But in a good way.

Theirs is the age-old story about love between a jock and a bookworm. Except they found romance on the common grounds of values, beliefs and the University of Hawai'i women's volleyball team.

Won, then an MBA student at UH, would help Tanigawa, a long-snapper for the UH football team, study for his exams. They would go to dorm parties and women's volleyball games.

The relationship wasn't what Won had expected.

"I never pictured myself dating a college jock," said Won, 31. "We were just so different. But it's as if our personalities insanely matched."

"We would just nonstop talk," added Tanigawa, 29. "Even though we had nothing in common, we could spend hours with each other, just talking."

That Christmas, after dating for a few months, Tanigawa did something else unexpected: He gave her a plane ticket to visit him and his family on Kaua'i that month. Inside the envelope he enclosed a message to her parents, telling them she would be safe, she'd have her own room, they didn't have to worry.

"That was just so sweet," Won gushed. "Here was this jock guy, and he was being so considerate."

It was on this trip — their first together — that a memory would be made, one that would resurface eight years later.

A Kaua'i native, Tanigawa took his new girlfriend to the Hyatt Regency Kauai Resort & Spa in Po'ipu. They walked around the lush hotel grounds, through tropical gardens and lagoons.

"I knew that place was nice," he said, smiling. "I had my game on."

It was here, eight years later, that Tanigawa proposed. (After asking her parents first, of course.)

"I could only see myself with her for the rest of my life," he said. "It wasn't just one thing, it was everything."

A lot has changed in those eight years of dating for the couple, who were married March 26 at the Punahou School Chapel.

Won changed careers from accounting to marketing. Tanigawa went from working as a chef at various high-end restaurants to opening his own lunchwagon, Tani's, in Kalihi. They moved in together in a house they rent in Nu'uanu.

Their schedules have changed, too. While Won holds regular business hours, Tanigawa starts at 2:30 a.m., prepping and cooking for that day's menu. The couple makes a point to have dinner together every night, no matter what. And talking is still very much part of their relationship.

"We met so young, we've changed so much," Won said. "And yet, at the same time, we haven't."

She's still a voracious reader who doesn't cook much. He's still a football fanatic who loves to dive.

They still make dates out of UH games, though now Won's weekends are spent helping Tanigawa with his catering business. (Tanigawa doesn't really have days off anymore.)

But their goals haven't changed. They still want to buy a house, have a family, live a good life.

"I see our relationship as very unique and special," Won said. "I love it."