Nightly News   |  August 27, 2011

Irene an uninvited guest at weddings

Despite major inconveniences caused by the storm and preparations for it, some couples forged ahead with their big city weddings. Other events weren't so lucky. NBC's Harry Smith reports.

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>> think of all the tourism, the shank of summer, cities, towns, coastlines usually loaded with tourists. let's go back to harry smith who is in times square along with members of harry smith nation who follow him during awful his public engagements. still, remains as eerie here, harry as it is on the cape, down in the outer banks whereby everyone seems to be gone except for a hardy few.

>> yeah, i mean, just these handfuls of terrorists. we can pan around here. these are folks, actually, brian, you are probably aware of this.

>> yes.

>> the world police and fire games were supposed to be going on this weekend in new york. there are 16,000 police and fire folks who have come here from all over the planet. so if things really get hairy around here tomorrow, excuse the expression, there are a lot of people who will be ready to pitch in whose games have been washed out. i want to show you one quick picture, talk about intrepid, on the upper west side , coming down here, late, late, late this afternoon. we saw the wedding of ryan and samantha roberts at the holy trinity lutheran church on central park west . and you know what? as they, as pablo cruz famously said " love will find a way ."

>> what a beautiful couple. well done. firsthand reporting by harry smith . i was aware of the police and fire games and also the first blimp race since 1936 was supposed to happen out on long island on sunday. that of course has been canceled. so, many, many events. harry smith in times square . thanks. we