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| - My wife and i got married in 2005 and ever since 2007 or so, i told my wife "After 10 years, id like to do something fun, cheesy and memorable like getting re-married in Vegas with Elvis". She probably thought i was crazy but was always for it.
Fast forward to 1 month ago and she said if we still wanted to do the Elvis thing? Our 10 year anniversary is in Sept but we could only get away for a few days at the end of June.
We checked a few other Elvis chapels and most were a tad more expensive, offered a tad less but the main selling point was the limo pick up and drop off. So we booked it.
We booked early June and gave the $150 deposit and I called around June 15 and gave the rest of the money owed. I called the day of our ceremony at 9:30a.m. because the day before i called and left a voicemail and no one called me back because the paperwork says to call them when you check in your hotel. I didnt want anyone to say "we didnt get a voicemail". Everytime i called through the past month Kristen always answered. She isnt extremely welcoming on the phone but no biggie.
The limo driver Mike called me when they said he was gonna call and he showed up on time which was awesome. One major problem was as we get in the limo, theres a small fan pointed in to the back seat and its hot as hell inside. I asked Mike if the A/C was on and he stated that theres an issue with the A/C and when its hot out, it makes the car extremely hot inside. Hhmmmm......okay *insert puzzled look* Its friggin Vegas and its 110 degrees outside...GET THE FRIGGIN' A\C WORKING!!!!! But he was a nice guy and when he droppped us off at a restaurant after the ceremony, he recommended the place and chit chatted for a few minutes.
So we walk in the chapel and its pretty small but nice and clean. Were meeted by a nice older white haired guy and Rene, who apparently is the video/photo guy.
When we booked the ceremony, we read on Yelp here to recommend Kent cause hes super fun and we also wanted Elvis in the white jumpsuit and NOT the gold jacket, we got what we wanted. Kent chatted with us for a few minutes before and he was really nice and super friendly.
After the ceremony, the limo driver made us wait inside about 20 minutes to take us back because he was running late but i didnt care because it got us a chance to take more family pictures and we definately didnt fell rushed out like cattle because the next group was late anyway.
We bought the dvd because my wife wanted the video of our fun ceremony for $60 which is think is a major ripoff for a 9 minute video and i was alittle upset when we watched it at home and it didnt even have a nice intro with the chapel name and a nice border or music....nothing, it literally just starts and ends abruptly with no nice fade out or anything.
The photographer gave us double the photos he was supposed to which was nice but im sure he does that for everyone. When we watched them at home we were a tad annoyed with a few pics because 1 or 2 had us looking the other way or maybe one person blinked and 1 or 2 of the group pics had taller kids in front of shorter kids. Have taller people in the back... Isnt that photography 101?
I know he can take a glance at the camera and say "lets take that one again". We are in the digital camera age, right?
Also....i think the $40 tip is alittle much, id much rather pay a higher price and give no tip and have the chapel give them a tip out of the higher price. I just really hate the "you pay this price, with tax.............and oh yeah, add 65% more to that price for tips", thats B.S.
Im not trying to nit pick on the cons, i just like to leave pros and cons on reviews. But all in all....we had a great time, The ceremony itself lasted about 10 minutes and Elvis was really fun and was really into his "Elvis persona", Rene was super nice and our party of 15 people really enjoyed themselves. I would totally recommend this place if you want a fun and memorable time, just go in and have fun.
Just get that limo A/C fixed!!
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