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The budget impasse has not only shut down the federal government — it has literally put up barriers to the dream wedding planned by a Washington couple.
Mike Cassesso and MaiLien Le are scheduled to walk down the aisle Saturday. Until a day ago, they thought that stroll would take place at the site of their first date, the Jefferson Memorial.
“I wasn’t worried about the government shutting down; I was worried about rain,” Le told NBC’s Peter Alexander.
The couple is among two dozen scrambling to find backup sites to hold the October wedding originally scheduled on the National Mall. Dozens more planned at national sites across the nation are also in danger of being rescheduled.
Cassesso and Le, who paid $50 for a permit fee to host their wedding beside the Jefferson Memorial, are now leaning toward holding their wedding at the restaurant that already is hosting their reception.
Le, 30, and Cassesso, 29, first realized what kind of personal impact the government shutdown would have on them when they received an ominous email Monday morning from the permit office of the National Park Service’s National Mall and Memorial Parks unit.
“We aren’t going to have the wedding that we wanted or planned,” Le said. “After putting so much energy into it, it was really upsetting.”
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