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By: John Katsilometes | Las Vegas Review-Journal It’s quick, convenient and exciting — for celebrities and regular folks alike. That’s long been the appeal of getting married in Las Vegas. The city has energetically seized the “wedding capital of the world” title. This is a committed relationship. It all dates to a 1953 London Daily […]

By: Brian Amick Buddy Valastro’s renowned Las Vegas bakery, Carlo’s Bake Shop, is offering a glimpse of the recreation of Elvis and Priscilla Presley’s famous 1967 wedding cake, which will be on display at Caesars Palace on Sunday, September 3. The event commemorates the first time Las Vegas was referred to as the “Wedding Capital […]

By: Jarah Wright | KTNV LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — September 2023 has been officially named Wedding Month in Clark County, according to Clark County Commissioners. When looking data from the Clark County Clerk’s office, among destination weddings in the United States, Southern Nevada had 3.5% of the wedding market share in 2021. A report from […]

By: Quek Jie Ann | CNBC They say love doesn’t cost a thing. But that certainly isn’t true of weddings. In 2022, couples in the United States spent, on average, nearly $30,000 to get married, according to a report from the wedding website The Knot. But it wasn’t always this way. In the 1950s, the […]

By: Nina King | Las Vegas Magazine Las Vegas is known for many things, but one of the biggest is its status as The Wedding Capital of the World. Over the past seven decades, more than 5 million couples have tied the knot here, with ceremonies ranging from the simple to the incredibly lavish. This […]

By: Justine Verastigue | KTNV LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Carlo’s Bake Shop at The Grand Canal Shoppes at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas is celebrating 70 years of Las Vegas being the “wedding capital of the world.” The bakeshop invited KTNV behind the scenes as they recreate the legendary Elvis and Priscilla wedding cake. It’s […]

By: John Katsilometes | Las Vegas Review-Journal The Presley name is again gracing a marquee in Las Vegas. Priscilla Presley is bringing her autobiographical show back to South Point Showroom from Nov. 3-5. The multimedia production went on sale in June, listed on the South Point website, but not formally announced (tickets are $55; go […]

By: Johnathan L. Wright | Las Vegas Review-Journal The cake from the 1967 wedding of Elvis and Priscilla Presley at the Aladdin Hotel (now Planet Hollywood Resort) is being re-created to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Las Vegas as the “wedding capital of the world.” Carlo’s Bake Shop in The Venetian, from famed “Cake Boss” […]

By: Caroline Bleakley | KLAS LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — It was a photo seen around the world in 1967 — the king of rock ‘n’ roll and his young bride slicing into a magnificent towering multi-tiered wedding cake adorned with red marzipan roses and their names. A replica of that cake will take center stage […]