It is a fairy-tale love that blossomed during an election far, far away. Well, actually, it happened during the last presidential election when the world was a far different place.

Eric Gioia, an up-and-coming member of the City Council from Queens, and Lisa Esler, the chief fund-raiser for Council Speaker Gifford Miller, were then working on the campaign of the former presidential contender Al Gore.

While Mr. Gore’s presidential dreams never came to fruition, Mr. Gioia and Ms. Esler struck up a romance.

Tomorrow, roughly four years after their first encounter and just weeks before the next presidential election, the political pair will exchange nuptials at Saint Sebastian Roman Catholic Church in Woodside, where Mr. Gioia was baptized and received his first communion.

Mr. Gioia, who attended NYU and Georgetown Law School, said he is expecting 1,000 people, from community members to relatives and friends. The guest list includes everyone from the assistant principal at P.S. 11, who knew Mr. Gioia long before his debut on New York City’s political scene, to former pastors and community leaders.

“I was born and raised in the neighborhood,” Mr. Gioia said yesterday during a phone interview after the couples’ last ballroom dancing lesson. “My family has been in the neighborhood for over 100 years. I’ve always looked at the neighborhood as a big extended family, so I’m just really excited that the whole neighborhood gets to come out and share what is really the most special day of my life.”

The couple’s romantic trajectory did have a few geographic curves. After the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, Ms. Esler moved back to Seattle, which is her hometown.

While she was there, as Mr. Gioia tells it, the two were talking on the phone one day, discussing the challenges he had running his own campaign against Green Party candidate Anne Eagon, when Ms. Esler asked whether he was trying to recruit her as his campaign manager. Soon after, she moved to Queens to be with him and manage his campaign. Today, Ms. Esler serves as executive director of Miller for New York. And as a member of the Council, Mr. Gioia serves as the chairman of the council’s oversight and investigations committee.

Tomorrow’s wedding will not be typical in any sense. The crowd will pack into the parish’s school auditorium and local school bands will be on hand. Incidentally, Mr. Gioia’s family owns a flower shop and will be providing 7,000 roses. And the couple will have a reception for 200 people in Lower Manhattan in the evening.

Yesterday, Mr. Gioia’s office sent out a news release detailing the highlights, including who designed the wedding dress and tuxedo. Ms. Esler, who has recently been in the news touting the success of Mr. Miller’s fund-raising efforts, will be wearing a Carolina Herrera dress. Mr. Gioia will wear a tuxedo by Gucci.

After the wedding, the couple will be off for a trip to Italy.