In a world where everyone seems to be pairing up with the help of dating apps, it’s becoming increasingly rare to meet a couple whose love story began sans swiping right. But there is hope! There are plenty of coupled-up pairs whose initial meetings went down in really unexpected places (i.e. during an UberPOOL ride, a round of World of Warcraft and more).
Tamara Langman and John Bentley are kissbrides.com utilice este enlace just two of the many couples who met while playing the multiplayer fantasy game. In 2011, the New York Times interviewed the couple, who first began chatting via the game’s messaging and voice communication service for two months before meeting in real life in Santa Barbara, where they currently reside. They have been together since 2009.
I returned to England afterwards feeling very love sick
Okay, so this isn’t so strange. Plenty of people form connections while lifting weights or running on the treadmill, right? At least that was the case for Stephanie Hughes and Joe Keith, who met and wed at a Planet Fitness.
“I was using the bosu ball, and he asked if I was using a piece of the equipment, and I looked up and was like, ‘No,‘ ” Hughes recalled, with a dreamy look on her face, in the couple’s wedding video. “I was so nervous!”
“I definitely was like, ‘Oh my god she’s gorgeous,‘ and thought I should go say something,” Keith added. “Right when we first met I was like, oh she’s so awesome, so I guess you could say it was love at first sight.”