In August, 2011, Edward Delorie walked into the florist located near his job, not unlike many times before, unfortunately for him.

"Hey Ed, another pink rose?" Delorie, 40, recalls the florist asking.

Another pink rose. His fourth "first date" rose in four months.

"When I bought that pink rose," Delorie explained, "little did I know it would be the last pink rose I bought."

The Wareham resident was on his way to Braintree to meet Michelle Sano, now 46, the woman who, two years later, will become his wife.

And little did they know that their love story would later land them in a contest to win $100,000 toward the wedding of their dreams from PlentyOfFish.com — the dating website through which they met.

The two spent the following year getting to know each other.

Sano, a third-grade teacher, bonded so well with Delorie's 8-year-old daughter, Evelyn, that Evelyn began dropping hints that she wanted the two to get married.

Delorie took Evelyn to the jeweler to pick out an engagement ring for Michelle.

After all, it was just as important an event in Evelyn's life as in Delorie's.

"I had to find a match for [Evelyn] too," Delorie said of his relationship.

Evelyn had to promise to keep the surprise a secret for a few weeks. And she did.

The couple got engaged on October 13, 2012, at Mount Greylock in Western Mass., where they spent a day geocaching — an outdoor treasure hunting game aided by the use of a GPS.

Sano moved to Wareham, and the couple has scheduled a small, intimate Onset wedding on August 11, 2013 — two years to the day after they first met.

Now, the couple is one of six finalists in the PlentyOfFish $100,000 Wedding Contest, which can be accessed by going to www.pof.com/contest_finalists.aspx. You must be a PlentyOfFish member to vote. Voting wraps up on Feb. 7.

"We thought it'd be fun to try," Sano said of the couple's decision to enter into the contest — which had hundreds of entries.

But the couple isn't all that concerned about winning. Delorie and Sano say they've found it fun to share their story.

"We found true love," Delorie says, "so we've already won."

If they do win the big prize, however, Delorie and Sano plan to have a nice honeymoon, donate $5,000 to Hope for Caroline, a nonprofit raising funds for childhood cancer research, buy a couple of new cars, and bank the rest of the money.

Oh, and the roses that Delorie buys for Sano?

"They'll be red from now on," Delorie says.