While growing up, Jesse Light and Jesse Bongiovi never crossed paths – although their dads certainly did. For more than 40 years, the bride’s father, Rob Light, has been the agent of the groom’s father, singer Jon Bon Jovi. (She spent her formative years in California, while he was raised in New Jersey.

) But in 2018, Light, who is now head of development for the production company , went to the Hamptons for the first time. She was dying to go to the famed Surf Lodge in Montauk, and with a little help from her dad, she was connected to someone she thought could get her in. Fast forward to Jesse Bongiovi, the founder of , telling Light and her nine girlfriends: “Not a chance.

” To be fair, it was Labor Day weekend and the toughest door to get into. Light – unaware of how exclusive the venue was – somehow managed to get in with her friends in tow and walked right up to Bongiovi and introduced herself. The two Jesses have been together ever since.

“We truly feel like we have been connected by an invisible string our whole lives,” Light says. “There is an ancient Chinese myth that explains how people are connected. The story goes that the god of love and marriage attaches an invisible red thread to the ankles of two people who are destined to be lovers at birth.

The thread can stretch and tangle, but it will never break, and it will eventually bring the two people together. Not only have our dads worked together for over 40 years, but our paths have crossed mult.