Charmaine Gomez and Joseph Contreras first met during a dress alteration in his parents’ kitchen. But it would be another couple of years before he gathered the courage to ask her out.

On their first date, Vanessa Zoltan wanted to make sure Peter Mueller, a cyclist, had taken proper safety precautions while riding. He did, and “it made me melt,” she said.

Brad Stensrude was seriously committed to Denise Pinto but never wanted to marry again. During a tour of Israel, he had a revelation.

Jacquelyn Drozdow and Matthew Comite began dating after she joined his kickball team at the suggestion of her matchmaking sister-in-law.