Elvis Presley posing with a guitar.

What Was Eating At Elvis' $10,000 Wedding Reception Like?

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By ELIAS NASH

Elvis and Priscilla Presley's wedding photo.
Elvis Presley tied the knot with Priscilla Beaulieu on May 1, 1967. The Presleys' wedding reception featured one of the most sumptuous meal spreads in matrimonial history.
Oyster Rockefeller on a salt bed.
The reception guests at the Aladdin Hotel, Las Vegas dined on a $10,000 buffet spread that included oysters Rockefeller, roast suckling pig, lobster, fried chicken, and Champagne.
Elvis and Priscilla Presley's wedding ceremony.
The buffet was packed with Southern comforts, harkening back to Elvis's Mississippi roots. Champagne flowed like a river, followed by one of the most memorable wedding cakes.
Elvis and Priscilla Presley cut wedding cake.
Created by the hotel's head chef, Bill Jaeger, and pastry chef Denis Martig, Presley's six-tiered wedding cake, made from yellow sponge cake, stood 5 feet tall.
Baker preparing fondant for cake.
It was filled with apricot marmalade and Bavarian cream flavored with kirsch, a type of brandy. For the frosting, the Presleys chose white fondant and flavored it with more kirsch.
Cans of Crisco vegetable shortening.
The cake was decorated with approximately 1,600 marzipan roses, 48 sugar hearts, and 478 silver sugared almonds. It took 20 pounds of Crisco vegetable shortening to make the cake.