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Gerard & Jane

20 years of wedded bliss required serious celebration.

It had to be memorable and, most importantly, it had to be fun.

An Elvis wedding Las Vegas style - now there's an idea!

A quick web search found more Elvi than you could shake a pelvis at - all suitably sneering, coifed, dark-glassed and throbbing .. how to choose?

Wait - what's this? An Elvis wedding chapel with a themed honeymoon suite? How could we resist? We couldn't.

The emails flew and in no time we'd booked our very own 15-minute wedding-slot and night to remember.

Arriving at Las Vegas we grabbed a cab and headed over to the Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel.
	The chapel by night

Reception was crammed with wedding paraphernalia and Elvis memorabilia. A selection of Elvis-style dark glasses was jammed beside a fridge full of bottles labelled "Wedding Water". Shelves groaned under the weight of frilly wedding albums, garters in presentation boxes, chocolate bars (for energy?), highly decorated candles, his 'n hers champagne flutes with pink and blue ribbons, and wedding bubbles in cake-shaped bottles topped with pairs of hearts. A separate stand offered number-plates - "Eloped", "Just Married", and "Elvis". These people know the meaning of "accessorizing".

Sitting serenely in the middle of it all, dazzling in white, rhinestones sparkling like the milky way - The King himself.

Pausing only to swipe our credit card through the state-of-the-art cash register we were whisked into the chapel for a run-through.

Rose presentation in hand, video running and photographer positioned we were underway.

We processed up the aisle to The King gently crooning "Falling in Love" and gazed into each other's eyes while Elvis made us solemnly promise to 'luuuurve each other tenderly', 'be each other's teddy bear', and 'never let our blue suede shoes get wet'.

So far so good. But then The King commanded we dance while he belted out 'Viva Las Vegas' (Why oh why didn't we get lessons? - or even full body casts?) We'd love to show you pictures of us dancing but unfortunately there was some kind of spooky unexplained camera malfunction. Sorry!

It was over in a flash. A photo opportunity with The Man and we were escorted out the front door.

Elvis - thank you ... thank you very much.

But wait there's more. The Elvis & Priscilla suite. Their website had not prepared us for this extravaganzic experience - but realistically nothing could have!

Imagine speeding in a pink Cadillac convertible through the grounds of Gracelands. Overhead blue skies with fluffy white clouds. Beside you horses graze, fountains play and everywhere flowers bloom as Gracelands' famous gates fade into the distance.


Fountain style handbasins	Plenty of memorabilia for Elvis fans to enjoy

And that was just the bedroom.

Sun Records recording studio provided the bathroom theme - complete with fans peeking in the window.

Most disconcerting while reclining in the Jacuzzi!

All too soon it was morning and time to check out.

So how was it? Memorable.

Was it romantic? Definitely, in a Las Vegas kind of way.
Would we do it again? We've booked in for our 50th.
Would we recommend it? Absolutely!

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