Celeb Couples Who Got Engaged or Married on Christmas: Joe Manganiello and Sofia Vergara, Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves and More

24.12.2022 - 18:43 / usmagazine.com

It’s the most wonderful time of the year — for a proposal! The holiday season delivers a feeling of magic and wonder, offering the perfect backdrop for stars to pop the question or marry their significant others.

“When you know, you know, and we knew right away — like, very quickly,” Joe Manganiello told Haute Living in 2015 when recalling how he proposed to now-wife Sofia Vergara on Christmas Eve 2014. The couple, who began dating six months before their engagement, were on vacation in Hawaii when the True Blood alum asked the former Modern Family actress to marry him.

“We had this big bay window [that I opened] and the sun was going down pink over the mountains and over the bay, and I had this ring,” Manganiello explained. “I had looked at every ring in the world, and this is the ring that I wanted. I had a whole speech prepared in Spanish. I proposed to her on one knee in Spanish with the sun going down. It was awesome.”

Matthew McConaughey’s proposal to wife Camila Alves on Christmas Day 2011 was just as memorable, if not a little nerve-racking.

“I remember hitting the knee, looking into her eyes, and … I remember her face. I remember this smile coming up from her feet. I remember her having to catch her breath,” the Oscar winner told Esquire five years later. “And she didn’t say yes right away. And then the whole family was going, ‘Jesus, she’s gonna say no.'”

Fortunately, not only did Alves accept, but the two wed one year one year after their engagement. They share three children: Levi, born in 2008, Vida, born in 2010, and Livingston, born in 2012.

Despite the festivity and romance of the holidays, some stars’ Christmastime marriages did not end up working out.

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman tied the knot on Christmas Eve