| Most people have seen it on television. A couple | | | | friends be with you when you get married? It can be |
| decides to run away and marry as quickly as possible | | | | expensive to fly from other parts of the country and |
| with as few people as possible being aware of it. | | | | spend several days at the destination of someone |
| These weddings often were over as quickly as they | | | | else's wedding. Even if flights and hotel prices to this |
| began. If you were lucky, it was a quick, painless | | | | desert town are reasonable, if you have family |
| annulment. In other cases, a domestic abuse lawyer | | | | vacation plans, it may not be in the budget to attend |
| would need to be called in and the marriage would | | | | a wedding. In other cases, it may not be money |
| end with great fanfare and drama. It may have been | | | | people have to scrounge up to make it to your |
| a cheap wedding but the marriage often cost those | | | | wedding, but time. If your wedding requires people to |
| involved a great deal of money and pain. In some | | | | take time off of work, find long-term childcare, or be |
| cases, a domestic violence lawyer may have been | | | | away from their own families for a period of time, |
| needed. Weddings in this Nevada town had a | | | | they may be less likely to attend. Some relatives |
| reputation for being fast and cheap. The marriages | | | | may be unable to fly or manage to get around the |
| often came with the same reputation. Over the | | | | casino or to the hotel destination. Keep this in mind |
| years, the town has changed and so have the | | | | when determining if you want to plan this destination |
| wedding packages. Weddings at popular hotels like | | | | wedding. |
| the Bellagio, the Venetian, and Mandalay Bay often | | | | Remember too that when you tell people you are |
| cost tens of thousands of dollars now. Instead of | | | | headed to Sin City to marry, they WILL have |
| staying in your home town having an elaborate affair; | | | | opinions. As mentioned before, nuptials in this city |
| people head to this desert town for something even | | | | come with preconceived notions, and not everyone |
| more elaborate. The hotels on the strip really know | | | | realize how updated and classy these weddings have |
| how to do it up and they often cater to the richest | | | | become. It would be best if you and your future |
| people in the country and the world. It is for these | | | | spouse designed a blanket response to give to all of |
| reasons the reputation of heading to Sin City for a | | | | the naysayers. This way the people who do not |
| wedding is not what it used to be. If you are thinking | | | | understand what you have planned will not ruin your |
| about heading to the desert to say your "I Do's," | | | | fun. If you can handle these potential pitfalls, it may |
| consider the following things. | | | | be time to book your wedding on the strip! |
| First, how important is it that your entire family and | | | | |