Love Stories

[OK Jeff]

I’ve told it before, but I like to share it. So I will again....
1- it’s a bit of a grey area how/when we met. We went to the same school (town of 1200 people) so we met there. But she was a Sr when I was a freshman. So I remember her, she doesn’t remember me. But some years later I heard she’d moved back home and was working at a place I did business. Then one night at a dance (I hate dancing BTW) I approached her and asked her. The guy she was with quickly whisked her away. As she watched me over her shoulder, something in my soul said “I’m gonna marry that girl”. Sometime later I guess she got tired of waiting and she called me at home to see if I was going to be at an auction she was working that weekend. I had no such intentions, but I certainly went. We talked a bit there, I asked her out for that night, the rest is history. I always tell people I picked her up at auction lol.
2- I think is covered above.
3- covered also
4- very quickly. By the time I dropped her back off on our first date, I knew this was different. On our first date I was awkward, quiet, shy, you know, my real self. I was terrified she didn’t like the real me.
5- it wasn’t very long...less than a month, much less. My heart was pounding until I saw her reaction.
6- we were talking about marriage by the one month mark.
7- I did, two months after our first date. Just before Christmas, was cold, we took a walk through a Christmas light display in a neighboring town. I proposed on a little bridge in the midst of it.
8- wedding day was truthfully awful. Was hectic, fast, stressful, and busy. Did not enjoy one minute of it.

 

[mama2one]

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[Saricharity]

after we got in husband's car to drive to reception remembering him saying "glad that's over."

We had a photo shoot after our wedding and it was a weather fight. It was overcast, then it would rain then the sun would come out...rinse and repeat. The pictures turned out wonderfully!! I'm so happy with them.
We got into the car after the pictures and both us basked in the air conditioning for several minutes. As we drove off, Justin said that he wondered if anyone would miss us if we skipped the reception and went straight to the hotel.
The mixture of heat and humidity was tiring indeed.

 

[Dave-W]

1. When/how did you meet your Spouse?

We were introduced by the wife of Sharon's youth pastor. The Assy of God denom has a talent contest every spring with the winners getting varying levels of scholarships good at all A/G colleges. Sharon entered her senior year and picked a country song by Kris Kristofferson. The wife (who accompanied most of the singers on piano)said that it was more of a guitar song - and she knew JUST the right guitarist - me.

2. When/how did you know you wanted to date?
3. Who initiated dating and how?

After the contest (she past the local and district contests but failed at the state level) I changed churches and when she graduated HS, she followed me over to the new congregation. They strictly controlled any form of dating. There was a convoluted process for setting up a "courtship" which had to be approved by the elder board.

I applied the process with another girl that I had feelings for and was immediately shot down. They said she was years away from being ready to marry. Less than a month later her engagement was announced. <grrrr>

A year later, I started feeling very attracted to Sharon. Determined to not let them shoot me down a 2nd time, I talked to our home group leader (an elder) who said no. So I came back the next month, and the next and the next.... From August until February.

Finally he said "yes." So I told him I would be asking her out that evening.

4. When did you know you loved your Spouse?

When I decided to fight to court her.

5. When did you first say I love you?
6. When did you decide on marriage?
7. Who proposed and how?

In that conversation with the elder, I told him I was going to propose that evening. He just nodded.

So I called her up and told her to meet me at xxx restaurant asap. As soon as we were seated I told her I loved her and proposed. She said YES!.

So from the time Bill said yes until Sharon said Yes was about 45 minutes - gotta be one of the shortest courtships on record.

8. What was your wedding day like?

Not to be shown up, the elders started playing around with our wedding date. In hindsight I should have put my foot down and had it at her parents' A/G congregation. We set a date in August of '77, but the elders decided to move it to July. But something came up for them so it got moved again to September. That date held, but it turned out to be the home opener of the Michigan State football season and no one could find parking anywhere.

It was really nuts.

 

[PeachieKeen]

I am really happy with how this video turned out and I thought it kinda fit here. This is the story of our wedding day.

 

[Llleopard]

I moved with my kids to a tiny town, and was terminally shy and damaged from two hideous marriages. But I decided to make friends in the district on the internet so that I could get some confidence back, networks for my kids, and not turn into a hermit. For a couple of years, I had a wonderful time, being upfront that I didn't want an intimate relationship.I met all kinds of people, and did lots of things I would never have tried otherwise. It was a good time of healing for me and my kids. A little bit of me was lonely though. There was a sweet couple at church who always took photos of each other, and one night I cried out to God and said 'will I ever find someone who thinks I'm worth taking a photo of?' The next time I looked online, I saw a new profile of a guy with four kids who lived a couple of hundred miles away. He had a Harley t-shirt on. Eeew. Everything was all wrong except the most beautiful crinkly eyed smile. So I messaged, and it went from there. And later found out he was a wedding and portrait photographer. He took a picture of me on our first meeting, and just about every day since, which I just know is God's sense of humour!

 

[Guy Incognito]

So it was Canada day, we had been together for 10 months at this point. We had a lovely evening at the beach, fireworks were going off...and as that last set went, we had our first kiss. It was friggen perfect.

 

[PeachieKeen]

@Toro -you're up to share your and Swans story

 

[Swan7]

1. When/how did you meet your Spouse?

Well, I joined CF years ago under another name. I saw the name Toro only a few times from what I remember. Then after some things I didn't understand at the time went down, a lot of people I talked with left the site. I left just shortly after that only to come back in 2014 under this current name. So, really I kinda met @Toro twice on here.

2. When/how did you know you wanted to date?

Hmmm... the word "date" is very personal for me. When I "dated" outside of Christianity (being lost as I was), it was disaster after disaster. I really believe God placed us together.
I can only say this for myself and allow Toro to explain the other half to this story, lol! I was certainly interested in Toro and talking a lot in PM, getting to know each other. But I think for both of us I can say that neither of us wanted to be with someone who was a full country away. God changed that in both of us.

3. Who initiated dating and how?

Toro gave me a message that he didn't want to miss out on a chance to be with someone with the same belief in God. That isn't word for word of course, but it went along something like that, lol! I couldn't have agreed more with him and I got all flutter-hearted! <3

4. When did you know you loved your Spouse?

Ok, this is going to sound very cliche, but it's the truth. We both knew instantly from seeing each other through a video chat. Some would say it's love at first sight, but that is not so. It was God saying to both of us at the same time that this was His blessing for us to be together as husband and wife someday.
There's details that I am not going into right now for the sake of length and time but there was a period where God had me pray for this man for a year before we were ready for God's blessing.

5. When did you first say I love you?

Honestly, I can't recall the exact moment, but I can certainly say for myself that I love him even before we said it.

6. When did you decide on marriage?

Given to us by God is what I believe, we knew right away when we saw each other.

7. Who proposed and how?

No proposal needed. I know that may sound unromantic, but really, what God has given us already is blessing and romantic all on its own.

8. What was your wedding day like?

Nothing spectacular and honestly I couldn't ask for a better wedding day either. I never wanted a big wedding and neither did Toro. <3
I didn't know this at the time, but we got married on my uncle's birthday. He passed away a little more than a year ago. My Auntie said she'll have something to celebrate again, so I'm happy with this bright beginning.