LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — While couples flocking to Las Vegas to get married is nothing new, there has been a COVID wedding boom going on, and Clark County, along with wedding venue companies, are noticing as elopements seem to be all the rage.
“As more and more people get vaccinated and are encouraged to travel again, we have just been bombarded. We are up over 2019 numbers which was already a really good year for us,” said Lynn Goya, Clark County clerk.
Owner of Cactus Collective Weddings, Mckenzi Taylor, says she has seen a rise in people contacting her company for their wedding plans.
“I think what is happening this year is there is such a backlog of weddings because people had to postpone and or delay, but now people are thinking maybe I should just elope,” Taylor shared. “We are seeing an uptick in numbers for sure!”
People like Robert Baird from California say, they have been planning their nuptials for some time now, and now just feels like the right time to make it official.
“We have a chapel set up and we are going to have the marriage ceremony there,” Baird told 8 News Now. “Just a small little get-together and then we will have a larger wedding at a more relaxed time in regards to the covid lockdowns.”
Taylor says while she has seen a rise in interest, she is finding that more people are looking to elope as venues are still so hard to find.
“People were postponing for so long, that now it’s just the surplus of people that were engaged so there’s no venues or resources for people to have their weddings.”
