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Eriess Davis didn’t want a traditional wedding. No conservative music and rows of unfamiliar guests. She wanted A Little White Chapel, in glitzy Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Wearing a mini-dress, Davis marched with her boyfriend, clad in black jeans, through a set of gold elevator doors and into a waiting room where they could buy garters, memory books and bride and groom baseball caps.<\/p>\n

For her, Valentine’s Day 2011 was the perfect date.<\/p>\n

“It’s the day of love,” Davis, 23, said as she and Matthew Jacobs, 23, waited for a minister.<\/p>\n

It may be. But there’s not much of it going around these days for wedding chapels in a city known for quickie marriages.<\/p>\n

Fewer than 92,000 couples married in or around Sin City in 2010. It was 1993 when fewer people were married in the area.<\/p>\n

Nevada wedding professionals and officials insist the love recession is not a reflection of Las Vegas’ waning popularity. Instead, they blame the foul economy and the ebbing interest in marriage.<\/p>\n

“The volume is down,” said Joni Moss, a longtime Las Vegas wedding planner and founder of the Nevada Wedding Association, a business group. “The number speaks for itself. And people are just spending less.”<\/p>\n

Marriages peaked in Clark County in 2004, when 128,250 couples tied the knot. Fewer people said “I do” in each subsequent year.<\/p>\n

Local governments, which issue marriage licenses, are feeling the pain.<\/p>\n

Clark County made more than $7 million in 2004. Last year, wedding-related revenue fell to roughly $5.5 million. Coupled with declining property taxes, the wedding bust is a real heartache, the county said.<\/p>\n

“It is a major part of the tourism,” County Clerk Diana Alba said.<\/p>\n

To help offset declining revenue, Alba’s office stopped offering 24-hour wedding licenses in 2006, she said.<\/p>\n

“The marriage demographic is aging,” she said. “The baby boomer generation is all getting old. Marriage goes in and out of fashion, and I think right now it is not as fashionable to get married.”<\/p>\n

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