The Christmas holiday brings with it not only cheers and merriment but that cold air filled with romance and celebrations of love.
Thus, couples cannot help but embrace how magical the season is - where "happily ever afters" can ideally begin.
Here are 10 celebrity couples listed by People that chose Christmastime as the best time to get on one knee or say "I do."
They said 'Yes' during the Christmas holidays
1. Joe Manganiello and Sofia Vergara
This couple had only been together six months when Joe decided to propose to Sofia during a Christmas vacation in Princeville, Hawaii, with a whole speech in Spanish prepared and as the sun was going down. He further shared that they knew right away that they were meant to be together for the rest of their lives.
2. Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise
The now ex-husband and wife fell in love on the set of "Days of Thunder" in 1989. They tied the knot in a private ceremony on Christmas Eve at a Colorado ski resort, as reported by AP News.
3. Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian
The tennis superstar and tech entrepreneur got engaged in 2016 over the Christmas holidays. In the sweetest poem posted on her official Reddit account on December 29, she wrote, "I came home. A little late. Someone had a bag packed for me. And a carriage waited. Destination: Rome. To escort me to my very own "charming." Back to where our stars first collided. And now it was full circle. At the same table we first met by chance. But by choice. Down on knee. He said 4 words. And I said yes."
4. Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth
These two have kept their relationship quiet from the start, and it continued until their intimate engagement during the Christmas holidays of 2010.
5. Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelley
The Grey's Anatomy star and musician tied the knot just before Christmas in Park City, Utah, and since have celebrated their 12 years together as husband and wife and have welcomed three children.
6. John Legend and Chrissy Teigen
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After five years of dating, the singer popped the question while they were having a Christmas vacation in Maldives in 2011. They married in 2013 and now have two kids and another one on the way.
7. Natalie Portman and Benjamin Millepied
Millepied proposed to the actress in the final days of 2010 while she was pregnant with their first child. They married two years later in an intimate Jewish ceremony with close family and friends.
8. Michael Jordan and Yvette Prieto
The NBA legend proposed during the Christmas holidays of 2011. Two years later, they got married in a lavish ceremony in an Episcopal church in Florida called Bethesda-by-the-Sea with 300 loved ones and guests.
9. Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves
The actor brought the holiday cheer when he popped the question on Christmas day in 2011 to his model girlfriend of five years. According to Hollywood, he made sure it was the last gift she gets to open on Christmas day and wrapped the ring in seven different boxes so Alves would keep unwrapping it.
10. LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian
These two had a "Lifetime-perfect proposal" during the Christmas holidays in 2010, which was fitting, as they first met on the set of the network's original movie Northern Lights.
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