LIVE OAK, Fla. — When asked where they wanted to get married last week, Bobby Tucker and Brittney Sanchez Tucker went old school.

Literally.

Tucker and Sanchez told Lynn Deas Sweat that they wanted to be married where they first met: the sixth grade hallway at Suwannee Middle School.

“It was very sentimental,” Brittany Tucker said. “It had a lot of meaning to it.

“But if you think about it, not a lot of people get that opportunity to actually go to the same spot. I just thought that was really cool. I mean, it’s super cheesy or whatever, but I think it’s really cute. It’s really sweet.”

Seventeen years ago, Brittany was loitering in the hallway, trying to avoid going in when Bobby approached looking for his home room.

“He walked up to me, all frazzled,” she recalled. “He handed me his agenda and he was like, ‘I have to be at my homeroom class and I don’t know which one it is.’ I looked at his agenda and was like, ‘Yup, you’re in the right spot.’”

It was the right spot again 17 years later when they approached Sweat about marrying them.

“They said wherever I wanted to do it would be fine with them, just pick a spot,” Sweat said. “I told them it needed to be something memorable.”

Bobby Tucker added: “We jokingly in the past have said, ‘Oh, the Suwannee Middle School.’ I was like believe it or not, the Suwannee Middle School would be really sentimental if you could pull it off.”

Sweat made a trip to SMS and received approval and then told the couple, who have been friends since that first encounter but just started dating in the past year or so, to meet her at the school.

“They were thrilled with that,” Sweat said.

After some work, the Tuckers found the exact spot where they first met. And that is where Sweat married them June 11.

“That’s where we got married was in the exact same spot where we stood when we first met 17 years ago,” Bobby Tucker said.

Sweat said: “We kind of made it happen right there at the doorway to the classroom.

“It really made their day.”

It was also believed to be the first marriage in SMS history.

“Just to be a part of something so special and memorable was worth it for me,” Sweat said. “I kind of felt privileged to help them recapture that sixth-grade, what would you call it, puppy love kind of thing and marry them.”

It also will add to the memories the Tuckers have for the school.

“It’s something that not a lot of people ever would say the Suwannee Middle School was a change of our lives,” Bobby Tucker said. “Everybody says high school, high school. But not us. It was mainly middle school where we first met and where we met all of our friends.

Brittany added: “Middle school were the good days.”

And they are once again.

“That was probably the best spot anybody could ever get married,” Bobby said. “Me and her, at least.”