Question of the Day - 19 October 2015

There wasn't ... but there is now! Actually, that's not really accurate: We came across multiple lists while researching this, but not one single list as comprehensive as is (we hope) what follows. Doubtless there may be some omissions even to this, however, which we put together using myriad sources, so if you know of a well-known couple who tied the knot in Las Vegas that isn't included, please drop us a line. In the meantime, here goes:

• 1942 - Mickey Rooney and Ava Gardner tied the knot at The Little Church of the West. (It didn't last.)
• 1943 - 1943 - Betty Grable married bandleader Harry James at the same venue. (Neither did this one!)
• 1945 - Singer/actress Deanna Durbin married Felix Jackson.
• 1949 - Actor George Sanders wed Zsa Zsa Gabor, also at the Little Church of the West (which seems to have had the monopoly on celebrity unions back then, but on the other hand, there were only a handful of chapels to choose from in the '40s)
• 1953 - Actress Rita Hayworth and singer Dick Haymes did the deed at The Sands.
• 1954 - Kirk Douglas married Ann Buydens at the Sahara and, unlike the majority of those unions included on this list, that one has stood the test of time.
• 1954 - Also that year, actress Arlene Dahl wed matinee idol Fernando Lamas in The Little Church of the West.
• 1955 - Joan Crawford married Pepsi-Cola tycoon Alfred Steele at the Flamingo (setting the scene for a dark family life later exposed in Mommie Dearest, the memoir of the couple's adopted daughter).
• 1956 - Boulder City (so, not technically Vegas, but close enough) was the chosen location for Broadway star Carol Channing's wedding to local Vegas advertising and TV executive Charles Lowe.
• 1957 - Another of the rare success stories, this year saw Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme tying the knot, not at a casino or wedding chapel, but in the home of El Rancho owner Beldon Katleman.
• 1958 - Another one with a happy ending, in January of this year movie stars Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward married at the El Rancho.
• 1959 - Beneath an arch woven from Louisville Sluggers, Cleveland Indians second baseman, and later New York Yankees manager Billy Martin, was married to Gretchen Winkler at the Desert Inn.
• 1961 - Shirley Bassey married (gay) film director Kenneth Hume. (Needless to say, that one didn't work out so well.)
• 1962 - Mary Tyler Moore married NBC Vice President Grant Tinker at the Little White Wedding Chapel.
• 1963 - Dinah Washington and Dick Lane were married at the Little Church of the West.
• 1963 - Betty White married her third husband -- the keeper! -- Allen Ludden, himself a TV host, at the Sands.
• 1965 - The Dunes was the setting for Jane Fonda's wedding, when she tied the knot with director/producer Roger Vadim.
• 1965 - A fading Judy Garland, who died just four years later, was married to GMark Herron at the Little Church of the West.
• 1966 - One of the more famous of Las Vegas' celebrity unions took place this year at the Sands, when Frank Sinatra married Mia Farrow.
• 1966 - More history was in the making this year, when singer Charo and Latin music king Xavier Cugat became the first couple to exchange vows at Caesars Palace.
• 1967 - Perhaps the most famous of all the celebrity weddings to have taken place in Sin City, on May 1 Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu at the Aladdin.
• 1967 - In the same year, Elvis' Viva Las Vegas co-star Ann-Margret tied the knot at the Riviera with Roger Smith of TV's "77 Sunset Strip" fame.
• 1967 - Actress Leslie Ann Warren married her hairdresser Jon Peters at the Sahara.
• 1968 - Mr. Las Vegas himself, Wayne Newton, married a former airline stewardess named Elaine Okamura at the Flamingo. They later divorced.
• 1972 - The perennially tanned George Hamilton married Alana Collins at the Las Vegas Hilton.
• 1973 - Michael Caine married Shakira Baks at the Candlelight Wedding Chapel.
• 1977 - David Cassidy of "The Partridge Family" fame married actress Kay Lenz at the Little Church of the West.
• 1980 - Jay and Mavis Leno took their vows at the Graceland Chapel and the couple's still going strong today.
• 1982 - Singer/actor Robert Goulet got hitched for the third and final time, when he married Vera Chochorovska Novak. Their reception was hosted at the Dunes.
• 1984 - Bette Midler married artist Martin von Haselberg at the Starlight Chapel.
• 1985 -Joan Collins married Swedish singer Peter Holm at A Little White Wedding Chapel.
• 1986 - Bob Geldof of the Boomtown Rats, and later Live Aid, married TV host Paula Yates at The Little Church of the West.
• 1987 - Bruce Willis and Demi Moore at A Little White Wedding Chapel.
• 1988 - Perhaps following the lead of Leslie Ann Warren in this year actor Dudley Moore married makeup artist Brogan Lane, also at the Little Church of the West.
• 1988 - Continuing a family tradition begun by his father Lorenzo, actor Fernando Lamas ("Falcon Crest") married Kathleen Kinmont Smith at the Graceland Wedding Chapel.
• 1989 - In another exception to the rule -- both for Vegas weddings and rock star marriages, Jon Bon Jovi married Dorothea Hurley -- and they're still together today.
• 1989 - In the same year, actor/rocker Corey Feldman married Vanessa Marcil of "Beverly Hills 90210."
• 1989 - This year also saw basketball legend Michael Jordan marrying Juanita Vanoy at A Little White Wedding Chapel in another nuptial success story (on the back of which, the chapel now offers a $539 "Michael Jordan wedding package," although we're not quite sure what that comprises that relates to the basketball star - we don't think it's a guarantee of marital bliss, although it does include what's described as a "Rules for a happy marriage" keepsake.
• 1991 - Richard Gere married supermodel Cindy Crawford in 1991 at the Little Church of the West.
• 1991 - Redd Foxx and Ka Ha Cho were married at the Little Church of the West in July of this year.
• 1991 - Band members Tom Bailey and Alannah Currie of the Thompson Twins did it at the Graceland Wedding Chapel.
• 1993 - Billy Ray Cyrus and Laeticia 'Tish' Finley married at Graceland Wedding Chapel.
• 1994 - impressionist Rich Little married Jeannette Markey at MGM Grand.
• 1996 - Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa did the quickie-chapel thing.
• 1996 - Rapper Coolio (who's been spotted gambling at Dotty's in recent years) married Los Angeles DJ Josefa Salinas.
• 1997 - Noel Gallagher of Brit band Oasis wed Meg Matthews at the Little Church of the West.
• 1998 - Dennis Rodman and Carmen Electra embarked on a short union in Sin City, with Rodman claiming he was drunk during the ceremony.
• 2000 - Angelina Jolie married her Pushing Tin co-star Billy Bob Thornton in a 20-minute ceremony at the Little Church of the West.
• 2000 - Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks married actor Adrian Pasdar at A Little White Wedding Chapel.
• 2001 - Tennis stars Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf were married in a private ceremony at their Las Vegas home.
• 2002 - Heavy metal rocker-turned-movie director Rob Zombie did the deed with actress Sheri Moon at the Graceland Wedding Chapel.
• 2004 - Britney Spears wed childhood friend Jason Allen Alexander at the Little White Wedding Chapel; a mere 55 hours later, it was as if it had never happened.
• 2004 - This evidently wasn't a good year for marriage longevity, with Nicky Hilton's union to money manager Todd Andrew Meister, which took place at the Vegas Wedding Chapel, lasting only a couple of months.
• 2006 - "Entourage" star Kevin Dillon did it "Elvis-style" when he married model/actress Jane Stuart at a chapel downtown.
• 2007 - TV actress Jodie Sweetin ("Full House") wed Cody Herpin at the Little Church of the West.
• 2007 - Pamela Anderson, went all in with poker player Rick Salomon; they both folded a couple of months later.
• 2007 - Former "Scary" Spice Girl Melanie "Mel B" Brown married Stephen Belafonte in a secret ceremony at the Special Memory Wedding Chapel.
• 2009 - R&B singers Christina Milian and The Dream eloped at the Little White Chapel. It didn't end well.
• 2011 - Actor Doug Hutchison married former beauty pageant queen/aspiring pop star Courtney Alexis Stodden -- his junior by 35 years -- in The Little Chapel of Flowers.
• 2011 - Irish singer Sinead O' Connor married therapist Barry Herridge in the back of a pink Cadillac at A Little White Wedding Chapel.
• 2012 - Ian Astbury, lead singer of The Cult, married The Black Ryder singer/guitarist Aimee Nash at the Little Church of the West.
• 2013 - Former "Smash" star Megan Hilty and longtime boyfriend, actor/singer Brian Gallagher, married at the Venetian.

A few other famous people who tied the knot in Las Vegas, but for whom we're not sure when or to whom (on account of them having had more than one spouse) or frankly, because we were simply too "celebrity-wedding'd-out" by a certain point to investigate any further, include: "Kojak" actor Telly Savalas; Lars Ulrich of Metallica; actress/author/activist Heather Thomas; sax player David Sanborn; Mel "The Velvet Fog" Tormé; Tom Petty; Bo Derek; Sugar Shane Mosley; James Caan; talk show host Ricki Lake; Erin Brokovich; Slash of Guns N' Roses; Ernest Borgnine; boxer Leon Spinks; and soccer legend Pele.

According to the Wee Kirk o’ the Heather Wedding Chapel, which opened in 1940 and is still marrying couples today, they received a call from Colonel Tom Parker shortly before Elvis' death, informing them that the singer intended to marry his then-girlfriend Ginger at their establishment. The chapel's website states that a date was set and that Parker, along with a sizable entourage, all showed up for the event. Two notable no-shows, however, were Elvis and Ginger, and a few months later The King was dead.

We know there are still more names to add to the list, so fee free to send additional suggestions our way and we'll keep adding...