Determining how your ancestor met their spouse can be an interesting genealogical endeavor. It may not even be possible to do anything other than conjecture about their meeting. But at the very least, researching them with the intention of discovering how they met may result in new information–even if it has nothing to do with their marriage.
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My maternal grandmother was from Nova Scotia and my maternal grandfather was the son of a Franklin County, Massachusetts farmer and later as a farmer himself, in all the census records he appears in. I had no idea how they met until I decided to ask someone. Unfortunately, by then, his brothers, my mother and two of her sisters had passed away. That left the youngest, an intellectually challenged 80+ year old. It turned out her memory was sharp and I finally thought to ask that question. She readily told me they met at a nearby hospital where they were both working as nurses. It was hard to believe my grandfather was working as a nurse but sometime later I decided to Google their names together. I happened to use the correct spellings of their names so that on my first try, lo and behold, there they were, listed as nurses in two different yearly reports of the Northampton State Hospital. I’m guessing he might have gone to work there to earn the money for his own farm after serving in the Spanish-American War. My grandmother’s sister was working there too at the same time.
I had their marriage records and it wasn’t strictly necessary to have that information but it’s a good story for our family history.