Themed affairs or not, the city’s wedding chapels have been instrumental in keeping the Las Vegas wedding destination reputation afloat.
“With more than five million ‘I do’s’ and counting, each year Las Vegas conducts more destination weddings than any other place on the planet,” according to Clark County’s marriage bureau. “For well over 70 years a ‘Vegas wedding’ has captured the public imagination as the ultimate quick, stress-free, fun, glamourous wedding destination.”
But first, here’s a fun fact: The July 1909 wedding of Grace McGee and William C. Bright was the first recorded marriage here, just shy of two years before the city of Las Vegas was incorporated.Located at the site of the soon-to-open Fountainbleau resort on the Strip, the chapel was originally themed around the “Little Church of the West.”
She originally named it “Gretna Green” after a Scottish town where “marriage by declaration” was popular in the previous century, according to a Clark County report on the wedding industry. According to Graceland Chapel’s website, notable celebrities who wed there include “The King himself,” Jon Bon Jovi, Jay Leno, Salma Hayek and Leslie Mann.Also originally a private home at 514 Las Vegas Blvd. South, the building was repurposed as a wedding chapel in 1934.
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