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拉斯维加斯取消深夜结婚 [ 2006-09-04 09:01 ] Las Vegas bills itself as "the wedding capital of the world," butlate-night revelers who decide they want to tie the knot now must waituntil morning.The county's marriage-licenseoffice, as of last Wednesday, will be closedbetween midnight and 8 a.m., when much of Las Vegas is still very muchalive. "It's one of the things Vegas is known for -- you can gamble, get drunkand get married all in the middle of the night," said Jay DeLeon, managerof the Graceland Wedding Chapel. Probably the best known late-night marriage seeker was pop star BritneySpears, who shocked the world in 2004 when she married a childhood friendjust before sunrise in Las Vegas. That union was quickly annulled. People can still get married around the clock at one of the city's fewall-night wedding chapels; it will just take a bit more planning to obtainthe $55 license, said Cheryl Vernon, who supervises the marriage-servicesoffice. Vernon said the new office hours were not the result of a push to curbirresponsible life decisions, but simply because too few early-morningcustomers ---15 to 30 people, came in to justify a late-night shift. About300 to 500 people seek licenses on a normal shift, she said. Last year the office issued 122,259 marriage licenses. Vernon said most late-night license seekers have been jet-laggedtravelers lugging suitcases and trying to avoid daytime lines, rather thanspontaneous celebrants. Still, there were notable exceptions. "Yes, we did have our few -- like Britney(Spears). She came in at five in the morning," Vernon said. (Agencies) | 
