The quickie wedding, long a Las Vegas tradition for romance-besotted tourists, may be the latest casualty of rough economic times. Fewer couples have been pledging their love in Sin City as the number of visitors has fallen and some couples postpone marriage or shun it entirely. "If you don't have a stable job, it's hard to say, 'Let's get married and start a family,'" says Diana Alba, clerk of Nevada's Clark County, whose office issued 91,890 marriage licenses last year, down 16 percent from 2007.
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