Mon Bel Ami Wedding Chapel
| Mon Bel Ami Wedding Chapel | |
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| Former names | Silver Bell Wedding Chapel |
| General information | |
| Type | Chapel |
| Address | 607 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas, NV 8910 |
| Coordinates | 36°09′47″N 115°08′39″W / 36.162979°N 115.144277°W |
| Website | |
| www.monbelami.com | |
Mon Bel Ami Wedding Chapel is a wedding chapel located on Las Vegas Boulevard in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Established in 2003, the chapel is a modern renovation of the Silver Bell Wedding Chapel which was built in the 1950s.[1] The venue hosts weddings, vow renewals, commitment ceremonies, same-sex weddings and wedding receptions for couples traveling to Las Vegas to get married from all over the world.[2]
History
[edit]Built in the 1950s, the venue was host to hundreds of thousands of weddings[3][unreliable source?] as the Silver Bell Wedding Chapel, including the celebrity weddings of Burt Bacharach and Angie Dickenson in 1965[4][5] and Rodney Dangerfield to Joan Child in 1993.[6] Jim Duszynski became owner in the 1960s and his father Leonard designed the famous neon wedding bells. The venue was also featured in the television movie Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas and the film Lost in America.[7] In 2002 a fire damaged most of the building.[8] It was sold and renovated under new ownership and re-opened as Mon Bel Ami Wedding Chapel in 2003.[1]
See also
[edit]References
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- ^ Block, Marcelline (2011). World Film Locations: Las Vegas. Intellect Books. p. 38. ISBN 9781841505886. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
- ^ "News briefs for Oct. 15, 2002". Las Vegas Sun. October 15, 2002. Retrieved 15 April 2015.