Wee Kirk o' the Heather (Las Vegas)

The Wee Kirk o' the Heather was a wedding chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The chapel opened in the early 1940s when Mrs. J Edwards Webb began performing wedding ceremonies in 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.^[1]

Wee Kirk was mentioned in Thomas Pynchon's 2009 novel Inherent Vice (pg. 246).

The chapel was closed in 2020, and demolished October 3, 2020.^[2] 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.^[3] The first stand-alone, dedicated wedding chapel in Las Vegas, was called "Wedding Chapel," which opened in 1933.^[4]