How did you meet your wife, hubby, partner?

[rshall]

On a blind date. Mutual friend told me she was 30 (she was 34) told her I was 30 (I was 26). Met up at a fish restaurant, with blind date, mutual friend and mutual friends wife (who was/is my wifes best friend), looked at each other and both thought ' you're not the age I thought' . Mutual friend didn't stop talking all night so couldn't really get to know her.

Decided to meet up again at a pub, she was going to tell me she wasn't interested, but we talked and found out we like each other, met up more and more (saw lots of films that year), went on holiday, got engaged.

We were going to leave it a couple of years before we got married, but she had a dodgy smear test result, and two days after I came home form work the was a helicoptor crash near to the platform I was on, killing all onboard, this made us get married that year, seemed like a good idea at the time.











This November we will be celebrating our 7th wedding anniversary, and our daughter will start school in January next year

 

[dellzeqq]

Me and Mrs FF, the long suffering Jane met at Freshers week at South Bank Polytechnic in Sept 1982, on the 3rd day I invited here out, by Friday evening we had our first snog, in the doorway of the Video store in Morden (the original one opposite the station), we've been together ever since, through good and bad, 3 fantastic kids and a life that's not all bad. Secretly I'm as crazy about her as I was in that video store doorway.
I'm a lucky guy.

thus proving that romance is not dead....

 

[Deleted member 1258]

1979 at Ball Room dancing lessons, we haven't danced for years now, she became my dance partner, she was married at the time, 18 months later she moved in with me, I was living in a bedsit at the time. Now 2 kids and 3 houses later we are still going strong.

 

[RabbitFood]

These are amazing - I want to get engaged but cant affored the ring!!!

 

[Globalti]

We never had an engagement ring and we got a wedding ring made for Mrs RR at a local jewellery college for £200. She told me not to bother with a ring because she knew it would get mangled and scratched.

 

[HelenD123]

These are amazing - I want to get engaged but cant affored the ring!!!

Don't let that hold you back. A friend of mine was very happy with a second hand ring with a semi precious stone. I've no experience of these things, but surely there are much more important things about getting married than a piece of jewellery.

 

[Auntie Helen]

Yes, I've never understood this 'We want to get married but can't afford it' thing. Just get married! The fussy wedding thing is a load of hassle, IMO, and simple can be just as meaningful, if not more so.

 

[RabbitFood]

yes I know and it sound bad but its not the money i mean at the moment i cant even afford a £100 ring or thats what I would get her, she has said many times she is not botherd and knowing her I know that she isent.

I got a few big commision months payment comming up so i can do it then bt wanted to on holiday next week.

 

[SavageHoutkop]

I would have loved a silver ring with cubic zirconia. Couldn't find one (never mind one that looked good). Ended up with a white gold and diamond.

It's not about the ring anyway - if you want to propose on holiday do it, with a 'temporary' cheap ring. (note this only applies if you know she really isn't bothered - some women would be!). See eg. Argos for some that'll do the job from (!) £5.

That also gives you the chance to find a ring that works (together...) from experience all the things that looked good in the window looked awful when on my fingers - I do have very long thin fingers though!

 

[RabbitFood]

yes good idea i was looking at doing that with the cheap ring and then choosing one together. And would be nice to do it on a moutain top and would be a nice special moment and place for us both forever.

anyway maybe i should of started my own thread for this hehe.

 

[HelenD123]

yes I know and it sound bad but its not the money i mean at the moment i cant even afford a £100 ring or thats what I would get her, she has said many times she is not botherd and knowing her I know that she isent.

I got a few big commision months payment comming up so i can do it then bt wanted to on holiday next week.

A friend gave his girlfriend a bracelet he'd plaited out of some dried grass as a token when he proposed. I'm sure it's something she'll treasure forever. Could you do something like that then go shopping together for a ring once you have the money?

 

[RabbitFood]

oh i like that, i was also thinking of doing something like that but for a ring, but i like te braclet idea better.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

on rings and things - The engagement ring I bought the lovely Helen 27 years ago fulfilled the criteria of costing a months wages but was still a piece of crap. a very small inferior diamond in a poor quality. I was a badly paid civil servant you see, and I had to sell my motorbike to stump up the cash for it. She was happy with it. Her older sister was not. Her sister married a man of some means so, some years later, she bought, with my foreknowledge and approval, H a replacement ring, huge rock, lovely setting which she now wears in place of the original.

I bask in its reflected glory from the safety of my welding mask.

 

[ianrauk]

Yes guys & gals let's keep this on topic, there are some great stories here...so come on peeps keep them coming

 

[RabbitFood]

yes sorry my bag been great reading all the stories