Caroline Francis Xavier Fairchild and Daniel Joseph Gadino are to be married Sept. 16 in Sun Valley, Idaho. The Rev. Joseph R. Laracy, a childhood friend of the groom, is to perform the ceremony at Our Lady of the Snows Roman Catholic Church.
Ms. Fairchild, 28, will keep her name. She is a managing editor in the San Francisco office of LinkedIn, the business networking website. She graduated cum laude from Duke, and is now a member of the board of visitors, an advisory group, for the university’s business school.
She is the daughter of Maureen F. X. Brown of Sun Valley and Gary L. Fairchild of Clearwater, Fla. The bride’s father, a lawyer, retired as the escalations director in accounting, in Mundelein, Ill., for Medline Industries, a medical supplies company. Her mother, also a lawyer, performs legal data and research work in Sun Valley.
Mr. Gadino, 34, is a senior manager, in San Francisco, for financial services consulting at Deloitte, the consultancy. He graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and received an M.B.A. from Duke.
He is the son of Donna L. Gadino and Joseph M. Gadino of Beach Haven Crest, N.J. The groom’s mother is a sales associate at the HomeGoods store in Toms River, N.J. His father is a technology consultant, in Beach Haven Crest, for Itelligence, an information technology services provider.
The couple met in 2011, at a holiday ugly-sweater party that Mr. Gadino hosted at the apartment of a friend, near Duke, in Durham, N.C. Miss Fairchild wasn’t invited, but went anyway. “I crashed it, and I didn’t wear an ugly sweater,” she said.
Each year since, the couple has hosted an ugly-sweater party to which guests are encouraged to bring someone uninvited, “on the off chance that someone meets,” the bride said.
