Plenty of celebrities have tied the knot in Las Vegas; here’s five couples

You don’t need to get down on one knee: Las Vegas will marry you. ¶ Tens of thousands of visitors and locals are married in Southern Nevada every year, drawn by the relative ease of procuring a marriage license here and by chapels that range in atmosphere from modest frontier church to Taco Bell. (Yes, there’s a chapel inside the Taco Bell Cantina on the Strip.) We have an entire industry in place to bring lovers together in matrimony, and it’s little wonder that over the years, more than a few celebrities have taken advantage of it. Here are some of the best-known Vegas celebrity weddings — although none of them took place on Valentine’s Day.

On July 19, 1966, Frank Sinatra married actress Mia Farrow at the Sands Hotel, in a secret ceremony that barely lasted 15 minutes. Sinatra was 50, fully 30 years older than Farrow. (Dean Martin reportedly joked that he owned “bottles of scotch that are older” than Sinatra’s bride.) They honeymooned in Palm Springs and divorced in 1968, with Farrow citing the age difference as the reason for the split. (Years later, Farrow told Vanity Fair that their relationship continued, on and off, for years after; she even intimated that her son Ronan Farrow, born in 1987, was “possibly” fathered by Sinatra.

On Nov. 15, 1998, Dennis Rodman married Carmen Electra at Chapel of the Flowers. The then-detroit Piston and

AP FILE (1966) Frank Sinatra and his wife, actress Mia Farrow, are shown after their wedding July 19, 1966, at the Sands.

AP FILE (1967) Elvis and Priscilla Presley appear at the Aladdin in Las Vegas, after their May 1, 1967, wedding.