Not every government employee can get away with talking about romance in the workplace. But if you are Denver Clerk and Recorder Paul López, it’s part of the job.

“2019 was the Year of #Love in Denver!” López wrote on Twitter last week. “We had a record 8,692 couples get their marriage licenses in 2019.”

The marriage total was an increase of 0.3% from 2018, and an increase of 73% from 2010. That rise came as the city’s population only increased by approximately 19% in the last decade.

August is typically the busiest month of the year for marriage license issuances, although those numbers tend to be elevated from May through September. August 2018 was the first time monthly marriage licenses exceeded 1,100.

June through August 2015 comprised the first summer in which marriage license issuances exceeded 800 every month. June 26 of that year is when the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Obergefell v. Hodges that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right.

The Denver clerk’s office reports that it issued 13 licenses for civil unions in 2019. Created in 2013, civil unions were a workaround to the state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. That year, the clerk’s office issued 761 civil union licenses. Although civil unions still exist, the federal government does not recognize them.