How and where did you meet your Catholic spouse?

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At an AA meeting. We weren’t Catholic at the time, but we both will be after the Easter vigil. It’s amazing how things work out.
 
Mutual friends.

I was going to an all-girl Catholic high school in El Paso which is where I was born and raised and had lived all my life. My dad drove the carpool with me, my sister, and two friends. One friend had an older brother on whom I had a crush (we all belonged to the same parish). This brother had attended St. Charles Borromeo Seminary for high school and he had this friend who lived out of town, but also attended (neither had any intention of becoming priests, but that’s where they went to high school.) Anyway, this friend of his had a crush on his younger sister (the girl we went to school with). So it was on a “group date” (no pairing off, just me, my sister and our friend, her brother, HIS friend, and another guy they knew) that I met “the friend” who is now (and has been for the last 20 years) my husband AND my best friend!

Yes, both my friend and her brother were attendants at our wedding! 😉

Truth is, we were just buddies until Paul (my husband) found out he had Hodgkin’s disease. He spent three weeks in the hospital in El Paso and I visited him every chance I could. I fell in love with him when, on my first visit, I noticed he was sitting very uncomfortably. When I asked if he was all right, he blushed and removed a very ragged teddy bear from behind his back… the bear had belonged to him and his siblings when they were kids and his uncle had sent “Fluff” to cheer him up in the hospital! How can you NOT love a guy like that! :love:
 
We met while in college working part time at Oshman’s Sporting Goods. I had a bf at the time and he stayed away to respect the relationship. I thought he did not like being around me at all because he avoided me and didn’t make too much small talk when we worked together. He said that he did like me but knew it wouldn’t go anywhere because I had a bf. Anyway my relationship was horrible and I was only lingering in it because I didn’t have the guts to get out. But talking with my soon to be husband I realized that there were better fish in the sea…actually good, moral fish in the sea instead of what I had. So I dropped the bf and made new friends with the new guy who turned out to be everything that everyone was saying he was! I loved him from the moment we started dating! We got engaged about 4 years later (waited to finish college) and then married a year and half after that in 2005. 👍
 
We met through mutal friends at Franciscan University. The moment I shook his hand, I heard a voice saying “This man will be who you marry”
 
Before there was online, there were the personal ads.

I met my husband in the Chicago Sun Times.

I was not going to have another loser husband. So, I ran a very odd ad that included no description of myself, and listed one of the first things as “Friends first”.

I got ABUNCHA replies, and threw most of them out. His reply was hand-written, with good grammar, and no dirty pictures.
 
Met him on the school bus to my public high school! :rotfl:

He was Protestant then, but after 4 years of dating he converted, and will be my Catholic hubby in 137 days :o Funnily enough at that point in my life I sure wasn’t thinking about marriage and I didn’t care if I dated a Catholic or not. A lot’s changed!
 
Em_in_FL said:
At church! 😃

Actually… DH was on the “core team” of adults in their 20s-30s who helped run the LifeTeen program at our parish…
And, I was… well… the teen! 😃
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Em, you just gave hope to girls everywhere who had a crush on their youth minister (or equivalent) 😉 😛
 
I also met my beloved at work. He had a girlfriend and so I just hung around, waiting… I didn’t actually know he was Catholic and I wasn’t Catholic yet. In the year that he was dating that woman, he and I became very good friends and I totally fell for him and would sit in my car and cry every day because he had a girlfriend. And then he dumped her and asked me out. A year and 3 months later we got married and I started the conversion process. Soooo glad I waited around for him, hoping he’d wise up that she was bad for him. 😃
 
in the year 1954 i took a short cut to catch a tram, coming the other way came 3 girls that went to dancing on a sat . night, we got talking , tomorrow (17th.) i will be married 49 yrs. to one of those girls. isn’t god great
 
I was working at a toy store at a shopping mall. My husband, Michael, was with a friend of his. His friend was going to a jewelry store. Michael smiles and waves at me and like the dork that I am I turn around. He laughed and then walked in my direction. He read my name tag and I read his. He had a harder time reading my name tag and told my manager I needed a new name tag. sigh. I being the sarcastic brat said oh you name must be Mike. He said no it’s Michael. double sigh Well he asked for my telephone number… and I never would give out my phone number but this time I immediately grabbed a pen and little slip of paper gave out my phone # and thought this guy will never call me, but before I gave him the number I did ask a number of question (1. Was he gay? No. 2. Was he married? No. 3. Did he have children. No and 4. Was he Catholic? Yes. I was attending a Catholic College) I closed the store at 9:30 go home and was asleep by 10pm and this guy calls at 10 o’clock and asked my what I was doing. I was so honest and told him I was surprised he called and told the truth that I was asleep. We went out the next day and we were engaged about 3 weeks later got married about a year later and we’ve been married for 13 years now. He’s my best friend. I am so thankful to God for my hunny 🙂
 
Met him at uni actually as we were doing the same degree. Funny thing was I was ‘surveying’ my class a couple days into my degree and thought to myself - wouldn’t it be funny if I married one of these guys - and my gaze rested on Daly, whom I hadn’t even talked to yet. And actually we didn’t really talk to each other (he claims that he was too nervous to talk to me cos I was always talking to and studying with other guys in the class) for about 6 months until we both volunteered with this uni event and ended up talking quite a bit to each other. However I was only planning to ever go out with a catholic so wasn’t showing many interested ‘vibes’ in him cos I didn’t think he was religious, until he mentioned that he had just gone to the church that morning - which church I asked - catholic he answered. Then I went to Germany for a couple weeks, and when I came back, he asked me out. And I said yes!
 
Mamacita (on CAF) and I met on Ave Maria Single Catholics Online. It is strange because her mother was good friends with a priest that was from my hometown. When I moved to STL from college I was actually a part of his parish. He never thought to set the two of us up. Oh well, God took care of it!! 👍
 
Math class in college, at the U. of Scranton, many years ago. Luckily, this was the only subject in which I’m superior to her, so I “helped”.😃
 
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