{"id":5564,"date":"2016-01-28T11:03:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T19:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/?p=5564"},"modified":"2024-03-29T05:00:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T12:00:19","slug":"its-leap-day-lets-get-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/its-leap-day-lets-get-married\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Leap Day! Let&#8217;s Get Married!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stat.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Leaping-bride-and-Bridesmaids.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stat.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Leaping-bride-and-Bridesmaids.jpg\" alt=\"Leaping bride and Bridesmaids\" \/><\/a>Chapel of the Flowers invites you to get married on a very special day that only comes around every 4 years&#8230; Leap Day! If you are looking for a date that sets you apart as a couple&#8230; It&#8217;s Leap Day! Let&#8217;s get married!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The history of adding Leap Day to the calendar goes back to the days of Julius Caesar but the history behind Leap Year and <em>marriage<\/em> is much more interesting. As far back as the 5th century AD marriage proposals by women to men were allowed in a leap year. It is legend that this decree in Ireland, by St Patrick, was made to balance gender inequality just as Leap Day balanced the calendar year. The tradition spread throughout parts of Europe and eventually spread to the U.S. with Sadie Hawkins, a Li&#8217;l Abner&#8217;s female cartoon character, who is the inspiration behind\u00a0the Sadie Hawkins dance, when girls were to ask boys to the dance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stat.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Sadie-Hawkins1.jpg\" alt=\"Sadie Hawkins\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In Las Vegas we see a huge increase\u00a0in weddings on Leap Day. Many who enjoy the history of Leap Day consider it a special holiday for a wedding day. It&#8217;s unique date, that only comes around every 4 years, sets you apart as a couple. The possibilities of choosing how to celebrate your anniversary is exciting as well. An anniversary every 4 years allows you to celebrate BIG. But if you celebrate every year, you get to pick a\u00a0date, February 28 or March 1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/howaboutthat\/9113311\/Top-20-craziest-facts-about-leap-years.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stat.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Leap-Year-frog.jpg\" alt=\"Leap Year frog\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Either way you choose to celebrate your anniversary&#8230; It&#8217;s Leap Day! Let&#8217;s Get Married! Visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> to choose Leap Day as your date then personalize your day with all the details that make your day uniquely you.\u00a0A suggestions: Choose green as your wedding color. It is the traditional color of Leap Day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chapel of the Flowers<\/a><br \/>\n1717 Las Vegas Blvd. So.<br \/>\nLas Vegas, NV 89104 USA<\/p>\n<p>Local 702-735-4331<br \/>\nToll Free 1-800-843-2410<br \/>\nUK 020 3286 5662<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:marryme@littlechapel.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">marryme@littlechapel.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>www.littlechapel.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapel of the Flowers invites you to get married on a very special day that only comes around every 4 years&#8230; Leap Day! If you are looking for a date that sets you apart as a couple&#8230; It&#8217;s Leap Day! Let&#8217;s get married!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[88,77],"tags":[1109,73],"class_list":["post-5564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wedding-tips","category-wedding-trends","tag-all-inclusive-wedding-packages","tag-las-vegas-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5564"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12176,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5564\/revisions\/12176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlechapel.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}