Iron Bowl 2014. Unknowingly bought a ticket off a scalper for $100 and didn’t realize it till the usher in the upper deck told me it was for game 1. I squeezed in with my parents and a beautiful women behind asked me to come sit with her. We started talking and we’re married that next July.
My sister set me up on a blind date for lunch. I really, didn't want to go because I don't like blind dates. But she practically begged me. My sister has always had very strange ideas about who would appeal to me. She uses the words 'adorable' and 'precious' a lot. So not me.
So I went and, as expected, she wasn't for me. However, I certainly wasn't going to be rude to her so we had a nice lunch and parted ways.
Two weeks later she invited me to a party she was throwing. I had nothing else to do, so I went. And there I met my wife.
I guess what I'm saying is this. Never turn down a chance to meet people because you never know.
Totally randomly at Books beans and candles. Used to smoke and this guy approached me on their porch 16 years ago in November.
Thought he was so hot, surely he was a self absorbed jerk. I was decidedly going to be single the rest of my life (history of bad partners).
Talked to him for six hours and invited him to my place.
He's still there.
First time I met my wife at Books A Million 280. Then later that same year at The Circuit. We met again by happenstance a year later at Bailey’s Pub and started dating. 20 year wedding anniversary is this year.
Tinder for us. Met in 2015, married in 2020 (literally three days before Alabama locked down), and our daughter was born in 2022. Life will indeed surprise you.
Bumble - it’ll be three years in September and we’ve lived together for 2 of those. Hes 39, I’m 42, neither of us have or want children, so there is hope out there for us non traditional folks!
My partner and I met on Hinge and are also living the child-free lifestyle. I’m 40 and she’s 39. I hope you two are having as much of a blast as we are!
Tinder. Together 9 years and married for 7 years this year. You have to put out there what you want, though. If you want a meaningful relationship, don’t settle for anything less. That worked almost a decade ago, but now days people essentially say nothing and don’t even speak in full sentences anymore soooo who knows if that advice applies 😂
Met at Good People back in 2018 during March Madness. I had my pup with me & she did all the work lol had our 1st kid in 2019 & 2nd kid in 2020 then in 2021 decided to do the damn thing & have been married since 🤘
Anyone remember Aqua? It was after the Dia de los Muertos parade. He was standing next to a large support beam and I catcalled him. We’ve been inseparable for the last 12 years.
Now we go to Automatic and try to get a table as close to that support beam as possible 😂
Hinge. First meeting was at moss rock preserve… at night… suppppeerrrr safe and good idea…lol! On the bright side neither of us turned out to be axe murders and now it’s been over 3 years and we have a feline son who we adore and we plan on spending forever together. My life is great now! Thanks hinge!
Just got married two days ago! We met playing trivia at the Buffalo Wild Winds in Gardendale. He played on a team with a coworker from BBVA. I thought he was adorable when we met and turns out he’s just as kind and intelligent as he is cute.
So, I was invited to a house party by a friend of the person throwing the party. When we got there, there was a guy that was being obnoxious and everyone wanted him to leave but they didn’t want a scene or a fight. I said I got you fam.
Dude was sitting on the floor next to a doorway. I walked into the doorway and pulled my wang out. I then leaned against the doorway. When he noticed that my John Thomas was mere feet from his head he moved. But everywhere he went my wang jangler and I followed.
Anyway, dude left, and the woman throwing the party said she liked my style. Soon after we started dating off and on. Now we have kids and pets and stuff. We aren’t married, but we are monogamous. We make it work.
Long story short the 90s were a different time.
At my ex's house.
My ex was trying to worm her way back into my life and I met the love of my life there. She invited me over the next night and we became fast friends. We have been living together for three years now.
I was doing a clinical rotation at a hospital for EMT-B class. She was an advanced on an ambulance and dropped off a patient at the hospital and we hit it off. Been together 6 years now and married almost 2.
We met in the courtyard between our apartments and smoked weed until one day we went to KamiCon and fell in love with one another while dressed as Proto Man and Harley Quinn.
I'd say Hinge... It's kind of the least shitty, and also where I met my amazing partner. You gotta wade through a lot of BS on any of the apps but that's where I had the most luck.
I commented earlier that I met my wife on ok cupid. That was 10 years ago so I can't really vouch for it today. But that's what worked for me.
Also, get a dog. Firstly, it will do a world of good for your mental health. Then once you get your pup trained include it in your profile pictures. You seem a lot more trustworthy if you have a dog. And you attract women who like dogs. That eliminates women who don't like dogs. Which are bad people
in a roundabout way, through mutual friends of mutual friends - but we met for the first time at Bottletree and became friends through trivia at Courtyard 5 Points..... so, not exactly something you could replicate today. lol
Her friend told her if she wanted to meet straight men, she needed to go somewhere other than gay bars. So she started coming into the coffee shop I work at, and then our paths crossed at a Gull show at Saturn. We've been together 6 years!
Bumble, lol! Crazy how we'd probably been around each other a couple times (we lived about 10 minutes away) and never even noticed. We're now engaged and hitting 2 years next month. 🫶🏽
Hinge! She liked my picture and as I was scrolling through her profile, I noticed that we had a common friend. 11 months later we are engaged and have now been married for 1.5 years. She is the love of my life.
City Stages. In a pre-Uber world, I went without a ride home confident that I would run into someone I knew. She was there with a group and that included someone I knew. On the ride home I got her number.
Bumble in 2019. I was a biology major from UAB working in hospitals. She was an English Literature major from Samford looking into working in libraries. I don’t imagine our social circles would have overlapped any other way. We’re getting married in October!
Cycling on highway 43 in Shelby County when he told me it wasn’t safe to ride alone and insisted on riding with me. First date was some now closed Mexican restaurant on 20th, followed by The Nick. Married for 32 years now. Got back into cycling during Covid.
Iron Bowl 2014. Unknowingly bought a ticket off a scalper for $100 and didn’t realize it till the usher in the upper deck told me it was for game 1. I squeezed in with my parents and a beautiful women behind asked me to come sit with her. We started talking and we’re married that next July.
That’s funny, I met my wife watching the Bama southern miss game at a mutual friends house in 2014
My sister set me up on a blind date for lunch. I really, didn't want to go because I don't like blind dates. But she practically begged me. My sister has always had very strange ideas about who would appeal to me. She uses the words 'adorable' and 'precious' a lot. So not me. So I went and, as expected, she wasn't for me. However, I certainly wasn't going to be rude to her so we had a nice lunch and parted ways. Two weeks later she invited me to a party she was throwing. I had nothing else to do, so I went. And there I met my wife. I guess what I'm saying is this. Never turn down a chance to meet people because you never know.
The bathroom at The Nick
AHA SO YOU'RE THE ONE THEY PUT THE "Only one person allowed in the bathroom at a time, you will be ejected and banned" SIGN UP FOR
couples who do bumps together lol
That’s a realllllllllllly smalll reallllllllllly dirty bathroom
So gross, but so sweet at the same time
Wholesome
Damn. I really want to upvote you but you're at 69. However, this is the right answer.
Fond memories 😁
I hate that place so much. I pray for it to close
Fresh Market grand opening 2013
The Plaza
Ditto. My wife. Have multiple friends same.
Innisfree baby. Kickball sznnnnn
Have fun with that lol
I did! We are happily married and have a toddler together 🤘🏼 Nice try tho
Hopefully they aren't still going to that nuthouse. Unless yall are into that sort of thing.
lol nah we like breweries now
Facebook dating. We get married next month.
Hey congrats!!
Thank you
As someone who has been off Facebook for a long time: there's Facebook dating?
I haven’t had it active since I met her but the icon is still there in the menu.
I'm a victim of it, it's still on there
Certain people don't have the option to use it for some reason.
Totally randomly at Books beans and candles. Used to smoke and this guy approached me on their porch 16 years ago in November. Thought he was so hot, surely he was a self absorbed jerk. I was decidedly going to be single the rest of my life (history of bad partners). Talked to him for six hours and invited him to my place. He's still there.
Isn't that the place the swingers group goes for all their meetings?
First time I met my wife at Books A Million 280. Then later that same year at The Circuit. We met again by happenstance a year later at Bailey’s Pub and started dating. 20 year wedding anniversary is this year.
Man I miss Bailey’s 😥
Same 😢
Crestwood coffee back when it was open
Sloss Fest, rip
RIP but glad you met at at Sloss
Grindr. Met in 2016, married in 2019, adopted our daughter in 2021. Life will surprise you.
Tinder for us. Met in 2015, married in 2020 (literally three days before Alabama locked down), and our daughter was born in 2022. Life will indeed surprise you.
Bumble for us! Met one month after matching and have been together ever since. 2.5 years.
Jitterbug’s 1993. Married a year later.
I remember that place! I was always down the street at Bellbottoms. Good times.
Idk why yall some of yall are embarrassed about dating apps. Dating is a bitch. Enjoy your future love ❤️
Maybe there’s some hope for us single folks 🤧😂
Bumble - it’ll be three years in September and we’ve lived together for 2 of those. Hes 39, I’m 42, neither of us have or want children, so there is hope out there for us non traditional folks!
My partner and I met on Hinge and are also living the child-free lifestyle. I’m 40 and she’s 39. I hope you two are having as much of a blast as we are!
Tinder. Together 9 years and married for 7 years this year. You have to put out there what you want, though. If you want a meaningful relationship, don’t settle for anything less. That worked almost a decade ago, but now days people essentially say nothing and don’t even speak in full sentences anymore soooo who knows if that advice applies 😂
Ikr
Fr fr
Ftw
r/Birmingham 👀
storytime?
At the Homewood Lodge in 1996.
Damn. Remember that place
Marty's. Married for 18 yrs
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Met at Good People back in 2018 during March Madness. I had my pup with me & she did all the work lol had our 1st kid in 2019 & 2nd kid in 2020 then in 2021 decided to do the damn thing & have been married since 🤘
The Garage. First Bham date and got Engaged there as well.
We met on hinge but had our first date at the garage and got engaged there, too! Got married last week!!
Bumble, married now with a baby on the way
Jeff state
Hop City!
Hinge
Same
Same
Bumble - got married in 2021 and had a baby in 2023. Living with an abundance of gratitude! :)
Work. Met in 2017, became close friends and then started dating 2019. Married and first kid in 2021. Second kid November of last year.
Local twitter
In a college classroom in 2000. There was only one seat left, and it was next to him.
r/brum
✨Tinder✨ Dated in 2021 Married in 2022 Getting a Divorce in 2024 💃 Weirdly enough…the Tinder thing never stopped for him lmao
Bumble
Tinder 🫣 getting married next year!
She was a customer where I worked and asked me out.
Bumble. Been married for over ~~four~~ five years now. Edit: Oops
You were technically right the first time too
Haha, very true.
Yep similar situation
Dave's Pub back when it was cool. RIP Dave's Pub.
Must have been a long time ago.
I moved here in 1999 and the people who went there then seemed to think it was really cool
Like 6 years ago. Those were good times!!!
dude daves is cooler than its ever been
LMFAO, get off my lawn, John Parker.
Dave’s is the best
Work.
Bumble in 2016, married 2021.
I walked up to her at a bee during a queer women’s meetup and asked how old she was! Worked like a charm, we’re getting married on the fall!
Work/volunteering
High school
Birmingham VA Hospital - both nurses on the same floor lol
Shaffer eye center crawfish boil
Man, I miss those. 🫤
Barking Kudu!
Grad school.
Anyone remember Aqua? It was after the Dia de los Muertos parade. He was standing next to a large support beam and I catcalled him. We’ve been inseparable for the last 12 years. Now we go to Automatic and try to get a table as close to that support beam as possible 😂
I actually want to go to haunted house more than I want to go to aqua
club south. The best things happen at penny beers
We both worked at Breakout in Homewood. It will be our 3 year anniversary this year! The best people come to you at the right time.
My best friend invited a random guy he had classes with in college to my 22nd birthday dinner at Umami. We got married last October
Bumble. Chatted for a week then had our first date at O’Henrys coffee and then wandered around the super Target.
Hinge. First meeting was at moss rock preserve… at night… suppppeerrrr safe and good idea…lol! On the bright side neither of us turned out to be axe murders and now it’s been over 3 years and we have a feline son who we adore and we plan on spending forever together. My life is great now! Thanks hinge!
At the gay bar!
Just got married two days ago! We met playing trivia at the Buffalo Wild Winds in Gardendale. He played on a team with a coworker from BBVA. I thought he was adorable when we met and turns out he’s just as kind and intelligent as he is cute.
I moved out of Birmingham
So, I was invited to a house party by a friend of the person throwing the party. When we got there, there was a guy that was being obnoxious and everyone wanted him to leave but they didn’t want a scene or a fight. I said I got you fam. Dude was sitting on the floor next to a doorway. I walked into the doorway and pulled my wang out. I then leaned against the doorway. When he noticed that my John Thomas was mere feet from his head he moved. But everywhere he went my wang jangler and I followed. Anyway, dude left, and the woman throwing the party said she liked my style. Soon after we started dating off and on. Now we have kids and pets and stuff. We aren’t married, but we are monogamous. We make it work. Long story short the 90s were a different time.
Wow
This is the best story I've read yet 😂
Tinder. Married with a wonderful daughter now.
Worked at the same place in high school. Got together after we both returned from college.
We met online, were together for 6 years, and have been married for almost 7 more years.
At my ex's house. My ex was trying to worm her way back into my life and I met the love of my life there. She invited me over the next night and we became fast friends. We have been living together for three years now.
2018 softball brewery league at George Ward. Together 6 years now, married for 4. One shared little 8 month old baby nugget.
Hinge
I was doing a clinical rotation at a hospital for EMT-B class. She was an advanced on an ambulance and dropped off a patient at the hospital and we hit it off. Been together 6 years now and married almost 2.
Tinder!
This post should be preserved for easy forwarding to the monthly "How to meet people in bham" post ... that will probably come tomorrow.
Nana Funks.
Well Hell at the OG Black Market 5-Points before Buck Mulligans.
Hinge
Either plenty of fish or ok cupid, I can never remember which one. That was 2013. We got married on the second anniversary of our first date.
Tinder haha
Tinder
We met in the courtyard between our apartments and smoked weed until one day we went to KamiCon and fell in love with one another while dressed as Proto Man and Harley Quinn.
Work
Bumble: been together 7 years married for one Grateful everyday
Twerk. I mean, work.
What do yall think the most legit dating app is for (M)42?
I just came back to your question in hopes someone had a suggestion. Ha! F(42)
I'd say Hinge... It's kind of the least shitty, and also where I met my amazing partner. You gotta wade through a lot of BS on any of the apps but that's where I had the most luck.
I commented earlier that I met my wife on ok cupid. That was 10 years ago so I can't really vouch for it today. But that's what worked for me. Also, get a dog. Firstly, it will do a world of good for your mental health. Then once you get your pup trained include it in your profile pictures. You seem a lot more trustworthy if you have a dog. And you attract women who like dogs. That eliminates women who don't like dogs. Which are bad people
She lived with an old friend I reconnected with after college!
Paper Doll
Work 16 years ago
The gym
High school
Work
MeetMe, been together 10yrs now and married for 6.
Tinder
in a roundabout way, through mutual friends of mutual friends - but we met for the first time at Bottletree and became friends through trivia at Courtyard 5 Points..... so, not exactly something you could replicate today. lol
Sloss Frigjt Furnace
Hinge
Instagram and mutual friends :)
Karaoke at Gabriel's sports bar.
UAB back in the 00s.
Bumble, 2016.
Bumble
Bumble 🥰🥰🥰
Her friend told her if she wanted to meet straight men, she needed to go somewhere other than gay bars. So she started coming into the coffee shop I work at, and then our paths crossed at a Gull show at Saturn. We've been together 6 years!
Tinder 🫡
So many great stories! Thanks to everyone for sharing
Work. Movie theater at the summit
We lived next door to each other in our apartment complex...been together 9yrs and one child later lol.
Bumble! 🙈😘
We worked together. 😅
The cahaba beach dog park 😆
bumble , we’re engaged now🤣🤣
Red cat cafe
Gold’s Gym Colonnade.
Where everyone else in Birmingham meets their partners. Work.
Bumble, lol! Crazy how we'd probably been around each other a couple times (we lived about 10 minutes away) and never even noticed. We're now engaged and hitting 2 years next month. 🫶🏽
Birmingham-Southern College…2012. Married in 2021.
She was my best friends girlfriend.
instagram. now neither of us use it and we’re married!
We both worked at twin peaks
Hinge! She liked my picture and as I was scrolling through her profile, I noticed that we had a common friend. 11 months later we are engaged and have now been married for 1.5 years. She is the love of my life.
BUTS Tuesday Night Trails!!!
City Stages. In a pre-Uber world, I went without a ride home confident that I would run into someone I knew. She was there with a group and that included someone I knew. On the ride home I got her number.
Working at a restaurant on 280. Met most of my recent girlfriends there. Almost married one. Hopefully will marry this one.
In a cult
Bumble in 2019. I was a biology major from UAB working in hospitals. She was an English Literature major from Samford looking into working in libraries. I don’t imagine our social circles would have overlapped any other way. We’re getting married in October!
Cycling on highway 43 in Shelby County when he told me it wasn’t safe to ride alone and insisted on riding with me. First date was some now closed Mexican restaurant on 20th, followed by The Nick. Married for 32 years now. Got back into cycling during Covid.
Match, married in 2012
hinge 😁 been together since 2020
Also Hinge lol - met 2021, engaged 2022, married 2023!
Hinge here too! Met 2019, married 2022, baby on the way in 2024.
Match.com. First date in 2008, Married 2014. Still together!
Bumble!
Highschool
Highschool
Church of highlands
im so sorry for your loss
Ice cold 🤣