Wednesday 14 February Las Vegas 2007

I was awake at the crack of dawn and phoned room service for coffee only to be told there's a 2 hour wait. What! So I went down to the Roasted Bean cafe for a take away. Elvis called us at about 9.30am to arrange our pick up in his 1956 Pink Cadillac outside the north gate of the hotel at 11am. We got ourselves ready and went down to meet Elvis, he escorted us to the caddy, registration plate 56ELVIS. He drove us to the Special Memory Wedding Chapel Drive Through, singing Elvis songs all the way - so corny and funny. We arranged to have a bouquet of red roses, red carnations and baby pink and white lotus flowers, a DVD and some photos then were ready to begin. The official drive through vows were done in a couple of minutes by the Rev. Sarah Caruso. Then Elvis sang "Love Me Tender" as the photographer started recording. He started the marriage vows Andrew has promised to Love me Tender and to be my Hunka Hunka Burning Love for the rest of his life. I have promised to Love him Tender etc. He then stopped to sing "The Wonder Of You," while encouraging us to dance in Lover's Lane. We did our exchange of rings, which represent our Eternal Circle of Love, then Elvis sang "Viva Las Vegas," he presented us with a signed photo of himself and the pink Cadillac and a blue Elvis scarf for me. The photographer took some photos of us including a couple of us with our registrar Sarah. Then we were driven back to the Mirage, we started to video Elvis singing to us and he invited me to sit in the front of the caddy with him. We drove back singing Elvis songs with people tooting and waving to Elvis as we went. This is the best fun wedding we've ever been to, we laughed the whole time, we are so glad we went for this and will treasure the memories, and I'm sure, will laugh every time we hear an Elvis song in the future. We dropped off our certificate etc. in our room and went to Japonais to have a glass of champagne and a cocktail to celebrate. Then went to Cravings restaurant for some lunch. Later we went out to walk up to Bellagio's. I wanted to see the water show without the rain, and have discovered that there is an Ansel Adams exhibition on at their galleries. It was this we headed for first - we knew most of the photographs that were displayed, but found a few that we've never seen before. It was a really good exhibition with a lot of details of his life and a few letters he has written to his family. We went down to the casino afterwards and played on the penny slots, I won $20. Then we went through to the conservatory where there was a flower festival on to celebrate the Chinese New Year, the Year of the Pig. We took some pictures of the flowers and a bit of film of the waters chasing around the flowers, a simple but really effective concept, before leaving to watch the main water show. Afterwards we crossed the road to Paris and booked a table for the Mon Ami restaurant which overlooks the water show at Bellagio's. We had a lovely steak dinner there and watched the water show every 15 minutes whilst we ate. We took a stroll through Paris and up the walkway through to Bally's then back to the Mirage for a nightcap before bed. It's been a wonderful day, we've had so much fun and I still can't quite believe that we got married!