HiddenPaw

There's quite a few people here going to Oz on spouse visas....Bundy, Pollyanna, MLBonner, Pants, OzTennis, The Dagboys, and many more. I'm just curious as to how you all met your Aussie partners?

I'm not personally married to an Aussie so can't contribute to this thread!! I was just chatting with an Aussie friend who married a Pom and it was a really interesting story as to how they met..and then managed a long-distance relationship until they could be together...awwww!

kong

I met my Aussie partner at a well known British music festival.

Paul&Ann-Marie

Lived 5 doors away, first saw her when i was 18 and she was 13, she was beautiful, still is.Of course, nothing happened until i saw her out one night whn she was 18 and we have been together since.
I am the aussie with a northern accent.

Paul.

Kentish Man

Back in September 2000 we were both travelling alone in Thailand. I was reading 'Stalingrad' outside my room on the bank of the river Kwai and she was staying in a room opposite me on a raft on the river. She said hello, we got chatting, went to dinner and arranged to meet up a week later on Ko Pan Ngan. I left Thailand before her for Australia but she invited me to stay with her family in Victor Harbor, SA when she got back.

4 years later we will be flying to Oz to start from scratch in Brissie. Can't wait.

JackTheLad

We met working on a project in Melbourne, sitting 3 feet away from each other. JTL's not Aussie, nor am I, but we are now both future Aussies! He was (still is until next Wednesday) working for my client company. It was one of those taboos at work where clients are supposed to be off the limit. But couldn't resist... Oh we were staying in the same serviced apartment building as well, he was a couple of floors below me but we didn't know that for the first 3 weeks.

Followed him to the UK, got on 2 more projects with him, working almost side by side in London, Glasgow and Melbourne, and back to Glasgow again.

No, I wasn't stalking him at all... I swear...

Mrs JTL

P.S. Warning: Don't sit 3 feet from me or you'll have to marry me!

walla

Hey Kong

What does your partner think of your anti Australian rants?

Does she know? And more interestingly what are her views about Oz?

Walla

Hels

I am the Ozzie in the relationship...but my Hubby met me....at...of all places....having a cuppa at a burger van....

It was only a week or so after I had arrived in the UK....

We went out for about a year...he proposed....we got married a year after that in Australia...that was 15 months ago now and we will be living in Australia from 30th September....

Cant wait!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sam&Andy

I met my wife on ICQ - yes that good old chat/pervy chat program and I was at work at the time too...(I suppose thats the only good thing about my Old Job at Vianetworks was meeting my wife)

We chatted and then we used the phone - how quaint.

5 years later we got married and now I am going to Oz - even though I vowed I would never leave this green and Septic Isle of ours. Now I cant wait to see the back of it and most of all ... lose this awful accent of mine - Warrington, Northern and God knows what else. Having said that, I cannot deny that yes I am a Pome and will always be a pome...until I get my Ozzie Citizenship.

G'day

Pollyana

I was on holiday in Oz - flying back from Tassie to the UK via Melbourne, stopped off to see the Grand Prix and have a couple of days sight-seeing. Standing in the MCG (cricket ground) souvenir shop waiting for the guided tour, and the guide said to this big bloke next to me "Where are you from?" he said, "Queensland, I'm here for the race". The guide then looked at me and said "You two must be together" at which point we looked at each other in horror and said "NO!"Went on the tour, went and had lunch and the bloke who had been standing next to me came and asked to join me, turned out he was a marshal at the Grand Prix. Spent the next couple of days sight-seeing and drinking.
3 years later I came back and married him!

HiddenPaw

polygamy isn't legal in Oz you know

Bix

As a side issue of this thread I would like to know how much the Aus contingent banked

JackTheLad

Darn! Wrong country we're headed then...

Mrs JTL

Bix

Don't worry - it's only illegal if you are caught

Trevglas

Like Sam and Andy, I met my wife via net chatrooms. We got on realy great so I decided to go on a holiday to meet her. During the month I was in Australia, we really hit it off, and so after I came back to the UK, mary was able to get a right of abode certificate for her aussie passport (her mum was born in Ireland before 1923).

After a year or so in the UK we married, and decided to go for a visa, and the rest, as they say, is history!

Pants

I met my gorgeous Aussie hubby at a........





BARBEQUE arghhhhhhhhh in the UK of all places.


Here is the little story. I had been single for a while and my dear friend was having a barbie and had invited an Aussie from her work( who was new to UK) and his flat mate( this is my hubby). Brilliant food, music, hot summer night get the picture. !So my mate decided to drag me into a crowd of blokes and introduce me, lucky I had my alcohol courage head on !!so to cut in short we talked alot all of us etc and my future hubby was very polite and well mannered even tho he was getting well and truly slaughtered with the booze...I had just qualified as an Aromatherapist and Masseuse so my mate had told them all and they were all asking to be a volunteer!!!!

Anyway a few days later I get a call from my mate who had the barbie and she saying this guy wants my number etc so I actually phoned him and we chatted for days on and off. He was travelling around with his work then doing IT so didn't see him for a couple of weeks but then it all fell into place and we just spent as much time with one another as possible..and here we are 5 years on, still very happily married with a beautiful titch...awwwwww bless.