--- title: Michelle Obama Sends Sweet Anniversary Message to Barack description: To celebrate 25 years together, former First Lady Michelle Obama shared a photo and a heartfelt message to her husband Barack Obama. canonical: https://time.com/4967027/michelle-obama-25-anniversary/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-03T15:27:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:44.100Z og:title: Michelle Obama Sends Sweet Anniversary Message to Barack og:description: "A quarter of a century later, you're still my best friend" og:url: https://time.com/4967027/michelle-obama-25-anniversary/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt191abfe6124ce832/6988e04c0a4a2282cd9d029b/michelle-barack-obama.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: President Obama and Hillary Clinton Speak At The Congressional Black Caucus' Annual Phoenix Awards og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Michelle Obama Sends Sweet Anniversary Message to Barack twitter:description: "A quarter of a century later, you're still my best friend" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt191abfe6124ce832/6988e04c0a4a2282cd9d029b/michelle-barack-obama.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Michelle Obama to Barack on Their Silver Anniversary: 'You're Still My Best Friend' > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Mark Wilson—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Oct 3, 2017 3:27 PM UTC In honor of their 25th wedding anniversary today, former First Lady [Michelle Obama](http://motto.time.com/4874387/michelle-obama-first-lady-racism/) shared a sweet message to her husband former President Barack Obama on Twitter along with a black-and-white photo from their wedding day. “A quarter of a century later, you’re still my best friend & the most extraordinary man I know,” she wrote. “I <3 you.” (But she used a double-pink-heart emoji instead of an analogue heart symbol, because [she’s hip](http://time.com/4926584/beyonce-birthday-michelle-obama-serena-williams/) to the ways of the internet, too.) The [two met in Chicago](http://time.com/barack-michelle-obama-love-story-photos/?iid=sr-link9), when Michelle (née Robinson) was assigned to advise a young Barack at the law firm he was working at for the summer during law school. [Despite his requests](http://www.oprah.com/world/barack-and-michelle-obamas-first-date-famous-firsts/all), she refused to date him until he offered to quit the job, making the relationship more appropriate. They had ice cream for their first date — Baskin-Robbins, [he’s said](http://www.oprah.com/world/barack-and-michelle-obamas-first-date-famous-firsts/all) — and were in a relationship for three years before tying the knot in 1992. It’s been an emotional few weeks for the Obamas: the former president described the experience of dropping eldest daughter Malia off at college at Harvard as [“like open-heart surgery.”](http://time.com/4958603/barack-obama-malia-college-open-heart-surgery/) > [](https://twitter.com/MichelleObama/status/915216126111559683) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4967027/michelle-obama-25-anniversary/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4967027/michelle-obama-25-anniversary/"},"headline":"Michelle Obama to Barack on Their Silver Anniversary: 'You're Still My Best Friend'","datePublished":"2017-10-03T15:27:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:47:44.100Z","description":"To celebrate 25 years together, former First Lady Michelle Obama shared a photo and a heartfelt message to her husband Barack Obama.","url":"https://time.com/4967027/michelle-obama-25-anniversary/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Barack Obama","viral","Michelle Obama"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt191abfe6124ce832/6988e04c0a4a2282cd9d029b/michelle-barack-obama.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt191abfe6124ce832/6988e04c0a4a2282cd9d029b/michelle-barack-obama.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Obama and Hillary Clinton Speak At The Congressional Black Caucus' Annual Phoenix Awards","caption":"President Obama and Hillary Clinton Speak At The Congressional Black Caucus' Annual Phoenix Awards","creditText":"Mark Wilson—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4967027/michelle-obama-25-anniversary/","name":"Michelle Obama to Barack on Their Silver Anniversary: 'You're Still My Best Friend'"}}]}] ```