Vegas wedding!!!?

I am getting married at a Catholic Church in Las Vegas and having wedding reception at the Rio.

Why don't you join theknot.com and ask this question on the local talk board?

Good luck.

I have personally always thought of Vegas as the perfect place to have a wedding, but I couldn't convince my fiance (or rather, his family) of that either, so we are having a nice, low-key wedding here in Denver instead, but I still think Vegas is an excellent wedding destination. Here are some things to keep in mind: when your fiance thinks "Vegas wedding," he is likely picturing some tacky run-down chapel with a ceremony officiated by an Elvis impoersonator, and while there are a lot of chapels like that in Vegas, there are also many really classy, beautiful places to have a "traditional" style wedding too. All the major hotels offer wedding package deals, and their facilities are just gorgeous. Last time I was in Vegas, I saw a group of people leaving a wedding at the MGM Grand, and there were about 50 guests, all dressed up very nicely, with the bride in a gorgeous wedding gown that looked like a designer gown- not tacky in the very least, and all very traditional, with the bridesmaids in matching dresses and the groomsmen in tuxedoes. (Of course, a little further down the Strip, at the Sahara, I saw a bride in a white mini-dress toting a case of Corona back to the chapel with her, so it all depends on the location, I guess.) Show your fiance some pics of all the beautiful wedding venues available in Las Vegas- each hotel there has a web page that features their wedding amenities. The nicest ones are Bellagio, MGM Grand, the Venetian (they sail you around in a gondola and serenade you after the ceremony!) and Paris (you can get married at the top of the fake Eiffel Tower!). He'll be a lot more open-minded once he realizes that not all Vegas weddings involve a drive-thru chapel. Keep in mind, though, that while a Vegas wedding may prove easier and cheaper for you, it will put a lot of expenses on your guests, such as travel accomodations, food and entertainment expenses for the duration of their stay, time off work, etc. that they normally wouldn't have had to deal with if you'd had your wedding in town. Lots of people get so caught up in how easy and relatively inexpensive it is to plan a destination wedding for themselves that they forget that some of their friends or family members are maybe going to have a hard time affording the trip. Good luck!

you can find details of what's included in every wedding package in Las Vegas on the website below and they're split out by cost so can you set your budget and search under that. And it's not possible to talk about prices for hotel stays as it will depends when you book, what class of hotel you want to stay in, what sort of room you want etc etc - your best bet is to look at a site such as Expedia and search for the dates you're looking for and it will give you a selection of offers.

I agree that a local board on The Knot would be more helpful.

Anything you do would depend on what your budget is. For example, the Bellagio has beautiful wedding packages, but they're more pricey than say, Elvis' Drive-Thru Chapel of Love...