That’s the way I read it.
And John Lennon in 2030.
I think Lisa Marie sold her majority interest in the company that held the rights to Elvis’ name, likeness, etc like 15 or 20 years ago and then it’s changed hands again a few times since.
So unless Authentic Brands Group is run by Scientologists…
For our 25th wedding anniversary, Mr VOW and I went to Vegas to celebrate. On the actual date of the anniversary, we renewed our vows at the Silver Bells Wedding Chapel with an Elvis impersonator.
At the end of this month, we will celebrate anniversary Number Forty-Eight.
It would be a sad, sad thing, indeed, if weddings in Las Vegas could no longer be performed by The King.
~VOW
This is what I was wondering. Couldn’t some sort of class action suit be brought on behalf of all the Elvis impersonators?
That could eventually be made into a movie itself. Kind of a comedy-drama: “Elvis vs. Elvis”. I’m picturing a courtroom with the spectator area packed full of Elvis impersonators.
“Don’t be cruel…” “We’re the Flying Elvis Wedding Officials - Utah chapter.”
Ha! 
That might make a good alternate title, or the tagline to the movie!
Hey, I just had a horrible realization: this would mean no more Flying Elvises! I don’t want to live in a world without skydiving Elvises (Elvi?).
My daughter’s elopement wedding was in a Vegas Chapel. She didn’t do the Elvis thing, although it was on their menu. The day of her wedding they told her they had one Elvis event and the rest were just Vegas Weddings.
This would likely not be a trademark claim, but rather a claim under personality law/right of publicity law. I don’t believe that there is a “use it or lose it” aspect to this kind of law, but this is on a state by state basis, so you would have to study the law of the state under which this claim is being asserted.
Why is it only Las Vegas that does these things?
Somebody has to embrace the crazy.
Likely a convergence of two things:
- Nevada’s laws allow “quickie” weddings (no blood tests, no waiting period after issuing the marriage license), so there are a number of businesses, particularly in Vegas, built specifically around facilitating weddings.
- As Elvis is closely associated with Vegas, for various reasons (his movie Viva Las Vegas, his residency shows there in the late '60s and '70s, and his own marriage to Priscilla, which took place in Vegas), there’s long been a tradition of Elvis impersonators/tribute acts in Vegas.
I lived in Las Vegas for 10 years. Got married while living there, but the wedding was not in Vegas and had no Elvii.
However I did attend a different wedding in Las Vegas as explained in this post of mine from last year:
Seems like kind of a lame-o way to start off a marriage anyway.
It’s certainly not for everyone, but then, neither is an elaborate church wedding with 300 guests and a high-five-figure wedding reception.
Not to mention Bruce Campbell.
My favorite scene from that film is actually Ossie Davis explaining that he is John F. Kennedy:
Stranger
I kinda had an Elvis wedding. We got married in Vegas at one of those small chapels that offered the Elvis package, but they only had one officiant to perform all ceremonies. And he looked like Elvis. So if you paid for the Elvis package, he put on the rhinestone jumpsuit, if not he wore a suit and tie.
So we had a suit and tie Elvis officiate our wedding,
Speaking for yourself only, of course. (How long has your marriage lasted? Our Elvis wedding was over 30 years ago…which could be considered to be lame by some.)
Vegas beat Florida in a game of Rock/Paper/Scissors for first pick.
And you see what they ended up with!