Picture it: San Francisco, 1997.  He's just out of college, working in South San Francisco, and living in a tent in an apartment he shares with his college roommate and his roommate's sister.  She's in her last year of college, in a sorority with the roommate's sister, and in need of a date for her last Delta Phi Epsilon banquet.   Boy picks girl out of a photo album; girl thinks boy seems unnaturally cheerful.  But between dinner, a walk on the Golden Gate Bridge, and the discovery of a shared passion for donuts, love is born.

It was a 21st century proposal - it happened online.