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23 Celebrities Whose Partners Have Pretty Normal Jobs, And How They Met Is Super Sweet

These stories give me hope that I, too, can marry a celebrity one day.

1. Last year, Taylor Lautner got married to Taylor Dome, a registered nurse and mental health advocate. They were introduced by Taylor Lautner's sister Makena Moore, who met Taylor Dome through her church. And now they both go by the name Taylor Lautner!

Taylor and Taylor at a press event

2. John Cena met his wife, software engineer Shay Shariatzadeh, when he was filming Playing With Fire in Shay's hometown.

Close-up of Shay and John smiling

3. Miranda Lambert is married to Brendan McLoughlin, a retired police officer who worked with the NYPD. The two met when she was performing on Good Morning America and he was working security for the show.

Close-up of Brendan and Miranda at a press event

4. Simu Liu is currently dating Allison Hsu, who is Interscope Records' digital marketing manager.

Close-up of Simu and Allison at a press event

5. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is married to Tasha McCauley, who is the CEO of GeoSim Systems and cofounder of Fellow Robots.

Close-up of Joseph and Tasha embracing

6. Eddie Redmayne's wife, Hannah Bagshawe, works in public relations, and she's also an antiques dealer. They first met when they were college students back in 2000 but didn't begin dating until about 12 years later.

Close-up of Eddie and Hannah at a media event

7. Colman Domingo met his husband, Raúl Aktanov, in a Walgreens parking lot back in 2005. They'd only locked eyes and didn't say anything to each other, but Raúl felt a spark and decided to post on Craigslist's "Missed Connections" section, hoping to reconnect with Colman.

Close-up of Colman and Raúl at a press event

8. Wanda Sykes and her wife, Alex Sykes, met back in 2006 on the ferry to Fire Island. At the time, Alex was selling granite countertops and Wanda was remodeling her kitchen.

Close-up of Wanda and Alex at a press event

9. Ellen Pompeo met her record producer husband, Chris Ivery, at a grocery store in 2003, and they began dating six months later.

Close-up of Ellen and Chris at a press event

10. Riz Ahmed met his wife, Fatima Farheen Mirza, at a coffee shop — they were both "jostling over the same laptop plug points." She works as a novelist and is best known for her book A Place for Us.

Close-up of Riz and Fatima at a press event

11. Meryl Streep's husband, Don Gummer, is a sculptor, and they were introduced through Meryl's brother in 1978.

Close-up of Meryl and Don at a press event

12. Matt Damon met his wife, Luciana Barroso, while he was filming Stuck on You in Miami. At the time she was a bartender, and they crossed paths after Matt's friends encouraged him to go out for drinks with them after work.

Close-up of Luciana and Matt at a press event

13. Jerry Seinfeld met his wife, Jessica Seinfeld, at a gym in New York City. She was filling up her water bottle and wearing headphones when Jerry went up to her and tried to make her laugh. At the time, she had just gotten married to Eric Nederlander, but broke things off soon after.

Close-up of Jerry and Jessica at a media event

14. Dolly Parton met her husband, Carl Dean, outside a laundromat in Nashville. He saw her from his pickup truck and asked her on a date, but she declined. The next day, she ended up inviting him over while she babysat her nephew, and he continued to come over every day afterward.

15. Patrick Dempsey and his wife, Jillian Fink, met when he made an appointment for a haircut at her salon. At the time, they were both in relationships with other people, and it took them three years before they finally got together.

Close-up of Patrick and Jillian at a media event

16. George Clooney met his wife, Amal Clooney, an established human rights lawyer, when a friend brought her by his home in Lake Como, Italy.

Close-up of Amal and George at a media event

17. Jennifer Lawrence met her art dealer husband, Cooke Maroney, through a mutual friend back in 2018. She even said that when she met Cooke, she knew she wanted to marry him.

Close-up of Cooke and Jennifer walking on the street

18. Amy Schumer met her husband, Chris Fischer, a Martha’s Vineyard chef and author of The Beetlebung Farm Cookbook, through her personal assistant Molly, who happened to be Chris's sister.

Close-up of Chris and Amy at a media event

19. Jesse Tyler Ferguson's husband, Justin Mikita, works as a lawyer, and they met at the Equinox gym in West Hollywood. At the time, Justin was a law student and had just seen Jesse on the pilot episode of Modern Family.

Close-up of Jesse and Justin at a media event

20. Seth Meyers and his wife, Alexi Ashe, met at Chris Kattan's wedding — her sister, Ariel, worked in the set department at Saturday Night Live. Seth even said their meeting felt like "love at first sight."

Close-up of Seth and Alexi at a media event

21. Cynthia Nixon and Christine Marinoni, an education activist, met in 2001 while Cynthia was campaigning to reduce the size of public school classes in New York City. At the time, Cynthia was married to Danny Mozes, but the two remained friends and got together after her divorce.

Close-up of Cynthia and Christine at a Pride event

22. Jeff Bridges met his wife, Susan Geston, while he was filming Rancho Deluxe in Montana. She actually turned him down the first time he asked her out, and then they ran into each other a few days later at a local bar.

Close-up of Jeff and Susan at a media event

23. Finally, George Lucas met his wife, Mellody Hobson, at a business conference in 2006. She's the president and co-CEO of Ariel Investments and the chair of Starbucks Corp.

Close-up of Mellody and George at a media event