Graceland Wedding Chapel

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[1] and claims to be the first chapel ever to conduct weddings performed by Elvis impersonators.[2]

Graceland Wedding Chapel
Former namesMcKee's Gretna Green Wedding Chapel
General information
Address619 Las Vegas Blvd. South Las Vegas NV 89101
Website
Official website

History and description

Built as a private residence in 1927[2], it has been operating as a wedding chapel since at least 1939 when owner Ollie McKee began performing ceremonies[3]. By the early 1940s it was called Gretna Green Wedding Chapel, named after the Scottish wedding destination of Gretna Green.[2] Elvis Presley visited the chapel in 1967, while planning his wedding to Priscilla Beaulieu.[2] According to Frommer's, Presley himself gave the owners of the chapel permission to use the Graceland name,[1] but in fact it was not renamed until after the singer's death, the same year that Elvis-themed weddings began there.[2]

The chapel is a small building, in the New England style, with a white picket fence. It holds 30 people.[1]

In film

Notable marriages
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See also

References
  1. Rick Garman (2009). "Graceland Wedding Chapel". Frommer's. John Wiley & Sons. Retrieved October 5, 2009.
  2. "Our History". Graceland Wedding Chapel. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
  3. "Gretna Green Wedding Chapel". Vintage Las Vegas. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
  4. "Celebrity Weddings in Vegas". Vegas.com. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
  5. Carter, Geoff; Reid, C. Moon (February 14, 2019). "A first visit to new Downtown wedding chapel Sure Thing". Las Vegas Weekly. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
  6. "Weddings; Roxane Frechie, Lawrence Phillips". The New York Times. October 24, 1993.
  7. Lee, Sandra (April 13, 2008). "Going Green". The Daily Telegraph. News Limited. Retrieved February 24, 2013.

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