'Desperate Housewives' Ends With A Crash, A Kiss May 19, 2009
An indirect victim: Katherine (Dana Delany), who was en route with Mike to their Las Vegas wedding when the crisis hit. She ends up abandoned at the airport, her plans for marital bliss looking shaky. (KIRO TV, WA)
View From Abroad- The test of government Apr 28, 2009
The only option we have is that we must come to the JPN three days before the wedding, wearing our wedding clothes, and sign some paperwork in an office that looks like Las Vegas wedding chapel (without Elvis). Of course, nothing ignites that romantic flame like a government office full of miserable bureaucrats in cheap suits. (Billerica Minuteman, MA)
Wanted: Rabbi-impersonating Elvis impersonator Apr 1, 2009
Agent Paul Gilbert of Linden Travel in New York City was asked to find an Elvis impersonator impersonating a rabbi for a Las Vegas wedding. . (MSNBC -- Travel)
Allison rocks the Idol judges Apr 1, 2009
Picking Wild Cherrys Play that Funky Music could have made him sound like a Las Vegas wedding singer, but it left Paula Abdul with some different comparisons in mind. Mick Jagger, Steven Tyler and Adam Lambert, Paula said. (MSNBC -- News)
Octuplets Get Biblical Names Mar 12, 2009
Mom, Natalie Denise Suleman also known as Nadya Suleman and Natalie Doud was the only child of Iraqi dad Edward Suleman and Lithuanian Angela Doud, who had a 1974 Las Vegas wedding and divorced in 1999. SOURCES: Scruby, Airan, Octuplets mom chooses names, Whittier Daily News, Feb. 10, 2009; Hedley, Caroline, and Sherwell, Philip, All I wanted was children, Telegraph. (Suite101.com)
Peaches' marriage wrecked by Virgin Feb 8, 2009
They married in a five-minute Las Vegas wedding weeks after getting together, as we told in August. Peaches parents Sir Bob and the late PAULA YATES also married in the US city. (The Sun)
Love, Money Collide in Vegas 'Wedding Pit' Feb 21, 2008
ABC News: Love, Money Collide in Vegas 'Wedding Pit. Labor of Love in Las Vegas 'Wedding Pit. (ABC News)
Who's Politically Correct? Jan 23, 2008
Moment on how the Greek half of Cyprus has become "the Mediterranean's answer to the Las Vegas wedding scene."Elizabeth Gumportposted Jan. 8, 2008. featured advertiser links. (Slate)
Pucko's Perspectives Jan 4, 2008
A MOUNTAINEERS' LAS VEGAS WEDDING ... Sometimes those Las Vegas weddings work out just fine. (R News)
Piper weds actor Laurence Fox Jan 3, 2008
The pair tied the knot in 2001 in a quickie Las Vegas wedding following a whirlwind romance. The couple finalized their divorce last May. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Is Britney Spears about to elope again? Dec 20, 2007
But elopement is never out of the question for Spears, who married childhood sweetheart Jason Alexander in a Las Vegas wedding that was annulled 55 hours later. Federline is reported to be furious about his ex-wife's plans. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Britney Spears elopes again? Dec 19, 2007
Britney Spears elopes again. - People - Entertainment - theage. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Trash the Dress -- Former brides turn treasured dresses into artistic new photos Nov 4, 2007
"I don't think my daughter would really be interested in this dress, so it seemed like a fun thing to do." The concept of Trashing The Dress photo sessions was conceived by John Michael Cooper, a Las Vegas wedding photographer bored with traditional wedding photos. He wanted to create a unique and unusual counterpoint to standard wedding imagery. (Conroe Courier, TX)
SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE CONSOLIDATED BUDGET Oct 22, 2007
VEGASCHAPELS (Schoenmann, Las Vegas Sun) --LAS VEGAS: City Hall accusations fly as competitors and even former customers say the Garden of Love chapel stained the rose-petaled and faux-Elvis world of the Las Vegas wedding industry. 400. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
UPDATED: No Decision in Las Vegas Wedding Chapel Fight Oct 18, 2007
17) Evening -- After hours of testimony from several people Wednesday, the city council still has not decided whether to return the business license to a Las Vegas wedding chapel. The Garden of Love recently had its license revoked because the city said it was aggressively trying to recruit customers. (KLAS-TV.com, NV)
Britney's battle Sep 22, 2007
A furious row with her mother led to her notorious 55-hour Las Vegas wedding in 2004 to childhood friend, Jason Alexander. Nine months later she married Federline, becoming a mother of two in just two years. (Mirror.co.uk)
Mel B's mum: 'My girl's big mistake" Aug 16, 2007
"Belafonte's ex-wife Nancy told how he left her an emotional wreck. She married the producer - who also uses the surname Stansbury - in 1997 in a quickie Las Vegas wedding. It collapsed in under 12 weeks and she returned broken-hearted to her home town of Honolulu, Hawaii.Sobbing, she spoke exclusively to the Sunday Mirror yesterday, saying: "I have regretted that marriage ever since. I just want to forget Stephen. (Sunday Mirror)
Mel B Marries Boyfriend in Secret Vegas Ceremony Aug 10, 2007
Spice Girl Melanie Brown has married her boyfriend Stephen Belafonte, in a secret Las Vegas wedding ceremony. Her rep confirms a marriage license filed in Clark County, Nevada, is genuine and that Brown married her movie producer beau more than two months ago, on June 6. (FOX23.com, OK)
Scary Spice ties the knot Aug 9, 2007
Spice Girls singer Melanie Brown tied the knot in a secret Las Vegas wedding two months ago, marriage records in Nevada show. The 32-year-old British pop star, known as 'Scary Spice', married boyfriend and music producer Stephen Belafonte, in a ceremony on June 6, according to the Clark Country public records office. (Sydney Morning Herald)
LinuxWorld: Partnership Love Is In The Air Aug 8, 2007
Moscone Center, home of the LinuxWorld conference, felt like a Las Vegas wedding chapel this week as vendors rushed into each others' arms, throwing proclamations of joyful unions around like confetti. Red Hat struck a bundling deal with Dell, while Novell hooked up with everyone in sight, striking SUSE alliances with IBM, Dell and Lenovo. (CRN)
Bride on aisle 7: The perfect, lucky wedding Jul 14, 2007
Movie star Eva Longoira and San Antonio Spurs basketball player Tony Parker married in Paris, thousands tied the knot in Las Vegas wedding chapels and many vows were repeated in Shelby County. Kim Victoria and Alan Plummer married where they met and fell in love: at the Shelbyville Wal-Mart on Taylorsville Road. (Shelbyille Sentinel-News, KY)
Lucky date spurs weddings Jul 8, 2007
LAS VEGAS (AP) - With numerology on their side, hundreds of couples are heading to Las Vegas wedding chapels this day -- 7-7-2007 -- hoping that they'll be lucky in love. Chapels have been banking on their customers' superstitions. (WREG.com, TN)
Seven brides and seven grooms pick Saturday's lucky date - 7/7/07 - to wed at Sycamore's Chapel in the Pines Jul 8, 2007
Miller had always wanted the date 7/7/07 to be her wedding day, but after plans for a Las Vegas wedding fell through, she decided to continue with her wedding dreams anyway a decision that came just two days before the nuptuals. just wanted the date triple sevens and we have been dating seven years, Miller said. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Seventh Heaven For Wedding Couples Jul 8, 2007
Niagara Falls is bracing for hundreds of nuptials, and appointments at Las Vegas wedding chapels are as scarce as hen's teeth. The Ritz-Carlton in Lake Las Vegas created a special Lucky 7 package: a two-day "Seven Ways of Wonderment" package, at $7,707, offers guests a room on the seventh floor, a seven-course dinner, a $777 shopping spree and a 7 a.m. golf tee-time. (CBS News)
Thousands Flock to Las Vegas to Wed on Lucky 7-7-7 Jul 7, 2007
Daniel Cassels is a minister at a Las Vegas wedding chapel. "This day is huge," he said. (KLAS-TV.com, NV)
More of this story Jul 7, 2007
She said she has heard of numerous couples who are making the trip to Las Vegas wedding chapels today to cash in on some 7-7-7 luck. Believing that couples married on 7/7/07 will have a more fortunate marriage depends on how superstitious you are. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
RUDY JUDI'S BOMBSHELL... Mar 24, 2007
They tied the knot when she was just shy of 20 years old in a Las Vegas wedding chapel. Ross could not be reached for comment last night. (The Drudge Report)