where did you meet your spouse?

Met her for the first time her freshman year at a party at my frat house. That was in '96. Ran into each other through the years but were nothing more than casual friends. Fast forward to the first OU debacle. For the first and only time in my life, I left a game prior to the Eyes of Texas. It was cold, raining, we were being humiliated, and my buddy and I had some women wanting to meet up at a bar in Deep Ellum. Instead, I ran into my future wife...we hung out the entire evening and were married the following August. Our daughter was born 45 minutes prior to kick-off this past TX/OU game. So the asswhippings are a bit more tolerable. It's interesting how things turn out. My wife went up to the TX/OU game that year to just hang out in Dallas because she didn't have tickets. Had she received tickets...we probably wouldn't be married. She was also about to leave the bar I where we ran into each other. Five minutes later, and I would have missed her. Texas wins the game, OU doesn't run up 35-0 by half, I stop for a road beer, I remember I've got a poncho in my back pocket...just one out of a long list of events occurs different that day, and I'm most likely still a bachelor.
 
Met her at a bar in May of 2000. I went to Palimino in Denver for a happy hour cocktail with some friends. One of my friends was notorious for only dating "full sized" blond women. He planned to meet up with his latest girlfriend that night and she was bringing her friends, which, given his taste for the bigger girls, meant we would need a much larger table.

Since I had no desire to entertain my buddy's girlfriend's friends, or God forbid have to buy them dinner, I planned my departure for 15 minutes prior to the girlfriend's anticipated arrival. I was downing my last scotch (The Macallan 18 y.o., neat), when my buddy's girlfriend and her friends arrived 16 minutes early.

Well I'm glad they were early. My friend's taste in women had improved greatly and one of her friends was particularly stunning. We started talking and learned we both had strained long distance relationships with people in Los Angeles. It was like we had known each other forever.

Needless to say, my scheduled departure that night was delayed. I married her two years later.

Oh, and my friend with a proclivity for full sized blond women - married my wife's friend one year later.
 
I was working for ARL and my wife was working at the Law School.

A bunch of us from ARL went over to the Lumberyard (for my birthday of all things), and she came out, on a lark, with a former ARLer that worked down there. We danced a few times (for those of you that know me, yes, I CAN dance), exchanged numbers, and a year later, almost to the day, were married. That would be 24 years ago this December...
 
Anyone remember the night club
'The North Fourty" ???

well that's where I met the LUCKY Mr. Bevoette (haha)..... we will be married 19 years on June 1st..... OMG !!!!! 19 yrs !!!!!
 
Details, eh?

We met at a wedding in Dallas in 1997 (yes, it really happens). Wife-to-be worked with the bride at a high school in Dallas, and came back from a vacation in time to make the wedding, even though she had no date and her car broke down on the way to the KC airport. I was living in Austin. One of my female co-worker/friends knew the bride from college (OU, of all places) and wanted a platonic date to help fend off unwanted advances at the wedding (ironic, no?). I went as her "date" as a favor, and because I knew other people going as well.

After the wedding we went to the reception at some downtown Dallas hotel. (OK, here's where it gets cheesy/romantic). I saw Wife-to-be across a crowded room and was stopped in my proverbial tracks by her. Way too intimidated to go up to her, I just talked about her with my other friends until they got sick of it and my "date" bet me $20 I wouldn't go ask her to dance, so I finally got up the nerve to do so. We danced, I cracked jokes, she laughed, and we hung out the rest of the night. I overindulged, so she gavve me a ride back to where I was staying with friends in Frisco (no short trip), and we stayed up 'til 4am watching movies (Tommy Boy) and talking (no, really, just talking).

I went back to Austin the next day. We spoke maybe twice on the phone, and neither was interested in (another) LDR (long-distance relationship), so that was that ...

[fast-forward about 12 months]

... I'm out in Austin with some friends, including my co-worker/"date" and the visiting bride, who mentions that Wife-to-be just moved to Austin for graduate school, and suggests I call her. The next week, I look her up in the phone book, cold call her, and invite her to lunch. We eat lunch at Hyde Park Grill. Then I invite her to a "real date" -- the opening game of the 1998 season on Labor Day weekend. She decides to miss the tailgate to watch ND play (yes, we have a mixed marriage -- Domers and Horns), so I proceeded to overindulge (again) beforehand and then have to take a cab to pick her up and bring her back to the game before kick-off. (Luckily, she thought I was being "responsible", rather than a drunken *******). A season-and-a-half later, we get engaged in South Bend while up there for a ND-Navy game. We are now at 4.5 married years and counting.

First date = UT game, engagement = ND game. Thank God for college football!!!
 
Ah... this is why I'm so sentimental about UT, March Madness and the Tech game.

Met our freshman year (1986) at a drunken dorm party at Dobie, where we were both living. I showed up by myself and he was loitering in the doorway, deciding whether or not he wanted to stick around. We introduced ourselves and then watched some guy and a girl have a shot contest; she ended up at the hospital for acute alcohol poisoning.
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(18 shots of vodka in succession will do that to you, I guess)

Some guy named Scooter was unfazed by this and moved the party to someone else's suite. A Trivial Pursuit drinking contest commenced, and we paired up as a team. A group of us from the party ended up at the pool for a midnight swim. After that, we went back to his room (where his roommate had passed out in the bathtub--sounds so cliche but I swear it's true!) and stayed up all night talking about music and what our lives were like growing up.

We were together all through UT and graduate school. He proposed during the Sweet 16 round of March Madness in 1995 (no, neither one of us was in a hurry to get married--in fact, at one point we considered not ever getting married.)

We were married November 1996 and our anniversary always falls around the weekend of the Tech game. It's hard to believe we've been together for almost 18 years! Believe me when I say that we've been through some hard ****, but we made it through together.
 
Marital Property Rights class in law school.

Absolutely true story.
 
I transfered from S. Arabia to Anchorage in 80, and met her in the introductions around the office the first morning. Took six months to get to the front of the line, but the hit was made at an industry Christmas party, and then a small group afterwards at "The Pines", a 2-band constant music place. 30 below that night, and I split my pants doing the splits on the dance floor.
 
May 28th 1982. She was drowning at slumber falls on the Guadalupe. One of my old college buddies saved her. They abandoned their float and walked to river road where I, having Graduated from the great University of Texas Dental School that morning picked them up by happenstance and immediatly started hitting on the near death chick. She hated me, so I closed the deal the next week by calling her the wrong name at the bank where she worked. 12 months later we were married and have 2 spawn, 17 and 13.
 
I was living in the Century Plaza Apartments on Red River, 5 girls sharing a 3 bedroom place. It was my freshman year of college at UT and my roommates were going out one night and a couple of guys came over to join them. They asked me if I wanted to go, but I said no cause I was in a long distance relationship with a guy from Arizona State. They talked me into going, and I completely fell for one of the guys we were with, found out we were in the same PSY class, and from that point on we were inseparable that year.

A year and a half later I married anyways absolutely knowing I shouldn’t have and moved to Arizona.
 
Well, geez, LittleHornChick. Don't leave us hanging. How did that end up?

A serious question - why do you think people go through with weddings when in their heart they think if's a bad idea? It's certainly not unusual.
 
****, Muzzler, you're not really getting married again are you? I still remember your divorce posts on 3:16.

I met mine at a party a mutual friend of ours threw in Austin. Fall of 1997. Funny I knew him for four years before meeting her and she had known him since Kindergarten. After I met her I asked my friend about asking her out, and he warned me that she told a lot of crappy stories about her family. That part was true, but the rest of her was pretty agreeable. We've been married a little over a year now.

I still see the guy a lot, we all live on the West Coast now and we snowboard together in Tahoe.
 
Met my wife in a break room in an office in Atlanta. Started dating after meeting again at a wedding of a mutual friend.

Congrats on the anniversary to Mr. & Mrs. Baboso. 15 freakin' years? What was the over/under?
 
Mine is scarily close to Suttree with a little Midtown thrown in. I met my wife on the first day of law school (1987). It took 2 years to get her to the alter. I had never been one to study, but picked her as a "study" partner so had to pretend to study for the first 3 semesters of law school.

Our first date was at Amy's ice cream. Second date was to a Lady Longhorns BB game. Third date was a canoe trip on the San Marcos.

We were back in Austin for our 10th anniversary and went back to Amy's, even though it is now on the opposite side of Guadalupe. Amy came out and picked up our tab and sat with us for about 30 minutes. She was excited because one of her initial visions of her store was as a great non-threatening first date experience.
 
I met my wife's mother first.
She had just started working for a friend of mine's mother who owned a real estate company next door to the fitness center I worked at.

My wife was about to transfer schools and go to my old high school (I am 5 years older) and my friends mom was asking me to tell her mother all the good things about my old school.

About 3 days later I was eating at Taco Bell and my wife and her mother were there eating as well.

She was wearing a cast (she had broken her ankle in a car wreck) and I had just gotten out of one so it sparked some conversation between us.

She asked me out, but I informed her I was too "old" for her (she was 15 and I was 19) and even though her mom said it was okay (I have always kinda freaked out that her mom was ok with her trying to date a 19 year old in college when she was only a sophomore) there were "laws" in Texas that said differently.

I made a deal with her and said if we still knew each other when she turned 18 and neither of us was seriously dating someone, I would take her out on a date.

Oh, and she had to let her hair grow longer (she was the Texas State champion in Ballet and her hair was real short for competition, she had a scholarship to the New York City Ballet before her accident).

We stayed friends, had girlfriends/boyfriends along the way but nothing serious, and on her 18th birthday she reminded me of my promise.

A year later we were married, and 14 years later we have 5 kids.
 
I met my wife in 1st grade. She was in Kindergarten. We were best friends until her parents divorced and she moved away.

Three years later her Mom married one of the pastors at my church. She moved back. She was 12 and had matured early. She still makes fun of my double take when I recognized her. We were best friends again.

By the time I was in highschool I knew that I was in love with her and she was the one for me.

She had issues stemming from her family life. I was there for her through all that and her dating one ******* after another who cheated on her and treated her like ****.

She always call me and I always told her that I loved her and that I would always be there for her and that if she was happy I was happy.

Fast forward to college. She is going to Southwestern and I have joined the Army after my first stint at UT (Don't ask). She writes me seamingly every day. It becomes a running joke in my unit. I have a picture of my tank crew during Team Spirit exercises in Korea. I'm standing in the middle with about 10 letters fanned out and my two married buddies are standing on either side of me with questioning looks and holding pistols to their heads. But she is still dating ******** and I'm still just a friend.

Finally I get engaged to another woman. It was a big mistake and I knew it. My wife calls me and says "I know it's kind of late, and I've been a dumbass, but I love you and want to be with you."

Like a true idiot, I say "Too late".

I break off the engagement and get out of the army and back at UT. I'm dating one of my Moms coworkers. I go on a ski trip.

My wife comes back from Germany where she is studying opera with her Dad who is a professional singer. She runs into my Uncle in Sears and say "Well I guess Sgt is married to that *****, huh?"

My uncle says "uhh no. He's back in town and on a ski trip" She hunts me down at Crested Butte and calls. I come back, dump the girl I was with and we've been together ever since.

12 years, married for 10 and 2 kids with one on the way.

And FYI for 3:16ers. I lost the BJ bet, but it wasn't my fault!
 
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