Las Vegas: Wedding chapels
Candlelight Wedding Chapel 2855 Las Vegas Blvd S tel 735-4179 or 1-800/962-1818, . Daily 8am-midnight.Busy little chapel across from Circus Circus , where you get a carnation bouquet with the $179 wedding package, or a garter with the $499 option.
Graceland Wedding Chapel
619 Las Vegas Blvd S tel 382-0091 or 1-800/824-5732,
. Sun-Thurs 9am-9pm, Fri & Sat 9am-midnight.
This comparatively tasteful white-painted church, complete with stained-glass windows, offers conventional ceremonies for $55-395, while an extra $145 buys the services of the King himself. Elvis prefers not to conduct actual weddings - although he will renew vows - but he makes a great best man, and sings six songs.
Elvis married Priscilla at the (old) Aladdin on May 1, 1967, nine months to the day before the birth of Lisa Marie, and eight years before Michael Jackson met Lisa Marie at a Jackson Five gig in Vegas. Those two, however, wed years later in the Dominican Republic.
Little Chapel of the Flowers
1717 Las Vegas Blvd S tel 735-4331 or 1-800/843-2410,
. Mon-Thurs 9am-9pm, Fri & Sat 9am-10pm, Sun 11am-6pm.
Rather traditional, not to say twee, establishment with two antique-furnished chapels off the same lobby, that's notorious as the site where Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra got hitched. Weddings range between $185 and $985; the latter includes a helicopter ride, with, if you prefer, the ceremony on board.
Little Church of the West
4617 Las Vegas Blvd S tel 739-7971 or 1-800/821-2452. Daily 8am-midnight.
Having originally formed part of the
Last Frontier
casino, the Little Church of the West is on the National Register of Historic Places, and has moved progressively down the Strip to its current site south of
Mandalay Bay
. It's among the more peaceful and quiet places to exchange your Vegas vows - if that's really what you want.
A Little White Chapel
1301 Las Vegas Blvd S tel 382-5943 or 1-800/545-8111.
. Daily 24 hrs.
Las Vegas's best-known location for celebrity weddings, where Bruce Willis and Demi Moore married each other, as did Jack and Vera Duckworth of British soap
Coronation Street
, while Michael Jordan and Joan Collins married other people. The chapel that pioneered the "24-hr Drive-Up Wedding Window" has since refined the concept by roofing over the driveway as the "Tunnel of Love," and painting naked cherubs on its blue-sky ceiling. Staffed by fifteen ministers, it can provide tasteful black baseball caps embroidered for "Bride" and "Groom," and is even planning to add an on-site massage parlor.
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