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 to conduct weddings performed by Elvis impersonators.^[2]

Graceland Wedding Chapel
Former names	McKee's Gretna Green Wedding Chapel
General information
Address	619 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 and television

• Fools Rush In (1997)
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
• The Amazing Race 15 (2009)
• 90 Day Fiancé (2020)

Notable marriages

• Billy Ray Cyrus and Leticia Jean Finley, following the birth of Miley Cyrus (1993)^[4]
• Jon Bon Jovi (1989)^[4]
• Shawn Michaels, four-time world champion in wrestling (1999)
• Aaron Neville (1959) ^[5]
• Lawrence S. Phillips^[6] (1993)
• Mark Scott Ricketts (1991)
• Rob Zombie and Sheri Moon-Zombie^[5] (2002)
• Lorenzo Lamas and Kathleen Kinmont (1989)^[4]
• Tom Bailey and Alannah Currie (1991)^[4]
• Catherine Oxenberg and Casper Van Dien (1999)
• Danny Green, (2002) ^[7] four-time world-champion in boxing

See also

• List of wedding chapels in Las Vegas