We met online, through a dating site. He was in Kentucky; I was in Ohio. Met in October of 96, met in person Feb of 97, moved in April of 97, married December of 97, still putting up with each other now. 
Damn. I’ll definately be at the next Dopefest…
Maybe you’re both on the Board but don’t know it. 
I just listened to a BBC report on a survey that showed most people meet their SOs at work.
I have OKCupid to thank too. I had a profile on there that I neglected, and had practically forgotten about. Didn’t check the site much, and when I did, I never found any interesting women in my area. My current girlfriend didn’t even have any information in her profile, but found mine, thought I sounded interesting, and e-mailed me. We e-mailed back and forth a bit, checked out each other’s Myspace pages, and eventually met for coffee at Borders, just as friends. It turned out we were neighbors too – she’s in the next development over, less than five minutes away. Eventually friendship turned to more, and now we’re madly in love, nine months after meeting. She’s definitely The One, and I’m so glad she found me on OKCupid because I never would have found her. So close, and yet so far.
EDIT: We’re both 29 and were 28 at the time; I figured we skewed a little on the old side for OKCupid as well.
We met at a Dickens Fair (think Renaissance Faire, but set in 19th century London at Christmas time) when we were both in college. I went because I was interested in a different girl, but she had her eye on someone else. At the end of the day, my two choices for evening entertainment were to go home and spend the evening with my parents, or to go … ice skating (yeah, right!) with this guy who was a friend of a friend, and his girlfriend.
I figured anything was better than sitting at home, so I went. We had a fun time, all three of us. A few days later I passed this same girl in the quad, and she called out “Hi, SP!”. I was stunned; I didn’t even think she remembered my name. I managed to discover where and when one of her classes was, so I could go to the Department office and look up the finals schedule, so that I could sit in the hall outside her test waiting for her to come out so that I could…err…talk to her or something.
Anyway, we talked, and I think we agreed to “do something”. Real smooth, I was. A couple weeks later was New Year’s Eve. I had no plans for the evening, so I called her. Apparently she had two choices for that evening: stay home with her parents, or go out with me.
We celebrated our 14th anniversary yesterday.
Well, this is one I haven’t seen yet - we met in high school. Actually, we probably met before that, as we both come from a very tiny town and I can honestly say I remember her father being at my baseball games when I was in elementary school, as well as playing guitar with me when I was in Junior High. I’m sure I ran into her someplace before HS. Of course, we didn’t really date then, just hang out and sleep together, and go to dinner every so often - and also enjoy lots of vodka. We were crazy kids. We stayed friends for years, then when I was graduating we spent a lot of the summer together, moved in together by Thanksgiving, and were married earlier this year (I’m close to graduating college now, so it’s been about 2 and a half years of living together)…
Brendon Small
Suburban Plankton, I’m a little confused: she was someone’s girlfriend when you met, but 2 weeks later she had no plans for New Year’s Eve?
To hijack a bit, my boyfriend and I also discovered a coincidence: we’d been dating for a couple of weeks and were out at a local bar, and I told him (for the first time) how happy I was that I’d written to him – and that he’d written back. He told me that he actually remembered me from when I was on Yahoo Personals, which had been a couple of years before! He said he’d put me in his favorites list, but never got around to writing to me because he wound up meeting someone else. At first I didn’t believe him, but he remembered details from that profile that weren’t in my OKCupid profile. Weird, but very cool!
Yay for OKCupid success stories!
The apartment complex we lived in had a chartered bus to downtown. I met her at the bus stop.
We met in a day program for the mentally ill. She had been in a series of bad relationships and I wasn’t really looking for anyone either but was attracted by her personality and her DDs. After ~7 years of being just friends, I bought a condo and she, needing to move out of her apartment, moved in.
Was there an umbrella involved? Did all the people stare as if you were quite insane? Do you hate that song now?
Yeah, it gets weirder.
You see, I had a very close female friend. This friend was also friends with Rhiannon8404’s boyfriend, and had been since before the two of them started dating. My friend and the boyfriend had already made plans to go out on New Year’s Eve some time previously, before the beginning of the story. Plus, that relationship had pretty much run its course by the time we met, and she was already looking for a way to get out of it without hurting the guy’s feelings too much. As it turned out, *he *broke up with *her *a couple weeks later (he finally saw the light), so it all worked out in the end.
I met my husband at a Dopefest (in Amsterdam – our first kiss was on a romantic canal boat ride) a little over 6 years ago. We’ll be celebrating our 5 year wedding anniversary next week.
Everyone has a crazy friend.
Mrs. Butler’s crazy friend hooked up with my crazy friend. My crazy friend needed a place, and a date for his hookup’s friend.
I told my crazy friend to bring over the women, and we’d hang out. I figured, it’s my place, if I don’t like them, I’ll get too drunk, and go to bed, or they’ll leave.
Turned out “my date” was pretty cool, so I toned down the drinking, and had a great night. But for the life of me, all night long, I had to keep asking my crazy friend what her name was again. I’ve no issues remembering it now.
She asked me up to her place a couple of weeks later for what she had planned to be a “one night stand,” but her cat decided I must be a nice guy (the cat avoids/hides from ALL men, except me), so we had more dates after that…
We’ve been together 9 years, married 7 (8 in the fall). She seems to still like me.