Success Story: Crystal and Jimmy, Tampa (FL). We tell everyone we know that is single to give Pre-Dating a shot!

Crystal and Jimmy, Tampa (FL)

We tell everyone we know that is single to give Pre-Dating a shot!

Hi, I am writing to tell you of our success story with Pre-Dating.

Jimmy and I met at a Pre-Date event in Tampa in January. He stood out immediately because he was wearing a purple long-sleeve polo. As we began our six minutes, conversation seemed to come easily for us.

When the bell rang, it seemed as if the time had flown. We laughed the entire time! He told me (later) that he liked the fact that I had prepared questions to ask and that they were unique.

When time ended, I wanted to continue our conversation and silently hoped we would be a match. I hoped he felt the same.

A couple of days after the event, I received an email from Jimmy. I was really thrilled to learn we matched! After exchanging a few emails, we finally spoke on the phone. After the initial call, our subsequent phone calls began to last from a half hour to hours at a time! We went to Busch Gardens and to dinner for our first date and had an incredible time!

During the first few weeks, he also went out with another gal he matched with at the same Pre-Date event I attended.

After going out with Jimmy several times and many phone conversations, I decided to “kick it up” a notch. I planned a surprise mystery date for him one Saturday. I planned it so that he would not know if I or the other gal was planning the date.

I had a friend email him the first clue and initial details about the “surprise mystery date.” From there he went to three other places I had already left another clue and item for him to pick up at each place. Then at the last place he brought all three items that we would need for the date (wine, flowers, and loaf of bread) and found me waiting for him with a homemade dinner. He figured it was me before the day of the date, but nonetheless decided to not go out with the other gal again.

He says to this day that it was the mystery date that won him over!

We continued dating and in the summer took a weeklong trip to his hometown. I met his family and friends and learned so much more about him! The week after we returned he secretly asked my parents for their blessing to ask me to marry him. Unbeknownst to me, he had asked his own family the same question while we were visiting them the week before. Both families blessed him and he then asked me to be his wife. And of course I said yes!

We have so much fun together! We are very different in some ways, but alike in the ways that really matter (values, morals, etc.) We are both in our 30’s and have been set in our ways for years, but have learned the careful art of compromise! He is very supportive, caring, patient, loving and is a great partner!

I am grateful for my experience with Pre-Dating and hope that others not into the bar scene or other like venues give it a shot!

We tell everyone we know that is single to give Pre-Dating a shot! Not only can you meet a potential mate, it’s fun to meet different people!

Jimmy and I were married March 19 (a little over a year after we met) and spent the first ten days of our married life in Maui! Life doesn’t get any better than that!

We are looking forward to seeing what our future holds!