So how is it they we all came to meet our fiance(e)s/Spouses from the US/UK? I'm thinking a lot of people met online, but I bet just as many hadn't. I met must husband at a party when I was a student in Manchester.

Very cheesy, but met online through a dating site...he paid a membership just to send me a message, and the rest is history!!!

Dawn

I met Nicky on a message board for Doves (the Manc band) who we are both huge fans of. We are also huge fans of the band U2, and he mentioned on the board he was basically coming over to the US for a bunch of shows. I messaged him and asked if he was coming to the show in Omaha, Nebraska (I'm originally from Nebraska and only moved up to Chicago a couple years ago) and at the time he wasn't, but changed his mind (he was originally going to go to the shows before and after Omaha). So we made an arrangement...if he gave me his presale code, I would get the tickets for us. So did that, he came over for the show and stayed with me (and about 6 other U2 buddies of mine) in my apartment in Lincoln. That also happened to be a few days before my birthday, so I had a birthday party at a local restaurant and later drinks at a martini bar called Doc's.

Now, what happened next just proves that Nicky is indeed truly in love with me!

So we were drinking and doing shots, and my friends wanted me to demonstrate a certain flaming shot called "The Statue of Liberty." Basically, you take a shot of rumplemintz, dip your finger in the shot....light your finger on fire, then take the shot. Once you have the shot down your gullet you put your finger in your mouth to put out the flame. Theoretically, this is all supposed to happen so fast that only the alcohol on your finger burns, and not your flesh.

So anyways, a bunch of us all thought it would be a good idea to make the Brit do the "Statue of Liberty." So Nicky nervously dips his finger in the shot, lights his finger on fire...and goes to take the shot. Now, instead of it ALL going down his gullet he splashes some of the booze on his face, and when he goes to put out his flaming finger he accidently lights his face on fire.

I'm not kidding you, poor Nicky had a flaming face.

To my embarrassment (and my friends embarrassment) we were all so shocked we sat there like idiots with our mouths open for a few seconds, including my friend who is a trauma nurse. One of my other friends (who happened to be an ex-flame...pun not intended) had his wits about him, looked around the table for water...and seeing that it was all booze decided to blow out his face. He just leaned over and "pfff pfff pfff" and put Nicky's face out.

Thankfully, other than a small bit on his cheek it was alcohol that burned, and my trauma nurse friend stepped into action.

As you can imagine, I felt BAD about it, and after he left we lost touch for a while. However, a few months later I was planning a backpacking trip to Europe and I got back in touch with Nicky, and we started talking about backpacking Scotland and Ireland. After leaving Paris I met up with him in Newcastle, and we finally had our first kiss several days later in Glasgow. And from there on out it is history.

So anyways, that is the long winded...and fiery version of us first meeting!

By the way...greetings from Wrigleyville. I go out to Arlington Heights once a month or so to see a friend, and we always eat at Fuego, which is the best Mexican food I've ever had this side of the border (well, considering it is b/c I've never been south of the border :-p)

We met online, it was a dating site but initially we kept in touch thinking the other one wasn't a possible partner. Neither of us wanted someone in another country. Our feelings changed over time though.

That is too cute!!

Jeremy and I met the boring way it seems on an online game We chatted for years, had a failed attempt at a relationship, got back in touch, had another go... That's the short version Long version on our website

Josh and I met on a gaming website (a mod site for Sims2 back when I really liked that game), became good friends through playing Guildwars and World of Warcraft together and agreed to meet after about 10 months of knowing each other. The first visit was wonderful and things went on from there

Jeremy and I actually have the name of the place we met and our character names engraved on the inside of our wedding bands

Scott and I met online too. We met through a penfriends website and were just penfriends to start with.

Gillian

Alex and I met online on some forums - also terribly boring! (A more lengthy answer is in my profile).

I love the story, ginger! Now that's something interesting you definitely don't mind telling family and friends!

I met Ben at a music festival in Belgium. I was living in Brussels at the time, and he was living in Germany (air force). I was at the festival with my Dutch speaking friends, and I didn't speak it so I was kind of bored.... anyways on the last night we were going back to our tent for more wine when I heard people speaking beautiful English!!

So, we went over to their tent (completely wasted) and ended up hanging out with them all night. At the time I was shamefully drunk and didn't really talk to Ben. We asked where they were from and they said Canada. I'd spent a month in Canada a couple of years back so I asked where in Canada, and they said Lethbridge, AB.... that is the town I spent a month in! - they picked that town because one of the guys was from just over the border in Montana and thought he'd say Lethbridge because nobody would know where that was!

Anyways my friend started dating the Montana guy, and he told us they were really American, and they'd been telling people they were Canadian because they'd gotten attitude from some Belgians when they said they were American. So, they started visiting us in Brussels on weekends and that's when I really started talking to Ben. We started dating about 3 months after we met - the military send him to Utah in Feb 05, so we were long distance from then until last August. He's out of the military now

Griff and I were at the same business conference in Chicago that was hosted by the company he then worked for. We didn't actually meet during the conference, but in the bar afterward! I ordered a pint of Harp while all the other women ordered Merlot. He was intrigued and said hello. Neither of us talked to anyone else the entire night!

Through Yahoo. Nick sent me a message that just said, "you look nice...talk?" Well I replied. I was down as my boyfriend had slept with my mate, Nick was down as his girlfriend had ran off with his best mate. I said I needed a holiday and was going to stay with a friend in Texas, we decided to meet for a couple of days. Had big argument with friend in Texas, decided rather than cancel holiday I'd change my flights and just go there for the full 3 weeks. The rest is history and the future lies ahead.

regarding games...I was also a guildwars addict, so much so I was and still am a guild leader. Don't play as much now. Was a WoW addict for many moons too but gave up when decided to move to US as not spending money on subscription for a character I can't use in US. Currently addicted to sid meyers pirates.

Gareth and I met online on a pen-friend site. My close friend convinced it would be a great idea to have a pen pal. After weeks of searching through different ads and only finding muppets and weirdos (I would get requests for my bank account information and worse.....much, much, much worse), she sent me Gareth's ad. I responded to his ad and the rest is history. The best decision I ever made.

We were students at UCL - I was on my year abroad

Pretty much all my friends saw it happen actually LOL. It's really something once you see you never can forget!

That's the best story EVER! OMG!! That totally reminded me of my Cousin-in-law Jay's stag night!!!! Somebody ordered a round of flaming sambucas, and my uncle had never had one before. He didn't know what to do about the flame so he blew on it then drank. All of a sudden his moustache burst into flames and he spit the drink across the bar and then the bar burst into flames! Jay was yelling "Drop and roll, Jim! Drop and roll!" OMG, we HOWLED. Still do, really. In fact, I just did.

OMG to both of your stories! Hilarious and harrowing!

Note to self: *never* drink flaming shots!

flaming sambuca is good! of course must remember, extingush flame before drinking and watch as the glass get HOT!

Amanda and I met in some random MSN chat room we both stumbled upon, we started talking because everyone else in there seemed a tad moronic (it was one of those teen chat rooms, oh god how I don't miss those!) we started talking on the phone, then lost touch for a few months.. randomly saw each other again and the rest as they say, is history

Amanda was not much of a gamer when we met, but I got her hooked on the likes of WoW after buying her a decent computer

Oh man!

Neil and I met in London, in 1986. He had come over on a student programme to study law and was working nights as a bartender in Chelsea. I went into the bar that night with my best friend- my grandfather had died that day and -this will sound horrible- but I went in to take my mind of it. (I was going to say celebrate...but..my grandfather had been very abusive physically and verbally to my monther, sister and me so yes, I was relieved and glad he was gone.)

Anyway. I saw him and called him over to order a drink but he came over and said he was actually on his way to mop the mens room floor because someone had thrown up in there. He did come back to see if we had our drinks, and we got talking. It was instant attraction, but more I found him really interesting to talk to, a good listener and he also made me laugh.

We met on March 10th, and were engaged by June 30th of 1986. But his visa then ran out and he had to go back to New York, after which a long and complicated engagement followed- we didn't get married until May 1991. His family didn't accept me for some years because I wasn't jewish -or american, they really wanted him to marry a nice jewish girl from New york and live locally! We put our wedding off in the hope of trying to win them over but realised it was going to happen. But then we had to postpone the wedding a 2nd time because I was in the Kings Cross Underground fire in November 1987. I was really ill afterwards and another lengthy seperation followed with me in England and him in New York.

In the end though, we triumphed (yes, it does feel like that!!) and we 'eloped' and got married in Washington DC in 1991. It was only when I had our first child in 1993 that i met his family for the first time, whith a grandchild there, they welcomed me into the family.

So, we have been married for over 16 years now. It has been a rocky road getting there but we feel like we can survive anything. having grown up abroad I've always wanted to live in the States, for the children to get to experience life there, but it has taken me a long time to persuade Neil to go. He's always loved living here because his job takes him to Europe alot; but he's looking forward to 'going home' now too.

That's our story! It's nice to hear other peoples. It does seem more common now to meet on line, both his brother and sister met their spouses on an american dating site!

Flirting online (we both flirting online and now still flirting together even we are married ) at public chatroom in dating site (he was with someone) well...I stole him from another woman

I would be curious to see how many more I-129F's are filed now as opposed to 10 years ago, with the internet age and all. My paternal grandmother came over from England as a war-bride, so I imagine most of the I-129F's were filed by military in the past? Would be an interesting topic to do research on!

You should see each couple who met online for your research.

We met on a Rush message board.

That would be interesting to see, Ginger. I've been curious about that myself, because other than military or school or trips abroad, it would have been difficult for so many people from around the world to meet.

Stu and I met online on some forums for general gaming. I thought he was one of those pervy gaming nerds at first and told him that I would avoid him, but you can see how that worked out. He's still a pervy gaming nerd though

isn't difficult to meet someone in other country. Don't meet someone in their hotel room .

Congratulations to you 16 years to forever anniversary.

Hmmm...if I weren't such a lazy arse or perhaps still in school I'd do some serious research. And in the past few years too there has been a lot less stigma of meeting people online.

My favorite line in Revenge of the Nerds goes something along the lines of:

Hot sorority chick: I didn't think nerds would be so good in bed
Lewis: Jocks only think about sports, nerds only think about sex.

Stu.

I have no problem to get a guy. I had met guys through church, parties, celebration, through friends & other places. it doesn't make any difference where we meet together as long we love each other same with couple who met in church, swing party, disco or anywhere.

Internet

Yahoo Chat in one of the Irish Rooms.

we met on a chat set up by a fan forum for the band breaking benjamin...everyone was talking about the band and then someone asked what people's other hobbies were...and i (very bravely) mentioned i like figure skating....met with silence...except from kevin...we went to IMing from there and 3+ years later, here we are! no swing parties or church...or discos necessary...thank god for small favors.

Both members of a game-related website for several years without really noticing each other, and then we were sort of deliberately left together by a mutual friend during a group skype conversation and ended up talking for hours... eventually we stopped fighting it and started dating.

we met teaching English at the same school in Asia, we started dating about a month after we met. when my 1 year contract came to an end about 6 months before his, and i had to come back home to nyc, we knew that we couldnt be apart. so we had a long distance relationship for 5 years until last year when we finally got married!

LOVE this movie - Hot sorority chick = Miss Betty Childs

Nice! We live just around the corner in Dunton Tower. As soon as someone buys our house in the UK (see signature) we can a house out here. I can't wait to get out of this apartment!!!

We usually get amazed looks when we tell people how we met ... we stayed at the same B&B on Orkney (most Americans don't even know where it is) ... we both like to holiday off the beaten path.

However, the internet kept us in touch ... we probably never would have kept up if we had to write and mail letters.

We met in 2001 when he joined the company I worked for. I was based in London and him in the DC office. He was sales and I was marketing so we worked closely together. Emails turned from professional to friendly, and we both travelled extensively, so we would always see eachother at events around the world. One night we got really drunk with a bunch of others from work but we ended up the last two at the bar. That night was the beginning of our relationship, and we did the transatlantic thing for years until he proposed in early 2006. Thank god because I had just about run out of Virgin airmiles at that point.

Chris and I met several years ago in a drumming forum.
Started out just as passing friends...then it changed to talking a little more often...then everyday...then almost as much as freaking possible. At this point neither of us wanted a LONG distance relationship. But after more then a year we decided to meet. Shocking as it was cause he was about the shy-est guy in the world, he flew to Charlotte for a few days and we both fell absolutly head over heels. Dated by flying back and forth every 3-6 months for nearly 4 years and we got married last June.

What really struck me about him was his passion for music. We could talk for hours about music. Then he introduced me to our NOW favorite band. The rest is a bit of our history! *smile* now I am all sentimental this morning.....

We met in a Yahoo Chat Spanish room and spent the first couple of weeks not realizing that the other one could speak english!

It was my first foray into the Yahoo chat and I was overwhelmed with all these little boxes popping up on my screen so I closed them all down as fast as I could until I was left with only this one. We spent 9 months chatting in messenger and email just as friends until we eventually decided to meet up in Chicago. The rest is history .......... love at first proper sight and all that!

And we hardly ever speak spanish together any more (although that is his first language and I speak spanish all day long at work!)

subtle?

NME magazine chatroom! It's no longer there now...

Angst? when did you used to post to that? I me up with a bunch of people through that site back in the day!

Well I met my better half when I was teaching dancing in Texas. I used to teach her and it was Ballroom, latin and country for adults.

I've always heard that the only reason guys take dance lessons is to meet women haha. Although you must have some natural talent and ambition to teach!

I live in Ontario, Canada, and my boyfriend is in Michigan. We are both involved in a pistol shooting sport. He came up to Ontario for a major match, and thats where we met (although we never really did get introduced!).
I went down to Michigan a couple months later, for a match there, and saw him again. After that match, we started talking, and here we are now.
I'm absolutley loving it.