Lack of communication was the number one issue here. I enquired about booking this chapel from Australia and after a few emails I booked the chapel for Sunday 21/9 and paid the required deposit. From that point I received no further communication from any chapel staff, even after requesting a receipt for the deposit, nothing. Until... the day of our wedding booking when they called to confirm our pick up time. I'm not sure how they thought they could provide us with our dream wedding when they didn't know a single detail about how we wanted to do it! Joyfully, the night before, we were married at The Chapel of the Flowers, which we had booked when we lost confidence in Mon Bel Ami. It was worth losing our deposit to know we were in better hands. When we finally did get hold of them they offered no apology or compensation, and even clarified that we wouldn't be getting our deposit back.

Every single wedding is a special event - and if you're playing a part in that then you should take your role very seriously. There are plenty of chapels to choose from in Vegas and many can provide you with a wonderfully romantic, special experience. Please see my review for The Chapel of the Flowers... :)

Our wedding on June 7th, 2008 at Mon Bel Ami was absolutely beautiful. The chapel was gorgeous, the staff overall was very professional, pictures were wonderful... We had 18 guests with us and everyone felt the same way. We all enjoyed ourselves. We never felt rushed even though there was another wedding directly after ours.

I was so nervous on my wedding day that I thought I would be sick. The photographer (I can't remember his name, sorry) was very calming and soothed my nerves by keeping my mind on the photos he was taking beforehand. The minister asked before hand if we wanted God to be included and whether we wanted a traditional or modern feeling. The vows and everything were perfect.

After the photo session we were led to pick out our pictures (14 of the CEREMONY were included in our package and they tell you that in the e-mails you receive before the date). Linda was the most unprofessional person I've dealt with in a long time. She cursed like a sailor and even hit on my husband. She offered us the whole cd of photos for $600 or $400 if we paid cash. We took the cd because I really liked almost all of them. In my eyes, it's a pretty good deal because you get the full rights to them and it would've cost a LOT more to hire a photographer and get the same quality and everything.

The only other thing I have to complain about was that we didn't receive our champagne toast, but I didn't remember about it until after we'd already left.

What I don't understand is everyone on here that has complained about being asked to tip the minister and photographer. It was included in EVERY e-mail I received before the date, and is even on the website.

All in all, our wedding was perfect. I couldn't have had a better day, the chapel was gorgeous, and the ceremony was sweet and intimate.

My husband and I were married at Mon Bel Ami 09/17/05. Very beautiful chapel; however, the people that run this chapel, especially the owner herself, are ridiculous and do not care about anything except getting their money and giving nothing that you pay for in return.

The chapel made arrangements for us to have limo service for two hours, 3:30 - 5:30; the chapel paid the first hour, we paid the second hour. The limo driver cheated us out of a half hour of our time. First of all, he tried to leave as soon as he dropped me off at the chapel. He did stay but dropped us off back at our hotel a half hour BEFORE he was supposed to and said if we wanted to keep the limo until 5:30 as it was arranged, he was going to have to charge us for an additional hour. That argument lead no where and the last thing I wanted to do was turn what was supposed to be the most magical day of my life into a nightmare. It was my wedding day. I didn't want problems.

Then there is the photographer. I made full payment for the package we chose and never got the photos that came with the package. He basically wanted us to buy all of the photos at about $580 or take nothing at all. Eight of those photos came with the package my husband and I chose and had already paid for. I made the mistake of telling him I will be in touch with him the next day about all the photos because to me, they were my wedding photos. Of course I wanted them all. No matter how much I had to pay. When we realized we just didn't have it because we already put out every penny we had, I contacted the photographer the next day to tell him I just want the eight that came with the package. To make this part of the story short, he kept giving me a run around for the next couple of days that we were there and wouldn't give me the eight that came with the package. I attempted to get a hold of the owner but that didn't happen until we were back home in Pennsylvania. Of course now she is suddenly available. We're back on the east coast. What can we do from there? In speaking with her, the owner, she said for us to make another trip back to Vegas and she'll redo the entire photo shoot and give me all the pictures for free. (Sure...let me just go outside to my magical money tree and pull off the money I need to fly all the way back to the west coast, stay at a hotel, and then fly back to the east coast. Not to mention my boss wouldn't care if I just took a few more days off after I already took off ten for the wedding, right? Ha!) When I told her that is not possible, she told me to wait three days and then call her again. She needed time to get a hold of him and find out what is going on. I had explained I had actually just gotten off the phone with him before getting through to her, he's in his office now, and asked why it's going to take her three days to call him and why she can't call me as soon as she talks to him, I have to guess when she got a hold of him and then call her again. I explained after all the money we had given them, the least she could do was respect me enough to make a phone call and not blow me off. I understand she already had our money and the ceremony was over. I had nothing to hold over them and she obviously knew that but still. We gave them our business when there were 13 trillion other chapels across Vegas we could have chosen. She basically fed me some ridiculous story to get me off the phone and that was that. In the days that passed, I left numerous messages over and over again for her, emailed her on several occasions, and even sent a letter to her using UPS signature requested. I also kept trying to contact the photographer. To this day, I have not heard from them, I have not been able to get a hold of them again, and I still have not a single photo from our wedding. If you think going to Vegas to get married avoids an expensive wedding at home, which is what we were doing, you may want to think again. You may save a whole lot of money but if I had to do it all over again, I would have had my wedding at home. I wouldn't have gotten screwed over by the limo driver, the wedding coordinator wouldn't have been able to brush her hands clean of the situation and pretty much say "oh well, your loss" and more importantly to me, I would have my wedding photos. Having a costly wedding is worth more than going cheap and not getting what you paid for and what means the most to you. It is said, "you get what you pay for." In this case, we definitely did!

My husband and I got married at Mon Bel Ami on March 29, 2008. Our experience was very good. The chapel is small but yet very elegant. I felt the staff was very professional, we didn't feel rushed. The only scary moment we had was when we handed our marriage license to our wedding coordinator and she stated there was a paper missing and without that paper we couldn't get married. My Dad had to drive back to the hotel to get the paper that was missing. I was a nerveous wreck the the whole 20 minutes my Dad was gone. Family and friends were seated in the chapel. My Mom was in the room with me to assure everything would be ok. The good thing about it was the Minister had not arrived yet. Once my Dad arrived with the paper that was missing I quickly pulled myself together and was ready for that special moment for Dad to walk me down aisle to. The Minister arrived 5 minutes later. The ceremony was beautiful. The photographer took lots of pictures before and after the ceremony, he was very good. After the photographer was done we were taken to a room to view the pictures. We didn't allow them to pressure us into buying any expensive pictures that were out of our budget. I would recommend this chapel to any couple wanting to get married in Las Vegas.

Moreno Valley, CA