She owes it in part to care2.com, a Web site for people who love animals. Maguire, a 24-year-old native of Saltsburg, has used its e-greetings service.

Last fall, she found out the site had been updated and expanded. Among the new options were profiles of care2.com members. Maguire filled one out.

At the time, she was considering starting work on a master's degree. Maguire is a 1998 consumer affairs graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

But her plans were about to change. At the end of September, a week after filling out her profile, she received an e-mail from Randall Cohen, a fleet resources manager for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration who lives in Orlando, Fla.

He is an animal lover and site member too. He had filled out his own profile, scrolled through others, and was intrigued by Maguire's hometown.

"I said, 'That's interesting. I've never heard of Saltsburg.' I just wrote her a note," Cohen said.

Maguire was surprised.

"It's not like a dating site," she said. "It's not a chatroom. I wrote back thinking nothing would ever come of it, but why not?"

The pair hit it off, and soon Cohen was asking Maguire to telephone him. She was hesitant, but two weeks later she called.

"He had me laughing," Maguire said. "We had so much in common."

They began to discuss meeting in person but again Maguire was unsure. She told her mother, Linda, who suggested a family vacation to Disney World. The Maguires had been to the park about 10 times over the years.

They went the week before Christmas. Maguire and Cohen met at a resort hotel.

"We were both really nervous," she said. "We had fallen so hard for each other the phone. We were afraid we'd be let down."

After the initial meeting, Cohen wasn't sure if Maguire was interested. But the next evening he took her and her parents - her father is Jack, Saltsburg's borough manager - to see the last shuttle launch of the millennium. It was originally scheduled for October but had been postponed.

"That's when we really let our guard down," he said.

The family returned to Saltsburg before Christmas, and they invited Cohen up to celebrate the holidays. He decided to propose, talked to her parents, and spent two days searching for the right ring.

Jack Maguire said the idea took some getting used to.

"Everything happened to quickly," he said. "When we met Randall in Florida we liked him right away. That helped."

Cohen was looking for a special way to pop the question and ended up buying champagne glasses and having them engraved. One read, "Megan, will you." The other said, "Marry me, Randall."

Jack Maguire handed the glasses to the couple at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve. When Megan looked at Cohen she saw the first half of the message. Her own glass completed the question.

Then Cohen took her aside, got on his knee and proposed. Maguire accepted.

"I couldn't believe it," she said. "I kept waiting to wake up and have it all be a dream. If someone had told me this was going to happen I would have said, 'You're crazy.'"

They married at Disney World, at a pavilion across from the Magic Kingdom, on March 4. Maguire had dreamed of a wedding there since she was a girl.

"It was beautiful," she said. A "total Cinderella story."

Maguire is a 1994 graduate of Saltsburg High School. Cohen grew up in Tampa, Fla.

Now the couple are building a house in Chuluota, a small town near Orlando. Maguire is considering a career that will involve animals.

Cohen is busy with his job, which involves coordinating supplies for experiments planned on the international space station.

They have one dog, and Maguire is hoping to bring another dog and some of her five cats from Saltsburg.

"I feel so blessed to have all this happen," she said.