Article continues below advertisement1980s: Bryon and Kristi Noem Met and Began DatingSource: @sdbryonnoem/InstagramKristi Noem and her husband, Bryon, have been married for more than three decades.Kristi Noem and her husband, Bryon Noem, first met and fell in love in high school.Both raised on farms in Hamlin County, S.D., the couple had known each other because Bryon was friends with Kristi's older brother.Although they attended the same high school, their romance began only when Kristi was a high school junior and Bryon was a college freshman.