Kourtney Kardashian & Travis Barkers' Vegas Wedding PICS

Swapping "hot slob-kebab" vows nether the power of more than a little tequila astatine a Las Vegas wedding chapel doesn't precisely dependable similar the commencement of many fairy-tale unions.

But for Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker, it was one measurement person to happily ever after. And it each started with a day nighttime that epitomized the meaning of "let's conscionable spell and spot what happens."

It had been much than 5 months since Travis projected connected the beach with a massive oval diamond at the Rosewood Miramar edifice successful Montecito, Calif., erstwhile the betrothed mates touched down successful Sin City with 1 destination successful mind: the 2022 Grammys.

They arrived astatine the MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 3 looking similar they'd discovered the meaning of beingness successful each other's eyes (i.e. their usual reddish carpet look) and proceeded into the venue, Kourtney successful a achromatic Et Ochs jumpsuit and Travis coordinating successful a achromatic Givenchy vest and trousers topped with a shocking-pink Raf Simons coat.  

During the show, helium shed the outerwear (and his vest, naturally) to execute with H.E.R. and Lenny Kravitz, a rollicking rendition of "Are You Gonna Go My Way" that brought the room, including a beaming Kourtney, to its feet.

And who knows if it was the shots that were flowing oregon if Kourtney came down with a interaction of musicians-are-so-hot fever, but contempt having something overmuch grander successful the works, she and Travis decided to necktie the knot close past and there.

Well, not right there.

Which, reader, they did, with an Elvis impersonator officiating arsenic they promised to emotion each different tender.

"We conscionable did it anyways," Kourtney told Jimmy Kimmel. "It's what's successful the heart." (True, but erstwhile Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez picked Vegas for their July 16 vows, they got a license.)

Kim slept done everything, but Kris knew what was happening ("Honey, unrecorded your life," she told her daughter) and Khloe was connected Facetime for, she cryptically noted, "some of it"—and past whoever was connected their radical chat got the quality aboriginal that morning. 

"Like, 'Oh, hey guys, by the way, I got joined past night,'" Kim paraphrased her sister's message. "And I woke up to, like, a cardinal texts." (And then, as this was 10 months ago, Jimmy swiftly moved connected to inquire astir Kim's narration with then-boyfriend Pete Davidson.)

"I blacked out," Kourtney admitted. "I really don't remember, though. I didn't adjacent retrieve Elvis, like, sang to maine walking down the aisle. I didn't retrieve I had a bouquet."

And past determination was the whole "I instrumentality thee, Rachel" moment, which she did remember.

"When Elvis was marrying us, he's like, 'I, Khloe, instrumentality thee Travis,' and I just, like, mislaid my mind," Kourtney continued, recalling however she  "fell consecutive connected the level and we, like, couldn't get up."

For his part, Travis thought the full happening was awesome.

"If that's thing similar our existent wedding," helium told Simon connected the show, "I'll beryllium truly stoked."

"They each cognize that they volition beryllium having a existent wedding soon capable and that this was a warm-up for the existent thing," a root adjacent to Kourtney told E! News astatine the time. "Kourtney and Travis person merged their families unneurotic and the kids are supportive arsenic well."

(Or arsenic Kris told Kim successful reality-TV-private, "She was drunk arsenic a skunk, laying connected the floor, throwing up. Who wants to get joined similar that?" To which Kim countered, "Who doesn't?")

Indeed, everyone still had a destination wedding successful Italy to look guardant to, the planning good underway by then. But earlier that really big day, Kourtney and Travis officially became Mr. and Mrs. Barker on May 15 at a courthouse successful Santa Barbara, Calif. No 1 made the impermanent list other than the bride's grandmother, Mary Jo Campbell (M.J. to the fam), and the groom's father, Randy Barker.

"Till decease bash america part," Kourtney captioned a pic of the newlyweds sharing a buss arsenic hubby and wife.

A week later, practice made cleanable (and Kim was wide awake) at Travis and Kourtney's mega-nuptials in Portofino, with nary a blistery slob-kebab successful sight.