Renee and Scott! Another Happy Geek Couple!
11/23/2011
Dear Joyce, 
When I read your email, I just had to share!  My husband and I got married on April 9, 2011, after dating for a little over two years.  Where did we meet?  Sweet On Geeks!  Scott wrote to me for the first time in October 2008.  We met on December 11, 2008, and the rest is history!  Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!
Sincerely, 
Renee    :)
Dear Renee and Scott,
We wish to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for sharing this.  Every time we hear from a new happy couple it is a complete joy.  We wish you all the best this universe has to offer and thank you for helping to inspire the many geek singletons who are still looking for their Jedi match. 
Live long and love!
Joyce 
Cherese and Christopher ~ Another Geek Wedding!
11/23/2011

 

Dear Sweet On Geeks:
Hello! My name is Cherese. I had been through a difficult divorce and was lonely. I really wanted to meet someone that I could share my love of books, science fiction and comic books with. I really wanted to meet someone who would appreciate me for me. I was disappointed by the traditional dating scene- blind dates, set ups by friends and *gasp* the club scene had become stale. Having grown bored and frustrated, I had almost decided to become a "cat lady."
One late August evening in 2007, I was visiting my grandmother after work. We saw the news story about Sweet On Geeks on ABC's "World News Tonight with Charles Gibson." I turned to my grandmother and said, "I'm going to join that web site and find my soul mate." She smiled and said, "But you aren't a geek." I laughed and replied, "You have to say that because you are my granny. I'm as geek as they come."
A few days later, I took a chance and created a profile. I began receiving emails and "winks" from some really interesting users. Then, on September 30, 2007, I received a "wink" from a user named Christopher, AKA "Raintree." I immediately took note because it was a Holy Hand Grenade from "Monty Python's "Holy Grail," one of my favorite movies. I decided to email him a reply.
Christopher and I began emailing each other regularly and soon, those emails turned to phone calls. We discovered that we were very similar intellectually and spiritually. We had so many things in common- including our birthdays, our hometown and even a mutual friend! I could hold conversations with Christopher that were interjected with "Star Wars" quotes and he didn't scoff. We became instant best friends! Soon, we decided to meet face. A two hour drive south for me and a two hour drive north for him and we met. The chemistry was instant! That was October 12, 2007.
Fast forward into the future...
I relocated and we spent the next couple of years falling in love and building a wonderful relationship. On September 10, 2011 at noon (Yes, 9/10/11 @12), Christopher and I were married in Cleveland, Ohio. My daughter, gave me away! We had a wonderful ceremony that was as unique and memorable as the way we met. My grandmother danced at our reception!

Having just celebrated our one month wedding anniversary and the fourth anniversary of the day we met, Christopher and I agreed that it was time that we shared our story. Thank you, Sweet On Geeks for creating a place where two people who, were often misunderstood or out on the fringe of the social scene, could have a place to meet just for them. When I created my profile, I said that I wanted to find, "...the dork of my dreams." Not only did I find my dream geek but, I found my best friend, my soul mate and the love of my life. Christopher and I are very happy and we are looking forward to our future together. Thank you so much for being that catalyst that lead us to one another.

Sincerely,
Cherese & Christopher 


Thank you Cherese and Christopher from the bottom of our hearts for sharing this.  Stories like yours help give life to the reality that online dating is a beautiful, romantic and effective option!!!   Give your granny a hug from me.  I have a special spot in my heart for Grans.   Congratulations!


Live long and love!
Joyce

I love these days......
11/23/2011
Hello,
I just wanted to write a little message. I havent been on here in about 2 years. I met my now fiance on this site and weve been going strong for almost 2 years and we are getting married in a year and a half. Thank you so much to this site for giving me the opppotunity to meet him and hes also made me an even bigger geek! Thank you!!!
Crimson




Dear Crimson,

Congrats and how wonderful!  Thank you so much for sharing this and we wish you all the best.  Please send along those wedding pics as we would love to see them!

image from xaxy.com
GAWD I love days when people send us happy news. Thank you and our very best to you and your wonderful fiance!

Live long and love!

Joyce

DamselFly and Clovis
11/23/2011

Hello Joyce! 

Mark and I met on Sweet on Geeks way back in Sept, 2008. It took me FOREVER to respond to him, because I was so busy at the time, but eventually I got around to it! If you or someone you know is a plane geek, you know or see from his handle, which has PDX in it, that PDX indicates that Mark was in Portland, OR, when we met. I was in Washington State. Mark sent me a message--an answer to two trivia items I posted in my profile about where my cats' geeky names came from. 
At the time, I was very much NOT interested in having a long-distance relationship and expressed that thought to him early on. He answered that he thought that was just fine, and that he still was interested in being friends. Reluctantly, I agreed... and there began the relationship with the most wonderful man I've ever known. I had to go to a conference down in Portland, in November, and we met for coffee. It turned into dinner, then drinks, then we shut the bar down, chatting! To this day, we laugh at the ending to that night, though--I got quite offended, thinking the date had not gone well when after hours together, he only offered me a stiff and awkward hug goodnight! Turns out, the desk person at the hotel I was staying was smirking at him, and he got all self-conscious! We became friends anyway, though, I stopped seeing anyone else in late November, and by December both of us wanted more than friends. By January 2009 (!), we were engaged and he moved to Washington. This even encouraged Mark's best friend to try online dating--although not being a geek, he went with another popular site. Within months, he, too, had found his sweetheart and they just got married in July 2011.

We had planned to get married that Christmas, but my job ended in June and things were really stressful for a while. I got a job offer to teach in Anchorage, AK, and after much discussion about the bad economy, we decided to take it! Just before we moved, though, I broke my arm. We decided to go anyway! We moved up to Alaska in September 2009 and Mark almost immediately found a computer networking job. Then, instead of a Christmas wedding, I had a Christmas surgery to repair my arm. Mark was there for me through thick and thin, and nursed me through everything. By the next summer I was well, and once again began making plans for a holiday wedding. We were married in December 2010, in Las Vegas. 22 people came from both sides of our families! It was a blast, and seeing Vegas at New Year's was awesome. We still live in Anchorage and are planning to remain there for a few years yet, at least until the economy improves down in the Lower 48. 
Damsel.fly, and ClovisPDX

Dear Damsel.Fly and ClovisPDX,
We love love LOVE your story so much!  Thank you for sharing it.  Every time a geek shares a love story.....a magical mushroom grows in Endor.  I went to college in Juneau and envy your amazingly brave move!   : ) Thank you again for being so open with your story of geek love.  I often get emails from people after we publish these saying how much they are appreciated.    Stay warm in the great white north and we wish you all the best in the world!

Love long and love!
Joyce 
Newsletter August 3, 2011 ~ Oh so much love ...
11/23/2011

HELLO GEEKS!!!
Just a quick note to tell you about some amazing and wonderful developments. We've had several recent marriages and the site is crazy busy right now. First Varoujan and Allison....
Varoujan was one of our earliest members and is an amazing, brilliant man. He finally found his intergalactic princess in Miss Allison, who by all reports is also brilliant and amazing. We are all so happy for them and wish them all the very best in life! Congratulations from SOG!

Then we have Diana and Miguel whose geek love story has gone GLOBAL! They are the now famous, "Married by a Computer" couple and SOG is so happy to be able to say they met on our site! The story is that Miguel coded his own minister, "Reverend Bit", to officiate at their wedding. It just seemed appropriate in honor of the way they met, the importance of technology in their lives and in the spirit of their geek love to have a computer be a part of the ceremony. Their story hit the newswire last Sat. and it has been picked up all over the world. CNET, Gizmodo, CNN, MSNBC, and hundreds more. This morning I found it translated into Vietnamese. Geek love resonates globally. I think we are one of the few niches that knows no geographic or ethnic boundaries. We are our own race! The site is swarming with international geeks right now so if you haven't been back in a while, now is the perfect time to update your profile and check in. I hear Diana and Miguel are doing a morning show in Australia via skype. AMAZING and wonderful! Congrats to them both on their marriage and we wish them every happiness!

The same heartfelt congrats goes out to two other, slightly less public SweetonGeeks couples who tied the knot. First, Mike and Jasmine. They privately shared their wedding pics with me and I cried. It was stunning. Love, love, love them. Our other couple is Amanda and Mark who overcame the long distance internet dating thing and now live happily ever after in Alaska. I will share their story soon on the blog with pics! :) Geek love can overcome anything!

Not all of us are the shiny, gorgeous, perfect creatures you see on the Match commercials. Many of us are average, regular, ordinary but that doesn't mean that to the right person we won't be PERFECT! There is a lid for every pot or in our case....a dongle for every USB.

SweetonGeeks is your most trusted source for wookiee nookie and we are always here for you if you need help developing your profile, help with billing or any questions at all just email and an actual human will reply. Joyce@sweetongeeks.com
Don't forget to fan us when you can! :)
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Joyce ~ Geek Yenta
http://www.sweetongeeks.com

Another Geek Couple! My Drives are Hard with Happiness
11/23/2011


First another couple met on Sweetongeeks and second check the story out on CNet! W00T! Good weekend.

Computer Conducts Couple's Wedding
by Chris Matyszczyk

If computers can create friends for you, why can't they create ministers?

This was the philosophical question that inspired Miguel Hanson, a Houston-based web developer and IT consultant as he contemplated his wedding.

As the Associated Press tells it, Hanson couldn't find an associate who would officiate at the betrothal to high school teacher Diana Wesley. So he said to himself: "Wait a minute, I am a Web developer and IT consultant. I am a Master of the Universe. One minister, coming up."

The first thought you might have if you were to create a virtual Man of God might be an appropriate name. How about Father Real-Time? Or the Bishop Apple? Hanson's choice was Rev. Bit.

So, at yesterday's ceremony, Rev. Bit was to greet the 30 or so guests, tell them a few stories about the happy couple, and then lead them through their "I do"'s.

I am delighted to report that Hanson is a geek with a sense of humor and not merely because he met his lovely bride on a site called "Sweet on Geeks" (motto: A Space Where Gray Matters.").

For he programmed Rev. Bit to declare at that most poignant moment during the ceremony when last objections may be raised: "If anyone here has anything to say that might change their minds or has any objections, they do not want to hear it and I will not recognize your objections since Miguel has programmed me to only recognize his commands."

You might be wondering how Rev. Bit knew when to pause so that the congregation could, well, say what it has to say. Hanson said that a little wireless mouse upon his person designed to keep the Virtual Reverend on the straight and narrow. (Should you be wondering about Hanson's full feelings about computer equipment, I believe this is his Web site. There is even a picture of him and his Diana.)

I am sure that you will join me in wishing this enterprising couple a wonderful marriage. I would suggest, however, that, should their marriage progress in that direction, a virtual midwife might be a little harder to design.

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20086035-71/computer-conducts-couples-...

Three Weddings and a Comic-Con!
11/23/2011


Summer is a glorious time for geeks everywhere. Comic-con, outdoor LARPing without mittens, sunburns and best of all.....weddings with light sabers. We have had a rash of geek weddings and we are so proud to share a couple here.

Congratulations Varoujan and Allison!!

This light saber picture is one for the ages. The bride is glowing with intergalactic love. :)

More on the other couples later if I'm lucky enough to get pictures!

 

 

Another Happy Geek Couple!
01/20/2011
Dear SweetonGeeks Staff,
 
I want to thank you so much for creating sweetongeeks, as it has introduced me to my fiance, Daniel. We meet almost two years ago because of this website and have celebrated our one year engagement two days ago. I remember seeing you on a morning show advertising Sweet on Geeks, which is what led both my fiance and I to visit this website. I am simply writing this letter to thank you for taking the time to make this community and helping fellow geeks find their life partners. We would love it if you included our story on the website because we think that there are many geeks/nerds out there who need to find the hope and courage to find someone to share their interests with. There are a lot of us out there who feel isolated because we cannot find a special partner to enjoy life with! We hope our story inspires more geeks/nerds to give Sweet on Geeks a chance.

Sincerely,
 
 Stephanie and Daniel

Anatomy of a Geek First Date ~ He Said/She Said
01/20/2011

By MB and HK ~ a couple who boldly dares to share with us the evolution of a SweetonGeeks relationship.  From first contact to first "contact".

1) Who made the first cyber move?  Did he email first or did she?

Her: It was you, wasn’t it?

Him: It was totally you- you don’t remember that?
 
Her:  No, it was you- you winked at me, didn’t you?
 
Him:  No way, that was you! I have proof- you want me to tell you what time it was? Because I can- no, I can’t.

 2) How long did you communicate via SOG before you decided to meet?

Him:  Two and a half months? D’you wanna calculate this? Let’s calculate this. *dates etc* Shit, that was a week ago?

Her:  No way-   7/22-  Holy shit! That was a week ago!

Him:  No way! Oh my gosh, that was a week ago. Wow.  When did we start talking on the phone? *doing math* 7/11. *doing math* 85 days from the day you winked at me to the day we met. 74 days from when you winked to the day we talked on the phone. You winked on a Thursday, gave me your number on a Sunday, and ironically, you came over on a Thursday.

Her:  Man, this really makes me look like I’m the go getter here, and I’m not 

Him:  *laughs* That must mean I’m just that desirable.

Her:  Oh, yeah, ok.

Him:  I had to open up a terminal to SSH in to my linux box, so I could load up a proper calendar to look up the dates, lol.

3) What attracted you to one another prior to your first meeting?

Her:  Well, probably just our likes and dislikes- star trek, photography, idk

Him:  Yeah, definitely similar interests. It's hard to find a good, geeky girl that's actually tenacious enough to.....
 I mean, let's face it, the geek kind tend to be a bit introverted and not take that leap when it comes to the opposite sex

Her:  I'm not that tenacious, really.

Him:  Tenacious enough to wink me, give me your number, and come see me!

Her:  I only gave you my number to put the ball in YOUR court

Him:  Hey, once it was in my court, I ran with it.  I invited you out almost immediately.

Her:  Yeah- it was fun.

4) Describe the details of your first meeting.  Where? What did you do?  The chemistry? The geeky mojo?

Her:  I think it was great; we went to an art fair and had dinner in a pub- we talked a lot, it was fun.

Him:  We kind of got rained out of the art fair though. I was hoping to spend more time wandering around Ann Arbor, but we ended up just going back to my place.

Her:  It was fun though- we got to sit and watch a movie- though in general, I don't think that movies are a good first date, it was a movie more to talk and laugh about than to watch, and we had fun

Him:  Yeah, I agree- you’re not really getting to know each other when you're watching a movie, so I'm generally against them. Especially in theaters, where it's dark, and you have to be quiet. It worked out pretty well though. We got to snuggle up.

Her:  *blush* Yeah, that was nice too.

Her:  I think there was a bit of chemistry there, kind of like those little junior chemistry kits we had when we were kids. Except, maybe not so many test tubes.

Her:  Yeah, like sodium and water.

Him:  Volatile!

(EDITED FOR TIME)

 5) Please describe your first kiss or physical contact?  Who made the first move?  Was it smooth or awkward......or perhaps incredibly hot?

Her:  I think it was kind of like a mutual move. It was smooth, nice. He's a real ladies’ man, what can I say.

Him:  I slyly threw my arm over her, pulled her kinda close. we sort of looked at each other, then mutually... well, you get the idea.

6) and THEN what happened? Wink wink nudge nudge (damn I'm nosey)

Him:  Yes. there was winking and nudging.

7) Where do things stand now?

Her:  Well, they aren't really standing, more rolling along at a good pace.

Him:  Rolling around on the floor?

Her:  Rolling out the door, if you keep that up.

8) Any advice to you fellow geeks on how to score the sweet geeky loving?
Him:  Burst out of your comfort bubble, and expect rejection.  It's a numbers game! You're bound to fail more times than you succeed, but it only takes one successful attempt. Also, take showers, wash yourclothes, and clean your room...damn hippies.

Her:  Kind of, yeah. Just be confident, I guess, and throw yourself out there even when you feel like you're not sure you're ready. And don't stare at the Woman in the Red Dress. She's a part of the MATRIX and she'll kill you at

Diane and James ~ A True Geek Love Story
01/20/2011

It was July 2008 and I had just lost everything I loved in life. Due to major changes I had to quit my three-year job of managing a comic shop, left my closest friends and moved back to my hometown of Artesia, NM where I had nothing but my parents.

It wasn’t easy, I started to get depressed, was very bored and restless. The thing I missed the most was having an easy outlet to geek out. I missed the conversations about the things I love; comics, video games, sci-fi, the usual geek stuff. I grew up in Artesia and was constantly bullied and misunderstood so I knew there wouldn’t be an outlet for that mental craving I had so I turned to surfing the Internet, a lot.

As I was surfing I remembered a link a friend sent me right before I moved and didn’t have the chance to check out, to http://www.sweetongeeks.com. I thought to myself well at least I can find a few people to geek out with, maybe satiate my deep cravings for expressing my geekiness. So I set up an account. I wasn’t looking for love, just friends.

After a few days and sending several tribbles, dilithium crystals and towels out through the wink system I met a few interesting people and my cravings began to be appeased. I spent a lot of time on the site, meeting new people, checking profiles, seeing who was on there.

One day when I was on the site, checking my mail, I saw a picture of the most gorgeous woman I’ve ever seen in my life in the random profile spot. The first thing that struck me about her was her smile, the kind of smile that would have launched the entire Starfleet on a mission to destroy the Borg for just her. Then there was her profile name, Dirty Dee, a mixture of sweetness and a slightly wild side. I immediately clicked on her profile and read the whole thing. When I got to her interests and saw Guitar Hero I immediately sent her a message with my Yahoo Messenger name asking her to chat with me sometime.

The next day, August 22, 2008, I was online and she added me. I freaked. This was the first time I was nervous about talking to someone from SOG so I definitely knew I was attracted to her. I was so nervous I sent her a few messages and hopped offline. The next night she was online so I took a deep breath and messaged her. We talked for five hours straight just about Guitar Hero. I was amazed with this woman.

Over the course of the next week we chatted online every single night, one day for 13 hours. We never ran out of things to talk about, and we got to know each other quite well. I found out her name is Diane, she prefers DC Comics over Marvel, has a large collection of geeky t-shirts, loves South Park, a fan of Hello Kitty, loves the band Kiss, is an uber-science geek, and is a beautiful person in the strictest meaning of the word.

We both knew we were falling in love, yet we were both leery of getting into a long distance relationship. A 1,330+ mile distance is difficult in any relationship, especially in a new one. As hard as we tried to fight it on September 2, 2008 we gave in to what felt so natural and started dating.

Diane and I have been together for over a year and a half now. We’ve grown together as individuals and as a couple. We both passionately work on my 5,924 issue comic collection. When we started dating, she enjoyed DC universe but hadn’t read much. For her first Christmas gift, I bought her a copy of the JSA: The Next Age, Superman and Legion of Super Heroes, and Green Lantern: Rebirth TPBs and she’s been in love with the DCU since. We share a mutual passion for Geoff Johns writing, Adam Hughes art and the Green Lantern. I remember when she saw Hughes’ Real Power of the DCU poster she had a complete geekgasm, snagging a copy of it as soon as she could. She absolutely loves that poster, and I can’t help but find it totally sexy.

She opened a comic box at her local shop and started reading several titles, including Blackest Night. Anytime a new issue of BN came out, it would prompt a long geek out over the awesome moments of the issue, discussions of what’s going on, speculation as to what’s happening next and talks on the metaphysical aspects of the story.

We spend a lot of time online together via Skype and Facebook. We’re always sharing links of things like fire hydrants painted like Mario, Hello Kitty schwag, the newest news on the DCU, cool Kiss merchandise, all varieties of geekdom.

We’ve discussed the future. We know we’re going to get married; we exchanged Promise Rings the first day we were together in person, February 14, 2009. We’re going to make the move eventually to where we can be together always. We want to have children, and we’ve decided to name them after DC Comics characters. To this day I still can’t believe she agreed to that one, it takes an amazing woman to agree to something like that. I look in my future, and see her.

The one thing I can’t wrap my head around about her is she isn’t the woman of my dreams. The woman I dreamt about all my life, my ideal perfect relationship, falls so short of what I have with Diane. She is my universe. There are so many things about her I love: her smile, the way she looks me deep in the eyes and says nothing yet at the same time telling me I love you, her laugh, her amazing personality, how she fills everyone around her with hope, the way she is totally unashamed about being a geek and totally flies her geek flag high for all to see. She doesn’t let the world tell her who she should be, she carves her own path, her own destiny.

As I said in my SOG profile, all I was really looking for was understanding and I found it in Diane. I know I’m going to be with her for the rest of my life and I couldn’t be happier.
I love you Diane, I always have and always will.

James

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