Lindsay Deibert and Joe Sneve are proof that modern love still has the romance of an old-time movie script.
The two met at a rock concert in Sioux Falls, S.D. during Christmas break 2008.
“I had to beg a friend to go with me,” Joe said, of traveling from his school, University of South Dakota in Vermilion, to the city to see the band The Kickback.
Likewise, Lindsay traveled south from Brookings, S.D., where she attended South Dakota State University, to see the concert.
It was a chance meeting that today has the couple planning to be married.
LOVE WAS A DRIVING force of change for Joe and Lindsay.
“I was the kind of guy who said I’d never get married,” said the free-spirited Joe, 27, a reporter for the Iola Register. “I just figured I’d never find someone I’d want to spend my life with.
“That was before I met Lindsay. Now, my life is totally different.”
To Joe’s “wild” ways — including a one-year hiatus between high school and college to tour the U.S. on his motorcycle — Lindsay, 24, was a serious student at South Dakota State, where she was a pre-nursing major.
“I didn’t really date a lot. There wasn’t time,” she said of her focus on studies.
“But you found time for me,” Joe replied, to which Lindsay blushed.
By fall semester, Lindsay transferred to USD, her school’s arch rival — think K-State and KU — so the two could be together.
Their tastes in music, travel, motorcycles were more than coincidental, it seemed. Likewise, their values in close family ties, good friendships and being loyal put them on the same page.
“My family loves Lindsay,” Joe said of his parents and two sisters. When Lindsay’s brother calls up Joe, he typically says “Hey, brother.”
Shortly after Joe graduated from USD in May 2011, he accepted a position at the Register. By late September, Lindsay joined him here.
