Romance!
 

Are you romantic and did you get on bended knee?

How did you meet your significant other... was it love at first sight?

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Well I was in the States and time was running out i only had a few days before I flew home again, so I got her in a good mood by taking my wife to a Jim Carrey movie, then we wined and dined, and yep i got down on one knee with a single rose and proposed.

I really wanted to propose over the speaker system on board a cross atlantic flight but it wasn't possible at the time, but I more than made up for that, on the flight from Gatwick to DFW to start my life in the U.S, my wife and I joined the mile high club.....WAHEEEY. (The lady air attendant knew exactly what we was doing;))

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I take it you weren't flying Virgin then....fnarr fnarr!

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Ha ha ha ha ha ha aaaaah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! :D

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We worked in the same office. I thought he was a vain, in love with himself, cocky 'stuck up his own' salesman who deserved no attention as he was far too handsome and needed bringing down a peg or two so his head could get through the door! My friend who sat opposite me (we were both PA's) said to me one day 'He's making 'moo moo' eyes at you!!! I told her to shut up as I was not interested.... and really I wasn't. He used to put his foot up on my desk and ask me to type a letter for him to which I would repky 'Get lost, I'm not your secretary'. I eventually left that job and started at another company and was invited to attend an industry party. Happily sipping red wine with friends, I felt a tap on my shoulder. It was him! I politely said hello, then made my excuses to go. 10 minutes later I was dragged over to be in a photograph with him and a friend. I went off again and it seemed that every corner I turned he was there grinning at me - it became a but of a joke and I jested 'havn't you got anyone else to talk to? piss off!' Anyway... a few days later my friend called me at the office to say I had an admirer and would I go out on a date? It turned out the admirer was him! My friend said I'd be mad not to go (my friend who is as gay as they come fancied the arse off him and was green with envy that HE didn't get asked out LOL)... so I decided to go for a free meal and keep it casual. Well... we met and he was the perfect gentleman taking me to see moon under water at the Adelphi theatre (a very feminine play) and then for a meal and I felt like I met him for the first time that night as I listened to him talking about his family and what he liked to do, where he had been... all the things that were 'real' below that 'salesman' surface. For the first time, in the 2 years that I knew him, I met 'him' and I fell in love right there at our candle lit table - I actually felt it happen... and as bizarre as it seemed we both knew very quickly that we were meant to be together and have never looked back. Needless to say it caused quite a stir in our workplaces as we were know as Chalk and Cheese, but they say there is a fine line between love and hate don't they :D

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lol:D

Nope, but the best thing was, when the doctor worked out the day that Chloé was conceived, guess what...yep it was the same day as the flight....cool eh! maybe we should of called her cross-atlantic;)

Beats Beckhams and Poshes storey I reckon.

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Well she was a product of Inter continental course!
;)

whatever... that story reminded me of how I felt when I went on my second date with Todd... He was driving and I looked over at him and thought how safe he made me feel! (He's a big bloke and I was convinced he was a 'wise guy')

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Very unromantic.
Met him at a bar where I used to go with other nannies/au pairs. We were friends for about four years before we started dating. Lived together for eight years, then one day he said "Maybe we should get married", I just laughed and left it at that, should have seen the look on his face - the poor thing. But after a couple of days I said, "yeah, maybe we should get married" and so we did three weeks later. It'll be our fifth wedding anniversary in February.

We've been together for 6 years and are still living in sin.

Our romance was driven much by the machinations of corporate repatriation.

We are both Brits, but I gave it all up to move to Va to be with him. He was already living here but travelled a lot to the UK...worked for the same company as me....and we fell in love.

Couldn't do the transatlantic thing for more than 8 months so I moved here so that we could be together. Luckily enough I was given a secondment by my employer and thanks to the Internet boom was picked up by the US division and given a job trying to promote our little piece of the Internet.

Very stressful times ensued with both of us losing our jobs and worrying about being kicked out of the country...

Still life goes on and I was granted a green card last December...a muched longed for Xmas pressie.

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Good one! :D :D

I met my wife in a club in Edinburgh, she was over from Texas on a university field trip and I was out on a mate's stag night. The dry ice parted and our eyes met across a crowded dance floor.

We often think of the decisions we made and events in our lives that took place which led us to both be in the club that night. A chance in a million.

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If my husband had taken me to a Jim Carey movie, he would have been given a definite "NO" to any proposition!! ;).

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actually it almost back fired, I thought the movie was shite and we ended up leaving early. My wife has the movie tickets and the rose kept sealed in a book, when we was un-packing our boxes into our house I came across it and didn't know she had kept them, it was a lovely surprise:)

I have "pressed" & kept all the roses my husband has given me over the years (& my wedding bouquet), they are wrapped in tissue paper in a box with the "wedding ring" cushion :)

sounds really nice:)

Our closet top shelf is stacked with our wedding day memories, and also our engagement party. Mrs Yosser flew over to England and my mum had a surprise party for us, it was amazing I had 250 people come, even chaps that I had gone to school with that I hadn't seen for 10 years and people I had done apprenticeships with turned up.

every table had the union jack and the stars and stripes and Dallas Cowboys stars, what a night I don't really remember that much, but I was trying to make a speech with flags draped over me but no-one could make out what I was sluuring on about:beer: great night though.

It must really have been a surprise party with all those folks- good old mum!
As my husband has only met my mum & brother when they have visited us in the USA and none of my family attended our wedding as we "threw" it together in a few weeks. I hope that when we do (eventually) go to England we'll have a" vow renewal" ceremony for my friends & family to attend.
When I told my dad we were getting married he said "I thought you two had more sense than that!" (Why fix it if it 'ain't broke).