Bride-to-be Marina Maiuri will be laying a ghost to rest this leap day.

On Saturday, the 45-year-old will wed the man of her dreams — 12 years after dumping the love rat she very publicly proposed to on Feb. 29, 2008.

“Choosing Feb. 29 as my wedding day shows I have come full circle,” Maiuri, of The Bronx, tells The Post. “The date will transform from being one of the worst of my life with bad memories to the very best.”

Women proposing to men on leap day is a tradition that started in Ireland centuries ago. In 2008, Maiuri was thrilled to seize the excuse to pop the question to then-boyfriend Sean Smith on top of the Empire State Building. They made headlines and appeared on the “Today” show.

But just 15 months later, Smith cheated on her, leaving Maiuri full of regret. In a February 2016 conversation with The Post, she even warned other women not to get down on one knee.

“Don’t do it — at least without thinking it through twice, three times or more,” she said, adding that when the woman asks, “they don’t take it seriously.”

So it bodes well that Maiuri’s current fiancé, Alan Wooten, asked for her hand in October 2018 — eight months after meeting each other, and four months after they started seriously dating. Wooten says he just couldn’t wait to be her husband.

“I am a firm believer in twin flames, and Marina is my twin flame,” says Wooten, 48. “You just know when you’ve met that once-in-a-lifetime person.”

The couple met doing Spartan races — a hobby Maiuri had taken up to soothe her broken heart.

“He actually yelled at me because I’d parked my car in the wrong place, but we ended up getting on well,” says Maiuri.

After some social-media courtship, Wooten plucked up the courage to ask her out. Soon, they were inseparable. In September, they took a road trip that cemented Wooten’s feelings for Maiuri. After asking for her father’s blessing, he presented Maiuri with a sign at dinner, reading: “Will you marry me?”

“It was romantic,” says Maiuri, who works in the pharmaceutical industry. “Alan is very laid-back, kindhearted and caring. I haven’t met anyone else like him before.”

On Saturday, the couple will exchange vows during a ceremony in Woodbury, LI. The marriage will be the second for Wooten, a father of one, and Maiuri’s first.

So, besides scrubbing out a bad memory with a good one, why choose Feb. 29?

“If Alan forgets an anniversary on Feb. 28 in future non-leap years, he can make up for it on March 1,” Maiuri jokes.