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Not everyone dreams of a white wedding.
Some people like feather boas and mini-skirts. And Elvis Presley -- lots of Elvis Presley.
Those are the people who often make a beeline for Las Vegas. They say their vows in little chapels decked out with big lights, then they hit the town.
Now, that town can be Seattle.
Shotgun Ceremonies, a Vegas-style wedding destination, opened last month in Pioneer Square.
Owners Bronwen Stevenson and Sara Qureshi call their storefront chapel an alternative to expensive, catered events that take months of planning.
"I guess I never bought into the big wedding, spend a lot of money," said Stevenson, who had her second wedding in a Vegas chapel. "I was more about the marriage."
She and Qureshi are both credentialed officiants; certificates saying as much are displayed on a wall next to large-as-life posters of Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe.
They come to work in cowboy boots, tulle tutus and bustiers, driving home the point that this isn't where you go for a traditional wedding.
But for an unconventional wedding? This could be the place.
The idea was dreamed up two years ago, when Stevenson and Qureshi were bored at work.
"We met at a horrible staffing job that we hated a lot," Stevenson said. "We spent our days trying to figure out what we wanted to be when grew up."
There was an electric cigarette company, then a martial-arts apparel business.
But in the back of their minds, the duo had another plan.
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