4-547: 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 and claims to be the first chapel ever to conduct weddings performed by Elvis impersonators . Built as a private residence in 1927, it has been operating as a wedding chapel since at least 1939 when owner Ollie McKee began performing ceremonies. By
8-557: Is a small building, in the New England style, with a white picket fence. It holds 30 people. 36°09′45.59″N 115°08′40.93″W / 36.1626639°N 115.1447028°W / 36.1626639; -115.1447028 Wedding chapel A wedding chapel is a building or room, other than a legal court , where marriages are regularly performed. Usually wedding chapels are for-profit venues to host weddings in resort areas to encourage hotel room stays, catering and gambling by
12-572: The early 1940s it was called Gretna Green Wedding Chapel, named after the Scottish wedding destination of Gretna Green . Elvis Presley visited the chapel in 1967, while planning his wedding to Priscilla Beaulieu . According to Frommer's , Presley himself gave the owners of the chapel permission to use the Graceland name, but in fact it was not renamed until after the singer's death, the same year that Elvis-themed weddings began there. The chapel
16-407: The guests. The buildings are generally religiously themed and imitate church architecture . In some cases, religious institutions have chapels that are used specifically for marriages or closed churches are converted into wedding chapels. Las Vegas, Nevada , particularly, is famous for its large number of wedding chapels because Nevada has no waiting period to file for marriage licenses . Some of
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