Christine & Darcy in Ardmore, PA

For Christine Tomasello, living in San Francisco and planning her Pennsylvania wedding was no easy feat. She and her groom, Darcy Cottrell, decided on the Philadelphia suburbs where they grew up for sentimental reasons -- it's also where they met at a mutual friend's New Year's Eve party in 1996. THE BRIDE Christine Tomasello, 25, market researcher THE GROOM Darcy Cottrell, 27, sales executive THE DATE September 27