A Gov't Shutdown That Nearly Turned Into The Apocalypse

Yesterday, due to a stalemate over budgets and defunding Obamacare, the goverment shut down. My initial thoughts were, "good, the government can't screw with my life if it's closed". These things that appear minor in certain ways can prove to be quite different.
I haven't mentioned it before, but Jillian and I are getting married in the Great Smokey Mountain's National Park, which, as part of the government shutdown, is closed until further notice with all other national parks. Upon learning this Jillian called our wedding site and the woman who answered said, in a state of near panic, "I'm sorry, I'm sending everyone an email and I have a few other people on the line. Can I call you back?" Jillian agreed and then called me in a panic. Instead of going back to the source or waiting for that email, we started looking online for more information on closure specifics related to parks.
I did find a small snippet on CNN about parks only being closed in areas where there were gates from the main roads, so I made the assumption that our site would be safe b/c I did not remember seeing any kind of fencing. Jillian wasn't very assured by my memory or CNN's reporting.
Before we made any other steps, I called the Chattanooga City Court Clerk's office to make sure they would still be open and we could even get a marriage license. When they assured me they weren't affected by the shutdown, I began looking for backup wedding sites while preparing for the worst. There weren't many promising options and I was pretty sure none of them would have been suitable replacements for the one Jillian had already booked.
After a while with no contact, Jillian asked me to give the wedding coordinator a call about our venue. I guess I got the right person on the phone this time b/c I was assured that our site was open. She explained that it was private property with private road access so it couldn't be shut down. It was revealed that the park actually surrounds the property so it wasn't even technically inside the park. I told her about Jillian being told there were a lot of other people on the phone with them and she let me know that they were actually people who had wedding plans at other locations inside the park and were now looking for their own plan B site. I felt terrible for them, but was extremely relieved to know we weren't effected. Crisis averted.