LEWISTON – Place a candle on the copier. Toss a linen tablecloth over a desk. Alert the folks at the drive-up window.

“We’re having a wedding,” Manager Deanna Kinsey told befuddled customers Tuesday as they walked into the Sabattus Street branch of Bank of America.

In a corner of the lobby – while folks with their deposit slips met with tellers – Thaigo Goes, 24, and Sharon Paine, 24, were joined in holy matrimony.

“We had no idea they were going to do this,” the new bride said, examining the crepe hearts and “Love” signs that bank staff put up that morning.

This August, the couple is planning a “ceremony of vows” with friends and family. Another ceremony is planned for November or December in Goes’ hometown of Recife, Brazil.

The couple figured Tuesday’s ceremony, running through the vows with their friend Linette Dehetre, was going to be a legalistic exercise. Goes imagined that they’d meet in Dehetre’s office at the bank and the notary would have them recite their vows while they sat in the stiff office chairs.

It would be as romantic as filing a joint tax return.

Instead, as the couple walked into the bank branch, Bryan Adams’ “Everything I Do, I Do It for You” played from a speaker.

“We thought this would be more fun,” Kinsey said. She consulted Bank of America’s corporate office, which gave permission for the ceremony. The happy ceremony seemed to dovetail with the bank’s “Spirit Week” celebration for employees. After all, the bride is a Bank of America teller, who used to work at the Sabattus Street branch.

The ceremony itself lasted five minutes.

The only one attired for the occasion was the couple’s 9-week-old daughter, Maya, who wore a white dress.

The bride and groom stood – with Maya in her mom’s arms – for the vows.

After Dehetre finished the “by the power vested in me by the state of Maine” passage, the couple shared a passionate kiss beneath a legal posting of the “Community Reinvestment Act.”

Goes’ mother shot video from a tiny camera as the couple shared bites of wedding cake and drank sparkling cider.

Hugs, handshakes and well wishes followed.

One came from a woman in an SUV, sitting outside the drive-up window.

“Tell them congratulations for me!” she said