The Beginning

How it began

In this wedding love story example, each partner presented their "How We Met" story from their own point of view. This is a fun way for loved ones to get to understand all the nuances of a couple's story, especially if each to-be-wed remembers different points in the relationship as notable turning points. If You Ask Mark: After living in Reston, VA, for two years with my friends, I moved back to the city to immerse in a more lively dating scene. Frustrated with the lack of quality prospects at the bars, I decided to download the dating app Tinder to put myself out there. Within a week of swiping right, a girl named Jaclyn popped up as a match. We instantly hit it off in the app, even as far as me asking her to marry me when she shared that she was dressing up as Old Gregg for Halloween. Within a few days on the app, we exchanged phone numbers so we could text for real. I was cautiously optimistic about the whole situation based on others' negative experiences with dating apps including catfishing, mismatched expectations, and all around bad dates. Was this Jaclyn a real person? Was she actually a middle-aged man having a joke at my expense? There was only one way to find out for sure. After exchanging texts for a few days, I found out that this alleged Jaclyn lived less than 2 miles from where I had just lived in Reston for 2 years (go figure!). I invited Jaclyn on a dinner date to a steak house in Tysons Corner, a solid middle point between our apartments. After an entire basket of bread, 2 Moscow Mules, and multiple invites to join the adjacent table for dessert, Jaclyn finally showed up to the table for an optimistic first date. We continued to text more and more and hung out a few times before the sealing moment came a couple weeks later, that would ultimately launch our relationship.