With more than 1,400 slot machines, an aviation museum, smoking areas, liquor stores, children’s play areas, Las Vegas-themed shops and bars, as well as Capital One, Chase Sapphire and several other airport lounges, Harry Reid International Airport (LAS) offers plenty of attractions and amenities to keep travelers entertained year-round.
Because the airport is the gateway to a city known as the Marriage Capital of the World, and Las Vegas weddings always surge around Valentine’s Day, a temporary marriage license office is set up at the airport every February.
The pop-up store is hosted by the Clark County Clerk’s Office and is located in the Terminal 1 baggage claim area. This year it is open from Wednesday 4th to Monday 16th February.
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The pop-up shop service is very popular and convenient.
Couples landing in Las Vegas must complete all documents required to obtain a marriage license forward They can legally marry in a drive-in church, on a gondola at a Venice resort or at the altar with an Elvis impersonation officiant. Typically, this requires a long trip from the airport to the clerk’s office in downtown Las Vegas, approximately 8 miles away. The downtown clerk’s office is open from 8 a.m. to midnight daily. However, the temporary marriage license office at LAS is open from 8 am to 5 pm, allowing couples to do so without going to the city center.
“Couples can pick up their luggage at the airport, get their marriage license and then go get married and have fun,” Clark County Clerk Lynn Marie Goya told TPG. “It gives them more time to enjoy Las Vegas.”
Couples can fill out the form and pay the fee upon arrival at the airport. (The cost for a marriage license is $102 and a vow renewal certificate is $21; couples can only pay by credit or debit card because cash is not allowed.) Many people do this on a whim after seeing digital signage at the airport, Goya said.
They can also start applying online a year before flying to Las Vegas to save even more time.
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After filling out a marriage application, couples need to meet some basic requirements when they show up at a temporary airport reception.
According to the Clark County Clerk’s Office, each person must be 18 years or older and present government-issued identification proving their name and age to be approved. They are also not currently allowed to marry anyone else and “should not be closer than cousins or half-cousins.” Both spouses must be present.
For those thinking of heading to Las Vegas to tie the knot around Valentine’s Day, the Clark County Clerk’s Office website also notes that in Nevada there is no waiting period between receiving a marriage license and getting married; no blood test is required to get married, and Nevada marriage records are public documents. So if you’re a celebrity or determined to avoid your ex, you can’t seal your marriage records or mark them as “confidential.”
The Clark County Clerk’s Office first opened a pop-up marriage license office at LAS in February 2018 and has returned to the airport every February since (except in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic). In its first year, the pop-up shop issued 180 marriage licenses within nine days of opening. In 2020, it issued 307 licenses in 17 days. Last year, in 2025, it issued 380 licenses in 15 days.
This year, the Las Vegas County Clerk’s Office expects to issue more permits within the 13 days the airport pop-up will be open. But Goya acknowledged that fluctuations affecting travel across the U.S., combined with an overall decline in Las Vegas tourism numbers, could affect the final total.
According to Tourism Analytics, the number of tourists visiting Las Vegas will drop 7.5% year-on-year in 2025. During a recent annual State of Wedding Tourism briefing in Las Vegas, Goya said Clark County saw a similar year-over-year decline of about 8% in the number of marriage licenses.
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Still, Clark County is better than many other destinations across the country in attracting non-resident couples to weddings, Goya said. She said 80 percent of marriage licenses issued throughout the year were to out-of-state couples, and more than 20 percent of those were to international visitors.
“As far as I know, Las Vegas is the only place in the world where you can get your marriage license at the airport,” Goya said. “We make it fun for couples because we like them.”
