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im not even sure of the story! they are both from the same town in dominican republic and in the islands everyone knows everyone..they did elope tho, i know that lol

My parents grew up around the corner from each other and their parents were good friends. So they were playing with each other since they were in diapers and got married right after high school. And, I'm currently planning their 30th Anniversary party to be held in April.

My parents were both working at Stanford University when they met. The cute part is how it all happened:

My mom was QUITE the looker, as in, a swede model. My dad, QUITE the nerd, saw her stretching (she was also a professional dancer) on the lawn outside his office and was so smitten he tracked her down - same building, different division. Every day for two weeks he passed her desk (obviously not convenient or necessary), asking to borrow a pen/pencil, trying to work up the courage to ask her out. She clued in and finally tossed a pen at him as he approached her desk and said, "just ask me out, already!" The rest, as they say, is history, but not before my skinny dad (who was part of a cross country running club at the time) pushed himself to run a 4-minute mile for the first time in front of her in order to impress. I think she was more worried that he would keel over.

They both worked at a nursing home back in high school. My mom worked there first, then dad got hired and his best friend introduced them (his bff worked there before him too) Mom was in the walk-in refrigerator and Peter came in with Dad and said "hey this is my friend he works here now" Mom says she took one look at him and said "big deal" and walked out. After a few months of flirting and hard work on my Dad's end, Mom finally caved, and here they are today, 25 years later!

i love these stories! my parents met on a blind date & they got engaged four months later just before he left for the vietnam war. my parents have a good story...

Aww! These stories are cute.

You know, I'm not quite sure what my parents' story is.

Through their work, I believe.

Aww, that is so sweet Stacey Cakes!

My mom's older sister was dating my dad's friend, so they got hooked up by them when my mom was 16 and my dad was 19. My dad then went to fight in the Vietnam War, and my mom waited patiently for him to come home. They got married in 1972 and have been together ever since

They met playing tennis on base. My mom was in the Navy and my dad was in the Coast Guard.

My mom was either just divorced with my sisters' father or divorcing him and my dad saw her at work. He was a hospital cop (still is) and she was delivering something (she was and still is a secretary). He said something to her. He then asked her out to lunch. Then everyday after that they had lunch together.
I think I'm missing some parts, but nothing too important.

They met @ a pub

My mom asked my dad to play Ms. Pacman with her

My parents were neighbors. My mom was married to another guy at the time, and got pregnant to my dad, then moved in with him...across the street from her current husband. Romantic, eh?

My dad found out that my mom was single form his nephew. So he asked him some questions and what not and become some kind of stalker..

He would eat at the resturant my mom worked at for breakfast, lunch and dinner. My mom soon memorized his orders for his every meal but never really paid attention to him since she was managing the place. My dad used to wait for her to get off her shift and used to watch her walk home and make sure that she got home alright because she usually got off at 2 am. My mom was totally oblivious until she went to a new year's party in 1985 and he was there and they were introduced.

My dad's nephew married my mom's uncle's wife's sister.. So they totally hit it off they got married in December 1986 I was born in May 1987 my sister was born in May 1991 and they are still happily married.

Our family still teases my dad for being the stalker that he was just to get with my mom

My parents met when he was in college and she was in grad student - Mom's roommate was dating Dad's roommate. (The roommates didn't stay together but Mom and Dad did - 37 years in August.) They dated for a while but didn't expect anything to come of it because they were so close to graduating and Dad was going into the Air Force and would be sent who-knows-where. Then Dad got stationed a few hours away from where Mom would be living and the rest is history!

The funny part - at the time Dad had a work-study job refilling the soda machines on campus, and Mom was a Diet Rite fiend, and also super frugal. So one day she was walking with her roommate and they came across Dad filling the machines, so the roommate introduces them. One of the first things Mom said was "Hey, that machine ate my money, can you get it back?" Romantic, eh?

when she was in grad **school.** Geez.

My Mom was my Dad's secretary....cliche, I know. But supposedly, she walked down a hill in high heels one day and my Dad turned to his friends and said "that's the woman I am going to marry." Then, almost 2 years after they had me, they did get married!

My grandparents' story is cute too. My Nana was working as a waitress at her Dad's restaurant, here in Memphis on Beale Street. My Gan Gan came in and ordered something, and when my Nana set down his plate she said "service with a smile" and he said "where's the smile then?" and she got mad at him. Before he left, he told her that she was going to marry him, and she said "Like hell I am!" and went and got ready for her date that night.

He was in the Navy and only in Memphis for 3 days, so the next night he came back and she agreed to go out with him. He left to go back to California, and 4 months later they got married! Their 50th anniversary is this September!

My mom's friend (when they were in HS I think) invited my dad over to my mom's house because the friend had a crush on him. The three of them hung out and later that week my dad called my mom's house to say he liked her and they should go out. My grandparents weren't thrilled because my mom was a cute,square,goody-goody and my dad was a dirty week-old-jeans-wearing hippie!
31 years later they are still married!

I do poke fun at her that she "stole her best firend's man" like its some bad Jerry Springer show.

@ Marni7: I totally know what you mean about DR and everybody knowing everybody!

Like many couples, through work. For my Dad, it was love at first sight. To him, my Mom looked like a living doll. He never met a woman more attractive. He pursued her, and she eventually accepted his advances.

At a ski club... funny thing is, I can't picture either of my parents skiing, ha!

My mom decided to study for two years in Munich Germany to get her doctorate. As her studies were coming to an end, an old friend of hers told her that he wanted her to meet Dr. K. My mom figured Dr. K sounded like he was some old fat guy and didn't want to meet him. She decided to flee to Rome to avoid meeting him. When Dr. K heard this, he followed her to Rome (having never even seen this woman before) and when she heard through friends there that Dr. K was in the city, she took the first train back to Munich. He did too and this time my mom's old friend insisted that she stopped acting like a child and met him. He came with the train from Rome and she was there to pick him up with the old friend. He stepped off the train and (as he was in fact a gorgeous young doc)it was love at first sight. The very next day, my dad proposed and they were married 2 months later. Still together 30 years later

My parents met on a ski trip - my mom went with her friends, my dad with his, and met up there (they were from the same area). My mom actually liked one of my dad's friends, not my dad, but my dad was head-over-heels for her immediately and got her number from one of my mom's friends. This was the weekend before Valentine's Day, and on Valentine's Day my dad showed up at my mom's house with flowers and candy for her, and wanted to take her out ... and my mom tried to get my grandmother to make him leave! My grandmother said absolutely not, he is a nice boy and brought you gifts, so go down there and be nice to him! (Although I wonder if the 'he's a nice boy' comment held water when my grandparents found out that my dad is six years older then my mom, and my mom was 15 at the time?! lol ..)That was 32 years ago. =]

A cuter story is how my dad's parents met. They quite literally *ran* into each other in a phone booth in London - one of those big, old-fashioned red ones. My grandmother was walking out of it and my grandfather was walking in. He was in his naval whites, since he was stationed in England at the time, and my grandmother was of course instantly interested .. and that was it! They got married 6 months later, I think, and my dad was born not too long after that ..

My dad asked my mom out. She said no. A while later my mom was set up on a blind date. With my dad! They've been together for 29 years this year.

My parents met at a bar. My mom never drank, and went to see her God father play in his band -- which my dad was in. My dad asked my mom out in the parking lot. They got divorced, so it doesn't even matter now =P

My parents worked for two rival companies and met each other at a convention. My mum didn't really like my dad (partly because he worked for the other company and also because he looked like the male version of Olive Oyl), but because my dad was pretty insistent, she finally went out with him. I'm not sure though if my dad turned stalker-ish. I sure hope not.

My parents met at church. My dad and his roommates were in a group of friends that were all single that would hang out together to socialize without it being called "dating"...it was kind of a church singles-group. My mom transferred schools and moved to the town that my dad's church was in and she started going to church there. My dad thought she was very cute and he started talking with her and they were friends for the longest time. It took my dad a good 6 months before he even had the guts to kiss her! What was really funny was that my mom actually proposed to my dad...they were at a restaurant and my mom said something like "So, I think we should get married. What do you think?" and my dad said "Yeah, that'd be a good idea. Will you marry me?" I know that's a lot more common nowdays, but back then it was pretty unheard of.

I also like the story of how my dad's parents met. My grandpa was in college and during his summer breaks he worked for a contracting company to earn extra money. One week, my grandma's family's farmhouse needed some work done on the barn and my grandpa was out working on it. She brought him and the other workers fresh lemonade and cookies every day and my grandpa told the other builders that he was going to get her to marry him. And he did. They were married for over 50 years before my grandpa died and my grandma still likes to tell the story about how they met.

My parents' story makes me believe that some things are just meant to be.

They met in an airport, while their flight was delayed. My dad noticed my mom because she was stresssing out about the delayed flight, and he offered to take her our for dinner

My dad joined the Air Force as a musician and was uprooted from East Los Angeles and stationed in Japan. He ended up playing at an event that my grandfather ran, and he really liked my dad. He introduced her to my mom, because he said that she needed a pen pal to practice her English. I think they met a few times while he was there, but he had to come back to the states and they fell in love while writing their letters.

Everyone was kind of opposed to their marriage at first, seeing as how they were on two different parts of the world and from two very different cultures (He's Mexican-American, she's Japanese), but it's worked out because they're celebrating 30 years in June!

My parents met in the third grade.

My Dad and her dated in High School, rest is history.

My dad is a diplomat and his first posting outside of germany was here in argentina. about 8 months before having to move again he needed to buy a coffee table for his apt and went the store my mother worked at.
He picked out a coffee table and my mom said he should come back the next week because she had to order it.
He came back, and like all things argentinian, the table had not arirved when it was supposed to, so my mom told him to come back the next week.
He did, and again, no table. He decided to ask her out for an afternoon and she said ok, pick me up on saturday. I close up the shop at 1pm. If youre not here im gone. Obviously, my dad arrived 10 minutes late and mommy had already left.

She felt a bit guilty and called the embassy, but for security reasons they cant give out private numbers. So she left a message and my dad came the next saturday on time.

They went out, 2 months later decided they should move in together (my dad had been informed he would be moving in 6 months) and 6 months later my mom moved with him to algeria.
I was born 4 years later in Tel Aviv Israel, my brother 2 years after that in Germany, and we've lived in the states and for the past 5 years in Argentina. They have since moved back to germany because me dad had to, but once he retires they plan on moving back here

Theyre celebrating their 21st wedding anniversary this month

oh yea, that, and my dad never got the table

My moms brother introduced her to my dad at BBQ. She couldn't resist his police uniform and he couldn't get enough of the beautiful tomboy. They have set the bar high for me, showing me how great a true love can work. Thanks to them I know it is possible, and don't need to settle for anything less.

My father was a police officer on patrol and my mom walked past him at a stop light in a bathing suit to go across the street to the pool. They have been married for 30 years.

My parents were introduced through my mom's sister, who thought they would make good pen pals (my dad lived in California, my mom worked in Hong Kong). They fell in love through letters and phone calls. They've been married 26 years.

My parents were both working at the university bookstore, and my dad would help my mom put books on the upper shelves because he's really tall. One day some creepy guy started bothering my mom. My dad came to her rescue, and they started hanging out after that. They've been married for close to 30 years now.

In a bar. lol My dad was celebrating his birthday and asked my mom for her number, and she wrote it down on a cocktail napkin. so silly... lol

At a party. He saw her from across the room. Hahaha a bit cliche but still cute.

My mom was trying to set up my dad with a friend of hers. Well the friend bailed out and my parents went on a date instead. They are still going strong over 45 yrs later.

My parents' story is really unique. They met at some sort of "honor student" convention in high school. There was a party for the kids afterwards, where someone had decided it was a great idea to spike the punch with vodka. My mom, being 15 and very naive, just thought the punch tasted really good and got wasted! Meanwhile, my dad and his friends (who were dorks), also being in high school, were making bets on who would be able to get a girl to do the "most" stuff that night. Then my mom tripped and fell into his lap while she was walking by! He won the bet.
It doesn't end there. Turns out they met again months later, by which time my mom had somehow bloomed into a player - she was dating 3 guys at once! On their first date, she agreed to go to dinner with him, but he had to have her home by 8 sharp for one with another guy. My dad saw it as a challenge, and continued to pursue her. When he decided he wanted to "go steady" with her, told her to date just him, and she told him to get lost! 3 years later, about 6 months after he found his fiance cheating on him and broke up with her, he couldn't stop thinking about my mom and wrote her a really sweet letter asking if they could have another chance. They've been married for 25 years now.

My parents were at a sorority - fraternity formal in college. My mom came with some other guy, but when she was dancing with him, my dad cut in. And the rest is history. They're been married for 30 years!

In high school, my parents went on a double date (their dates were not each other!) and ended up hitting it off better than the people they were with!

My folks met in the 7th grade and will be married 53 years this month! They're still crazy about each other - it's so heartwarming!

They worked at a restaurant together. He was a bartender and she was a cocktail waitress

My parents met through a newspaper ad. I guess my mom saw my dad's ad and anwsered it. They went on a blind date and hit it off.

My mom and dad both took karate lessons one summer. At the end of the season, the school threw a huge BBQ on the beach for all of the students. They met there. And the rest is history!

my parents met through an early 'computer dating' program being run by a university - the program would match you up with several people and you'd write letters to each other. If you both agreed, you'd arrange to meet up.

They got engaged only 6 months after their first date, and will have been married for 42 years this year!

My mom was my dad's cousin's friend. They met at the cousin's house. Vietnam War... they get separated. My mom went to Australia and my dad went to Canada. When my mom was in Canada, they met up again and later got married!

My dad was an intern in general surgery training, and my mom was a nurse...typical medical drama! He asked if he could drive her home, they got engaged after 3 months, but then my mom broke it off, not sure about another guy.

My dad then told her "I am sad about this, but I will be ok.. I have my career". My mom realized that, yes, he could live without her, and asked for her ring back.

They will be celebrating their 50th anniversary in July.

Apparently my mum accosted my dad at the pub and asked him for a beer. It took seven years for him to pop the question, but they've been married for 25 years.