Taco Bell to launch Las Vegas weddings

$600 buys event, tacos and sauce packet bouquet

Come Aug. 7, couples seeking a quickie Las Vegas wedding can tie the knot at a Taco Bell Cantina on The Strip.

The $600 fast-food wedding includes a dozen tacos, a Cinnabon Delights cake and a bouquet made of hot sauce packets. Irvine, Calif.-based Taco Bell first announced its nuptials package on Valentine’s Day. At the time, Taco Bell held a contest for couples looking to be the first lovebirds hitched at the Las Vegas Taco Bell.

More than 150 couples entered the wedding contest. Dan Ryckert and Bianca Monda won. They celebrated their wedding Sunday.

“Now that Dan and Bianca have paved the way, starting August 7, fans everywhere can have their own Taco Bell wedding, which they can walk in and order right off the Las Vegas Cantina menu,” the Irvine-based chain said in a statement released Monday.

The wedding ceremony is performed by an ordained officiant. Couples are allowed to have a private reception area for up to 15 guests. Weddings take place on the second level of the Cantina.

Taco Bell is partnering with Las Vegas-based Flora Pop, which specializes in traveling pop-up weddings. Once a wedding package is paid for at the fast-food counter, Taco Bell said couples can expect the ceremony to take place in the upstairs wedding chapel within four hours.

An officiant with Flora Pop, not employees, will conduct the ceremony.