Aisles of Alaska: the northernmost state has quite a few commissionable wedding venues. (Honeymoon & Romance).

Travel Agent, October, 2002 by Medina, Kerry

Few people are aware that anyone in Alaska can perform a marriage one time only, provided that he or she first obtains a marriage commissioner appointment from an Alaskan court.

"It's pretty easy to get married in Alaska--especially getting someone to officiate the ceremony," says Mark Morones, a spokesman for the Alaska Travel Industry Association. "I've even performed a wedding in Alaska--at 18,000 feet in a 1940s DC-3 vintage prop passenger plane, against the backdrop of the Chugach Mountains. It was incredible."

Finding extraordinary wedding venues in Alaska is not difficult. Alaska is filled with scenic places to get married, even if most of them are literally more down-to-earth than that aerial service. Plus, many of the locations will also...