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Love Cirque du Soleil So Much You Wanna Marry It? In Vegas, You Can (Kinda)

Ever dreamed of running off and joining the circus? No? Ok then, how about running off and getting married by the circus...in Vegas? Yes, that sounds MUCH better and that's exactly what you can do at The Four Seasons at Mandalay Bay.

This summer the hotel introduced an elaborate Cirque du Soleil wedding extravaganza where dancers "suspend above the tables on silk rope and delighted by menus of made of chocolate." So far we have yet to see any pictures of this Cirquey wedding reception but if you've seen an aerial dancer in a Cirque show, then you can imagine what awaits at this kind of wedding reception.

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Where to Spend Your Wedding Night? The Fremont Street Slots, of Course

Only in Vegas, right? We’re slightly obsessed with Vegas weddings at the moment (why else would we marry a sandwich?) and although nothing will ever top the Excalibur Buffet wedding reception, this photo, which we took at the Golden Gate on Fremont Street, is coming pretty high up on our list of love. So poignant!

Before you shed a little tear for her, worry not – a few minutes earlier we’d seen her laughing merrily with her husband, so we assume he was on a bathroom break or something.

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Marrying a Sandwich Should Always Be Legal in Vegas

Yes, that guy brought out of wedlock baby Bobbies to his ceremony

It wasn’t how we imagined it when we were little, that’s for sure. Yesterday we rolled up to the Little White Wedding Chapel in our finest Vegas slapper dress and pledged our troth to a sandwich for as long as we both should “last”. How very Caligula!

Sadly our marriage lasted even less time than the average American one, since we did a JWoww (thanks to @EastCoastGamblr for pointing that one out) and devoured the husband soon after.

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The Best Vegas Wedding Ever: You and a Capriotti's Sandwich

Let’s face it – we’ve all dreamed of a Vegas wedding, haven’t we? Our recurring fantasy has always been to do a Britney at the Little White Wedding Chapel (with an Ashton Kutcher lookalike, to mix up our pop culture references, see), but we’re always put off by the cost of dissolving a sham failed marriage.

But now, our time has come. Because next Wednesday, you can actually get married at the Little White Wedding Chapel for free – a full ceremony – without the hassle of finding a bride or a groom or a license or a lawyer to dissolve it afterwards. Amazing. The only catch? You’ll be marrying a sandwich.

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Only In Vegas Would You Hold Your Wedding Reception at an All Day Buffet

Please tell us they went on to party with Thunder Down Under

As the ever-wonderful Alex Acuna says, this is why we love Vegas – because it really does have something for everyone.

As we were busy tweeting on Friday night, some friends of ours were up for the weekend and decided to hit the Excalibur all-day buffet. On trip four, in the evening, they found themselves dining next to a wedding party.

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The Strip's Next Top Wedding: Amy Winehouse and Her Blaaake (Again)

Ugh. Normally we’re (one of three) fans of Katie Price, but today we’re cursing her after the news that Amy Winehouse is planning on visiting Vegas and getting married – again – to her dealer ex-husband Blake Fielder Civil. Why did you have to give them the idea, Price-manator?

Last time, of course, it was Miami. And because that marriage went so swimmingly, they’ve decided to re-do it in America again. According to Holy Moly:

Amy doesn't want a traditional ceremony and wants it to be similar to their first wedding. She chose not to marry in Miami again because she thinks it could be a bad omen. They have agreed on Vegas.

But at least we can’t see the Wynn being defiled this time. Wino’s such a famewhore that she’ll want to go where she can be papped, plus they’ll most likely be too drongoed out to wrap (hoho) a magazine deal that would necessitate hiding themselves away. Also, they probably wouldn't do a cheap mag deal anyway, on the grounds that their-luv-aint-for-sale-or-somefing.

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Katie Price and Alex Reid's Wynn Wedding: Where They Done It

Katie buys the ring. The hat? We blame jet lag

Remember the charming couple we told you to keep an eye out for yesterday morning as they arrived in Vegas? Remember how we said they might be here to get married? Well they’ve only gone and done it, haven’t they?

After sexyman Norm Clarke tweeted this afternoon that the word on the Strip was about the Price’s impending nuptials, we sped our way down to Planet Hollywood, where she and lovah Alex Reid were shacking up.

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Has Anyone Seen This Charming Pair?

By “pair” we mean Katie and Alex, not Katie’s pair

UPDATE: They're married! At the Wynn, at 4pm today (Tuesday). Just as we were hunting them down in the chapels.

Today is a special (read: trashtastic) day for the Strip. Stephanie Pratt is hosting tonight at Pure. Over at Moon, they’re having a giveaway of Fergie Footwear. But most importantly, most crucially, Katie Price has arrived in Vegas.

If you haven’t seen the Price before, and you’re thinking she looks like a slightly more wizened version of what you’d see down Tao on a Saturday night, you’re wrong. This woman is a phenomenon. In a nutshell, she made millions as Britain’s top glamour model, Jordan, in the early 2000s, then reinvented herself as Katie Price, supermum, horse-rider and loving wife to Australia’s drippiest émigré, Peter Andre.

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How to Propose in Style in Vegas: At the Bellagio, On Camera, Tweeted Live

Where would you propose in Vegas? Up the Eiffel Tower? At the Las Vegas sign? Under the cowboy on Fremont Street with an Elvis impersonator crooning in the background? (We’d like our ring in some mash at the Crown and Anchor. Just FYI.)

One couple last night kept it classic with a proposal in front of the Bellagio fountains, but added a cutting edge twist by getting the whole shebang photographed and subsequently uploaded on Twitter and Facebook, seeing as they unwittingly asked a social media maven to take the photo.

@skydiver – AKA Peter Shankman – was watching the fountains when he was asked to take a photo of a couple. When the guy got on one knee, he kept snapping. And uploaded the results to Facebook this morning. Now if they'd skipped straight off and did the deed at one of the chapels, that would really be beautiful.

[Photo: Peter Shankman]

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Going to the Chapel, Over 200 Times a Day, in Las Vegas

If you're the type of bride-to-be who doesn't want to deal with any other brides on your wedding day, then um, don't get married in Vegas sister.

According to the Las Vegas marriage statistics about 108,963 applications for marriage licenses were filed in 2007 for Clark County. When you break that down, about 298 couples got married every day and you have to assume a lot of that is happening for weddings in Las Vegas--provided the couples go through with the "I Do"s before the tequila shots wear off.

In 2009, that number dropped down to 92,725 which is still about 254 couples getting married a day.

Of course, most folks are probably getting married on the weekends, especially the drunk in love kinds, and it's not typical to see wedding parties parade through the casino on a Monday. But since we know that everything is cheaper during the week, we can understand if couples get married during the week instead. We just can't understand having Elvis as the officiant.

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Meet the Miltons: Paris and Piers Pretend to Tie the Knot in Vegas

Ooh, what a relief. For a minute when we saw this pic, we thought Vegas weddings had claimed a pair of scalps even more gruesome than the Peaches Geldof-Max Drummey coupling. Had Paris Hilton and Piers Morgan really got married?

Luckily, turns out it was all a joke. Or rather, a stunt to promote his new TV show, Piers Morgan in Las Vegas. Although they did run through the full 15 minute ceremony, and take their vows at the Little Church of the West. The only thing they didn't do is sign for it. Any chance someone could find a legal loophole that makes them actually properly married?

Anyway, if you too fancy doing a Milton (actually, that has a ring to it), services at the chapel start from $60, or you can get a slightly less basic Let's Elope package for $199 plus minister's fee. For that, they'll let you and 10 guests into the chapel and give you an 8x10 pic and "custom-designed certificate holder". Who wouldn't want to join the ranks of the famously happy Angelina and Billy Bob, Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford and Bob Geldof and Paula Yates?

In the mean time, shame on you Piers. We expected better of you than faking photos. Oh.

[Photo: Jan Knapik/Splash via MailOnline]

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Mix Weddings with Vegas and Halloween and What Do You Get? Gothic Weddings

OMG. From wherever you're reading this column, we bet you heard our belly-aching laughter when we came across Gothic Weddings' website. A rather timely discover, too, with Halloween right around the corner.

The wedding chapel serves up all sorts of spooky wedding packages -- imagine geting hitched in a fog-filled wedding chapel with flickering candlelight. Cue the eerie organ music as the missus to-be walks down the aisle with a bouquet of yep, blood red roses.

With packages like Dracula's Tomb, Rocky's Horror Weddings, and When Vampires Fly (with Stratosphere Hotel and Casino aerialists, Kathy and Case), the nail-biting options are just endless. You can have the Grim Reaper perform your ceremony, cemetary themed props, or even Minister Frankenfurter perform "I Am Just a Sweet Transvestite" -- all with a live webcast of your nuptials for friends and family members sorely missing out on the freak show fun.

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