01:00 AM EST on Sunday, November 16, 2003

Holly Tiberi and Alan Monti

The Casino at Roger Williams Park, Providence

10.31.03

"Halloween is a special day for me," says Holly Tiberi. "Not just because I enjoy it, but because it was my mother's birthday. She died when I was 14, and I wanted to pay a special tribute to her."

Today, Holly, 31, will wear her mother's peau de soie wedding gown, as her "something old." Says Holly: "It's 39 years old -- she wore it on November 7, 1964."

Holly designs Christmas ornaments for Chemart Co. in Lincoln. She met Alan Monti through his sister, Kim Forcier, who also worked at Chemart. Alan, 37, is a musician and floor installer.

Kim invited Holly to hear Alan's band, PowerHouse, at Chan's in Woonsocket. "He was very busy, preoccupied, seemed totally uninterested in me." Later, he told her she looked like a "partyer" and he didn't want to get into that scene anymore -- he had been there. But his friends told him "What, are you crazy? She's beautiful. You've got to go out with her."

The second encounter was at Duke's in Cranston. He was playing; she was there with Kim. This time, he showed interest. He walked Holly to her car, said he was going to get some dinner down the street, did she want to come along. Their first official date was December 1, 2001. "It was 70 degrees and we rode motorcycles together."

On December 7, 2002, Alan asked Holly to marry him.

Alan agreed to the Halloween wedding, even though he really wanted a private ceremony on a beach in Hawaii. "He has catered to my every whim," says Holly. "I am an artist so I have pretty much comandeered every task. My invitations were coffins that opened up to a flocked interior. Everyone loved them!" Holly designed the cocktail napkins and coffin-shaped programs, with two "love bats" under their names.

The bride's "something new" is a spider web tiara -- with a dangling spider -- which she designed and had made, as well as an immense spider bracelet that she bought at Trash and Vaudeville in New York. "Victorians prized the spider as an icon of undying love and commitment. Once entrapped in love's web, one would always remain faithful," or so it says in the program.

About 150 guests arrive and gather around the bandstand at Roger Williams Park for the outdoor ceremony, stopping to laugh, shriek, or comment on each others' costumes. There's Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, three Zorros and two King Arthurs (one videotaping the ceremony), several variations on Count Dracula, Goldilocks and one bear, Elvis, two nuns (later seen drinking and smoking cigarettes on the veranda), and the Blues Brothers, who claimed, of course, to be "on a mission from God."

Later that evening, Alan donned a Frankenstein mask, and Holly became -- what else? -- the bride of Frankenstein.