Aside from the licensing fees and permit paperwork involved in erecting a structure big enough to contain 150 to 200 guests -- what Lin calls the average amount of guests at a wedding these days -- there's the problem of making a back yard flat enough for a large tent.

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The school was built into a down-slope, so the recess yard in front of the school was a flat pad of concrete below street level.

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