Having owned Little Church of the West, Greg Smith has seen it all.

“If you’ve been in Las Vegas for any amount of substantial time, you either know someone who’s been married here, been to a wedding here, or got married here,” said Smith, who got his start in the wedding industry working in the mail room of the Candlelight Wedding Chapel.

The iconic wedding chapel, which has moved locations three times and now sits at 4617 Las Vegas Blvd. South, celebrated its 80th birthday Monday, and Smith said the chapel’s first wedding dates all the way back to May 22, 1943, when George Calvert, an Army tank captain, and Helen Gates tied the knot in the original location on the north side of the Last Frontier Hotel.