The Best Rom-Com Couples

Well it's time for one of my favorite holidays. I realize Valentine's Day is a commercial holiday, solely celebrated to make companies a ton more money, but I will never turn down free chocolate or being worshiped. In my opinion every day should be Valentine's Day because you should always show the people you care about how much you love them. For these couples, it kinda is Valentine's Day every day, and while they fight and break up, in the end they always find a way to show each other just how much they care. So in no particular order here are my fourteen favorite rom-com couples.

Allegra and Albert (Hitch)

While they're not the main couple of the movie, they are by far the better one. Albert has been in love with Allegra for years and of course she never noticed him because she's famous and he's a clumsy accountant. But with the help of the love doctor she's in love with him after three dates even though he can't dance and is constantly spilling mustard on his clothes. She gets to know the lovable guy he is underneath all of the awkwardness and asthma and watching them fall in love feels rewarding.

Allan and Nicole (What If)

This is another case where the secondary couple is actually the cuter and superior one. Allan and Nicole meet at a party and start a kind of whirlwind romance that seems to only be physical at first but quickly grows into so much more. These two are pretty much always on the same page and band together to be kind of the worst friends to Wallace but give the best advice when it comes to love cuz they got it down. Should we all aspire to be Allan and Nicole? Not exactly but we should aspire to love the way they do.

Georgia and Sean (Last Holiday)

So this movie meshes together all my favorite movie genres in one. It's a romantic comedy that takes place during Christmas time! What is better than that? Nothing! Georgia finds out that she's terminally ill and only has three weeks to live so she cashes all of her savings and vacations in Europe. Meanwhile back home, her work crush Sean is trying to find her and tell her that she's not in fact terminally ill. The fascinating thing about this couple is they spend most of the movie apart, but Sean's determination to find Georgia and not only give her the good news, but tell her he loves her is just adorable. He literally traveled miles for love and I think we all deserve someone who would do that for us.

Jenna and Matt (13 Going on 30)

Who doesn't love this movie starring the ever charming Jennifer Garner and pre Avengers Mark Ruffalo? The answer should be no one. Few things are more relateable than waking up and suddenly you're thirty and you have no clue what you've done with your life to get here. Whether you got there normally or by magic dust, you still need someone there to help you navigate your mess. Sometimes that person is your best friend who had a huge crush on you when you were thirteen. And sometimes that person still has a crush on you. Even though Matt is set to get married, it's clear he still has extremely strong feelings for Jenna. He loved the things she hated about herself and always did whatever he could to make her happy. Luckily the dust worked it's magic right on time because Jenna ended up not missing out on the love of a life time.

Cher and Josh (Clueless)

There's a lot of dispute about whether this couple is gross or extremely cute. I go with the latter. Considering they were only step siblings for a hot second and they don't even consider each other family I'd say they're safe from being a cringey couple. They are however complete and total opposites. Josh is ambitious, thoughtful and cares about the environment. And Cher is popular, a terrible driver and cares about Cher. Though that does get rectified, it's Josh that makes Cher realize she's a better person than everyone thinks she is. There's more to her than shopping and make overs. Cher in return teaches Josh to have fun and thankfully shave that god awful goatee. We don't know if they're meant to go the distance, but she did catch the bouquet and he did seem pretty excited about it. We should all find someone who loves us even if we are a virgin who can't drive.

All the couples (The Holiday)

I've already expressed my absolute love for this movie in a previous movie, but lets do a recap any way. I love this movie! It's so light and fun and romantic. It also explains the all important meet-cute. Watching these two couples fall in love is an absolute delight. We have Iris and Miles who fall in love in LA while hanging out with old men and Amanda and Graham who fall for each other in the snow of London. After getting out of bad relationships, it's nice to see healthy relationship fueled by passion and friendship blossom between these two couples. Graham made Amanda cry for the first time in literal years. Only true love can do that to you.

Tim and Mary (About Time)

A day will come when I get through this movie without sobbing. Today is not that day. Tim (Domnhall Gleeson) is a time traveler who falls in love with an American girl who has the same name as his mother played by Rachel McAdams who seems to like taking roles where she's with men who can travel in time. It takes him quite a few times to get it right when it comes to meeting her before she has a boyfriend and proposing to her the proper way. The best thing about their relationship is how goofy they are together and how they genuinely enjoy each other's company. Besides a guy who goes back in time and follows you so you can meet and fall in love is sweet and not creepy...right?

Vivian and Edward (Pretty Woman)

While their relationship starts off as nothing more than a transaction, it sure blossoms into something more powerful. Vivienne gets the job of a lifetime when she's paid thousands just to hang out with this hot lonely rich dude for a weekend. While at first Edward is sure that he'll be rid of her when the weekend is over, it ends up being him who asks her to stay with him for real. But Vivienne like so many of us wants the fairy tale. She doesn't want some dude paying for her to stay in an apartment while he comes and goes as he pleases. Not romantic at all. But when you're in love you go the extra mile and make the fairy tale come true for the one you love. And who doesn't want to settle down with a guy who punches and fires his best friend for you?

Princess Buttercup and Westley (The Princess Bride)

I don't really need to say much here, we know what's going on. Westley is the dreamiest stable boy ever and Princess Buttercup is a badass who will do anything for love, including risk her own life and jump down a hill for her man. Westley will go up against giants and swordsmen with riddled with revenge for her. Their love is inconceivable. I keep using that word. Maybe it doesn't mean what I think it means. Either way any person that storms the castle just to save you deserves your hand in mawage.

Patrick and Kat (10 Things I Hate About You)

You can't talk about romantic comedies without mentioning this beauty. Sure the relationship between Kat and Patrick starts off sketch since he's literally being paid to date her and take her to Prom, but they find they have so much in common and he falls head over heels in love with her and makes it impossible for not to fall right back in love. Whether it was his rendition of Can't Take My Eyes Off of You or their messy paint date. Also the fact that Heath Ledger is super hot doesn't hurt either. Julia Stiles is also super hot and it's not every day you find a girl who will flash a teacher to get you out of detention and that's someone you want to keep around.

Viola and Duke (She's The Man)

This movie doesn't get nearly enough credit for how funny and brilliant it is. A hilarious twist on the Twelfth Night where a girl pretends to be her brother so she can play soccer. In the process she starts falling for her roommate Duke, who is hot and maybe not the smartest guy but he's got a good heart. Unfortunately he's in love with Olivia until he meets Viola in her true form and of course things get complicated from there. What's great about their romance is it starts off as genuine friendship before anything else, so basically they ended up falling in love with their best friend and from personal experience, that is greatest kind of love there is.

Julia and Robbie (The Wedding Singer)

Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler are a pair of actors that just seem to have the most explosive chemistry ever. Every time they act together, they're electric. The Wedding Singer is hands down their best movie together. Julia is set to get married to like the worst guy ever and Robbie has just been left at the alter and trying to find a way to still believe in love enough to do his job. Over the course of planning to Julia's wedding they fall in love and watching it play out is both beautiful and hilarious. And the song Robbie writes for Julia is the most romantic song ever written and no one can tell me otherwise. Also he saved her from being Julia Gulia. Need I say more?

Toula and Ian (My Big Fat Greek Wedding)

I watch this movie about once every two months because that's just how good it is! Getting married is hard enough without having your family involved so heavily, especially when that family is loud and doesn't exactly approve of your relationship. Toula is a thirty year old single woman who's family keeps telling her she needs to marry a Greek man and have a bunch of Greek children like everyone else does. Instead she falls in love with Ian who is not Greek, so basically the worst thing her family could think of. Seeing Toula's confidence grow throughout the movie while falling in love with Ian is seriously inspiring. She finds herself and she finds someone who loves her exactly for who she is. Big crazy family and all. Not to mention it's heart melting when Ian says he never saw her as frump girl before her transformation. We all deserve an Ian. Get yourself an Ian.

Lucy and Jack (While You Were Sleeping)

So this is possibly my favorite movie in the whole world and I watch it so much my husband is absolutely sick of it, but that's fine I'm gonna watch it a million more times anyways. The theme of this story is 'life doesn't always turn out the way you plan'. Lucy planned to actually meet Peter the man she's been in love with but instead she gets his family when he's put in a coma on Christmas Day and they think she's his fiancee. Lucy not only falls in love with his brother Jack, but their entire family. While the Callaghans are the heart of the movie, the relationship that forms between Lucy and Jack over the course of the week is bewitching. Falling in love with your brother's fiancee is wrong, but so is pretending to be a comatose person's fiancee so they're kind of made for each other. Sometimes you have to yell object at your own wedding to get your true love and in return he'll give you the world.

While we don't have to be these fourteen couples in order to be in love and find someone special it's nice to have a reminder of all that love could be. Happy Valentine's Day!