Although they probably knew of each other, George Washington supposedly officialy met Martha Custis by accident when he was invited to stay for dinner at a friend's house while traveling to Williamsburg.

One story has Franklin Pierce meeting his future wife, Jane Appleton while they were taking cover under a tree during a rainstorm.

A nearly 19 year old Mamie Dowd was visting some friends at Fort Sam Houston when one of her companions beckoned a young officer, who was just starting to "make his rounds", to join them. The officer was Ike Eisenhower. Miss Doud joined him on his walk around the fort.

Claudia "Lady Bird" Taylor was visting a friend in Austin, Texas when a young Congressional aide Lyndon Johnson stopped by the same friend's office to pick up his blind date for the night--another girl who worked there. He and Lady Bird met and the next day after a long ride together, Lyndon proposed.