I bet $20 to marry my high school sweetheart – winning feels like a ‘rom-com’

NYC darlings Nova and Reemo Styles, however, asked 60 friends and family members to each blindly risk $333 for a ticket to their unconventional wedding in June 2023.

The pair told The Post that after encouraging paying attendees to “trust the process,” their guests were treated to a chauffeured landmark tour around the Big Apple along with a lavish lobster dinner and steak at One World Trade Center.

Thanks to their cash-saving hack, Styles saved $70,000.

Money, however, was the last thing on Wessel’s mind as he prepared to marry his high school sweetheart – who he proposed to with an emerald-cut diamond ring during a sunrise hike in Hawaii.

“At my bachelor party I talked about my senior quote,” Wessel told Kennedy. “A friend said, ‘I’ll give you $20 when you walk down the aisle afterwards.’

“I forgot about that with all the planning.”

But the recollection of this serious statement quickly rushed back to fear.

“The teacher just threw this stuff at us at the last minute,” Wessel recalled of having to write a meaningful message under his Lakewood Ranch High School yearbook picture.

“I didn’t have anything profound to say like some of my friends were trying to do,” he added. “I was just thinking about Sarah and I knew I was going to marry her and I thought, ‘This is going to be cool down the road.’

“I didn’t say anything to him,” Wessel said. “I wanted to see if they would print it.”

At the time, the teenagers, who met in 2011 as classmates in the sixth-grade “Datacat” program, had only been dating for a short time. Dill just transferred to another school.

But the couple’s mutual friends eagerly alerted her to Wessel’s bold move.