Couple set to marry, 15 years after muddy matching online

Friday, January 27th, 2023

Muddy Matches has been trusted as the original online home of rural dating and farmer dating for well over 15 years now. In that time, we have attracted more than ¾ million rural singles to come looking for love in the countryside with us.

The rewarding thing is we regularly stay in contact with many of the country couples we have inspired.

Kirsty and Michael are one such couple. They were amongst some of the first country people to properly really get stuck into online dating with us, back in 2008. 14 years on, and their life together in wellies has fully bloomed.

“We met through Muddy Matches in August 2008; me as a rural nanny and he as a lone groundsman,” Kirsty updated us earlier this week. “I dragged my wellies for a few months, and we finally exchanged numbers for Christmas 2008. We finally met face to face and became a couple in February 2009.

Theirs has been a great example of slow burn rural relationship in the initial stages; taking their time, dating at their own pace, but both Kirsty and Michael knew where things were headed longer term.

“We both knew on day 1 of 3 days of consecutive dates” Kirsty added.

They moved in together in late 2009 and began laying down roots to build a life together. It has been a genuinely muddy love story ever since.

Roll forward eight years and they took on the daunting project of building their own home together on land in Michael’s family orchard. Now, having completed the ‘totally self-built’ house to be proud of, they have been settled there for 18 months.

Next on the agenda; marriage, and a rural wedding.

“We finally get married this year, September 2023!” Kirsty adds with delight. It comes some 15 years down the line, after their first match online. Yes, we said it was a slow burn of a relationship, but it’s one that clearly works.

“My fiancé and I will be evermore grateful to Muddy Matches for what we have found in one another. Wherever I can, I recommend my outdoors loving single friends head over to you. Thank you.”