West Des Moines Wedding

West Des Moines is a city in Polk County, and partially in Dallas and Warren counties, in the state of Iowa. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 46,403; a special census taken in the spring of 2005 counted 51,744 residents [1]. West Des Moines is the second-largest city in the Des Moines metropolitan area and the tenth-largest city in Iowa.

West Des Moines incorporated as the city of Valley Junction on October 9, 1893. The area's first settler was a cattle farmer named James Cunningham Jordan, who later became a state senator. His residence, the Jordan House, has been restored and is now home to the West Des Moines Historical Society.