Apart from gaming, getting married in Las Vegas is another very-easy-thing-to-do. Only few resorts don't feature a wedding-chapel, but even so, there are enough self standing chapels that you can choose from. Sometimes, the simple fact that you are in Las Vegas is reason enough to get married. Of course, if you have a partner.
First thing you have to do is take her (or him) by the hand and go to Clark County Marriage License Bureau to (of course) get your marriage license. The bureau is opened week days 8am through midnight and 24 hours during legal holidays. Some chapels even provide a limo to take the couples to the bureau and back, so they gain more clients.
Statistics say that over 100,000 wedding ceremonies are held in Las Vegas each year, and that on Saint Valentine Days some chapels performed close to 80 ceremonies. There are many famous names that said their vows in a Las Vegas Chapel. Elvis and Priscilla got married at Aladin, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore also got married in Vegas. These facts are a definite attraction to “customers”.
Here are some reasons that might help you decide to get married in Las Vegas:
- no blood test or residency required;
- weddings in Las Vegas are quicker; just step in the Clark County Marriage License Bureau together with your partner, show your photo-IDs, social-security numbers and pay the $50 tax, and get your paper;
- weddings in Las Vegas are cheaper: $50 the license tax and not much more a basic wedding service;
- Las Vegas is suited for both planned and unplanned weddings; chapels even provide you the witnesses
- themed weddings: some themed resorts also offer costumes and decors for a fairy-tale wedding;
- wedding dress: there's no need to buy a dress you only wear once, so improve the occasion that Las Vegas provides many places where you can actually rent a wedding dress
- there are chapels in Vegas that also perform informal gay and lesbian “weddings”, as in Nevada they are not legal