The Wee Kirk o' the Heather was a wedding chapel in
Las Vegas, Nevada
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. The chapel opened in the early 1940s when Mrs. J Edwards Webb began performing wedding ceremonies the front room of a home that was built in the 1920s. The business was known as Webb’s Wedding Chapel, then as Wee Kirk o’ the Heather.
Wee Kirk was parodied as the Wee Kirk Of Auld Lang Syne in
Evelyn Waugh
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's ''The Loved One'', and mentioned in
Thomas Pynchon
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's 2009 novel ''
Inherent Vice
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'' (pg. 246).
The chapel was closed in 2020, and demolished October 3, 2020. At the time it closed, Wee Kirk claimed to be "the original wedding chapel in Las Vegas," was cited as the first and/or oldest chapel in Las Vegas. However, nearby Graceland Wedding Chapel, which began operating as McKee’s Wedding Chapel circa 1939, was verifiably older. The first stand-alone, dedicated wedding chapel in Las Vegas, was called "Wedding Chapel," which opened in 1933.
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List of wedding chapels in Las Vegas
This is a list of notable wedding chapels located in Las Vegas, with the area defined broadly as the Las Vegas Valley.
According to a travel magazine source in 2023, these chapels have "iconic appeal" and there are about 50 on or near the Las Veg ...
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Churches in Nevada
Wedding chapels in the Las Vegas Valley
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