{"id":43387,"date":"2014-09-13T12:08:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T19:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lasvegasinfocenter.com\/mw.lasvegasinfocenter.com\/?page_id=43387"},"modified":"2014-09-13T19:48:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T02:48:12","slug":"elvis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/lasvegasinfocenter.com\/mw.lasvegasinfocenter.com\/?page_id=43387","title":{"rendered":"Elvis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Elvis &amp; Priscilla&#8217;s Wedding Day &#8211;\u00a0 May 1, 1967<br \/>\nUnforgettable day for so many fans around the world and certainly for Elvis &amp; Priscilla<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3owU0U3R-fo?rel=0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Priscilla and Elvis met in November 1959 at a party at Elvis&#8217; off-base residence in Bad Nauheim in Germany. She was 14 1\/2 years old. \u00a0Priscilla moved to <a href=\"http:\/\/memphis.about.com\/od\/elvispresley\/p\/graceland.htm\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Graceland<\/a> in early 1963. Elvis formally proposed marriage to Priscilla in December 1966 and gave her an engagement ring with a three-and-a-half-carat diamond that was surrounded by a detachable row of smaller diamonds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">According to a <i>Las Vegas SUN<\/i> news report about their wedding, &#8220;Presley wore a black brocade silk tuxedo and Western boots, while Priscilla wore a floor-length wedding gown of her own design: white silk chiffon, with beaded yoke, trimmed in seed pearls and topped with a three-foot tulle veil secured by a rhinestone crown.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">In late 1971, problems in the marriage of Priscilla and Elvis escalated. On February 23, 1972 they separated. Their separation was formalized in July 1972.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Their divorce was granted on October 9, 1973 at the Los Angeles Superior Courthouse in Santa Monica, California.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Elvis about their divorce: &#8220;Our divorce came about not because of another man or another woman but because of the circumstances involving my career. I was traveling too much. I was gone too much.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> Source: Peter Guralnick, Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley, page 541.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b>Quotes About Priscilla and Elvis Presley&#8217;s Marriage:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Elvis about Priscilla: &#8220;You can love someone and be wrong for them.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Source: Pamela Clarke Keogh, <i>Elvis Presley: The Man, The Life, The Legend<\/i>, page 238.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Priscilla about submission in marriage: &#8220;It&#8217;s something she&#8217;ll be telling largely female audiences in her lectures: &#8216;Honey, have your own thing going, too.&#8217; She learned the hard way that total submission in marriage &#8212; by either party &#8212; is a bad idea.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Source: Gerri Hirshey. &#8220;Priscilla Presley: Her Side of the Story.&#8221; <i>Ladies&#8217; Home Journal.<\/i> 7\/2003.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Priscilla looking back at her marriage: &#8220;She says she got to write very little of it, and that she doesn&#8217;t regret the days in her gilded cage as Mrs. Presley. But she understands now what made it so unworkable in the end: &#8216;I lived somebody else&#8217;s life. It was never about me, it was really about him on every level.'&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Source: Gerri Hirshey. &#8220;Priscilla Presley: Her Side of the Story.&#8221; <i>Ladies&#8217; Home Journal.<\/i> 7\/2003.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Priscilla: &#8220;I lived a really wonderful life with this man and even after our divorce, it was incredible. We had a closer bond, probably because the effort was off and there was just a purity. We realized that we liked each other, and that&#8217;s very special.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Source: Gerri Hirshey. &#8220;Priscilla Presley: Her Side of the Story.&#8221; <i>Ladies&#8217; Home Journal.<\/i> 7\/2003.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Gerri Hirshey: &#8220;This is what Priscilla Presley would like the dreary Elvis mythologizers to understand: Act One was no grand American tragedy. Sure, she was devastated by her husband&#8217;s sad demise, his infidelities, her own retaliative affair, the divorce. But the couple remained close, and she totally relied on him until his death when, as she puts it, &#8220;the sun went out.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Source: Gerri Hirshey. &#8220;Priscilla Presley: Her Side of the Story.&#8221; <i>Ladies&#8217; Home Journal.<\/i> 7\/2003.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Links \/ Photo Credits\" href=\"http:\/\/lasvegasinfocenter.com\/mw.lasvegasinfocenter.com\/?page_id=1491\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Back to Links<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elvis &amp; Priscilla&#8217;s Wedding Day &#8211;\u00a0 May 1, 1967 Unforgettable day for so many fans around the world and certainly for Elvis &amp; Priscilla Priscilla and Elvis met in November 1959 at a party at Elvis&#8217; off-base residence in Bad &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/lasvegasinfocenter.com\/mw.lasvegasinfocenter.com\/?page_id=43387\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elvis<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1491,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lasvegasinfocenter.com\/mw.lasvegasinfocenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43387"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lasvegasinfocenter.com\/mw.lasvegasinfocenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lasvegasinfocenter.com\/mw.lasvegasinfocenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lasvegasinfocenter.com\/mw.lasvegasinfocenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lasvegasinfocenter.com\/mw.lasvegasinfocenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43387"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/lasvegasinfocenter.com\/mw.lasvegasinfocenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43436,"href":"http:\/\/lasvegasinfocenter.com\/mw.lasvegasinfocenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43387\/revisions\/43436"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lasvegasinfocenter.com\/mw.lasvegasinfocenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lasvegasinfocenter.com\/mw.lasvegasinfocenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}