Las Vegas wedding chapels compared: drive thru to Elvis to garden
By the ThingsVegas Editorial Team | Published November 10, 2026 | Last reviewed: November 10, 2026
No Las Vegas chapel can marry you without a Clark County marriage license in hand, and the license costs $102 downtown. After that, the chapel choice runs from a $55 drive thru to an Elvis production. This guide compares the four kinds with real starting prices.
Prices last checked: November 10, 2026. Last reviewed: November 10, 2026. Sources are named on this page; check the official page before you pay, because prices and hours change.
What has to happen before any chapel?
The license, always, and it is the easiest government errand in America. No chapel in Clark County can legally marry you without one, so every plan on this page starts at the Marriage License Bureau, 201 E Clark Ave downtown: open 8 AM to midnight every day of the year, both of you in person with government ID, $102, no waiting period, no blood test, an online pre application if you want the counter visit short, and the license valid for a full year. Clark County issues more than 70,000 licenses a year, per county figures. Our getting married in Las Vegas guide owns the full license walkthrough; this page owns the choice that comes next. One exception worth its own line: vow renewals need no license at all.
Chapel picker and all in calculator
Pick the wedding you actually want. The picker names the anchor chapel and the honest all in floor, license included.
How do the four kinds of chapel compare?
| Kind | Anchor | Starting price | The shape of it |
|---|---|---|---|
| The drive thru | A Little White Wedding Chapel, 1301 Las Vegas Blvd, since 1951, listed open 24 hours | Basic ceremonies roughly $55 to $100 in current listings | Married in your car in the Tunnel of Love; in and out in minutes |
| The Elvis original | Graceland Wedding Chapel, 619 Las Vegas Blvd S, daily 9 AM to 11 PM | Packages from $199 in current listings | Elvis officiates and sings; traditional ceremonies in the same roughly 30 guest chapel |
| The historic | Little Church of the West | Priced on the chapel's own site | Built 1942, listed on the National Register of Historic Places; the oldest chapel building in the city and the quiet traditional pick |
| The production | Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel | Priced by production on the chapel's own site | Themed ceremonies with costumes and sets; a show with vows in it |
| The garden | Chapel of the Flowers | Priced on the chapel's own site | The polished garden option; the quality anchor our elopement cluster compares against |
Starting prices are the chapels' own listings checked November 10, 2026 and are date stamped for that reason. The production and garden chapels price by package, so this page sends you to their own menus rather than printing a floor they do not advertise.
Where does the bill grow?
The ceremony price is the floor, never the total. At almost every chapel the extras are separate lines: photographs and the rights to them, flowers, a limo, a livestream for the family at home, a minister fee where it is not bundled, and the $102 license itself, which no chapel price includes because the county collects it. A $199 Elvis package with photos, flowers and a stream can land near $500 without a single dishonest step, which is why the picker above quotes all in floors and why your booking question is always the same sentence: what is the total, with everything we just chose, in writing. Couples planning a bigger production should price the full day on our elopement cost calculator and compare venues on the elopement locations comparison, where the desert and garden operators sit side by side.
Walk in or reserve?
Both are real, on different calendars. The famous chapels take walk ins in quiet hours, and a Tuesday afternoon drive thru with a license already in hand is a genuinely available plan. Weekends, Valentine's Day and the numerologically lucky dates, the 7/7 and 11/11 style days couples fly in for, book out well ahead. So: reserve any date you cannot move, walk in only as a weekday gamble, and do the license first either way, because the Bureau line at 10 PM on a Saturday is the one queue in this plan that cannot be booked around. Spontaneous is a Las Vegas tradition. Unlicensed is just a delay.
Frequently Asked Questions
What do you need before any Las Vegas chapel wedding?
A Clark County marriage license, in hand, before the ceremony. Get it at the Marriage License Bureau, 201 E Clark Ave, open 8 AM to midnight every day of the year. Both parties appear in person with government ID, the fee is $102, there is no waiting period and no blood test, an online pre application is available, and the license stays valid for one year. Clark County issues more than 70,000 licenses a year. Vow renewals are the exception: they need no license at all.
What is the cheapest legal wedding in Las Vegas?
The drive thru at A Little White Wedding Chapel, 1301 Las Vegas Blvd, operating since 1951 and listed as open 24 hours. Current listings put its basic ceremonies from roughly $55 to $100 before the license, so the all in floor is about $160: the $102 license plus the basic ceremony. That figure buys the ceremony only. Photos, flowers, a limo, a livestream and the minister fee are separate lines at almost every chapel, which is where cheap weddings stop being cheap.
Which chapel invented the Elvis wedding?
Graceland Wedding Chapel, 619 Las Vegas Blvd S, open daily 9 AM to 11 PM. In the chapel's own words, it was the world's very first chapel to conduct an Elvis themed wedding, introducing the format in 1977, and it is licensed by Elvis Presley Enterprises. Packages start from $199 per current listings, traditional ceremonies run alongside the Elvis ones, and the chapel seats roughly 30 guests.
Can you just walk into a famous chapel and get married?
Sometimes. The famous chapels take walk ins in quiet hours and book out on weekends, on Valentine's Day and on numerologically lucky dates that fill months ahead. Treat walk in as a weekday gamble and a reservation as the rule for any date you cannot move. Either way the license comes first, and the Bureau's midnight closing is the real deadline on a spontaneous night.