It was a dark, cold, and rainy night in January of 2011. I wasn’t in the mood to go out; it was a stay at home and watch TV kind of night, but duty called in the form of a birthday celebration. Well, as fate would have it I sat across the table at this dinner from the man that is now my husband. P would tell you that he knew immediately 🙂 I, being the more stubborn/realistic type, would say, “I don’t know.” I may or may not have called him “a bit socially awkward” in response to one of his stories. Luckily, P knew he was, or maybe he just liked, being teased, but he stuck around the rest of the night to ask me out. When we exchanged numbers he said, “You will go out with me” and I said, “We will see”. I’ve never been one to give in too easily. I told him to text me on Monday, and he texted me on Sunday to set up our first date.
Our first date was at a local bar, which P swears he was so nervous about picking. I was immediately impressed that he had befriended some random couple at the bar prior to my arrival (befriending strangers at bars is a very Mariah thing). When it came time to order drinks I ordered an IPA. P would tell you that he immediately started to worry over my choice and if I understood what I was ordering. I think he actually fell in love when I told him I had my plate at Saucer, meaning I had drank 200 different beers. We ordered more drinks and proceeded to spend over 4 hours talking at the bar, and that was pretty much it.
We got engaged in December 2012 on a trip to Austin, TX. We got married in August 2013 at the courthouse here in Raleigh. We spent the money saved by not having a big wedding, on a honeymoon to Europe. We were both over the age of 30 when we met and neither of us had been married before. As I’ve mentioned, and have a whole page about 🙂 we have no plans to have kids. The two of us are more than enough. We are 100% attached at the hip and I would not wish it any other way. P’s my best friend, my favorite person, and the best thing to ever happen to me. He was my missing piece.
How did you meet your significant other? Feel free to link in the comments if you have post about it.
And for all my single ladies…you never know where the road where lead and when your life will change forever, so make sure to get out there. If you have a post on dating feel free to leave a link for that too.
Mariah, I really enjoyed this post! I am glad you ventured out that night! 😉 Wonderful photos, too. Tell Philip “hello” for me and I hope all is well with you both and the fur babies!
I’m such a sucker for this mushy shit. I just love your and P’s story. From the second I laid eyes on D, I knew he was “the one”. You know a good thing when you see it. So cool P felt that way too. Xo, I’ve missed you!
I was living in Boston and randomly decided to travel to Calgary, AB to go to this summer event called Stampede (had I really known it was a western-rodeo thing, I might not have gone, but I was drinking a bottle of wine when I booked my travel…) I met my now husband there in July of 2011, we started dating in August, I dropped everything and moved to Canada to stay with him in February, and we were married in April in a civil ceremony. (Our first ‘real’ date was in Boston where we walked around every part of town for nearly 18 hours and visited as many bars as possible, chatting the entire time. Glorious!)
we need to grab a beer one day! 🙂 we used to have a thing called brewniversity in atlanta our hometown and i just got my masters! 😀 i still can’t get into ipas though. it’s that piney flavor i can’t get over and everyone keeps telling me i just haven’t found the right one.. do u have untappd? 🙂 that’s how i get beer recommendations from friends.
it’s SO funny though. jacob and i kind of hit it off when we met up with friends at a bar and he was impressed that after a long day of shooting i downed a pint of guinness. guys are weirdly impressed by that sort of thing. i was like… what i had a long day.
Cute story! I know a bit about IPAs as my husband brews his own and is a complete beer snob. I also wrote about how we met on my blog as well, and we had a very simple wedding on a beach in Maui- with no one else there but a hired photographer and minister. Oh, and I was over 30 as well when I got married- he was 29. =) -Jess L
So I loved my wedding with everything in me but I would have loooooved a great honeymoon (we went to Mexico. It was fine but cemented that neither of us are beach people so it was kind of a bad choice!). I love how he knew and you had to feel it out a little more! I wrote about how Andrew and I first met very early in my blog life: http://www.eatdrinkandbelauren.com/2013/02/seven-years-ago-today.html
This is too cute, SWWOOON! <3
I love the idea of saving money on the wedding and going on a kick ass honeymoon instead! The vows are what REALLY matters anyway… not the DJ/band, invitations and fancy schmancy food.
Love that you hit up the courthouse! Weddings seem so stressful. I mean I usually enjoy being a guest and kicking it at the open bar but i dunno. Personally, I’d love to elope and vacay! PS Lagunitas IPA – it’s the bestest!
This is very sweet! I really enjoyed reading your story. Shared interests make for people in the best relationships right? You always have something to enjoy talking about 😉 I met Sam when I was studying abroad in England fall 2010 and he was a grad student at the same school. I almost stood him up on our first date because I felt really ill, but obviously now I am overjoyed that I didn’t! x
How fun you were meeting when we were getting married or around about!! It is so true though you never know where you are going to meet someone that will change your life!
This is a post I did about meeting Fredrik: http://hemborgwife.wordpress.com/2014/01/08/moments-and-strangers/
Aww, I love your love story!!!
I’m so happy that you found your missing piece. You guys seem made for each other – 200 different beers? Wow!