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By Associated Press, 9/3/2003
BETHEL, Maine -- The marriage of Dave Hart and Rockie Graham began with both of them down in the dumps.
The two exchanged vows on Monday, pledging their hearts and souls to each other at the Bethel Transfer Station, where they met and love bloomed next to the piles of recycled cans and garbage.
"What a contrast. The tux and the trash," Hart said.
It was nearly three years ago at the transfer station that Hart met Graham, a committed recycler who now works part-time there. Hart is the station's manager.
When they decided to marry, it was Hart's idea to hold the ceremony where they first met, and where everyone knows them.
About 250 people attended the wedding, standing on either side of a red carpet laid in the middle of the dump.
Hart wore gloves, top hat and tux. His bride wore a $7,000 wedding dress with sparkling sequins and white roses.
A guitarist sang a tune he composed for the couple: "I hope you won't dump me when we marry, or toss me out like a bag of trash, I wouldn't want your burning love to turn to ash."
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