Atop a hill on a scenic stretch of road in White Center sits a very purple and very different kind of wedding chapel.

For more than 40 years, locals and people from all over the world have come to AA Vagabond’s Enchanted Chapel to get hitched.

The Rev. Zady Evans and her grandson the Rev. Kristem Michael, the owners, view their chapel and their methods as a sort of new-age alternative for couples who want simply to celebrate love on their wedding day. No religious affiliation is required.

Inside, the walls are covered with sparkly white lights. Mirrors reflect from every angle, ceilings shine with glitter, chimes fill the air and love itself seems to blossom forth from the long, tangled greenery that hangs from the ceilings.

Michael is taking over the business from his grandmother, and he is the fourth generation in his family to do so. He hopes the little chapel's charm will draw enough customers for the next several decades. But that doesn't seem like much of a challenge because the chapel is as busy as ever, said Michael.

With more than 10,000 weddings performed there, Michael said it isn't unusual to do more than one wedding a day.

But why would Evans want to give all this up?

" Age," said Evans, a youthful 81-year-old. " I can't live forever." She doesn't plan to be out of the picture completely, but she is passing on the bulk of the duties to Michael.

" He's always been my backup, and now I'll be his," she said.

Evans started her Enchanted Chapel at a time when there weren't many welcoming venues for certain kinds of couples, she said.

Some people are still turned away from their own churches if the couple has lived together out of wedlock or if the bride-to-be is pregnant, said Evans.

"It's important to give everyone options, no matter what they believe," she said. " All our ceremonies are very romantic."

And indeed, romance is emphasized in every nook and cranny of the Enchanted Chapel, from the " kissing tree" to the rose petals that litter the floor.

Many seek the chapel's services as an alternative to a judge or a justice of the peace for something a little more intimate and the " any service, any place" attitude of the business, said Evans.

Evans became an ordained minister in 1964 by the Organization of Awareness, which Evans characterizes as a " new-age unorthodox religion." Her nuptial rounds have been anything but ordinary.

She has performed countless weddings on mountaintops and roller coasters, in airplanes and bathtubs, and even once in a hot-air balloon.

But don't be scared off. Evans and Michael will be happy to perform any kind of ceremony a couple requests, from the most outrageous to the most traditional.

Years ago, the chapel housed a telephone answering service for businesses and was operated by Evans' mother, Mimi Le Favour.

Back then, the walls of the little chapel were banked with lines of baby blue telephones that rang all day, said Evans, who ran the business along with her mother and between ministerial tasks.

That part of the business gave way to the rise of cell phones in the early