And look at us four years later, we have just bought a house together in Normanton in West Yorkshire. We are completely in love."
But last year Jono faced his toughest test yet. He decided to try and track down his biological parents.
"It was something I'd always wanted to do. As a teenager I'd been angry and upset and wanted to meet them for the wrong reason - to ask them why they'd abandoned me - but as I matured I realised they obviously felt they couldn't cope.
"I thought things might have changed. That they might want to know I was happy."
Jono says he was "heartbroken" when he was rejected all over again.
"It was awful. Awful. I cried and cried. But I have come to terms with it. It must have been one of the hardest decisions they ever had to make.
"I found out they've gone on to have two more children. I'm glad they have got a family. I'm happy, I hope they are happy too."
Jono, who now works as a team leader with adults with autism, says he is a firm believer that everything happens for a reason, but wants people to be more aware of what Treacher Collins is - and how to deal with it.
"What really frustrates me and upsets me is when a child in a supermarket stares and his or her mother tells them off.
"I wish they could come and talk to me so that I could tell them about it - so that is seems more normal."
He says he also wants to help families in similar situations to him.
"If someone had said 'this is me, my wife, my job' to me when I was younger it would have helped massively."
But Jono says he still has one big question he has to face.
Although Treacher Collins is a rare genetic condition that can affect anyone, the chances of him passing it on to his children are thought to be about 50%.
"I've met families with babies with various disabilities and seen how well they cope.
"I really want to do the school run, take my child to dance, gymnastics or football, but how can I knowingly put my child through operations, hospital appointments and bullying?
"I play around with it in my head - it drives me mad. We're still young, there is plenty of time, but it is something Laura and I are going to have to think about somewhere down the line."
But Jono says he would not change the fact he was born with Treacher Collins syndrome.
"Doctors always asked if I wanted corrective surgery... to get my cheek bones built up, my teeth straightened or my jaw broken and realigned, but despite how depressed I got I thought 'God made me like this'.
"I'm glad I didn't choose anything. I'm proud of who I am. And Treacher Collins made me who I am today.