EUGENE — Ron Griffith and Katherine Hoye weren’t concerned about a little rain on their wedding day — or by the noise of nearby construction.

As the two exchanged vows among family and friends at Opportunity Village Thursday, a few of their neighbors worked away on future dwellings at the complex, which provides temporary housing to homeless people. In a way, everyone there was building a new life together.

“It’s so right and perfect,” Griffith, 45, said of his bride and their wedding day at the village, where they’ve lived since August.

While many couples spend their engagement securing the ideal wedding venue and fussing over food and decorations, Griffith and Hoye’s past six months were filled with more somber tasks.

They’d been together seven years when Hoye, 43, the couple’s sole income earner, lost her job last spring.

In April, Hoye’s mother died. And in May, with their home about to be foreclosed on, they moved from North Carolina to Eugene, in part to care for Griffith’s mother, who is in poor health.

Though they found welcome refuge at the Eugene Mission, living in separate men’s and women’s quarters put an added strain on their financial and emotional burdens.

In August, they were ecstatic to be among the first residents chosen for Opportunity Village; the new homeless housing pilot project, where they moved in together in a 64-square-foot wooden bungalow.

As for that perfect wedding venue — the couple had no trouble deciding.

“It’s a great start for the village, as well as for this couple,” said Dan Bryant, president of the village’s board of directors and senior minister at First Christian Church, who officiated the Halloween Day ceremony, clad in a costume of shepherd’s robes.

The bride and groom also dressed up for the outdoor ceremony — she donned gray angel wings and he wore a gray button-up shirt.

About 20 guest hummed the notes of the bridal processional as the retired Rev. Wayne Martin escorted the giggling bride down the aisle.

For those who had long advocated for Opportunity Village, the wedding was a sign of hope for the local homeless community.

“They’re really an important foundation for the village, because they model love,” said Martin, who serves on the village’s steering committee. “It puts more than a face on homeless; it puts a soul on homelessness.”

The village, modeled after Portland’s Dignity Village, will eventually provide temporary housing for 30 to 40 homeless residents who pledge to be clean and sober.