Grammable Wedding Chapel is Back at Palms
A selfie-friendly wedding chapel, dubbed “Til Death Do Us Part,” has reopened at Palms Casino after a years-long “hiatus.”
The quirky chapel originally opened in 2019, the “brainchild of Guatemalan American visual artist Joshua Vides, known for transforming spaces into high-contrast, line-drawn dreamscapes.”
Palms is making a play for “micro-weddings” in a competitive landscape where the kids are simply over marriage, as evidenced by the expressions of the couple in the photo provided by Palms.
The space is a wee 800 square feet. Also, if you have square feet, you should probably see a doctor and whatever you do, do not get married or procreate.
A news release about the reopening of the venue touts a couple of wedding packages.
There’s the “Just the Two of Us” starting at $750, which includes “A couple-only ceremony that includes private chapel access, VIP check-in, upgraded accommodations, exclusive dining credit, and a dedicated wedding manager.” The “Micro Elopement” starts at $2,500 and includes “up to 25 guests for an intimate event that includes bubbly at Unknown Bar, sound system, upgraded accommodations and full concierge coordination.”
It’s really just about the cool pics, though.
Palms sort of lends itself to more modest weddings and receptions. It’s not your typical Strip resort and caters to more locals and low rollers, along with players from the San Manuel tribe’s California casino, Yaamava’ Resort & Casino at San Manuel.
Technically, the tribe that owns Palms is Yuhaaviatam of San Manuel Nation, but nobody’s typing all those words. It was formerly the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians.
And, technically, they don’t own Palms. It’s owned by the San Manuel Gaming and Hospitality Authority, a “a governmental instrumentality” which avoided the tribe’s entire council from being scrutinized by gaming regulators.
The largest Las Vegas export is “Nothing to see here.”
Anyway, this chapel looks cool and we tend to hate everything.
Palms should offer one of those “Rainy Day Refund” deals like a carwash if the marriage doesn’t work out. And by “if” we mean “when.” Half of marriages end in divorce. Second and third marriages, the number is even higher.
In other Palms news, our Twitter feud with the off-Strip casino has ended. We were fighting over the fact Palms was not using title case in its social media posts, making the resort appear to have eaten a lot of paint as a child. Palms got a new General Manager, Steve Thayer, from Strat and he quickly resolved this amateur hour nonsense and all was right with the world.
Earlier this year, Palms made headlines by making some of its casino games more player-friendly.
While most casinos now have 6-to-5 blackjack, Palms has 3-to-2 blackjack. A lot of die-hard players think this matters, despite the fact the odds go from a 0.5% house advantage to 2%. For every $100 wagered, that’s the difference between 50 cents and $2.
Or, in the words of the vast majority of recreational players, who gives a flying Fibonacci?
Oh, look, another side path! The Fibonacci system is a “negative progression betting strategy.” It’s usually seen in games like roulette or craps with even money bets. The system follows the Fibonacci sequence—1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, etc.—where each number is the sum of the two preceding ones. You start with a base bet and each time you lose, you move one step forward in the sequence, increasing your bet. When you win, you move two steps back. The goal is to recover previous losses with a small profit once a win happens. Unfortunately, extended losing streaks make this, like so many strategies, silly. The illusion of control is cool, though, and every betting system works every time it works!
Anyway, we were probably talking about a wedding chapel.
Learn more at the Palms site, which, we are happy to report, uses title case.
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