Jon Bon Jovi met the love of his life Dorothea Hurley when she let him cheat off of her in their history class.
After nearly 10 years of dating, the two tied the knot in a spur-of-the-moment ceremony in Las Vegas in 1989. The band Bon Jovi had been on their New Jersey Syndicate tour when Jon suggested the two run off to Las Vegas. Since then, the couple has celebrated more than 30 years together and share four children: Stephanie , Jesse , Jake and Romeo .“I remember coming home with Stephanie, our first, and thinking I have a daughter? I never even had a sister,” he said at the time.
“We had the No. 1 album, the No. 1 single, and we were playing three nights at the Forum in L.A.,” Jon told Men’s Health in 2010. “I turned to Dorothea and said, ‘I got an idea. Why don’t we go right now?’ She said, ‘You’re out of your mind.’ I said, ‘Come on. What’s better than this, right now, this moment?’ And so we ran off to Las Vegas. Didn’t tell a soul.”1995Jon almost missed the birth of his third child, Jacob “Jake” Hurley.
“I’m not a saint, and I have not been a saint. And, christ, I missed tons of birthdays and school plays. But it’s not like Dorothea came in halfway through the movie and didn’t know who she got,” Jon said at the time. “She’s been in it the whole game. She understands what it means.”Jon and Dorothea — along with their daughter Stephanie and their two youngest sons, Jake and Romeo — attended the Winter Whites Gala at Kensington Palace.