Company to Las Vegas chapels: No more Elvis-themed weddings

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Company to Las Vegas chapels: No more Elvis-themed weddings

May 31, 2022

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas chapels of love that use Elvis Presley’s likeness could find themselves becoming Heartbreak Hotels.

The licensing company that controls the name and image of “The King” is ordering Sin City chapel operators to stop using Elvis in themed ceremonies, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported on Monday. Authentic Brands Group sent cease-and-desist letters in early May to multiple chapels, which are expected to be compliant by now.

With Elvis so closely tied to Vegas’ wedding industry, some say the move could decimate their businesses.

“We are a family-run business, and now we’re hanging with the big dogs,” said Kayla Collins, who operates LasVegasElvisWeddingChapel.com and the Little Chapel of Hearts with her husband. “That’s our bread and butter. I don’t get it. We were just hitting our stride again through COVID, then this happens.”

Clark County Clerk Lynn Goya, who led a marketing campaign promoting Las Vegas as a wedding destination, said the order for chapels to stop using Elvis couldn’t have come at a worse time for the sector.

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[ret5hd]

1. I bet there will soon be "MElvis" themed weddings.

[PSPS]

10. LOL. Like bars now having to promote "Superb Owl" parties!!

[unblock]

2. What changed? I mean, they could have done this decades ago.

[qazplm135]

5. Probably someone in ABG

got smart and realized two things:

1. If you let a bunch of Elvis branded chapels exist, you risk losing your copyright protection
2. You can force those chapels to give you money to license their use of Elvis, as well as put some restrictions on said use

[GoldandSilver]

3. Bad news for all those couples looking forward to getting hitched by "hunk of burnin' love".

[Joinfortmill]

4. Might not be great for Elvis legacy either.

[kimbutgar]

6. I've known 3 couples who married in a Las Vegas weddings who were married by Elvis impersonators

All 3 are divorced!!!!

[3Hotdogs]

7. DA FUCK ???? I visited Elvis this afternoon at his taco truck in Montana. He says he gets a kick

out'a knowing peeps are getting married by his imitators.... He told me, "I'm aaalllllll about love and weddings is what love is all 'bout"


I'm not supposed to say, but he's grown a beard so's nobody recognizes him. His beard is now light grey so nobody would ever know it was him. ... gained a few more pounds since you last saw pictures of him. Only way I figured it out was when he slipped into a Mississippi accent, cursing when he spilled some grease on himself at the truck.

I tells him, only one man I know, speaks that way with those words and that accent. He gave me a free cheese burrito if I promised not to tell anyone where the taco truck is. I wouldn't say anything but I had a couple of gin an tonics so I'm a bit relaxed right now. And nobody reads the stuff I put up on D.U. anyway so I don't feel as I betrayed anything about The King.

If I'm wrong, you let me know and I'll erase it all tomorrow when I wake up.

3H

[ggma]

8. Don't you dare erase one word! Cracked me up.

Have you ever seen "Bubba Hotep"?

Best Elvis is Still Alive movie I've ever seen!

ggma

[3Hotdogs]

9. I'm really embarrassed. I just realized, it was maybe in March... same thing.. alls it was was just

three Bombays and Seagrams and I spouted off about Elvis. I do it because I know people worry about him and I want 'em to know he's ok... just tired of crowds and the carpet tunnel on his hand from writing autographs. Said it really started to hurt. This way, nobody's feelings get hurt because he doesn't have to tell 'em he can't sign their paper...and it got to be embarrassing, they'd see him, want an autograph, but they ain't got no paper to write on so they'd be fumbling through their pants and purses, looking for something to write his name on....

I wouldn't be so ashamed about my telling on him but I also told about how he opens the food truck on at 11 in the morning but then he starts eating the stuff he cooked - " Gotta make sure its tasting good for the customers." But then, by 11:45, there is nothing left for the customers to buy cause he ate it all his self.


And I felt real bad about putting this all on D.U.

3H

[ggma]

11. Okay

You win, you win.

I knew Bubba Hotep was a documentary; I was testing you.

ggma

[3Hotdogs]

12. About two or three times a month, I'm inspired to write "stream of conscious" shit like this on D.U.

Some of it gets "alerted." Sometimes it gets removed. I don't put the "sarcasm" on any of it... Most get it. Some don't.

My favorite, it was short but sweet. Maybe 5 years ago.

Somehow a post "drifted" to soap fragrance. A woman questioned why the type of soap is important.

Me: "It has to do with viscosity. Ya see, when you're in the shower by yourse..... aw. forget it."


That one got quite a few likes and responses.

Wishing you a good day.

3H

[ggma]

13. I love a good sense of humor...

It runs in the family. One of the reasons I love DU so much. And I do read your posts.

Thanks for the replies😁

ggma