A wedding invitation

/>It doesn’t happen often. I wish it did. My husband and I received a wedding invitation today for a wedding for two people who met through our website. Every time I hear about someone connecting I get such a rush of good feelings. It brings back the memories of when we met through a personal ad on the net in 1994. It’s been a long time, I know, but to us it seems just like yesterday that we couldn’t wait to get a hug. We were 10,000 miles apart and that’s not common, I know.

The wedding invitation is from a couple who met who lived in the same town but had never run into each other. She was a 40 year old single mother with 3 kids and he was 42 and never married, worse yet, he still lived with his parents! Who’d have ever put those two together? I run a dating site and I wouldn’t have done it.

They’ve been living together for nearly 5 years and have decided to get married. I asked DIYgurl why she waited and she said, “oh, no special reason but we wanted to get the pool put in last year and that took all the money we’d set aside for the wedding.”

You hear a lot about the scams running on dating sites and how all the people are fake and nobody gets dates and some of that is true, I won’t lie to you. Some people can’t get a date in their real life either so why they think the Internet is going to give them a personality is beyond me.

About those scams. There are big rooms in countries like the Philippines, Nigeria, Ivory Coast where there are tens of computers set up and people sitting behind them joining dating sites to get people to part with their money, join a porn site or pay money to get to a new country. We’ve had them on our site too and we have one person fully dedicated to kicking them off every day. It’s expensive! Imagine how many paid memberships we have to sell just to cover that person’s costs just to kick out scammers. It drives me nuts every time I think about it. I caught one in our chatroom one day and asked why they come to SexyAds when we made it so clear that we didn’t want them there. The person said, “we come here because there’s no competition.” Ugh!

Anyway, back to the wedding. It’s at the end of October and I’m going to save my money. We got to be good online friends with this couple and I’d love to go to their wedding.