Anyone married in Vegas?

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I’ve been planning a wedding abroad but I’m going to cancel it and get married in vegas. I can’t be bothered with all the planning, all the expense and the family drama.

has anyone else done this? Did you regret not having family there?

and where did you get married? I thought the chapel of flowers looked lovely but just saw a bad review online about that venue so looking for others.

I did it - best wedding ever! I'd been married twice previously so decided I'd do it in Vegas, with Elvis. Planned it all on-line and it turned out better than I ever expected. I had the Mon Bel Ami chapel but I think they are all pretty much the same. When I told my parents, they decided to come out but there was no pressure from me, they reallly wanted to. Despite being divorced now, it still remains one of the best experiences of my life.

I did nearly 20 years ago and got married in the little chapel of flowers. Never regretted it. Had a lovely meal in a suite in The Venetian, there were 9 of us altogether. So easy to arrange.

I didn’t get married there but my husband and I retook our wedding vowels there to celebrate coming through a difficult patch ( addiction not adultery) . We went to vegas on holiday and spoke to the hotel concierge who recommended the little church of the west. . It was gorgeous, a little wooden church with candles. There wasn’t a vicar and it wasn’t a religious service but it was romantic and special.
It was just the 2 of us and we’d told no one we were going to do it.
We got chatting to another couple who were actually getting married there. They had eloped because their families were interfering so much in their wedding plans that they were beginning to argue between themselves. They were so happy and knew they were going home to recriminations but didn’t care. There day was just about them and very special.
just as an aside, Judy Garland got married there and viva Las Vegas was filmed there.

I was married in the little chapel of the west, lovely chapel and really easy to arrange

We nearly did but ended up getting married at City Hall in San Fran instead - over thirty years ago now.

Just the two of us, no regrets.

I did, at Chapel of the Flowers about ten years ago. I wouldn’t do it any differently given the choice again.

We had an open invite to all family and friends and there was about 15 of us in the end.

Photographs were lovely, ceremony was a bit twee but the live stream was great for everyone back home.

I’ve been to a Vegas wedding. Best wedding I’ve been to. DH and I both said if we knew back then what we know now, we’d do Vegas ourselves. Most of the resorts have beautiful chapels of their own.

@ItsNotLoveActuallysounds lovely :) what did you do after?

@Boxfulloftoys the chapel of flowers looks lovely, I looked at that one but I’ve seen some bad reviews online.

@Ahwigoh thank you, I will have a look at that chapel :)

Thank you all for the replies, sounds like everyone that has done it or been to a wedding there thinks it’s a good idea. My only concern is I might feel sad not having my family there but means the day would be all about us and we could have a lovely honeymoon after :)

Would some of your family be to go? Like a PP my in laws did an open invitation with no pressure, the parents and siblings all managed to go still, party of about 10 of us I think it was. Vegas is pretty affordable to be fair, hotels are cheap, if you can try to go at an off peak-ish time you can get some pretty cheap flight/hotel packages, I’ve done as little as 4 nights in Vegas before. Everyone was desperate to go to Vegas so it was an easy sell!

I did! Super easy. I got married at the outdoor gazebo. Complete dive to be honest, but the photos are fine.

I couldn’t be arsed with a big wedding.

My wedding was 20 years and could not fault them. They arranged to collect us to get marriage licence, limousine to and from the chapel and a photographer. It was available to watch online to. We had our photos which were beautiful the next day and a disc of the ceremony and pictures. We were mot rushed at all but no waiting around either. We got married at 4pm I think so sun was starting to set in the pictures. Beautiful.

Have name changed for this so it doesn’t out me, but yes. We got married 20 years ago in the Little Chapel of the Flowers, loved it and don’t regret it at all. No guests and it was part of a US road trip that also served as our honeymoon. Stayed at the Bellagio for a few days before and after the wedding which was fab. I knew I didn’t want a big wedding with guests and families were fine about it!

Hi OP - I went to a hotel afterwards for the wedding meal. As we'd hired an Elvis impersonator and a pink cadilac, we got driven down the strip, people stopped and took photo's of us!
Important to note - while we were waiting in the lobby to go into the chapel a man came up to us, didn't introduce himself. He said to me 'do you want to marry this man?' I said 'yeah' (feeling a bit suspicious) - he then asked my OH. The man then said 'congratulations, you are now married' I was thinking - what the heck just happened. We then got called through to the chapel where Elvis was waiting! He went through the usual vows and it was hilarious, none of could stop laughing - so glad we opted for the additional DVD.
We stayed in Vegas for a couple of days, parents flew home. We then hired an RV and spent 2 weeks driving around.
We had a very small reception in a social club when we got home. We made a small buffet ourselves and had our DVD and photo's on loop on a screen.