First time poster here! My fiance and I are planning our wedding in Las Vegas for next year (April or November), coming from the Toronto area.
We are going to get married at the courthouse with just one or two witnesses, followed by a family & friend pre-reception party in our hotel room (ideally a suite at the Bellagio or Mandalay Bay). Then we are planning on having a true reception dinner at a restaurant.
Photography is very important to us and we have pretty specific tastes (photojournalistic, ideally only a few posed photos, no cheesy "forced" candids). However I know that if you are having your /wedding/ at one of the M-Group chapels you are forced to use Cashman, who gets mixed reviews at best online. I have tried contacting a couple of the resorts about this but they are not giving us clear answers and mostly just try to sell their wedding packages which we do not want. Does anybody here know if you are allowed to bring a photographer of your choice in to just take pictures around the resort, given that we are not actually getting married there?
Sorry about the long post, I would really appreciate feedback from anyone who actually made it through; this has been our dream for a while and I want to have amazing photos to look back on!