Las Vegas weddings could hit record on New Year’s Eve thanks to ‘specialty date’ for 2023

For better or for worse, a wave of couples saying “I do” in Las Vegas on Newಌ Year’s Eve could set a record for the city’s busiest wedding day ever.

That’s because 12/31/23 is known in the massive Las Vegas wedding industry as a “specialty date,”&n꧃bsp;thanks to the repeating 1-2-3 1-2-3 pattern, the Las Vegas Review-Journal ﷺreported.

The icing on the cake? This specialty date falls on a holiday famous for blowout♐ celebrations.

“It’s a double whammy,” said Melody Willis-Williams, president of Vegas Weddings, which operates multiplඣe venues. “Anytime you get these specialty dates, they’re a🔴lways hugely popular. But tie that in with New Year’s Eve and it’s a showstopper.”

The number to beat on New Year’s Eve is 4,492 — the single-day record for 🌼marriages in Las Vegas set on♈ July 7, 2007.

The second-most pop𝓀ular specialty wedding date on record with the county’s marriage bureau is Nov. 11, 2011, when 3,125 couples tied the knot.

Typically, New Year’s Eve has drawn somewhere be🐟tween 450 to 550 couples to wed in Las Vegas since 2018, the🤡 Review-Journal reported.

But not this year for Vegas Weddings.

The company is fully booked on midnight at its multiple venues, including its brown-brick chapel in downtown Las 🎀Vegas with a white steeple and red awning.

Willis-Williams said her company alone expects to wed more than 120 couples on N𝄹ew Year’s Eve.

Five of those cou🐓ples will tie ✤the knot just as the clock is counting down to midnight.

Clark County Clerk Lynn Marie Goya said couples married on a specialty da🌳te in Las Vegas have described them as “magic dates” that a🍌re easy to remember.

“I think the celebration that has a group dynamic is ♛really appealing,” Goya said. “When everyone is in line and they💙’re all getting married and excited about being in love, it just enhances their own experience.”