For Las Vegas Weddings, 12/12/12 Is a Date With a Built-In Reminder Isaac Brekken for The New York Times Brittany Najera, left, a wedding planner, with Roberta Michalak and Greg Bogel on Tuesday at the Chapel of the Flowers, the site of their wedding. Theirs will be one of many on 12/12/12. LAS VEGAS - Wendy Wampach has been dating Rick Schroeder for about four years, but neither one can remember when their romance started. So when they decided a couple of months ago to get married, the date they chose was an obvious one: 12/12/12. "So we can remember our anniversary," Ms. Wampach said. And the location? A place they had enjoyed visiting many times: Las Vegas. They are among the thousands of couples expected to declare their vows of everlasting love in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Dec. 12 - the last such triple-date likely to occur in their lifetimes. Many couples consider it lucky to get married on such a propitious date; there was an especially large crush on 07-07-07, which broke Las Vegas records, and 10-10-10 and 11-11-11. During the four-day periods leading up to those dates, Clark County, which includes Las Vegas, issued licenses to 4,333; 3,090; and 3,342 couples. The total for an average month would be about 7,500. This time, 80 or so chapels in town have been gearing up for the rush, as has the Marriage License Bureau, which went from five to nine windows and has had staff working overtime, according to Jim Pierce, assistant county clerk. Ms. Wampach and Mr. Schroeder arrived Monday morning from Burnsville, Minn., at the Aria Resort and Casino, saw a tribute show to the Bee Gees and woke up Tuesday morning to get ready for the limousine that would take them the 3.5 miles north along the Strip for the run-through at the Chapel of the Flowers, the site of their nuptials. Aimee Stephens, a spokeswoman for the chapel, said her colleagues had spent "the past couple of months getting our game plans together" for the big day. There were 80 weddings scheduled for Wednesday at Chapel of the Flowers, about 15 times what would be expected for a Wednesday in December, she said. Couples were coming from England, Brazil, Canada and Luxembourg, paying special prices ranging from $812 to $2,412 just for the ceremony. That is not counting reception, photos and any other extras. Why were they choosing this day to start their futures together? "People like being a part of something larger," Ms. Stephens said, adding that the brides also wanted "to make it easier for their husbands to remember." A few blocks north along the Strip, at Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapels, Brian Mills had 120 weddings scheduled, which, he said, is 12 times what is typical for this time of year. That included couples from Australia, England, the Netherlands and Sweden. Mr. Mills is a general manager and also plays Elvis in several wedding packages. Couples can also choose to get married with a pink Cadillac, or by staff members dressed up as James Bond or Michael Jackson. Prices range from $312.12 to $1,212.12. Mr. Mills speculated on the chapel's Web site about the date, theorizing that "the "go-getting" 1 and the "sensitive" 2 make this a very balanced number." And, he said, "this is the last one there is for 100 years." Or, to be exact, 89: 01/01/2101. At the Bellagio Hotel, a more high-end setting, 12 weddings were scheduled - which "blows away a normal Wednesday in December," said Monica Bisek, senior assistant manager of the hotel's chapels. On Monday night, Ms. Wampach had only one regret: her 12/12/12 wedding was scheduled for 9 a.m. "I wasn't thinking," she said. I should've done it at 12 noon. Then," she added, "it would've ended at 12:12."