If you and your partner are staying at one of the hotels on the strip, ask at the front desk if you aren’t sure about what your options for venue are. Some of the hotels even have an in-house wedding planner available who can help you find the wedding of your dreams in Vegas. They will be able to advise you on everything from where to find a dress if you haven’t brought one with you, to getting some photographs, and tracking down the perfect venue for your ceremony. Love and marriage don’t have to go together – and with the more open society we live in accepting that we are free to love who we choose and not be restricted by gender, then in some cases it isn’t even legally possible for them to do so. With homosexual marriage being a political and legal hot potato around the world, love and marriage is even possible for gay couples in some areas, whilst in others it’s still illegal and so love and marriage in the traditional sense is denied. They replaced the loaves of bread that were historically broken during the wedding ceremony. The tradition of bridegrooms in the wedding party is said to have its roots in the era of very early history when a man would rely on his friends to abduct a woman from her family for his bride. The practice of bridegrooms and bridesmaids dressing alike is a long-standing one in the history of marriage, based on the superstition, which holds that evil spirits might wish harm on the couple and the similarity in dress would confuse them. For women, the traditional wedding vows were slightly different and stated that the bride promised to “love, cherish, and obey” her husband. This is now considered out of date by many people and so in most traditional wedding ceremonies, both the bride and groom make the same vows to each other, and the notion of the bride “obeying” her husband is abandoned. Not everyone is still happy about these marriages taking place. Certain churches take steps to ensure that the couple, and any children that come from the union, are taken care of in one religion or the other – usually requiring that one person convert to the religion of the other. Amongst the general public however, people aren’t usually judgmental against people from different religions marrying, even if they don’t agree with it. For instance, you could consider fulfilling a dream your partner has to swim with dolphins, and ask the question when you are both in the water with the graceful animals swimming around you. Alternatively, how about a hot air balloon ride over some beautiful scenery such as the Californian vineyards or even an African savannah if you want to go really exotic!