A Week Late, A Wedding Short: Fort Snelling to Reopen Saturday

Now that legislators are working to end the state shutdown during a Tuesday, the Minnesota Historical Society announced it will reopen all 26 of its historical sites and museums throughout the state Saturday.

Including Fort Snelling, where . Unfortunately, this news comes a little too late for the newlyweds, who found an alternate location to continue with the Saturday wedding.

"I'm actually extremely angry," after hearing the news that shutdown was nearing its end. "They shut it down just long enough to keep us out of our venue and didn't accomplish anything!"

Unfortunately, this couple wasn't the only one planning a wedding that hit a snag as the result of the shutdown.

KSTP Channel 5 news also found a Inver Grove Heights couple who were looking for a back-up for a July 23 wedding. This couple also booked the Fort Snelling Chapel. Now, it looks as if their wedding could still happen, if they haven't committed to another venue, with the reopening scheduled for Saturday.

that she was supposed to get married at Giants Ridge Chalet at the end of July 2011, but it was also closed in the government shutdown.

"If the shutdown ends, I will not go back to my original venue," Hendrickson said in an e-mail to Patch. "I absoultely would love to because that is where my dream wedding would be, but because I had to book a different venue, send out 180 postcards to guests to inform them of the change and rebook hotel rooms at a different site ... I just can't."

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