2 Plane Tickets, 1 Fairytale Love Story that moved the Heart – Dana Perino, the famous Fox News host, and her husband Peter McMahon met on a 1997 flight – “Back then, we just wished the plane would never land.”

The stunning Dana Perino and her husband, Peter McMahon, had a meet-cute that most people only experience in books or movies. In 1997, the two each boarded a flight from Denver to Chicago. McMahon spotted Perino and hoped he’d be seated next to her. Just as McMahon hoped, he and Perino did sit next to each other for the duration of their flight, and they chatted the entire time. While Perino wasn’t searching for a relationship at the time, she was interested in McMahon. “Oh, he’s cute, and he’s not wearing a wedding ring, and he has a British accent,” Perino thought,” as she told Yahoo!

At the end of the flight, Perino gave McMahon her contact information, hoping she’d get a message. Ten days later, McMahon sent Perino an email. “I spent those 10 days unable to eat or sleep or even read. And I logged onto my computer, and I got his email then,” Perino said. From there, the couple began a long-distance relationship with Perino in Washington, D.C. and McMahon in the United Kingdom. Nearly a year later, McMahon proposed to Perino, but she was reluctant to answer for a short period of time. Then, exactly a year after they met, Perino responded to McMahon’s proposal in an unconventional way. “Dana gave me a letter and the letter told me how much she loved me, how much she had enjoyed her time in the U.K., how much she enjoyed being with me. And then at the end she said, ‘Yes, I will marry you,’” McMahon said. The couple wed in 1998, and they celebrated their 26th anniversary in 2024.