Richard and Rebecca Conti of Fredonia are pleased to announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Melissa Marian to Thomas Anthony Mazza, son of Donna Mazza of Ithaca.

The bride-to-be, a graduate of Gannon University and SUNY Binghamton is a researcher at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. The prospective groom is a graduate of Mansfield University and is employed at the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in Washington, DC.

An October 2017 wedding is planned.