“I met my husband in the way I never thought was possible. We met at a bar 15 years ago. I always thought you could never meet the “right” kind of people on a drunken girls night out, in a sleazy, dark, smoky hole. I was wrong. As we drove into the city, I turned to my girlfriend and said, ” I am not coming home until I have found my husband.” We were on our way to see BABBA and then to meet more friends at the Casino. Fate played a hand. We partied to BABBA and made our way to the casino only to find that half the group wanted to go to the Star Bar. Something was pulling me to go with them, there was an 80s band playing there, my favorite kind, but there was just something else. So we went. A few Bourbons and 80’s pops song later, I spotted him. He was on the other side of the room, he was cute, he was dressed well and he was going to be my challenge.
“Dan and I met at Transport Bar in Melbourne, November 2009. It was a pure chance meeting we are both so thankful for.
Dan was out celebrating a mates new job, me out with friends bar-hoping trying to find somewhere decent.
We met in line at the bar, after I accidentally smashed my first drink and left my friends to get another. We hit it off at once and spent the night sharing music stories and interests, totally ditching our friends. Dan organised our next date within the first ten minutes of meeting.
Both of us had just come out of long-term relationships and some pretty tough times and having Dan live and work on the Mornington Peninsula and I in Bacchus Marsh, distance certainly put a dent in our first year.
We promised each other we were just having fun hanging out, nothing serious, however “I love you” came out within a month (who were we kidding really?). Both of us admitted years later we knew the moment we met there was something pretty special between us.
After making it through the initial distance problem, Dan had a stint living and working first in Kalgoorlie then the U.S. We figured if we could make it through this then we could make it through anything.
On our 1 year anniversary of meeting we moved in together at our “halfway” point in Cheltenham.
3 years post move we are now newly married and trying to figure out the best suburb to settle down in, without upsetting our families too much!”
How You First Met 