Quite what the chaps behind holding hands made of it, or the young couple in front who’d driven for three hours to marry with Elvis’s blessing, we may never know.
But queuing for your wedding licence next to the biggest celebrity bounceback couple this century will make a story they can tell for ever.
Announcing her surprise Las Vegas wedding to Ben Affleck at the weekend, Jennifer Lopez described the other lovestruck couples who stood in line with her and her husband-to-be, saying “all of us wanting the same thing – for the world to recognise us as partners and to declare our love to the world”.