Testimonials

 


 

Aug 31st 2008
jumba1969 and Samantha write:

THANK YOU!!!

Samantha and I wanted to let you know that we are married! :>)

We met last year on Veggie Date and after a year of long distance writing, calling, and traveling we have moved in together and gotten married.

It wouldn't have been possible to meet without VeggieDate and it is the best thing that has ever happened to me. Thank you for making it possible!!

Aloha
Jumba and Samantha (and Noah)

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Aug 22nd, 2008
Sandhya writes:

Thank you for your wonderful service! I met my Morry on your website last Oct and we got married this June. It's been the most wonderful time in my life and I would never had met him had it not been for this site.

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June 14th 2008
Kimberlin writes:

Dear VeggieDate,

I am seriously dating someone wonderful whom I wrote to on the first night I joined VeggieDate -- on a whim, just hoping to make new friends with an ethical viewpoint. Yours is the first and only dating site I have ever tried, but I have seen the misadventures that occur on massive sites such as Match.com and others, and that wasn't for me. One of my neighbors recommended VeggieDate to me. Anyway, I am learning to cook some wonderful dishes and feel happier than I have in a long time. Thanks for your great service. I am telling my friends about you. I did not expect this to work so fast, or so well! Amazing.

Regards, Kimberlin

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Feb 18th 2008
Joan writes:

Rick answered my Veggiedate ad in August of 2003. We are together to this day. We live in the country and have an informal animal rescue operation going. Rick is the first man I've ever met who loves animals as much as I do. He is very committed to veganism, as am I. I am so very glad he saw my ad! Thanks, Vedggiedate!

To contact VeggieDate, use the form at http://www.veggiedate.org/sendveggiedate.cfm
from: 209.166.77.32

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Nov 21, 2007
I met Jesse at the beginning of 2000 thru veggiedate, and we got married a year later, and are still going strong! It's been a wonderful adventure. There are so many details in between but this isn't the best place to do the write-up.

What is amazing is that Jesse's daughter, Sharese, also met her now-husband on veggiedate as well, and we now have 2 lovely grandchildren......the whole family is strong vegetarians. As a matter of fact we'll be having tofurkey tomorrow for Thanksgiving.

So I just wanted to put in those comments of mine. Veggiedate can work wonders!

Thanks.
Lilashuka

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Nov 21 2007
Hi Steve-

I met a very nice person on Veggie Date and now we are getting married!
thank you!
Carolyn

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From: Cheong & Janine
April 24th 2007

I've been a VeggieDate member since 2003 but a couple of years ago I met a lovely lass who was into both of my interests(dancing & yoga) and fast forward two years later and we're married! We met on our first date at a Farmer's Market in Guelph. Most recently we got married at an Indian Temple in Richmond Hill as she now shares the same Yoga philosophy teacher as myself. The entire menu from the temple, to brunch, to dinner was entirely vegetarian(me) with options for vegan(her) and now we're getting ready to move into our new condo next month! We never would've found each other had it not been for VeggieDate!
Thank you so much,
Namaste,

Cheong & Janine Ng
www.blueskiesyoga.com

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From: "Harm M.
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006
Hello Steve,

Due to your VeggieDate site I met a nice person with
whom I am conducting a very regular correspondance already
for about 1 1/2 year now! Thanks a lot!

Harm M.
Netherlands

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Nov 13th 2006
Angela Writes:


Hi there,

I just wanted to say thank-you so much VeggieDate! I had never joined an e-dating service before as I was wary of who was on them. I found the link to your website via some information I got from Farm Sanctuary folks. I was a new vegetarian at the time (I'm vegan now), and their literature suggested getting out and meeting other like-minded folks in the community and they also mentioned veggie dating services was one way to do that. I had no idea such a thing existed at the time, but I thought hey, great! At least we would have some important lifestyle/ethical things in common so I gave it a try. The first picture I saw, the first ever e-mail I sent via a dating service and YIPPEE!! I met my future husband on your website. We got engaged 18 months after we first met, and got married 2 months later. We are very, very happy!!

Thank-you so much VeggieDate!! You helped pave the way to a very happy, fulfilling and truly blessed life for my husband & I and our little family.

Cheers!
Angela :)

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Nov 6th 2006
From Heather in Lexington, Kentucky


My sexy veggie man and I are getting married! We met on your site 2 1/2 years ago. I wasn't expecting much, maybe just a pen pal. After a few emails, we met for coffee and fell in love. He's exactly the man I had been deaming of, but didn't think existed. There's nothing in the world like true love. Thank you Veggiedate!

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Nov 2006
From: Joy - from Ottawa


"I have truly met the love of my life. We not only share the same diet but the same principles and life priorities. There does not seem to be any
topic we cannot discuss, nor a problem we are not both willing to work out. The more we get to know each other, the more we realize we are meant to be
together. Truly he is my soul-mate!

 

We both had profiles posted on other singles sites but neither of us were meeting other people who were really like-minded. Rather coincidentally I discovered Veggidate.org and signed up June 11th...which just happened to be his birthday. I found him through a VeggieDate search in July and, after a few encouraging phone conversations, he drove 12 hours from his city to mine so that we could meet in person.

 

That was in the middle of August, and now in November we are planning our wedding, and in the new year we will bridge the distance between us when I
move with my two children to live with him in New York.

We were both married and divorced and knew what we didn't want...but it wasn't until we met each other that we realized what we had been missing and
now know exactly what we do want!

 

I wish everyone can find a partner and relationship equally as amazing and fulfilling as ours is!"

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Mark From New Jersey
Writes September 30, 2006


I met the most wonderful person through veggiedate... we got married this July. I just wanted to thank you for offering your services

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Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006
Subject: RE: VeggieDate Quarterly: Free 3 months, for getting new member.

Hi,
please take me offf of your mailing list. With your help, I met and married
the love of my life.

 

Thank you!!!!!!!!
David

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Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006
Jesse and I met through Veggiedate a couple of years ago : )
Email correspondence led to a few meetings and we fell in love : )
We are a family now and expecting our first baby in January 2007!
Thank you so much!
Mel.

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From: Ramona
To: veggiedate.org
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Subject: VeggieDate comments about deleted ad

Thanks for your concern. I actually met somebody on your site over 3 years ago and we will be married in September. Thanks for the opportunity for us to meet as I'm sure we never would have otherwise.
Ramona

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Nov 17th 2005
Lorraine writes:


Hello Steve,
Just wanted to send you a very BIG Thank You! Joe and I met thanks to your web-site, we've been together now for 9 months, and we are very happy!:o) We both wanted to find our "someone" and we have! It's almost impossible now to think of a time when he wasn't in my life. He is my Honey and my best-friend! Thanks again! Much love, Lorraine x

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Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2005
James writes: Another success story

Kimberly hot listed me almost a year ago to the day. I immediately emailed her and we chatted via email for a couple of weeks. Our first date was Dec. 10 - we went to Sunflower Cafe in Vienna, VA - an all vegetarian asian restaurant. We hit it off right away. Kimberly moved closer to me and we spent weekends with our 3 doggies at the dog park and checking out all the good vegan restaurants in DC. As our relationship progressed, eventually we started talking about moving in together. Then, two weeks ago, I surprised Kimberly with a trip to the vegan B&B, Sweet Thyme Inn, in West Virginia. While on a hike, I asked her to marry me - and she said YES! Anyway - thank you so much for providing this incredible resource. We're looking forward to spending the rest of our lives together thanks to your website. We wanted to share our happiness and hope your other subscribers find what they are looking for as we did.

Best wishes -

Jamie and Kimberly (and Sophie, Molly and Rory, too)

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Friday, November 11, 2005
From: Anna


Hello, VegieDate!
I want to thank you for helping me meet my husband. I put my ad on winter 2004, within a few days, Ilya emailed me. We both live Russia, but then we lived on separate sides, he lived in Moscow and I lived in Irkutsk. We both have been vegetarian since we were 13. Actually, I couldn't have even imagined that I could find a vegetarian guy! We have so much in common, we wrote so many huge letters to each other. Then, on March 3rd, he invited me to Moscow (and payed for the plane tickets and everything else) for the weekend! It was great! Then, when I got back to Irkutsk, I realized that I want to live in Moscow and be close to him. So, I moved to Moscow in late April. His mom found me a job and we were dating. It was great! Then, in autumn 2004 he proposed to me. On July 9th 2005 we were married! Everything is wonderful! I want to thank you for helping me find my soul mate.

 

Anna and Ilya,
Moscow, Russia

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From: Sarah
Tue Nov 1st, 2005

Married last year, baby due Jan. 15th, 2006!!

John and I met on Veggie Date 5 1/2 years ago (March 9, 2000), and got married in Oslo, Norway, on November 27th, 2004! THANK YOU, VEGGIE DATE!!!!

I tried Veggie Date on a whim, after seeing an ad for a 3-month trial period for the site. After meeting some neat (and, well, less neat) guys, I became a paying member. John wrote to me shortly after the trial period was over, and it was love at first phone call! We talked for an hour, and I felt really connected.

We met at a Chinese veggie restaurant in NYC, and continued connecting. It felt so good to be with him. Time flew, and I felt so comfortable. It was so nice and natural! To make it even sweeter, my fortune cookie that night said that I was "about to embark on my life's journey of love!" I shyly read it to John, who lifted his glass (of NYC water) and toasted to that! Ah, it was so romantic!

The relationship blossomed, and we moved in together a year later, in 2001. We moved to Oslo in 2002, and have been here since. Our traditional Norwegian (vegetarian) wedding (with a Jewish flavor, as I'm a rare specimen of Norwegian Jew), was so beautiful that it takes my breath away thinking about it a year later!

Our first child is due on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday! We're thrilled, and can't wait to meet our little veggie!

THANK YOU again, for helping to make dreams come true! The happiness you have helped me to find--how can I thank you enough for the biggest gift life has to offer?? I can only say thank you a million times more!!! I thank you every day of my life!

 

Sarah and John Waters

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Thursday, October 20, 2005
From Cary

HI, there. I met my an amazing man on VeggieDate in 2000. We are now married with a 3 1/2 year old son and a brand new baby boy. I have never been happier and feel so lucky to be with him. Having our ethics in common has been so essential to how we operate as a couple, and is so important in raising our boys with continuity.

Nathan really is a man I admire and look forward to growing old with. I am grateful to have benefited from your site. Thank you!!!

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Sept 17th, 2005
Lisa writes:


Hut and I met on your web site last summer. Our first date was wonderful and we have been together ever since. We are now engaged and have a home together. Thanks for the connection! Lisa

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Sept 1st, 2005
Hi Steve,

Just thought I'd share some happy news with you...and a success story for VeggieDate. After having met via VeggieDate (we both had ads on your
site)...Kris and I were married on Sept. 17th of this year! Kayla Rae :)Thought you might enjoy adding this to your list of successful love stories!

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Sept 1st, 2005
Dear Veggie Date,

 

Just to update you on another success story.Campbell and Lemur Lady (Sue) met through your Website last year. The attraction was instant and magical. We set up home together earlier this year and were married on the 29th July. We had a wonderful Ceremony at Haughmond Abbey, Shrewsbury, followed by a 'vegan' Reception at a local Hotel. Carnivores and veggies alike commented on how fantastic the food was!

 

Many thanks for bringing us together. we are completely and blissfully in luuuvvv
Best wishes
Campbell & Sue xx

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Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 8:21 PM

 

I wanted to thank you for providing me the opportunity to safely meet other vegetarians through your lovely site. Not only did I meet some interesting people but I met my fiance. I never had the chance to meet, much less date, other vegetarians but through your site I was able to find many others with the same conciousness as myself, eventually leading Victor and I to finding each other. Thanks again!

 

-Sharese
P.S. I forgot to mention also that my dad and step mother (Jesse and Lila) met on this site about 6 years ago and have been happily married ever since. Thanks again!

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Sent June 6th 2005
Here is our story:

Ken had 5 bicycles (and no car) and looked on veggiedate. He found me. I also have 5 bicycles, though I did have a car. In one of my pictures, I was wearing a helmet and rain gear. Who else but a bikie would find that attractive? :-) Ken emailed me. Needless to say, I emailed him right back. After a while we spoke on the phone. Among other similarities, we found that our politics meshed. Ken met my big three (wants in a man - vegetarian, cyclist, politics); who would have thought. About a month and a half after the first email, we met in person. Since we lived about 50 miles apart, I had to be the one to drive down there. Our first meal together was a Jamba Juice smoothie and Noah's bagels. For a year and a half, with no cell phones and only one car (we're both on the low tech side), we saw each other other every weekend and spoke often on the phone. Ken was willing to do the grueling trip to my place by bicycle and public transit; it took him 3 hours! In July 2004 we moved in together and continue to be happy together.

Another interesting aspect to this story is that I used to live in this area from 1979 - 1986. Ken had seen me bicycling around many times, but he wasn't a cyclist then, so I never noticed him. He'd even almost spoken with me once at a health food store but was too shy. (I wish he had!) Evidently, I was one of his inspirations for getting into cycling and eventually getting rid of his car. We knew a lot of the same people in the bicycle activist circle. Unfortunately, I had already moved away by the time Ken started pedaling.

Of course, the happy ending is that veggiedate got us together!

Diane and Ken

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Sent June 6th 2005
Dear Steve and VeggieDate,

 

Just wanted to send you yet another happy story. I've been a member of VeggieDate on and off for over the years, since I was in college. I've met many good people through VeggieDate in that time. In fact, the first man I had good conversations with through your site is still a good friend.

Just over a year ago, I met Alex, who is now my partner. He did a search on VeggieDate for women with "rock climbing" in their profile. He found two, and one of them happened to be me. We started talking even though he lived several hours drive away, on the other side of the Sierra-Nevada mountains. Our first kiss was at the top of a climb at Lover's Leap near Lake Tahoe, about halfway between our homes. On the anniversary of that kiss, he moved in with me.

Thank you so much for providing the meeting ground. I never thought I'd meet someone with whom I have so much in common and with whom I feel so at home. The pool of people might be smaller on VeggieDate than on other sites, but there are some darn fine fish in that pool.

 

Best wishes,
Laura