grad school and didn't know anyone. He was tired of being in his apartment by himself so he went out to get a drank. I was actually living 3 hours away at the time but knew I was moving back to my town in a few months.

How long have you known each other? It will be 14 years next month

How long have you been married? 7 years in Nov

Tell us your engagement story (if applicable) It was on Christmas Eve 2007. He had me meet him at the beach where he had spelled out "Marry Me?" in shells. I was not really surprised because I had actually given him an ultimatum, either we get married or I'm gone. I was 30, we had been together 5 years, living together for 3 years and I was tired of waiting around.

[27alex]

How did you meet your SO? My freshman year of high school he was a senior and we had a random class together.

How long have you know each other? Almost 11 years.

How long have you been married? We celebrated our 2nd anniversary this past April.

Tell us your engagement story. We picked out my ring together and he planned to hang onto it for a little while and propose his way. Well apparently it was burning a hole in his pocket because he didn't even last 4 hours before asking me to marry him while we were laying in bed watching a movie.