Made for Each Other : Universal Studios: Couple dress as monsters for tourists. Today they’ll be married in work clothes.

The bride has ear-to-ear stitches and a striped beehive hairdo. The groom is a big lug with a greenish complexion who lurches and grunts.

It was love at first fright.

Sheila Gavarrete and Stafford Mills work at the Universal Studios Tour, where they are paid to dress in costumes and scare tourists. They met on the job. He plays Frankenstein’s monster and she plays, you guessed it, the Bride of Frankenstein.

These two were made for each other.

Today, the young couple will be married on the studio’s back lot in a courtyard where the 1931 movie “Frankenstein” was filmed. Fog will swirl and live wolves will bay. The groom will be led in on a chain.

The bride will wear a dead-snake garter.

“Everyone wants a wedding that’s memorable,” Mills, 26, said.

“You can’t get more memorable than this,” his 21-year-old fiancee said.

Mills and Gavarrete initially planned a conventional ceremony. But their boss suggested that the gruesome twosome tie the knot in their work clothes. Mills’ best man thought it was a delightful idea.

He plays Dracula on the tour.

Studio executives--never shy about publicity opportunities--offered to provide an unholy matrimony. Piles of skulls and dead flowers will adorn the courtyard. The bridesmaids have been given tattered gowns and veils. Tour employees--dressed as the Wolfman, the Mummy and the Creature from the Black Lagoon--will serve as ushers.

Gavarrete’s father, however, had to be persuaded to dress as Dr. Pretorious, the madman who helped create the bride in the film.

“My only encounter with Frankenstein was in the movie theater in 1938,” Ed Gavarrete said at the rehearsal. “Now look at me.”

Presiding over the hideous nuptials--from behind a morgue slab--will be Lawrence Keene, a minister who has married such celebrities as Kate Jackson and George Peppard. He will be dressed in a monk’s robe and wolf-fur collar. “They’ll probably revoke my ordination papers for this,” Keene said.

After Frankenstein breaks a test tube beneath his boot and grunts “Mazel Tov,” the newlyweds will be whisked away in a horse-drawn hearse to a private room nearby where they will re-enact the ceremony in traditional clothing.

“For our families,” Mills said.

Speaking of in-laws, they can only hope this union of their offspring fares better than the movie version. On film, the monster’s heart is broken when his manufactured mate is so repelled by his cobbled-together features she goes into a screaming fit. In his rage, he destroys the castle, burying them both.

“We’re going to change that bit of history,” Gavarrete said.