Where/How Did You Meet Your Spouse?

[rocksanddirt]

you left out community band.....

I met mine while having a beer after a rehearsal for a quasi-marching-community band.

married a year and change later....still married 16 years and two kids after that....

[timdicarlo]

Technically she's not my spouse yet, but since it's an unlikely place to meet women I'm throwing it in: we met at the midnight premier of Star Wars: Episode III (nerd power!). The movie was something of a filmmaking debacle, but considering I'm still with the girl four years later and (hopefully) tying the knot after college, I consider the ticket price well worth it.

[Dan Schultz]

Well.... sort of 'mail order'. But you didn't list 'personal ad' as a choice! No kidding! Fifteen years ago, we were both single after being married over a half-century between us. Just for kicks I ran a personal ad in a local newpaper. A friend of hers dared her to answer it. We went together and maintained two households 30 miles apart for two years while her kids and mine finished high school and college. We eloped eleven years ago and got married. After that we still maintained the two households for another six months before consolidating our stuff.

[windshieldbug]

How about being in the same orchestra? One tour to Portugal, and that was all she wrote.

She claimed that she married me so she could use my benefits.
Well, the joke's on her, because now I'm using HER benefits...

[Tubaryan12]

Work for me.

[Jeffrey Hicks]

Yahoo Personals. Been married twice in the past 10 years and met both of them online.

[bearphonium]

Introduced by a friend...been together 25 years last November. Married last September during the 6 months or so it was legal in California.

[oldbandnerd]

Work ... we both worked at a Peoples' Drug Store here in Richmond,Va.

[Dylan King]

I met my wife 2.5 years ago at the Feast of Tabernacles in Oxnard, California. I was sitting at the front of the room with my tuba and she walked across the chairs that were set up for services. I thought she was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen.

Her mother played the piano, and accompanied the hymns a few times during the Feast. I spoke to her many times during the Feast, especially after she found out that I too am Jewish, which is rare in the Church of God. Her daughter was actually seeing somebody in the Church at the time, and spent most of the time at the Feast with him, but I was able to speak to her a few times, and enjoyed what we had to say to each other.

On The Last Great Day, which is the last Holy Day of the sacred year, when our second service was complete my wife's mother saw me leaving the tabernacle and ran after me, sticking a small sticker on my music folder with her name and email on it. A few weeks later I emailed her and asked for her daughter's email.

Toby and I exchanged 2 or 3 emails over the next year, but when I heard that she was traveling to Europe to meet the family of the gentleman she was dating, I stopped writing her.

I was baptized on February 14, 2007 in Sherman Oaks California, and shortly after faced some of the largest trials in my life. I got my biggest gig ever, scoring a major Hollywood picture, but was torn between the money and prestige of the job, and the moral message of the film. I chose God's way, and was told that I would never work for that studio again after leaving the film.

I was broke financially and confused about my life. I knew that I had to seek God more than I had ever done before. So I took my dog and drove deep into the Sierra Nevada mountains, found a place where we would be alone, and fasted (on and off) and prayed for 7 days. I specifically asked God's direction in two major parts of my life. My career, and my love-life.

The next Sabbath upon my return to Los Angeles it was announced at Church services that our Charlotte headquarters was hiring in the TV department. I just about fell off my chair. Later during that same service, I was speaking to a friend who informed me that she had heard Toby (my wife), was no longer dating the gentleman she was with at the Feast. That night I send my resume to HQ, and wrote an email to Toby (who lived on Long Island, NY).

She wrote back immediately with news that she had accepted a position as a school psychologist in the Charlotte/Mecklenburg school district and was moving to Charlotte. As it turns out, the week the Church flew me out for interviews she happened to be there looking for a home. We went out that week.

I was hired and moved to Charlotte, where I bought my first home. It also turned out that Toby moved to Charlotte from NY on the exact day that I moved from LA.

We were married on July 6, 2008. I'm writing this note right now from my desk at the home she found in Huntersville, and my old home (that I barely lived in), in on the market.

We have been blessed beyond belief, by believing.



Dylan and Toby King

[TubaRay]

I met my wife in college band. This took place during football season. She was an incoming frosh. I was a mighty sophomore. She played(and still does) clarinet. I am of all men, most fortunate.

[Todd S. Malicoate]

First wife...flute player in college marching band

Second wife...flute player in college wind ensemble

Pattern?

[rocksanddirt]

I met my wife 2.5 years ago at the Feast of Tabernacles in Oxnard, California. I was sitting at the front of the room with my tuba and she walked across the chairs that were set up for services. I thought she was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen.

'snip cute story'

Also goes to show what clear thinking does for you. Take your time, evaluate the entirety of a situation, it always works out better.

[windshieldbug]

Well, now I'll never hear the end of it if I don't include a picture of someone dumb enough to marry a tuba player...

[Carroll]

I met my wife in college band. This took place during football season. She was an incoming frosh. I was a mighty sophomore. She played(and still does) clarinet. I am of all men, most fortunate.

Wow... I met my wife in marching band... her freshman year... my sophomore year... and she plays clarinet... and still does. The marching band director bragged that he controlled the weather so never got rained out of a performance. After marching pre-game in the pouring rain, we came into the band room to wait for half-time and marching in the rain. I flirted with the girl next to her with no success, so turned my attention to her. Three years later I convinced her to go out with me, and a year after that she consented to marry me. We celebrated our 20th year last July and still play in the community band conducted by that old marching band director. We have been rained out of several concerts

[scottw]

College
We met as partners in the pinochle lounge in the music department. The game never actually ended, just new people sat in as others had to leave for class. We found we were good together playing cards, so we kicked it up a notch after awhile! 40 years come September.

[tubatooter1940]

Well, one day I was working in the garden. I reached for an old tomato and there she was! And why am I hog wild about her? I love her for her warm red lips, her soft blue eyes, and her cool green money. Before we met, I didn't know what happiness was, but now it's too late. And I remember how she said her heart belonged to me, but the rest of her kept going out with all them other guys............wink

Schleppy, I pray you will not mind my using some of that primo material of yours.
In July 1963, I took my last week of leave with 30 days left to serve in the Marines to go home and find a job.
I found nothing and stopped by our outfit's favorite night club in Savannah to have one beer with the guys before driving on to M.C.A.S. Beauford, S.C.
I saw a table with three girls and 20 guys standing in line to talk or dance with them. (There are seven military bases around Savanah and girls are one in ten. Marines would come back to the barracks with a big ole dose of S.T.D and everybody wanted to know where the lucky bum got it from.)
I got in line and got a dance with a nice lady who later turned out to be my wife's sister. Didn't like her so I got back in line and danced with the green eyed blond with the super long legs.
I married that one in 1964.

[whatsupdoc]

We stood next to each other at the Vienna Staatsoper for "The Barber of Seville". I was studying in Vienna during my senior year of college. She (from Switzerland) was staying in Vienna for a few days before heading to southeast Austria to visit some cousins. We got together next about two years later - after lots of letters!

Two years ago we went back to Vienna and took our two girls to "The Marriage of Figaro" for the 25th anniversary of our meeting. We've been married 20 years this coming June.

Trust me, it's really tough to have to go stay with the in-laws in Switzerland...

[NC_amateur_euph]

XX. At work

I was TDY to do a database conversion for a telephone company. A lady way in the back of the office accused me of drinking coffee from the office coffee pot without paying for it. It wasn't true but ....

We married six weeks later and will celebrate 24 years in October.

She says I'm still paying for that coffee.

[windshieldbug]

XX. At work

I was TDY to do a database conversion for a telephone company. A lady way in the back of the office accused me of drinking coffee from the office coffee pot without paying for it...

We married six weeks later and will celebrate 24 years in October.

Man! You really must have wanted that coffee!

[elimia]

Fixed up by mutual friend. Been married 10.5 yrs. And since she was in guard (in another band) I can try out my new guard bashing jokes on her.