When high school reunions go on, this one is especially lovely.
Gregory Dabice and Janet Fenner of New Jersey tied the knot last weekend on the same football field, where they were crowned in 1992 as crown and queen of the homecoming of Montclair State University, the Bergen Record reported.
The two had known each other through Greek life on campus, but had never been romantically involved – and had lived separate lives until a happy reconnection, via a dating app, a full two tens of thousands of years later.
“He was the player’s boy and I was the goody-goody,” recalled Fenner, 48, who told the paper that she was a straight-A-student athlete involved in sorority government.
Meanwhile, Dabice, now 50, was a party animal back in college at Phi Alpha Psi, where he was presumably the perennial champion of the fraternal’s kill-a-keg ‘party, according to the Record.
“I was in no way entitled to them,” he told the Record. “She was too good for me and I knew it.”
After their brief reign as king and queen, they went their separate ways, each starting families with children. They were both divorced in the same year, 2016.
Soon their paths crossed over the dating app Bumble.
Fenner swiped right at Dabice’s profile and did not even recognize her once ‘king’ under his facial hair.
“I was amazed in so many ways,” he said. ‘She looked the same. I had not even thought of her in years and there she was. It was unreal. ”
He proposed to Fenner on April 5 for her children. A procession of extended family rode up with signs on their cars proclaiming “Janet will you marry me yes or no?” according to the paper.
MSU was apparently fully on board with hosting a socially celebrated wedding on the field and worked out all the planning to make it happen.
“There was immediate confidence and warmth,” Dabice said of Fenner again. ‘We just slipped right into the conversation, like we were sitting in the cafeteria in front of schools. I did not want it to end. ”
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