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I went to their Container Park location. A year ago (well before I popped the question) my mother and I stumbled across this wedding chapel tucked away in Container Park off of Freemont Street and I absolutely fell in love with it!!! It's small, but beautiful. The office & chapel are housed in shipping containers which is something you have to see to believe! When I saw this chapel I turned to my mother and exclaimed this is the place I've always dreamed of! My mother coaxed me into checking prices and asking further into it, because I knew it would probably be out of my budget when the time was right, but it wasn't!!!!
They have packages for all types of budgets starting at $99. The place isn't over the top like you might expect for Vegas, it's very well put together.
When visiting in person and speaking with them they were very nice and LGBT friendly. I never felt any type of judgement or hesitation. We even were running late because of the public transportation they were still nice and understanding!
They have a "happy hour" rate that is advertised, but it's not for this location. I paid the extra because I thought this location was worth it.
I forget the officiant's name, but he was amazing. Asked us a couple of questions before hand so he could make sure it was how we wanted and guided us on what to expect. I would give him 5 stars if I could!!! Even though we were complete strangers he made me feel like he truly cared about me and that he was about to be part of a huge life altering event for me! (the tip for the officiant isn't included so please make sure to have cash for a tip. They told us $50 when we called before we got there was the suggested tip, he provided us an envelope that read $50-$100 was suggested. Please make sure you tip this is standard practice in any state and any chapel).
Now... my cons!
We didn't plan on getting married until this upcoming fall, but life happens and plans change. Due to this you can probably imagine we were on a budget for our wedding/honeymoon and had to make lots of compromises. Part of those compromises is that not all of our loved ones could come. We only got to have my mother and her best friend (plus his family of 3) there with us. This means wedding photos were highly important to us.
I asked both in person and while booking if we could take photos there. The answer was yes, but not during the actual ceremony unless I purchased a media package (which I couldn't afford and thought I wouldn't need since they had a photographer on staff). My guests were told that they couldn't take pictures at all, even after the ceremony. When I found out I questioned this and was told yes, we could take some photos while the photographer stepped out if we hurried. This seems like misleading information to get me to their chapel so I wasn't too happy with the conflicting policies that were relayed to my guests and I.
I would have still given this chapel 5 stars if it wasn't for the photographer. The photographer was absolutely HORRIBLE!!! My package came with 7 photos and I had to go through the entire list of pictures twice to even get 7 that I half way liked. Most were blurry, out of focus, bad angles, or very unflattering. The room was setup to hold 20-25ish guests and we only had 5 in attendance. He could have moved anywhere in the room to get a good angle, looked through the lense before we started to tell my fiancé that her hair would be over her face and suggested we switch places, or posed us after like we were standing up there in the ceremony, but at a better angle, but didn't.
As a child of a photographer I know, if you take photos in a wedding chapel for a living you should know what settings to use with the lighting to be able to get all three parties in focus during the ceremony. You should take multiple photos of the same pose incase people blink or you are out of focus, most of our facial expressions were off. Basically... I hope you're not counting on taking them home to your mother-in-law because she will be highly disappointed like mine is. I feel like my loved ones missed seeing my wedding because of this. It was a beautiful wedding and I don't regret my choice because I'll cherish the memory always, but I won't have amazing photos to show for it.
They did offer to rectify the situation AFTER I expressed my disappointment, which shows me he normally provides the same quality of work to everyone. We didn't have time to take them up on their offer and at this point I was upset and wouldn't have been able to fake smile my way through more photos with him.
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