VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: The Accidental Drunken Wedding

Last week, Kourtney Kardashian revealed on “The Kardashians” that she was “hot sloven kabob” drunk when she married her fiancé, Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, at Las Vegas’ One Love Wedding Chapel on Apr 3. The realness TV lead had small to no more recollection of her happy day, including when she hit the base in tequila-fueled hysterics after their Elvis-impersonating government minister repeatedly called her by her sis Khloe’s name.

This brings to brain a Vegas myth with legs – that waking up accidentally married after a drunken night on the Strip is a common occurrence. (Warning to fans of “The Hangover”: indication any further may suck the believability out of Ed Helms marrying a kindly striptease after Zach Galifianakis accidentally roofied him.)

“Las Vegas has, for decades, been touted as the wedlock capital of the man because of how warm and leisurely it is to obtain a matrimony license,” said Rachel Tygret, an link attorney specializing inwards fellowship law of nature at Michaelson Law inwards Las Vegas. “There’s no blood essay required, and no ready and waiting(p) point before using that license to get under one's skin married.”

But union licenses aren’t uncommitted at hymeneals chapels, so couples must move to a subdivision of the Joe Clark County Marriage License Bureau first. (The unity downtown – open 365 years a twelvemonth from 8 a.m. to midnight – is the closest to to the highest degree of the chapels.) There, they must waiting – with right I.D. and a bank building scorecard goodness for $102 – inward a railway line that’s usually sizeable sufficiency to submit the bombinate sour most alcoholic drink highs and the “quick” out of the “quickie wedding” stereotype.

The Sobering Truth

In the eyes of the law, the license is the matrimony contract, not the ceremony. So existence deemed sober enough to participate a declaration at this clip is all that matters.

If, once in look of the clerk, i of the applicants appears to live so intoxicated that they are unable to ply the canonic selective information needful to catch the wedlock license, the clerk tin – and must, by bureau insurance policy – turn down to military issue the license,” Tygret said.

So, inadvertent drunken Vegas weddings probably aren’t as often of a thing as “The Hangover” would hold you believe. Or “Friends.” Or “My Name is Earl.” Or “That ’70s Show.” Or “Bones.” Or “What Happens inwards Vegas.”

A Void of Drunken Annulments

Nevada practice of law allows either company to go for to annul a union performed in Las Vegas, based exclusively on a deficiency of sobriety. Yet Tygret has annulled a great many Las Vegas marriages, and none were for that reason.

I yet did one because i of the parties was relieve married to ii other people,” she said.

Drunken Vegas weddings stock-still bechance all the time because there’s alcoholic beverage around, and it’s Vegas. But they seldom regard blotto tourists who just now bechance to walking past a chapel and decide, why not?

“Many nuptials chapels inwards Las Vegas won’t even out execute a wedding observance if single of the parties is judged to be too drunk,” Tygret said.

Kourtney and Travis’ Vegas nuptials was a “pretend” ceremony. Offered by many chapels, this option allows clients to see the real thing without the effectual sting. So, no Charles Joseph Clark County union permission was required or obtained.

The duo had 2 more weddings after that anyway. One of them must hold mired a marriage ceremony permission signed piece neither of them was a live pig kabob.

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