In 1989, Michelle Robinson met her future husband, Barack “Barry” Obama, whom she quickly sized up and made two immediate thoughts. “He had a funny name,” she told Oprah Winfrey, but she also said he was “cuter than I thought he’d be”. Obama was a summer intern and still a Harvard law student whom she was assigned as an adviser. “So, you know, there was a little intrigue, but I must say after about a month, Barack … asked me out, and I thought, ‘No way. This is completely tacky,'” she said, according to biography.com.
Obama’s and Robinson’s first kiss took place outside of a Chicago shopping center and has now been immortalized. A plaque featuring a photo of the couple kissing was installed more than two decades later, in August 2012.
“We were at a restaurant having dinner to celebrate the fact that he had finished the bar,” Michelle remembers. “Then the waiter came over with the dessert and a tray. And there was the ring. And I was completely shocked.” The couple married at Trinity United Church of Christ on October 18, 1992.
