Priscilla Presley Reveals Elvis Presley Used a Passionate, Fiery Secret Code Name the Night He Proposed
Priscilla Presley remains devoted to the memory of her late ex-husband, Elvis Presley, 65 years after they first met. Their relationship had its ups and downs, but Priscilla continues to focus on the good times she and the King of Rock and Roll shared. One of these memories involved Elvis’ using a fiery, secret code name, given by Priscilla, on the night he proposed.
Elvis Presley popped the question to Priscilla using his fiery, secret code name
After seven years as a couple, Elvis Presley asked Priscilla Presley to marry him on Christmas Eve, 1966. Elvis’ proposal was the conclusion to a promise he made to Priscilla’s father years earlier.
In an interview with Closer Weekly, Priscilla shared details of the night Elvis proposed. She said that he used his fiery, secret code name before entering her room.
On the night Elvis proposed to Priscilla, “He knocked and gave me his code name: ‘Fire Eyes.’ When he got angry his eyes would look like fire!”
“But [that night] he was in a good mood,” Priscilla explained. She then revealed Elvis got on his knee and told her, “’Remember when I told you when the time was right we’d get married? Well, the time is right.’ It was just before I was 21.”
Priscilla says her mother and father thought it was ‘time’ the couple married
In an interview with Ladies Home Journal, Priscilla Presley spoke of the wedding ceremony that sealed her relationship with Elvis Presley. Elvis and Priscilla married on May 1, 1967, at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The small ceremony was only attended by a handful of people, including Priscilla’s parents.
“As a wedding present, Elvis flew in my mom and dad from his new post at Fort Ord, Calif. I remember how overwhelmed they were, and how happy, too. Of course, they thought it was time. We had been dating for years!” she declared.
Priscilla continued, “Although many people thought our wedding was sudden, Elvis and I had been talking about it in stages. Even though we were perfectly content the way we were, at that time it wasn’t nice for people to live together.”
However, Priscilla defended Elvis to those who remain critical of a relationship between a young woman and an older man. Elvis flew Priscilla to Memphis to live with him at Graceland in May 1963. She was 17 and he was 27.
“I believed that he cared for me. That he wouldn’t have taken the responsibility of pulling me out of school and putting me into another if he wasn’t making some commitment,” Priscilla explained. “Anyway, he was not the kind of person to take advantage of anybody. So I felt very secure.”
She concluded, “As I said, I had no idea that we were going to be married. But I had faith that things would handle themselves. I did not think that at any time I would be deserted or neglected because Elvis had assured my parents that no harm would come to me.”
What was Elvis and Priscilla’s wedding like?
Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley tied the knot at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The eight-minute ceremony took place in a private suite rather than a chapel and was officiated by Nevada Supreme Court Justice David Zenoff. Per Elvis’ request, when he and Priscilla took their views, the word “obey” was omitted.
Priscilla wore a long-sleeved white gown made of silk chiffon, adorned with seed pearls and beading. Her veil was trimmed with lace, and she accessorized with a pearl tiara. Her wedding day look became iconic due to her jet-black, teased hair, which matched Elvis’s, and dramatic makeup.
The ceremony was followed by a press conference and a champagne breakfast for 100 guests organized by Elvis’ manager, Colonel Tom Parker. The couple toasted their new life together with champagne.
A menu of the following foods followed including fried chicken, roast suckling pig, oysters Rockefeller, clams, ham and eggs, poached salmon, and lobster, all served at 9 a.m. reported Brides Magazine. The couple cut into a five-foot-tall, six-tier cake, which was made of yellow sponge, filled with apricot marmalade and kirsch-flavored Bavarian cream.
Elvis and Priscilla Presley were married for six years. Priscilla filed for divorce and their union officially ended in 1973. They shared one daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, and neither remarried.
