Washington couple collects cans to pay for wedding

[February 04, 2010]  SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- Love for each other and the environment -- and creative thriftiness -- have prompted a Spokane couple to collect aluminum cans to help pay for their wedding.

Andrea Parrish and Peter Geyer already have more than 18,000 cans in their living room -- nearly 5 percent of their goal of collecting 400,000 of the containers.

The Spokesman-Review newspaper says that would be about 5 tons of aluminum, worth about $3,800 when recycled.

Parrish and Geyer hope to meet their goal by their planned July 31 wedding.

They set up a Web site to explain their plan at www.weddingcans.com.

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Information from: The Spokesman-Review, http://www.spokesman.com/

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