A Little White Wedding Chapel


A Little White Wedding Chapel is a chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is notable as the site of many quick celebrity weddings; famously, the chapel offers a "Drive-Thru Tunnel of Vows" for quick, largely unplanned marriages. The chapel was built and opened in 1954 by Arvid and Neva Barnhart.
Charolette Richards bought the chapel in 1981. She came into the wedding business through marriage with Merle Richards, owner of Little Church of the West. Merle and Charolette Richards together opened Algiers' Little Church of the West in 1968. The couple later divorced, and Charolette went into business on her own with Little White Chapel. She has presided over the marriages of Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Michael Jordan, Dame Joan Collins, Britney Spears, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore. Mrs. Richards sold the chapel in 2022 to Cliff Evarts and Melody Willis-Williams.
Similarly named Las Vegas wedding chapels, such as The Little Church of the West, The Little Chapel by the Courthouse, and the Chapel of the Flowers are often confused with A Little White Wedding Chapel. The Little Chapel by the Courthouse was also owned by We've Only Just Begun Inc..

Notable weddings

The chapel has been featured on such TV shows as WWE Raw, Supernatural, Friends and Good Morning America. Michael Ross and Naomi Defensor, two cast members on the 2011 season of The Real World: Las Vegas, participated in a mock wedding at the Chapel during the June 1, 2011 season finale of that series. The wedding scene depicted in the 2025 Oscar-winning film Anora was shot at A Little White Wedding Chapel in March 2023.