Lucky in Love, a Vegas-style wedding chapel, is opening in Richmond next month.
Why it matters: The downtown chapel will offer all-inclusive same-day weddings and elopements, plus planned micro-weddings — all for a fraction of the cost of a traditional wedding.
The big picture: Chapel co-owner and licensed wedding officiant Tia Ballard is on a mission to give local couples their perfect day, regardless of their budget, she tells Axios.
- As a former teacher, Ballard saw firsthand how important strong families were for student success, so she decided to get ordained so she could help create them.
- “I wanted to build stronger communities this way — by marrying people,” she tells Axios.
That was four years ago. Since then, she’s married more than 500 couples and now does it full time. Elopements are her specialty, but she’s done “quickies at Common House,” microweddings at local breweries and knot-tying in the woods.
Now, with Lucky in Love, she’ll “have a home base” and an opportunity to give even more local couples a stress-free, budget-conscious wedding…