| Las Vegas drive thru weddings have become | | | | |
| quite popular over the last 15 or so years. | | | | · Little White Chapel Tunnel of Vows |
| Usually they are being chosen by the young | | | | |
| couples who want to tie the knot in a bit | | | | · Chapels of Love |
| funnier and unconventional way. For some | | | | |
| folks it's also important that drive thru | | | | · A Las Vegas Garden of Love |
| weddings are one of the cheapest, because | | | | |
| usually they involve only the wedding | | | | The idea of drive thru wedding was born in |
| ceremony -- not the reception. You simply | | | | 1991 when the staff at the Little White |
| show up at the drive up window of one of the | | | | Chapel noticed that some handicapped |
| chapels that provide this type of wedding and | | | | customers had difficulty getting out of their |
| get there the blessings required by the | | | | car and into the chapel. The drive up window |
| Nevada state to consider your wedding to be | | | | opened on Valentine's Day and it became such |
| legally valid. | | | | an innovation that also non-handicapped |
| | | | people began asking to have a drive thru |
| So you drive up in your car, truck or van, or | | | | wedding. Other chapels soon followed, but |
| appear riding your motorbike or bicycle. You | | | | over the years it was necessary to improve on |
| could even ride a horse (that might be | | | | the idea. The chapels tried to add some more |
| considered pretty romantic . . .). Some | | | | glitter and excitement to it, which helped to |
| creative couples showed up to get wed on | | | | make drive thru weddings one of the more |
| roller-blades; some were even sitting in | | | | popular nuptials onthe Strip. |
| their boat. If you drive your vehicle, such | | | | |
| wedding would cost you very little -- as | | | | For example, Little White Chapel created the |
| little as $25 only for some wedding music and | | | | Tunnel of Vows that has a romantic ceiling |
| the ceremony (minister gratuity extra) -- at | | | | with starlights and cherubs. Adding Elvis The |
| A Special Memory Wedding Chapel. | | | | King is always popular and it truly will make |
| | | | it memorable when Elvis will pick you up at |
| But if you flew in to Vegas and don't have | | | | your hotel and then will drive you through |
| your own vehicle, you still can have your | | | | the Strip down to the drive up window in his |
| drive thru wedding; you just have to rent it | | | | neon-lit pink Cadillac. Elvis may sing a |
| from the chapel or from anywhere else in the | | | | couple songs for you or even act as your |
| city. Most popular vehicles? Stretched | | | | minister! |
| limousines, especially Hummer, classic cars, | | | | |
| sports cars and Harley motorbikes. | | | | Having a drive thru wedding in a limo is |
| | | | another very popular add-on package, with |
| Now, if you asked me, I would say getting | | | | stretch Hummer and Lincoln Navigator topping |
| married while sitting in a beat-up truck and | | | | the list of the most often used limousines. |
| listening to the announcement that you're now | | | | |
| a husband and wife is too close to buying a | | | | But if you really are a romantic person at |
| Big Mac during the lunch time. There is | | | | heart and always wanted a princess wedding in |
| nothing here that would excite me, impress me | | | | Vegas, but you love your chosen one so much |
| with something special that I would cherish | | | | and wanted to please him and show him how |
| for years. Maybe it's novel, maybe it's crazy | | | | much you love him that you agreed to marry |
| and funny, but sorry -- if this is the way | | | | him without the presence of your mommy and |
| you celebrate something as big as starting | | | | daddy, in a car at which your now new hubby |
| new life together, so how do you expect to | | | | spent 3 full long years to tinker with, so |
| honor your vows in the years to come? | | | | you may show that your romantic soul by |
| | | | releasing dozens or more of white doves or |
| Well, apparently I'm too traditional because | | | | Monarch butterflies (offered at A Special |
| drive thru weddings and vow renewals are very | | | | Memory Wedding Chapel). |
| popular in Las Vegas. Those who experienced | | | | |
| them, maintain that -- contrary to what I | | | | Just make sure that you spend some extra |
| feel -- it was a romantic and even more | | | | money to buy the video and pictures from the |
| intimate experience that a regular wedding at | | | | wedding so that you could show them to your |
| a church or chapel -- because it was only two | | | | parents and I'm sure when they see the doves |
| of them, very close to each other (note: at | | | | and the Monarchs, they will forgive you that |
| least one witness is required by the Nevada | | | | you ran away to Vegas on weekend without |
| state law and this is provided for free by | | | | telling them. No doubt, it will help to |
| the chapels -- if necessary). | | | | convince them to pay for a nice wedding |
| | | | reception back at home. They may even pay |
| There are at least 4 chapels in Las Vegas | | | | your next year's car insurance on that |
| that offer drive thru weddings: | | | | boneshaker... Which would make your Las Vegas |
| | | | drive thru wedding very successful and |
| · A Special Memory Wedding Chapel | | | | memorable. |