Las Vegas Drive Thru Weddings — How Romantic (Or Not)…

Posted by pumex

March 28, 2008

Las Vegas drive thru weddings have become quite popular over the last 15 or so years. Usually they are being chosen by the young couples who want to tie the knot in a bit funnier and unconventional way. For some folks it’s also important that drive thru weddings are one of the cheapest, because usually they involve only the wedding ceremony — not the reception. You simply show up at the drive up window of one of the chapels that provide this type of wedding and get there the blessings required by the Nevada state to consider your wedding to be legally valid.

So you drive up in your car, truck or van, or appear riding your motorbike or bicycle. You could even ride a horse (that might be considered pretty romantic . . .). Some creative couples showed up to get wed on roller-blades; some were even sitting in their boat. If you drive your vehicle, such wedding would cost you very little — as little as $25 only for some wedding music and the ceremony (minister gratuity extra) — at A Special Memory Wedding Chapel.

But if you flew in to Vegas and don’t have your own vehicle, you still can have your drive thru wedding; you just have to rent it from the chapel or from anywhere else in the city. Most popular vehicles? Stretched limousines, especially Hummer, classic cars, sports cars and Harley motorbikes.

Now, if you asked me, I would say getting married while sitting in a beat-up truck and listening to the announcement that you’re now a husband and wife is too close to buying a Big Mac during the lunch time. There is nothing here that would excite me, impress me with something special that I would cherish for years. Maybe it’s novel, maybe it’s crazy and funny, but sorry — if this is the way you celebrate something as big as starting new life together, so how do you expect to honor your vows in the years to come?

Well, apparently I’m too traditional because drive thru weddings and vow renewals are very popular in Las Vegas. Those who experienced them, maintain that — contrary to what I feel — it was a romantic and even more intimate experience that a regular wedding at a church or chapel — because it was only two of them, very close to each other (note: at least one witness is required by the Nevada state law and this is provided for free by the chapels — if necessary).

There are at least 4 chapels in Las Vegas that offer drive thru weddings:

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