Ciara & Russell Wilson

What happens when a professional football player falls in love with a Grammy winner? Of course, they live happily ever after—with Russell Wilson and Ciara as the perfect example. Their romance is for the books, from their first attraction to marriage and raising a family together.

The pair finally revealed the genuine tale of how they met on Instagram, and it seems like fate. Ciara met Russell for the first time during a University of Wisconsin basketball game. Russell invited the artist to dinner, although he already had plans with pals. Ciara accepted, and the quarterback promptly modified his plans to accommodate her—forgetting about his second dinner commitment in the process. They got engaged a year later and secretly married in 2016 in England. They joined the Portland Diamond Project to help bring a big-league baseball franchise to Oregon City, the first of several combined business investments.