December 2014 - Las Vegas NV
We found this at the Clark County Museum. It is the Candlelight Wedding Chapel. After looking for information about it I realized that the original sign is in the Neon Boneyard. I went through our photos from January 2013 but we didn't have the sign. We will have to rectify that!
It survived a tricky journey across town, required more than $250,000 in renovation, including a new steeple, scavenged furnishings and electrical rewiring.
But when you’re a 1966 wedding chapel — old by Las Vegas standards — and you have a few stories to tell, somebody’s bound to love you.
That’s pretty much how it unfolded for the Candlelight Wedding Chapel, a quaint, free-standing churchlike structure with steep roof lines that sat four decades on Las Vegas Boulevard.
Originally Little Church of the West Algiers and then All Religions Wedding Chapel, it was the first chapel with an 800 number and limo service. It married so many couples daily that a side door was installed to usher out fresh newlyweds so they wouldn't bump into wedding parties making their formal procession down the aisle.
When its land was sold to the Fontainebleau project, the chapel sat empty until its former operator, Gordon Gust, scooped it up and gave it to the Clark County Museum.
Peculiar to say the least!
ReplyDeleteI have always heard about the LV wedding chapels but have never actually been inside one. Thanks for sharing, very interesting.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to post a few more!
DeleteI have never been to LV, but I here that weddings are BIG business. Tom The Backroads Traveller
ReplyDeleteInteresting
ReplyDeleteso cool. i love that they do all religions. that is awesome times!! ( :
ReplyDeleteI agree, I also liked that they did all religions.
DeleteHow very interesting. Happy New Year to you!
ReplyDeleteThat is so odd!
ReplyDeleteAwesome wedding photography! I have seen lots of Las Vegas Weddings and every time they are quite unique. I also want to have destination wedding to Las Vegas. Can you suggest a unique but beautiful venue?
ReplyDeletei married in 1995 in the candlelight weddingchapel with rev. jim hammilton
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