The last thing newlywed Lavelle Lane expected on her wedding day was a biker gang brawl.  Lane had just finished exchanging her vows with her husband when mayhem broke out.  “Well I ran to the kids and tried to get them out the way. They were going this way and that way, so I ran and grabbed the kids. Next thing you know there was blood all over the place,” said newlywed Lavelle Lane.

Lane’s wedding at the A Special Memory Wedding Chapel was scheduled between two weddings of rival gangs, the Mongols and the Hells Angels.

“We were friggen attacked, and we defended ourselves the best we could.  It’s real hard to do when you’re outnumbered that bad, but that’s alright.  Mongol on,” The Mongol gang member groom said Sunday afternoon, after being released from surgery.

Several members of each gang were injured.  The Las Vegas Metro is still investigating the incident.

Joshua Gust, the wedding chapel’s owner, described the bad luck that both rival gangs had weddings scheduled that day as “There’s 100,000 weddings a year in Las Vegas and how many across the world?  To have two groups that close together, I think that’s very odd.”

We will list this as one of the obscure items to add to your wedding checklist.  Check for rival gangs attending your wedding.  Joking aside, this is a good item to have on your checklist.  Ask the owners of the location of your wedding the following items:

• What is scheduled before your wedding?
• What is scheduled after your wedding?
• What is the time between events?
• Will the other events have people on-site setting up or tearing down their event?

Most of us do not expect rival gangs to appear at our wedding, but it can be just as frustrating to have a previous event run late creating unnecessary stress.