Despite always trying to be optimistic about meeting a great person online, I was fast becoming jaded since I wasn't really connecting with anyone. I kept giving it another shot, and I'm glad I did, or else I wouldn't have met Tiffany. The reason I wrote to Tiffany is that online, there's an option to see who viewed your profile. I noticed that this really cute girl viewed my profile, so I checked out her profile.

Her name on there was "Boardgamelover," which peaked my interest right away. She mentioned in her profile that her ideal date would be to play Scrabble by the fireplace. If you know me, you know I'm a big Scrabble fan, so I wrote to her. We talked on the phone and e-mailed for a few weeks before we actually met.

On our first date we went to a Thai Restaurant, then went to a cafe where I surprised her by taking out my travel Scrabble board. We played a game of Scrabble (I won of course :) ), and just in case things went well, I also brought along a DVD called "Word Wars," which is a documentary about the competitive world of Scrabble.

I asked if she wanted to watch it at her place (I was at my parents place for the summer, so bringing a first date home to mom and dad wasn't high on my list of things I wanted to do) and we watched the movie. About a week and half later, I told her that I wanted to take down my online-dating profile, and she she said she'd love to take hers down too. Since then, we've been inseparable.

Tiffany's Version

Love Before Sight
At first, I was skeptical about online dating; it took several good friends (now bridesmaids) to convince me to give it a chance. I never would have guessed that I would meet the man of my dreams online. On this site, there was a way to view a person’s profile without that person knowing that you have viewed it. I selectively turned this option on and off depending on whether or not I wanted someone to know that I had viewed their profile. I rarely allowed others to see that I had viewed them, but when I read Adam’s profile, I turned off the “hide” option, viewed his profile again, and hoped that he would notice me.

Needless to say, Adam noticed me, and has since continued to surpass my hopes and expectations in every way. Some couples say that it was “love at first sight,” but I fell in love with Adam before we even met (hence the title Love Before Sight). I fell in love with his witty e-mails and handsome Photo (who can resist those eyebrows?). We e-mailed each other at least once a day; I would sit by my computer while I was studying and click “refresh” over and over again to check my inbox for a new e-mail. After doing a criminal background check on Adam, I gave him directions to my apartment. I actually cancelled our first date, but thankfully he gave me another chance, and we had a lovely dinner, played Scrabble at a café (I let him win, of course J), and watched the world’s nerdiest (and best) documentary which we both enjoyed--- so I guess it’s true: every pot does have a matching lid. In past relationships, I always wondered if there was someone else out there that would be a better match, but with Adam I finally felt something completely different: I knew very early on that there was no other man in the world that could possibly be a better match for me than he. Since then, we’ve been inseparable.

How Adam Proposed

One of Tiffany's favourite things to do is go metal detecting. She had this fantasy of going metal detecting together, and finding an Engagement Ring in the sand, and then having me propose on the spot with the found ring. Well I couldn't really wait for the off chance that we'd find a good ring, or even find a ring at all, so what I did was buy a ring, and on October 6th (just three months after we met), when we went on one of our metal detecting expeditions, I secretly buried the Ring in the sand when she wasn't looking. I ran the metal detector across the sand, and said, "Hey, I found something." Tiffany came over, dug up and sifted some sand, and found the Ring. She took it in her hand, but before she could realize what she had just found, I took the Ring from her, went down on one knee and asked her to marry me. She said yes! When I tell people our story, people ask me, "Are you crazy?" Thinking that they were wondering why we got engaged so soon, I would answer ” When you know you have found the person who you want to spend the rest of your life with, there's no need to wait." And then they always seem to reply, "I wasn't talking about that, you could have lost the Diamond Ring in the sand!"