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Hundreds Marry at Canada's First Casino Chapel

TORONTO, Canada – As reported by the Canadian Press: "Some 300 couples rolled the dice on love, again, as they renewed wedding vows Sunday to open Canada's first casino chapel, including a woman whose biological family missed out the first time she tied the knot.

"'I'm overwhelmed,' said Fran Henderson, the woman's mother, before the ceremony at Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort.

"After spending a decade searching for her biological family, casino employee Angela Rines, 31, finally married her husband five years ago. Only months after the ceremony, Rines discovered she was working alongside her birth mother and two sisters at the casino.

"…When the group heard about the mass wedding to open the chapel, mom and her three daughters jumped at the opportunity to renew their vows.

"…Drawing on his 30 years in the casino game, including 20 in Las Vegas, casino president Larry Lewin decided to gamble on turning the honeymoon capital of Canada into the wedding capital.

"…Lewin expects as many as 1,200 ceremonies will be performed at the casino chapel in its first year. He said the service will likely complement Fallsview's business, already pegged at around nine million visitors each year…"

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