The Tree Between Two Dorms
Last night Brandi and I drove up to Bowling Green, KY to meet out good friends Kevin and Amy Colon. Kevin was my college roommate and is now pastoring a great church he started several years ago called Cool River Church in Superior, Colorado.
It was fun to walk around the WKU campus where we all went to school together. God did a lot of cool things in my life during my time there.
On this campus…
-I felt God’s call to go into ministry.
-I met and fell in love with my wife.
-I made so many life long friends.
-I led my first discipleship group.
-I really began a deep, personal relationship with God.
If you’ve spent a lot of time around me you’ve probably heard the story of how I met Brandi and how our relationship started. If not here’s part of the story that Kevin and I re-acted. You’ll enjoy this action packed story that involves one engaged Brandi, a large WKU football player, and a tree between our two dorms.
Enjoy, but let’s keep this little story between the two of us.
How did you meet your significant other?
The Tree Between Two Dorms from Pete Wilson on Vimeo.
81 Comments:
Well, I wish I had a story to tell, but I don’t
If God would just hurry up and bring my prince along–I’d share it with the whole world. All in God’s timing 
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Falguni Patel
2:28 pm
My husband and I met 8 years ago on the internet. He was living in Columbus, GA, and I was living in Memphis, TN. We had a long distance relationship for 2 years before we got engaged and were able to live in the same city. I didn’t tell my mom the truth about how we met until the morning of my wedding. No point worrying her unnecessarily!
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Jennifer
2:29 pm
That was so cute! I like how you kept reminding us, “True love waits”. How I needed to hear that in my younger years.
Hubby & I met a long time ago in Children’s ministry at the church we used to attend. Lots of fun!
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Tina Dee
3:07 pm
Oh my gosh that was hysterical!! LOL
My husband & I met in one of the most glamorous, storybook romance kinds of ways. Get ready… I was 18 & worked at a gas station, and my boss was opening an auto accessories shop next door (of which I wasn’t even aware). My husband (who was 27 at the time) had two boys (okay, well he still does) that were 4 & 6, and he would bring them in to buy snacks. So, we fell in love at a gas station. It was truly love at first sight and we’ve been together every since.
If you promise not to do the math I’ll say it’s been 13 years!
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Melody
3:36 pm
I met my husband on a toll free number. He called for technical support. I fixed him up good!
) That was Jan 1994, I met him face to face the following month, he moved to our city the month after that, and within a month of his move here, I proposed to him. He never knew what hit him, poor fella.
Married at 20, it will be 15 years next year, and we’re doing better than ever.
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JD in Canada
3:56 pm
Very cute video
I also liked Brandi’s last post (slip of the finger). Too cute!
My husband and I met on a white water rafting trip out of town. We were there with mutual friends staying in the same cabin and I knew it was true love when he was able to lift me from the water back into the raft. We have been together since (7 years ago now married 4 — with three beautiful little girls). I remember clearly coming home and stopping at my mom’s house for my appratment keys. I told her I had met the man I would marry and she thought I was crazy!
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Natalie
4:00 pm
How funny! That’s a super cute story
I love reading everybody’s little tales of love. I haven’t met Prince Charming yet, but knowing me I’m certain the story will be quite ridiculous. 
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Chere
4:08 pm
Very cute video!
My husband and I met in college, too. I had been very studious freshman year, but sophomore year I decided I needed to try out for the drill team again so I could meet some nice guys. I made the drill team and there was a required party over Labor Day weekend. I met Dennis at that party. We didn’t start dating for several months, but once he finally asked me out, we were pretty much inseparable after that. We celebrated our 25th anniversary last October!
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Jan C.
4:11 pm
@JD in Canada, I think that’s a first for me. Never heard of someone meeting that way.
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Pete Wilson
4:57 pm
Loved the video! And love reading the stories! My fiance and I met half my life ago; I was 12 and he was 13. We lost touch, reunited and are getting married this year. I can’t wait for the day we get to boast about how many years we’ve been married!
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Elizabeth
5:07 pm
That as awesome! What a great story. Still waiting for mine to be written.
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karen
5:50 pm
That is the funniest video ever. Your kids are going to love that when that get older, like at Jett’s wedding?? Love you guys.
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Laura
5:52 pm
Note to Self: Never, and I mean NEVER, watch a Pete Wilson video in a public place or while eating or drinking. A word to the wise.
Beloved and I met when I took my sick car to his workplace to have it repaired. I wanted to make a good impression … since I was dating his brother. I guess I did. We’re celebrating 30 years of *wedded bliss* this summer. God is good!
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Pearl
5:58 pm
@Pearl, 30 years!!!!! Wow, congrats to you guys. And his brother? nice.
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Pete Wilson
6:10 pm
So should I ask if you are telling the truth about the True Love Waits? I haven’t met the man of my dreams/God’s Will yet. One day I hopefully will, if I don’t let my scary 6’2″ baseball playing brother scare him off!
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Jessica
6:15 pm
I met my husband when his then-girlfriend suggested he give my college roommate and me a ride home from a party. We were great friends for about 6 months, I used to fix him up on dates with my friends after he dumped the g/f, then one night out of desperation when I couldn’t find him a date, he said, “Well, then you come with me. Just for an hour.” We listened to The Lettermen (on vinyl albums) and talked until 6 am, and the rest (including the ‘hometown honey’ I had) is history. We will be married 37 years in August and he still makes me feel like a young bride.
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Candy
6:34 pm
At a Santa Claus booth in a mall.
My wife was an elf, and I was getting my picture taken with a friend.
Long story short, I asked out the elf, and a year later were married. The Santa from the first day, showed up to the wedding as Santa.
That is the really short version.
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joseph
6:39 pm
Holly and I met at a Bible Study while leading the local chapter of Campus Crusade for Christ at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point…
…not quite correct…we met in the basement of a stinky college rental home at a “house party”. I was 19 and she was 18. I was at a point in my life where the last thing I was looking for was a girlfriend…but she knocked me off my feet. I fell in love with her instantly and we have been together ever since. She agreed to marry me back when I was majoring in “ichthyology” (fresh water fishes)…she stayed with me as I sauntered through aspirations to be a nature writer, biology teacher and finally, pre-med.
Next month, we celebrate our tenth year of marriage…all of which have been chaotic years of medical school and surgical training! Talk about a test for a marriage! I truly met my soul-mate back in 1994 and I am so thankful that God strategically placed her in front of me while I was thoroughly under the influence of alcohol. It was almost as if He knew that he had to get the two of us together, so that we could become Christians on a common journey.
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Nate VZ
6:59 pm
That’s a great story (and video). You should’ve carved your initials into the tree or something.
I’m trying to find a good place to meet someone.
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Sarah
7:13 pm
That’s fantabulous…thanks for the laugh. And for the reminder that true love waits. : )
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Bonky's Mama
8:11 pm
Fun video! And loved the friend taking all the credit for siccing the big dude on you.
The Boss and I met thru mutual friends in the commons of our campus center in the fall of our freshman year. It was dislike at first sight. He was all “Mr. California Cool” and I was so not interested. But then he got serious about the Lord and about school. At the beginning of our sophomore year, we went on a date that was supposed to be a fix-up for our two friends. 5 kids and almost 19 years later and we’re still lovin’ the way God works for our good!!!!
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The Gang's Momma
8:25 pm
@Sara i wa thinking the same thing!
Well I hope I will have a cool story someday! I dont know if I have met my husband yet but if not, I hope that it happens at CP so that i dont have to go to a lame church
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Jessica Esch
8:58 pm
How I met my wife.. well. I was working with her aunt and she set me up with a blind date with TWO girls on the SAME night at the SAME place! It was at a roller skating rink. The first girl and I didn’t really hit it off but then I met her….that special girl that would one day be my wife. We were both 17 and we spent the evening holding hands while we skated around the rink.
I didn’t even know her name and I spent 2 hours holding her hand and skating with her.
I left there and went to work so that I could ask her aunt what her niece’s name was.
This was back in the day when there were no cell phones or internet to keep in touch. She lived in a different town and went to a different school. So we wrote a lot of letters to each other. I still have every one of them in a box in the basement. From time-to-time, I dig a couple of them out and laugh about those days.
We married at the tender age of 19 and this year we will mark 19 years of marriage. I still can’t believe that I will have been married for half of my life this August.
Marriage is an amazing thing that becomes more valuable with time.
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Tony York
10:15 pm
Hilarious video. True love waits. Love it.
My wife and I met in High School. She dated one of my best friends. They broke up. I was to chicken to ask her out but wanted to. Fast forward years later… she worked at Victoria’s Secret at the mall, I was in marketing for the mall itself. We ran into each other on day in the food court, started chatting… I finally asked her to dinner and the rest is history. 12 years later we have 2 kids and are very happily married.
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Daniel Decker
10:38 pm
Wait…what did the boyfriend do? Fun story!
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Holly B.
3:39 am
Too funny!!! What a way to scare you, huh Pete???
Hubs and I went to school together from the time I was in 7th grade but never knew each other…well, he didn’t know me. I knew who he was, the absolute nerd of the school. We even had a totally lame nickname for him using his last name!!!
March of my sr. year, our English teacher asked if I wouldn’t mind going to one of the end of year banquets with a jr. Turns out, it was him and I was none too happy. Actually, though, once he got the opportunity to talk, boy did he ever and I really began to fall in love with him really quickly!!! That was Mar of ’86 and we were married Dec of ’88!!!
I sure am thankful for that English teacher!!!
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bluegoose
5:10 am
that was funny. My husband and I met on E*Harmony. We found out that we went to college together. Now we have 5 children under the age of 3. Elijah in 2006, Joshua, Jacob, and Esther in 2007, and Hannah in 2008. God works in mysterious ways.
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Jennifer Wilcoxson
5:20 am
Pete, love this!! I totally remember when you and Brandi first were together around the BSU activities but had no idea about the tree story or anything!! That is so romantic!!
God bless you all!!
Susan
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Susan Kerr Jenkins
5:43 am
Great story.
I’m still waiting for mine to unfold.
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Kyle Gilbert
5:59 am
Marc and I met at church. I was down for a conference and he just happened to be there also. We were 14 and 15 at the time. He noticed my friend and talked to her, but because I was staying with my aunt and uncle for the summer we ended up hanging out together instead. Three years later after I graduated I moved to the city near him to live with my aunt and uncle and go to school. I called him one night and he came over and we talked. He eventually came to the house and we talked again for hours. We have been together every since then. As a matter of fact we just celebrated our 26 wedding anniversary last week. The ironic thing is that he wrote in my yearbook that one day we would be married, build a home on his parents property and have thirteen kids. We got married of course, but we only had three kids (thank God). But we did build a home on his parents property.
Who knew the man could see into the future. LOL
Oh, what I didn’t tell you was when Marc and I met I was seeing a guy who lived near my aunts home. One day Marc and the guy showed up at my door at the same time!
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DisneyCyndi
6:25 am
awwwwwww, I love hearing love stories!
I met my husband in the “club scene”……promising huh? Well almost 20 years and four kids later, we are still going strong! ALthough, I give all the credit to God as He has been with us through all the valleys as well as on top of the mountain.
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*~Michelle~*
6:49 am
We met on the playground, second grade. He was on the monkey bars. Let’s just say it worked for me. But we didn’t hook up until our Junior HS year. It ended badly. Fast forward a few years and things worked out a bit better. We’ve been married 20 years now
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Sally
7:22 am
I met my husband in high school. We became good friends over the next 2 years (of which I would never admit I liked him b/c I was sure he only thought of me as a friend – plus he was engaged for a few months of that time!). Then 2 years later he finally got the nerve to ask me out – actually I was blackmailed into dating him! Ever since then, we have been inseperable
We got married last September on the 9th anniversary of him asking me “to go with him.” I look forward to many more years of Happily Ever After – to be continued…
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Kathleen
7:23 am
Sherry and I met because of another girl that I was hanging around. I think, in fact I am sure, she really got tired of that so she introduced us in hopes I would leave her alone.
This coming Monday, June 29th, Sherry and I will be married 30 years.
I still can’t get that other girl to call me back either.
If you read this baby, I love you and would do it all again and again and again if given the chance.
Oh yeah, I was kidding about the calling the other girl thing too.
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Harold
7:37 am
So funny! The mention of True Love Waits takes me back to some really uncomfortable youth group conversations back in the day.
I met Matt in middle school…I was in 8th grade, he was in 7th. I had already heard about what a great guy he was from one of my friends (his girlfriend at the time) and then my family ended up trying out a new church which just happened to be the church his family attended. When I saw him playing guitar and leading worship for the youth group, my heart was gone!
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ash
7:38 am
My wife was a mail order bride. All I had to do was make two easy payments of $19.95 and she was mine. I could of gotten a second wife for free, but i didn’t want to pay the second processing and handling charges.
Ok, she wasn’t exactly a mail order bride… she works for the company that handles my back office duties and she used to be my direct liason whenever I had problems. We started talking one day about things other than work and one thing led to another and i convinced her to move from Iowa to TN to be my wife. Going on two years and yes Pete, we still haven’t had a fight!
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Michael
7:45 am
I was in the Army up at Ft. Campbell and my buddies and I used to always spend the weekends in Nashville because Clarksville had nothing going on. We went to a new bar on Demonbreun the Tin Roof (this was 2002). Back then the Tin Roof had a slightly older crowd 25+ so it was more my speed than my younger cohorts.
After a night of doing what you do in a bar. A booth opened up and my buddies and I took it over. I went to the bathroom and when I came back they were talking to these two cute girls. I sat down and joined in the conversation and after talking to Callie found out she played tennis at Austin Peay and we both liked the same player, Pete Sampras. This was about a week after Sampras had won his last US Open and we talked about his greatness on the tennis court.
I had played tennis growing up for about 10 years and had a high opinion of my skills on the court so I suggested to Callie that we play a match and the loser buys dinner. Needless to say Callie crushed me and I bought dinner the next week, that was almost 7 years and now 1 child ago.
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Luke Oakman
7:52 am
Interesting you should ask, as I’m speaking at my 2nd of 7 teen camp weeks this summer (Crescent Lake Bible Camp in rhinelander Wi)…I met the woman who would become my wife at a camp in Kansas City; I was the speaker, she was coming to go to Bible school.
Her first sight of me was playing football with a bunch of students; I told her if she was older I would sweep her off her feet; she thought I was part of the maintenance crew. Later that night when I was introduced as the speaker she was shocked; I dated her roommate for a while, then our friendship blossomed (alas, I came to Christ at age 26 thus ahd a lot of bad relationships); and she was the first girl I was ever friends with before anything else (there’s a lesson there). Anyway, 27 years and four kids later, I recognize the truth of something I just twittered from Phil Calloway: “Beneath the surface of every happy marriage is a husband who can’t believe his wife married him. ” Amen!
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Jack Hager
8:20 am
35 years ago, I met my life-long best friend in a high school art class. We went as dates, out of convenience, to most school activities. We knew we would be comfortable (no drama) hanging out with each other. Eventually, those dates of convenience led to romance. We broke-up every now and again to test the waters, but the tide always brought us back together. We completed college together and then were married. Four adult kids later, we are about to celebrate our 27th anniversary.
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Melinda
8:27 am
@kevin I’m so sorry I cut off half of your head in the beginning of the video! You know I love you!
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brandiandboys
8:32 am
@Luke Oakman (aka giant idiot) I love that story! I love that she crushed you.
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Pete Wilson
8:49 am
after a ridiculously drawn out and dramatic break up with a boyfriend (in college) I was in desperate need for comic relief…along came this great guy who brought a smile to my face over and over. Five short months later our friendship evolved, we had fallen in love and were engaged! We’ve now been married over 11 years. After Jesus, he is the hero of my heart.(awwww)
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Jenn Becker
9:15 am
hmmmmm. that one’s still in the process, so I’ll come back to this story when it happens
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Maureen
9:58 am
Wouldn’t it be something to say I met my wife on Pete Wilson’s blog?
Ladies…
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Kyle Gilbert
10:09 am
Hilarious!
My husband & I were set up on a blind date! We were engaged after 6 months and married a year after meeting.
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Heather
10:51 am
Love it! The hubby and I have a similar college campus love story… we were both in our college choir that toured around every spring break, and after being friends for a while and helping each other through some major relationship drama, cupid struck HARD and we fell immediately. We even got married at the church on campus- sometimes at night we would sneak into the huge sanctuary and I would sit in the back and listen to him play the baby grand and sing. Whenever we visit our campus there isn’t a spot that we don’t have a crazy or romantic memory. I love love.
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Hilary
11:10 am
Oh, and we celebrate seven years together next weekend! It gets better every single year!
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Hilary
11:12 am
My husband and I met in high school (I was in 9th grade and he was in 11th grade). We dated 4.5 years and got married. Will be married 11 years July 25th. Marriage…not for the faint of heart…but worth the work!
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Alison
11:53 am
Great story!
Marcus and I actually went to hs together but I would never have given him the time of day. It wasn’t until we were working together that it was pointed out to me by our boss that I loved him. Wait … what? He was getting ready to move to TN and I was dating someone. Once it sunk in that our boss was right, I dumped the other guy and drove straight to Marcus’ house where I said, “If this would be any reason you would stay in Indiana, let me know” and I kissed him. That was almost 11 years ago.
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Carrie
12:16 pm
I met my wife Betty, age 15 then, in a high school speech class (I was 18), and our first date was at a drive-in movie (our grown kids know all this), and yes, I waited to the 3rd date to kiss her. 46 years later with same wife, 3 kids and 5 grandkids, as I write this, I realize if I tried to date a 15 year old today as an 18 year old, would I be headed for prison…or maybe just getting out? I’d just been dumped by 2 girls, so I was just looking for a prom date, then going to dump Betty and meet “a real woman” at the University of Florida. The rest is more colorful when Betty tells it…
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Tom
12:17 pm
@Kyle, I LOVE it. Let’s have our first Without Wax hookup. Ladies?
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Pete Wilson
12:36 pm
I met my husband 12 years ago online in an #IRC chat room…yes, WAAAAY back in the days before eharmony or match.com. It was a scary, wonderful, unique courtship, and I can honestly say that we both knew God wanted us together before we ever met in person. I don’t recommend it for everyone, and I would likely question our own daughter at length if she came home with a similar story. But it was definitely of God. We will celebrate 11 years of marriage in October.
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Amanda Sims
12:36 pm
I love reading/hearing everyone’s “stories”. Im such a girl in that way. Im still waiting/dreaming of mine, and I can’t wait for it to happen. One day
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Katy
12:37 pm
that was a great video — its neat to see how great, Godly friends stay friends over time and distance!!! lots of laughs, I love it!
Also loved @kyle’s post with the winky smiley…thats hilarious.
jason and i met because i tripped down the hallway outside his office door, i thought he didn’t see me, so i slipped on by but he managed to run out into the hallway and “pull my ponytail” — give me a hard time…he asked me out but the only slot open was a sunday afternoon that weekend. i tripped into his life and he was my sunday afternoon guy…we’re getting married in September and i”m looking forward to many years and many children ahead
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Jewel
12:43 pm
I met my significant other working with you and your youth ministry in college.
The first ‘real’ conversation my wife and I ever had revealed to me the very real though unlikely possibility that she was the One. I was so giddy I got pulled over for drunk driving by the campus police on my way home (I had not been drinking).
Still, I was a coward and scared to death she had no interest in me and so stalled and stalled and stalled.
I finally pulled the trigger on the relationship b/c your wife essentially told me I was stupid not to (and she was right!)
The trigger pulling happened under the bridge at the top of the hill.
I’ll forever be grateful for your meddling in my life!!
Will also be forever grateful to have been part of that d-group.
An an unrelated note… I hooked up w/Kevin & Amy Colon today. Awesome… That’s all there is to say.
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Jeff Rogers
12:54 pm
I am grinning from ear to ear…I LOOOVE THAT STORY…and remember it well! but also how God gently fashioned your precious love for each other (with a little fear thrown in for good measure)!
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Andrea Melton
1:06 pm
I couldn’t help but smile and smirk while watching that. We have a similar beginning – we also met in college. We had one class together, but I was in, and he was just coming out of, a relationship. He started to pursue me, but I was graduating in a month and starting a new relationship was not in MY plan. Still, we worked on projects together and he was just so charismatic, charming, smart and funny. I did my best to pretend not to be interested and just get through the last few weeks of class.
Then, the phone rang. Our first conversation lasted from the evening until early morning classes. We went to a state school, known for its parties, yet the first thing we talked about was Jesus. I grew up unchurched and this guy, who I pegged as a “player,” reached out to me with the saving truth of our Savior. How’s that for bold?!
It’s not like most college dating stories, but it was just as God planned. I ended my relationship, graduated and we began dating. Six months later, I moved out to California, where he got his first job. We stayed out there for a year and a half and then he proposed. We’re now living in the Midwest, have been married 11 years, have three children and we are blessed to be in ministry together.
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Mela
1:12 pm
OHHH! So good to see you and Kevin and Brandi and Amy together–even if only on video! I never knew that story. I knew about the big guy–but never that Kevin spilled the beans…
I really wish that you had jumped over Kevin in the video, because that’s what I think you did the first time I met both of you. It was pretty impressive.
Much love to you all!
…Please tell Brandi I think of her and Elmer every Mother’s day.
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Beth
1:12 pm
Met my wife in 3rd grade. No joke. True love waits though – we got married a year after college.
My parents celebrated 30 year anniversary yesterday. Met one night, engaged 3 weeks later, married for 30 years. I told the story here: http://zackmansfield.com/post/128766336/a-love-story
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Zack
1:38 pm
When I was in college, my sister was dating a guy named Matthew. Matthew decided to hook me up with one of his friends. So we drove to a gas station in Collins, MS and I was introduced to Chad. We all got in Matthew’s truck and drove to a field in the middle of nowhere. We lit a fire and sat on the back of tailgates drinking beer. By the end of the night, Chad went off into the woods with ANOTHER girl!! Yep – that’s how we met – redneck style. We eventually got together, dated for 6 months, and got married. 10 years and 2 kids later – here we are!!
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Wendy
1:39 pm
I never get tired of hearing that story! Heath and I met on an airplane bound for the Dominican Republic…we had to fly over the ocean to meet each other when we only lived an hour apart!
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Jenn
2:23 pm
PETE!
I can’t believe you didn’t mention the attempted kidnapping.
Kevin
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Kevin Hash
2:36 pm
I loved the video, and the story. Thanks for sharing. I am still waiting for my story to unfold…I just keep trusting in God, that He has the perfect plan.
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Tina
2:39 pm
Love the video and the story.
When I read Pearl’s comment, I thought for a sec that I had changed my name! But, no…there was no dating his brother and we’ve only been married 26 years, not 30. The similarities were too cool.
My husband likes to tell everyone that we met because my rabbit died (you’d have to be older than dirt to know why that’s so funny). See that’s what folks used to say when a woman’s pregnancy test was positive. And the fact that my VW Rabbit “died” in the parking lot of the automotive service shop where he worked was just too much for him to pass up! I think it cracks him up more than it does the people forced to listen to his joke! But I love him…
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Cindy Graves
2:53 pm
Awwww, that’s a sweet story!
I met my husband while dancing at a night club. You can read about it here if you’re interested…
part 1 – http://bsidethesea.blogspot.com/2009/06/love-at-first-sight.html
and part 2 – http://bsidethesea.blogspot.com/2009/06/love-at-first-sight-part-2.html
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Brenda
4:53 pm
@Kevin Hash, I can’t believe I left that out. Another example of a roommate totally selling me out!!!!!!
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Pete Wilson
6:48 pm
After my friend bugged me literally for 3 months to come this small group… I finally went just to shut him up. I walked our friends house and there Karen was sitting on the couch playing her classical guitar before our lesson.
After that I started pursuing her hard core. and the rest is history.
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Adam O
6:59 pm
Life does have a way of getting back at “friends” like Kevin. So you still let Kevin be your best man, but I was just remembering how Kevin preached for you on the weekend of your wedding. We ate at some restaurant with Tommy after church and Kevin got food poisoning that lasted for at least 3 days. He was dying on my bed back in Princeton. I had to take care of him. He was either throwing up or snoring nonstop (and I still fell in love.) So, what goes around comes around. . .and yet in that round about way, I think you might deserve credit for getting us together.
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amycolon
8:44 pm
What an awesome story! Hubby & I met at church. I was a vocalist on the music team and he’d come in from out of town and play trombone whenever we needed a horn section. He was engaged at the time. After spending 14 hours together rehearsing and serving at two Easter services, he decided it wouldn’t work with his fiancee. Six months later he asked me out via letter(he lived 3 hrs away). I told him no–I was his transition girl. Over next 2 years we dated on and off. It turned out to be quite a lengthy transition since we’ve been married 13 years! And BTW, found out at my 6 week check up after my 1st baby that his ex was my OB nurse for the previous 9 months! Nice thing to find out during a pap test!!!
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Joni
9:36 pm
I was in Nashville for 2 weeks – and had been searching for someone to fly taildraggers with (not easy to find in this area – nashville).
Sam called me just as I was looking up the number for UHaul to get a truck and high tail it back to CA (I was miserable here in Nashville-due to my scenario and feared I had made a terrible mistake moving here). He said “This is your lucky day!”. I almost hung up on him – since I worked in the music biz, I figured he was some old washed up songwriter looking to spawn his horrific lyrics. All I could think of was “what a dork!”
But once he told me he called in regards to my flying request, I lightened up and listened. Oddly, 45 minutes later, I knew his life story (he knew nothing about me) and I had agreed to drive 30 miles outside Nashville to the Lebanon airport to do some flying one evening (I took along my temporary roommate for security – and directions).
He took one look at the airplane tattoo on my foot and knew I was the one. On the other hand, I didn’t give him a 2nd thought throughout the flight…but during dinner that same evening (I took him for dinner to thank him for the flight and introduction to the aviation community in Nashville area), we sat across from each other with my friend chatting our ears off.
All of a sudden…I felt a literal tap on my shoulder and a voice in my ear saying “he’s the reason you are here”. So, I called him up the next morning and asked him out for the following weekend – he accepted and we’ve spent every day possible together since.
Now THAT’s a God thing!
That was 9 years ago this July. We just celebrated our 8th anniversary. He proposed 10 weeks after we met – we married 10 months from the first time we met.
And yes, we are STILL in Nashville.
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Paula
9:42 pm
PS – MICHAEL – My husband and I didn’t fight until about year 4 or 5… I don’t know what the hold up was – cuz frankly, I kinda like the fights – GREAT for making up in regards to all pertaining interests!
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Paula
9:49 pm
PPS – my parents celebrated 50 years of marriage last year!
They met at a drive-in diner in the ’50′s. My mom was the waitress on roller skates – my dad was in his way cool turquoise convertable sytlin’ car with his friends… can we say “Grease”?
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Paula
9:53 pm
awwwww!
haha, “check on your girlfriend!!”
i wonder who many time true love waites was said in this video?! hah
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elliel
10:28 pm
Saw this on Brandi’s blog…love it! (I also love that your mouth tries not to smile but your dimples give you away!!!)
Mike was an usher at church when I walked in with 3 tiny babies under 4 1/2!!!!!! He sat us that day and later found out I was raising those babies all by myself…the rest is blissful history!!!
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Robin
3:31 am
@Amy, I’ll take credit for it!
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pete wilson
6:41 am
Paula,
Everybody always tells me how great the making up part is, but i kind of like not having to go through the tension of the fight in the first place. My first wife and I did enough fighting to last a lifetime, and unfortunately the making up wasn’t as great as everyone told me it would be.
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Michael
7:37 am
My husband & I met in our college choir. We didn’t start dating until the very end of my senior year & then he enlisted in the Army. As soon as he finished AIT, he was sent to Kuwait. While he was there, he decided that I was the one for him & we got engaged over the phone. We will celebrate our 17th anniversary tomorrow!
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ginger
10:20 am
Michael – ouch – so sorry to hear you had such a rough experience with the first. Every couple is different (obviously) – for us, the dynamics of a good healthy argument (no name-calling, hissing, etc) can be invigorating and always brings us closer because we are able to talk through it – and we’re just crazy about each other. But it’s our personalities, too – we’re both stubborn and passionate – and for us, that’s what works well. Congrats on your new marriage celebrating 1 year!
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Paula
12:10 pm
Great video; thanks for posting.
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Des
8:40 am
I attended Eastern Kentucky University and had a similar experience with my roommate.
We both were involve with Campus Crusade for Christ and we dated about half the girls in CCC, and never ended up finding a wife there,(but the stories we could tell.)
Ten years later, I met my wife in the finals of a nine ball tournament in Houston, TX.
We were both dating someone else at that time and neither she or I thought we were a good match.
We just both liked playing pool. So we just started hanging out as buddies, watching football together, talking about our relationship problems, life, giving each other advise, and we ended up becoming best friends.
The rest is history,(and a long story), but I ended up marrying my best friend and getting two wonderful kids out of it too.
(But oh, how your blog makes me miss Kentucky and Tennessee.)
Jim………..
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Jim Foster
3:29 pm
My first marriage was troubled from almost its start. Finally it ended. Afterwards, I moved from San Diego’s suburbs to the Pacific Beach area. There I met a lady who became a good (though never romantic) friend. Two years later, when I accepted a job in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, she told me “My grandfather lives there. You could room with him!” She arranged it, and I did.
Her former boyfriend also lived in Fort Lauderdale. A few months later, they made up. She came back to Florida, and they shared an apartment. It didn’t last. They had a fight, and he moved out.
Then she asked if I’d move in. “It wouldn’t mean any sex,” she said, “We’d just be roommates.”
Friends or not, it didn’t seem right. So I told her “no.” She took my decision well. But her grandfather didn’t! Angered, he tripled my rent. I couldn’t afford that, so I found a young man who needed a roommate, and moved.
‘Christopher’ attended Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, and often invited members of its young adult group to weekend dinners. I didn’t know any of them, so I usually went for walks while they visited. But one April night I had to finish my income tax, so I stayed and met his guests – including my present wife, Yvonne!
As we dated, we discovered she’d grown up in the same Chicago neighborhood I would have if my mother had lived. She’d worked in two Chicago banks, and my father had had accounts in both. She’d opened his account at one, and, after his death, closed it at the other. We’d probably seen each other once at one of those banks, though we hadn’t met. And, shortly before we met, we’d each prayed “God, would you send me someone I can love?”
It’ll be 31 years next month.
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Pete Ahlstrom
12:19 pm