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Pope's visit causes headaches for engaged couples
Flying Kite Staff
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
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Pity the local couples who had selected September 26, 2015 as their big day.
Nearly everything was set by the end of August.
The church was chosen, hall booked. The groomsmen would wear gray tuxes and light blue dresses for the bridesmaids. At the reception, there will be touches of the Jersey Shore — the place where Brittany Lowell and Jeff Doney first went steady...
Everything was going smoothly and then last November planning hit a big roadblock: Pope Francis.
The leader of the world’s largest Christian church
confirmed he'd make his first trip to the United States and spending three days in Philadelphia
from September 25-27 to take part in the World Meeting of Families conference and deliver mass to some 2 million people.
“As soon as that happened I went into panic mode,” the 26-year-old legal secretary and dance instructor from Northeast Philly said.
It’s not the serious influx of visitors or the traffic or the increased security that is causing a snag, rather, finding a place for the newlyweds-to-be and their guests to stay.
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