Look out, Las Vegas: New York City is aiming to edge Sin City in the wedding market. According to a story in the the New York Times, upgrades to the lower Manhattan wedding chapel just might put the Big Apple in line to trump Las Vegas in weddings performed.

The article says that New York City issued 66,600 marriage licenses last year and performed about 40,000 marriages, while according to the Nevada Wedding Association, there were 106,000 licenses issued last year in Clark County.

The fee to be married in Manhattan's amped up $12 million, 24,000 square-foot wedding "palace" is $25. “I have a warning for Las Vegas: You better watch out,” Carley Roney, founder of TheKnot.com, told the Times. “With these new digs, there might just be a new world wedding capital.”