Love | Tom Coleman and Wendy Wolfinger Cerminaro

Married

June 17, outdoors at the Appleford Estate in Villanova, with the Rev. John Galloway Jr. of Wayne Presbyterian Church presiding. A reception followed for about 75 guests.

They met

On Match.com in 2002. Wendy, a divorcée with two daughters, had gone on 37 Match.com dates before she spotted Tom's profile, which included photos of his two sons from his previous marriage. After a few e-mails and phone calls, they agreed to meet at the Gryphon Cafe in Wayne on April 17. "I was immediately attracted to him," Wendy says. "He saw me and his eyes went 'boing!' " They decided to continue their conversation over drinks at the Wooden Iron, and dinner at the BYO Teresa's Cafe. Tom briefly returned to his car and emerged with hand-picked daffodils wrapped in aluminum foil. Before dinner, he suggested they stop for a bottle of wine at his parents' St. Davids home, where Wendy met Tom's mother "and she grilled me."

After a few months of dating, they broke up. "I needed to settle things with someone from my past," Wendy says. When she reached out to Tom, he had met someone else on eHarmony. She signed up - and Tom was one of her four matches. "Tom says I filled it out just so I could get him back." They resumed dating in fall 2002.

He asked

Dec. 17, 2004 at Alma de Cuba. When Tom asked Wendy if she had brought along tissues and her camera, she knew something was up. Appetizers arrived, then the entrees, and finally Alma's signature chocolate cigar dessert. So Wendy spoke up. "I thought you were going to ask me to marry you tonight?" He told her he had a Christmas present for her - earrings. It was really the ring, of course, and Tom got down on one knee to ask for her hand.

9 to 5

Wendy, 49, of Edgley, is a freelance art and creative director. Tom, 47, of Westtown, is vice president and partner at Lumbermen Associates, a wholesale lumber company.

Making a home

The newlyweds and their family live in Berwyn.

First steps

To Norah Jones' "Come Away With Me," performed by wedding band Jellyroll.

Doing it their way

"This is a party for our friends who helped us through our divorces," says the bride. "We wanted a high-end cocktail-party atmosphere." Her daughters, Samantha, 20 and Gabrielle, 16, acted as maids of honor in periwinkle blue silk shantung; Tom's sons, Jeff, 19, and Dan, 17, were best men. Dad Robert walked his daughter, in silk shantung by Angelina Faccenda, down the aisle as ViVaCe Strings, joined by violinist Samantha, played.

Florist Nancy Saam created the three-foot-high centerpieces of larkspur, peonies, hydrangea, roses, bells of Ireland and blue delphinium in alternating silver fluted vases and glass cubes. The three-tier lemon pound and raspberry cake by Clay's Creative Corner Bakery in Berwyn was designed to look like Wedgwood china: blue with white fondant and pearls.

Not a dry eye

Tom's ailing father, Coates, attended the ceremony and part of the reception. An emotional moment came during Tom's speech about his dad, who was there as witness.

Bloopers

When Gabrielle loudly asked "Mom, what am I supposed to do?" before descending the steps to the ceremony, "everyone heard her and started laughing," says the bride.

Wendy says

"Remain calm and know that even though the smallest detail may not come to fruition, no one will know."

The honeymoon

The groom planned a surprise honeymoon for his bride - five days at Great Oak Manor in Maryland.