Earlier this summer, we asked readers on Twitter and Instagram to share their best dating app stories and got a flood of responses. From a Tinder match getting married in less than six weeks, to two Dallasites finding each other in Houston, the anecdotes looked back at ten years on the platforms, and how North Texans have made the most of their swipes.
One love story stood out for two reasons. It didn’t take place on a dating app exactly. And the details were too good to keep to ourselves.
At the end of 2019, neither Taylor Dawson nor Cody Martin were on dating apps. They were both freshly out of long-term relationships and not looking to start anything new.
In fact, Cody put the remaining signs of ex-girlfriend — including a round, two-tiered coffee table — on Facebook Marketplace in an effort to move on.
He got a flood of inquiries about the $30 coffee table, but one made an impression. “This sounds a little shallow, but for whatever reason, her profile picture stood out to me,” he recalled of Taylor Dawson’s message about the table. Taylor, furnishing an apartment of her own in the Colony, asked him to hold it until the weekend. She offered him an extra $5 for the trouble. He agreed.
“When I picked it up, we could not stop staring at one another,” said Taylor. “He was trying to tell me how to put the table together, and I could not focus.”
The electric interaction lasted only a few minutes, but Cody decided to put his cards on the table, so to speak. He asked her out, and after weeks of back-and-forth texting, they finally went on a date. “Two weeks in, we were like, ‘We’re getting married,’” said Taylor with a laugh, and Cody officially popped the question on March 20, 2021.
Fast forward to their March 12 wedding at Brewed in Fort Worth, and the coffee table held the newlyweds’ seating chart. “This table brought us together,” a sign read. “Now let it guide you to yours.”
The couple recently purchased their first house, in Aubrey, where the coffee table sits in their living room. Don’t expect to see it on Facebook Marketplace anytime soon. “I don’t know if it will always be front and center in the living room,” said Cody, “but we’ll always have it, for sure.”
