No, this is not a political post, but an adventure in planning…and logistics.
I’m going to do my best to leave my personal politics out of this, but here’s the thing. The real (non-alternative) fact of the matter is: a lot of people just don’t like President Trump. And millions of those people, across the country, are exercising their constitutional rights to peacefully protest.
But here’s the thing…I’m getting married on tax day. And when Mr. W and I picked the date, “President Trump” was a punchline, not a reality.
And now, the plan is for hundreds of thousands of people to take to the streets and protest the fact that the president hasn’t released his tax returns…on tax day…in major cities…all day long.
Even more exciting, the Chicago protest is set to go from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM (the start time of our wedding) less than one block from our venue.

Now, we’re still a couple months out…and with this administration being a touch unpredictable, and people getting protest fatigue, who KNOWS what can happen between now and then.
But with record turnouts at demonstrations around the country, our planner agrees: we need to be ready for the worst…so we’re building HUGE cushions of time into our timeline, along with some other precautions. Here’s what we’re doing:

Opening our venue an hour earlier than normally to our vendors, and encouraging earlier drop-offs/lo...