Celebrity 21 Celeb Couples Who Fell in Love at First Sight Cupid was definitely on their side By Grace Gavilanes Updated on September 30, 2022 02:55 PM Share Tweet Pin Email Trending Videos 01 of 21 Rebecca Romijn & Jerry O'Connell Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty According to the actor, when he first laid eyes on his future wife, the connection was instant: "When I met Rebecca — I know you hear 'love at first sight' — I just enjoyed her energy so much, immediately," he said on the new CBS reality series, The Real Love Boat. Romijn chimed in: "We both decided we wanted to be with each other more than anybody else in the whole world. It was pretty cut and dried." 02 of 21 Kaley Cuoco & Tom Pelphrey Momodu Mansaray/Getty "When I met Tom, it was absolutely love at first sight," Cuoco told Extra in September 2022 at the premiere of her movie Meet Cute. "My manager actually took me as her guest to the Ozark premiere, and I met him there," Cuoco recalled of her first real-life meet-cute with the actor. "It was like the angels started singing. I was like, 'Hallelujah!' It was very magical … it was perfect." 03 of 21 Idris Elba & Sabrina Dhowre Sabrina Dhowre and Idris Elba. Gareth Fuller/Getty Images "I have been married before and I famously said I wouldn't get married again. But I met someone that opened me up," Elba said of his new wife on The View. "It was love at first sight," Elba added. "I went out on my only day off, true story, it was a Sunday night, I went to this party and there she was. The rest is history." As for what makes Dhowre "the one," Elba told PEOPLE they have "good chemistry." "She makes me laugh, and we share common goals. She makes me happy," he said. "She makes me celebrate my successes and when I'm not too sure about stuff, she makes me think." 04 of 21 Michael Douglas & Catherine Zeta-Jones Kevin Mazur/Getty The actor knew from the moment he laid eyes on Zeta-Jones that she was the one, and had an interesting way of breaking the news to her. "I looked at her, and I said, 'Catherine, I'm going to be the father of your children,' " Douglas said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "The first time I met her! You think that went over big?" Apparently, the over-the-top comment didn't scare her away because the two have been married for 20-plus years and share two children: son Dylan and daughter Carys. 05 of 21 Natalie Portman & Benjamin Millepied Steve Granitz/WireImage Portman recounted first laying eyes on her choreographer now-husband during a 2018 Watch What Happens Live appearance. Millepied, who met Portman while working on Black Swan, made an otherwise embarrassing parking mistake that ended up endearing him to the actress. "Pretty close," she told host Andy Cohen when asked if it was love at first sight. "He parked backwards on the street, like, I saw him - we were on a first floor studio - and he parked like, the wrong direction. And I was like, 'okay, that fits.' " 06 of 21 Emily Blunt & John Krasinski Stephen Lovekin/Shutterstock The couple, who co-starred in the film A Quiet Place, which Krasinski also directed, knew "disarmingly soon" that they were meant for each other. Blunt was out to lunch with a friend, chatting about how much she was enjoying the single life, when her future husband walked in. "And that was it," she told PEOPLE. "We were engaged within 10 months, but I think we probably knew before that." 07 of 21 Prince Harry & Meghan Markle Chris Jackson/Getty While making their official debut as an engaged couple outside Kensington Palace, Harry revealed that he knew Markle was the one for him as soon as he laid eyes on her. When asked when he knew the Suits actress was going to be his future wife, Harry said with a smile: "The very first time we met." 08 of 21 Heidi Montag & Spencer Pratt Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic Montag dedicated an Instagram post to her longtime love on their nine-year wedding anniversary - seven weeks after welcoming their first child, son Gunner Stone. "It was love at first sight," gushed the new mom, who met her husband while filming The Hills. "I knew my life would never be the same. You are my soulmate, my heart, my soul, my best friend, my everything. We have fought through so much to be together." 09 of 21 A.J. Langer & Charles Courtenay Richard Austin/REX/Shutterstock The My So-Called Life star met her future husband, who she would go on to discover was the Earl of Devon, in Vegas while at a bachelorette party in 2002. Courtenay was a lawyer visiting from Britain with his rugby team. "We caught eyes and smiled. The kilt was a novelty. The smile was all I needed," Langer told PEOPLE. For his part, "We instantly got on like a house on fire," said her husband, whom she wed in 2005. "We went out to a nightclub - I wasn't allowed in because I was wearing a skirt! So we spent a bit of time walking around the streets and got to know each other really, really well." 10 of 21 George & Amal Clooney Fernanda Bareggi / Splash News Online "I knew when I met her that she was superextraordinary," the Oscar winner shared of the human rights lawyer, whom he would go on to marry in 2013. "I wondered if I would ever get a chance to date her. We were friends for a while and luckily she said yes." 11 of 21 Ellen DeGeneres & Portia de Rossi Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP "Ellen took my breath away," de Rossi told The Advocate upon meeting her now-wife backstage at VH1's Big in '04 Awards. "That had never happened to me in my life, where I saw somebody and experienced all of those things you hear about in songs and read about in poetry. My knees were weak." 12 of 21 Warren Beatty & Annette Bening Roger Wong/INFphoto "It didn't really surprise me," the actor - who had once been known for his storied dating life - said during an appearance on Today, recounting his decision to get married. "I always felt I wasn't trying to avoid marriage, I was trying to avoid divorce. I had no doubt when I met Annette that it was time to get married." 13 of 21 Tom Ford & Richard Buckley Rabbani and Solimene Photography/WireImage For the designer-turned-director, "love at first sight" was something he experienced when coming face-to-face with his now-husband on an elevator ride almost 30 years ago. "By the time that elevator landed on the ground floor I thought, 'You're the one.' That's it. Click. Sold," Ford said during an appearance on The Jess Cagle Interview. "It was literally love at first sight." He continued: "Our eyes locked and within a month we were living together. We have been together ever since." (Buckley died in September of 2021.) 14 of 21 Stephen & Evelyn Colbert Frazer Harrison/Getty The late-night talk show host knew instantly his wife was "the one" when he saw her in a theater lobby and thought, "Her. That's your wife. You're going to marry her." The couple's love story began later near the buffet line at the show's afterparty. "You will kick yourself for the rest of your life if you do not turn around and say hello to her," Colbert remembers saying to himself upon seeing Evelyn who, the two later discovered, he had grown up with. 15 of 21 Matthew & Camila Alves McConaughey Gary Miller/Getty Images) Although the Oscar winner was "happily single," things all changed when he set his eyes on Brazilian beauty Camila. "Out of the corner of my eye, this sort of aqua-green figure went floating across the frame about 20 feet in front of me," he told PEOPLE of seeing Alves for the first time a decade ago. "My eye went up and I remember what came out of my mouth. I didn't say 'Who is that?' I went, 'What is that?' As l was trying to get [her] attention across the room, I went in my head, 'This is not the kind of woman you call over across the room, McConaughey. Get your ass out of your chair and go get her.' Which I did." As for what immediately drew the actor to Alves, McConaughey was quick to respond: "The self-respect she had, the way I understood her and her relationship with family, the way she respected me but never took anything for granted, not putting on any airs whatsoever." 16 of 21 Jessica Alba & Cash Warren Ben Gabbe/Getty When you know, you know. Alba was completely smitten with Warren from the very start - and just had to share her feelings. "Right after I met [Cash], I called my best friend and was like, 'I met this guy and I feel like I've known him forever and I'm going to know him for the rest of my life,' " the actress told Cosmopolitan in 2010. 17 of 21 Matt & Luciana Damon Eric Charbonneau/Invision/AP The pair's initial encounter reads like the start of an epic love story, which Damon is more than eager to recount: "I saw her across the room, and it was like there was a beam of lighting shining down on her - she was radiating joy," the actor recalled of seeing wife Barroso, who worked as a bartender at the time. "I was like, I have to talk to this person.' " 18 of 21 Aaron & Lauren Paul Barry King/Getty Images "The first night her and I hung out, we had our first kiss on the Ferris wheel. I told her that night that one day I was going to marry her," The Path actor told PEOPLE. In 2013, they wed. 19 of 21 David & Victoria Beckham Anthony Harvey/Getty The soccer star knew Victoria was 'The One' before even meeting her in person. While watching a Spice Girls music video on TV, Beckham proclaimed to a pal: "See the girl in the dark short dress? I'm going to marry her." The designer echoed her hubby's statement: "Completely love at first sight. He told me he went home and wrote my [telephone] number on so many other things in case he lost it." 20 of 21 Tom Brady & Gisele Bündchen "I knew Tom was the one straightaway," Bündchen told Vogue UK in 2015. "I could see it in his eyes that he was a man with integrity who believes in the same things I do." 21 of 21 Jwan Yosef & Ricky Martin Kevork Djansezian/NBC/Getty When Martin and his husband Jwan Yosef met it was a case of love at first sight - for both of them. "I am marrying this guy," was the first thought that Martin had when he met Yosef in the flesh after talking via Instagram DM for six months, he told Attitude magazine. "Apparently, he said exactly the same thing!" Martin continued. "Obviously he only told me this later on; you have to keep it to yourself at first!" He added: "I lost my breath when I saw him."