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The Tent Must Go Up

Despite Last-Minute Setbacks, Nashville Gala Gets ‘Elton John’ Tent on Time

by Bridget White | Published in February 2007
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In the end, the event went off without a hitch — but not without some creative redesigning and 60,000-pound support jacks.Erect a tent in the grass? No problem, except when you don’t have a permit for the tent and that grass is just a thin façade over a parking lot — the situation Karen Casey found herself in three weeks out from her event.Beneath the stacks of 2,550-pound landscaping blocks visible around the edge of the tent were approximately 45 60,000-pound support jacks.

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Every event planner has a horror story —

About the author: Bridget White

Bridget White is a freelance business writer based in New Orleans.

Contact: bridget_white@sbcglobal.net


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