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Recent news about the chapel...

Britney Spears Las Vegas Wedding Adventure..."Vegas and Weddings: A marriage made in heaven", article by Steve Friess, Special for USA TODAY. Quoted our very own Jamie Richards:

"But the norm is a bit different, several chapel owners say. A wedding like Spears' — she married a childhood friend on the spur of the moment — is unusual. Most involve couples with some romantic relationship and are planned at least a few days or weeks in advance", says Jamie Richards, owner of the Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel.

"I hate it when something like (the Spears wedding) happens, because it makes it sound like Vegas weddings are just a dime a dozen," he says. "Yes, they're easy to do, but they're not meaningless. The people who are in this business are still in this business to marry people. It's not a joke." Read the whole article here.

ALSO: Las Vegas Reveiw Journal fetured a story about our Halloween Weddings. Click here to see it!

Recent visitors to the chapel...

include Ashton Kutcher from "That 70's Show and Brittany Murphy from 8 Miles were here with Access Hollywood, no not to get married! But to promote their new film "Just Married"! Watch Access Hollywood the week of December 16th, 2002 to see their interview filmed at Viva Las Vegas!

Most recently our chapel has been featured on the the Christopher Lowell Show - still airing on the Discovery Channel, The tonight show with Jay Leno, CBS Morning Show and The Discovery Channel’s Viva Las Vegas. We’ve been seen on The Travel Channel 12 out of 22 times in specials highlighting Las Vegas. The Discovery and Travel Channel’s listed Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel as a must see in Las Vegas! Click here to read more...What to do in Sin City. Congratulations to Viva Las Vegas Villas. The "E" & "P" Suite was voted #6 by the TravelChannel’s "Top 10 Hotel Suites in Vegas". Read more about the Las Vegas Gay Hotel Suite on the TravelChannel.com.

Psssss...a film crew from CMT was recently seen filming in our wedding chapel for a new Television series. Watch Love Nest in February 04 on the CMT channel for a series featuring Ron Decar and Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel! Spotted in Las Vegas Ed Helm from the Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central) in the Chapel.

Whispers...Sharon Osborne Show, Travel Sick on Comedy Central, Extra, The Ultimate Revenge, Dinner and a Movie on TBS and The View.

You may find yourself part of the many television shows which have featured our weddings: NBC Nightly News, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Christopher Lowell Show, Oprah, E Television, The Billboard Awards, VH1, MTV, The Travel Channel, NBC News, A&E, The Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel (TLC.com), The Fox Millennium Show, Time Magazine Millennium Edition and Katie Couric of The Today Show. Katie was so intrigued by the variety and style of our weddings that she sent a film crew to feature us on her show.

Best of Las Vegas 2000 and 2002...

Our Pick: Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel winner of Best Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, by the Las Vegas Review Journal 2002.

But if you're into a more funky brand of wedding, may we suggest the Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel? Name a theme, and the people here are apt to find some way to pull it off, from “Star Trek” to Hawaiian to full-tilt Vegas, complete with showgirls and Elvis. Marriage may be a serious thing, but who says a wedding has to be?

Brought to you by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Nevada's largest daily newspaper March 17, 2002.

Our Pick: Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel winner of Best Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, by the Las Vegas Review Journal 2000.

If history and charm aren't your style, check out the menu of themed weddings at Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel. The outgoing crew here offers everything from an Elvis "Blue Hawaii" wedding with hula dancers to an intergalactic-themed wedding, to a "Camelot"-type wedding to a gangster wedding. You know, as "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire" showed us, it's high time somebody took the seriousness out of marriage.

Brought to you by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Nevada's largest daily newspaper March, 2000.

We are featured in the Nevada Magazine 2000, 2001 and 2003 winning their "Blue Ribbon" Award for our wedding chapel three years in a row!

Time Magazine and more...
Modern Bride
Modern Maturity
Marie Clair
Entertainment Weekly
Showbiz Weekly
One Magazine
Time Magazine
Neveda Magazine
Travel Gaurdian in the United Kingdom
The Holland Sentinel
Playboy Magazine
National Airlines Inflight Magazine
"Still can't find the answer? You might consider scrapping it all and going to the classic: VivaLasVegasWeddings.com!" — Sabrina Rojas Weiss
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