1 FIVE-8 THE SUNDAY PLAIN DEALER, OCTOBER 19, 1975- Hitching Vegas-style is quick everything goes in this town 24 hours a day, including weddings. And whatever else it might be, getting married in Las Vegas is certainly painless. We decided to get hitched here mainly for that reason and because the neon desert town that never sleeps was to be the first stop on our vacation from Miami to California. The sign on the bank building told us it was 103 degrees at 11:45 a.m. as I pulled the rental car up to the curb.
I deposited a couple of nickels into the parking meter and we walked down the street to the Clark County Courthouse. Once inside, I hastened to the drinking fountain, a sudden dryness in my mouth. It. the heat, of course, not the fact that the marriage license bureau was doing a brisk business and other couples seemed to be giving us the eye. By James Kerr LAS VEGAS Anything and It took only a few minutes to get ours and I forked over the $6 fee.
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4. 3 50,000 or so couples issued marriage licenses in Clark County last year actually got married right there that minute in the courthouse. The others go to the dozens of chapels or churches around town where things are a bit more claborate. At the Little Church of the West, described as a pioneer of the Vegas wedding chapel, you can have a candlelight ceremony complete with a nondenominational minister (customary 50,000 couples were issued marriage licenses in Clark County last year gratuity is $10 to $20), photos (standard 8 by 10 color for $25, a nine-picture album for $75), corsages (from $5 up) and bouquets (from $10 up). Use of the chapel itself costs $25 and that includes recorded organ music and live witnesses.
You can have as many as 30 of your own guests or hire strangers to throw rice. In our case, we were directed around the corner to the county clerk's office. The waiting room was empty, but a sign above a closed door announced "Marriage in Progress. Please Wait." After about two minutes, a grinning couple and their two witnessfriends emerged. Behind them Edwin -TRAVEL- Lewis, deputy of the county clerk, beckoned us in with a smile.
"Do you have any witnesses" he asked pleasantly. We shook our heads in unison and he said, "Well, then, if it's all right we'll use the names of two of our deputy clerks." We nodded approval and he stamped in the names. The three of us remained alone in the quiet room. Lewis admonished was not something Then, after a solemn to let that sink in to change our began. us that marriage to be taken lightly.
one-second pause and give us a chance minds, the ceremony The vows are the traditional ones and it went smoothly except that my nervous bride stammered slightly when it came to the "richer or poorer" 1 part. She later assured me it had nothing to do with dropping $8 into the slots the night before. It was over in a few minutes and I paid. Lewis the $10 fee. Then we were outside again in the hot sun walking toward the car, hand in relieved but astonished that it was all over SO soon.
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