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| Former names | McKee's Gretna Green Wedding Chapel |
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| Address | 619 Las Vegas Blvd. South Las Vegas NV 89101 |
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Graceland Wedding Chapel is a wedding chapel located in Las Vegas, Nevada that has been the site of many celebrity weddings. It is one of the oldest wedding chapels in Las Vegas [1] and claims to be the first chapel ever to conduct weddings performed by Elvis impersonators. [2]
History and description
Built as a private residence in 1927, [2] it has been operating as a wedding chapel since at least 1939 when owner Ollie McKee began performing ceremonies. [3] By the early 1940s it was called Gretna Green Wedding Chapel, named after the Scottish wedding destination of Gretna Green. [2] Elvis Presley visited the chapel in 1967, while planning his wedding to Priscilla Beaulieu. [2] According to Frommer's, Presley himself gave the owners of the chapel permission to use the Graceland name, [1] but in fact it was not renamed until after the singer's death, the same year that Elvis-themed weddings began there. [2]
The chapel is a small building, in the New England style, with a white picket fence. It holds 30 people. [1]
In film
- Fools Rush In (1997)
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
- The Amazing Race 15 (2009)
Notable marriages
- Billy Ray Cyrus & Leticia Jean Finley , who would later become parents to Miley Cyrus (1993) [4]
- Jon Bon Jovi (1989) [4]
- Shawn Michaels, four-time world champion in wrestling (1999)
- Aaron Neville (1959) [5]
- Lawrence S. Phillips [6] (1993)
- Mark Scott Ricketts (1991)
- Rob Zombie & Sheri Moon-Zombie [5] (2002)
- Lorenzo Lamas & Kathleen Kinmont (1989) [4]
- Tom Bailey & Alannah Currie (1991) [4]
- Catherine Oxenberg & Casper Van Dien (1999)
- Danny Green, (2002) [7] four-time world-champion in boxing
- David Harbour & Lily Allen (2020)
See also
References
- ^ a b c Rick Garman (2009). "Graceland Wedding Chapel". Frommer's. John Wiley & Sons. Retrieved October 5, 2009.
- ^ a b c d e "Our History". Graceland Wedding Chapel. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
- ^ "Gretna Green Wedding Chapel". Vintage Las Vegas. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
- ^ a b c d "Celebrity Weddings in Vegas". Vegas.com. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
- ^ a b Carter, Geoff; Reid, C. Moon (February 14, 2019). "A first visit to new Downtown wedding chapel Sure Thing". Las Vegas Weekly. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
- ^ "Weddings; Roxane Frechie, Lawrence Phillips". The New York Times. October 24, 1993.
- ^ Lee, Sandra (April 13, 2008). "Going Green". The Daily Telegraph. News Limited. Retrieved February 24, 2013.
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