Neon Nuptials: The Complete Guide To Las Vegas Weddings

More than 120,000 couples annually flock to Sin City to tie the knot, most at one of the nearly 60 wedding chapels of popular imagination and lore. Here's a no-holds-barred, independent, critical, and fun look at how and where to get married in Las Vegas. It visits each chapel--with a few stops at other less typical venues--and tells anticipatory brides (and at least a few grooms) exactly what's in store. If the proprietor is rude, you'll know. If the Web site pictures are a sham, it's noted. If couples roll through like cars on an assembly line, it says so right here. You'll know everything there is to know about the beautiful, the bad, the kitschy, and even the touching in chapeldom. You'll even learn about some of the best places to stay, eat, and play.

Ken Van Vechten is a native Southern Californian and a historian by training. He's a regular contributor to Alaska Airlines, Midwest Airlines, Nevada, and Westways magazines. Neon Nuptials is his first (but assumed to be far from his last) book. The 40-something-year-old previously toiled in the worlds of retail sales, taverns, newspapers, politics, and soulless corporations before embarking on his unique version of a mid-life crisis; becoming a freelance travel and golf writer. His "crisis" such as it is, is abetted by his understanding, indulgent, and wholly supportive wife of seven years, Teresa.