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| 51 | Charlie Hull | It is not only the wedding companies who will be affected by this new 'permit' law. It starts with the couple boarding the air plane in California or wherever, and it trickles down to the hair dresser, hotel / resort, florists, activities, restaurants, etc. It even affects the little birds who come to the dinner table and live off the morsels they share at the romantic wedding dinner. It will have a negative impact on tourism as a whole and as we all know the economy is not booming right now. We need a plan to boost tourism here in Hawaii, not a law such as this, that will advance a further decline.
The total economy will suffer greatly from the additional fees imposed upon wedding couples. And, you know, the costs will end up on their bill as an extra amount in addition to the marriage license.
Prospective wedding couples will find other locations to celebrate what is supposed to be, a happy event. There are plenty of other choices for couples to choose from. For example: Aruba, Bonaire, Fiji, Tahiti, Florida, Couraso. Any place but Hawaii.
Let's look at the effects that implementing permits will have on some wedding companies and providers.
Loss of jobs. Some of us are not in the wedding business on a full time basis but those who are not, supplement their income to meet the cost of living in Hawaii, help pay the food bill, the mortgage, support their family. Many are single moms, too.
Does the state realize that they will lose tremendous amounts of income the wedding tourists pour into our economy? Of course, they do.
Do they realize they will be losing all the tax we as wedding providers provide to the state budget? Yes, they do.
Does the state realize that many of the people they put out of work will probably have to go on welfare? Yes, they do.
Does the state realize that there may be less income reported by some wedding providers thus giving birth to more people who cheat on their reported income?
The question is; Does the Great State of Hawaii really care?
Govenor, What is your answer?
Charlie Hull
In addition some of the effects from the 'new rules' are, tax cheating, welfare, revenue loss to the state and personal revenu loss. Just to mention
a few. |
| 52 | Rev. Kenneth Middleton | |
| 53 | Rev. Rick Kleit | What happend to the State of Hawaii DLNR
aloha spirit ?
If a Beach Wedding isn't essence of Aloha
what is? |
| 54 | Rev. Lona Lyons | |
| 55 | Jerry Omo Jr | |
| 56 | Amber Ricci | |
| 57 | Rev Springs Romano | |
| 58 | Larry Mischle | |
| 59 | Anonymous | The beach is to be enjoyed and used for all purposes, so long as the purposes are not illegal or immoral and so long as there is respect for all people's rights to use the beach. People come to Hawaii to enjoy beach activities and weddings - not just to look at the beach and go swiimming. Regulating the beach so much will result in a disastrous negative effect of less visitors and less tax income from companies that do weddings on the beach. What a blow to our already hurting economy. |
| 60 | Anonymous | The regulation of beach weddings in Hawaii is sending the wrong message to our visitors. Making a minister pay for a permit and pay for insurance just to do a wedding for 2 people on the beach is the most stupid (one of the most stupid) ideas yet from our state government. Hopefully common sense will prevail and the regulations will become more sensible. No chairs on the beach?? I will be bringing chairs to every beach wedding for those who can't stand (grandmas, etc.) and will set them up regardless of what the state may say..... We must take care of Grandma! |
| 61 | Tinker Blomfield | |
| 62 | SHASTA ROSE | Props such as chairs, cake table and flower pathways should be allowed on beaches that have little use by beachgoers. There is usually no one on the beach during the time we do our ceremonies. As a responsible wedding planner, everything is cleaned up afterwards, down to the very last rose petal. |
| 63 | Anonymous | |
| 64 | Rev. Allan R. Fisher | |
| 65 | Kermit Rydell | |
| 66 | Vickie Jackson of Dolphin Dream Weddings | The time that we have spent to prepare "right of entry" requests could have been spent selling more weddings to boost our economy. Message boards on popular wedding industry websites are already suggesting that Hawaii is no longer welcoming wedding couples! What a tragedy for all of us who have worked so hard to build our businesses and provide excellent service to make great wedding memories. We have always left a beach CLEANER than we found it and believe that resort and beach guests truly love to watch beach weddings by our companies. Hawaii will be losing weddings which means loss of revenue to resorts, restaurants and potentially every vendor on this island. An annual permit would be the best solution. Otherwise, have the bride and groom pay a beach permitting fee as they get their marriage license so everyone pays and we can continue doing our job to the best of our ability in order to serve the public, expand business and continue to share the true ALOHA SPIRIT. |
| 67 | Jody-Lynn Glickman | The new regulations are seriously affecting my ability to plan beach weddings! |
| 68 | Anonymous | |
| 69 | Anela Gutierrez | |
| 70 | elizabeth escalera | The Hawaii Wedding industry is a big draw to mainland and other parts of the world visitors. They bring in money that Hawaiian residence depend on for their living. Please reconsider your position. |
| 71 | Zipporah Revilla | |
| 72 | Joanne Corpuz | |
| 73 | Vicki Habib | |
| 74 | michelle Kalliam | |
| 75 | John Souter | I think the State is way out of line and that they are acting very irresponsibly. |
| 76 | Diane Lewis | We need this industry here on Maui! |
| 77 | Anonymous | |
| 78 | Kamakanapuanani Tamara Manley | |
| 79 | Jan Shields | You will notice that the goal is to drive the weddings off of the beach, into the hotels: No wedding props...hmmmmm.....could this be a fight over this group of tourists?
Many of these wedding tourists have been overwhelmed with the expense and planning of a mainland wedding, and come here for the beauty and simplicity of a BEACH wedding. We must stop this governerment over regulation an interference. We can either give the tourists what they want or watch them go elsewhere. |
| 80 | Clement Surprenant | We are opposed to restricting beach weddings as proposed. We are vacation rental and those restrictions would hurt our reservations. |
| 81 | Barbara French | This is just more evidence of government greed. How much more do you want to take away from Maui? |
| 82 | Natalie Brown | The DLNR is out of line. They have barely consulted with the wedding industry to try to work with us. We could set up fair regulations with a little work but they are making unreasonable, knee-jerk decisions. Rules like this should be worked on for at least a year before implementation because most weddings are booked a year in advance. Chairs, arches and flowers barely make a difference on the beaches. What about the millions of cigarette butts on the beaches? Why not make it illegal to smoke on the beach!! The wedding industry needs to come together and show the DLNR that we are responsible business people that respect our beaches and environment. They need to be responsible business people too. They are turning away state income by turning off potential wedding business with unreasonable laws. |
| 83 | Dan Viola | |
| 84 | Jeane McMahon | |
| 85 | Anonymous | The DLNR should concentrate on protection for our economy as well as protection of our resources.
With a better understanding of how these restrictions negatively effect the industry, it's possible that the DLNR can learn to work WITH the wedding industry instead of against it. |
| 86 | Jennifer Dillon | The wedding industry as a rule has been successfully self-policed, and acted very responsibly in the use of beaches for weddings on Maui. I can see restricting excessive props, but the vast majority of beach weddings are small and not overbearing.
More importantly, the State is taking the wrong tack at this time given the island economy to make it harder for small business people to operate. |
| 87 | Steve Slater | Weddings take a small portion of the beach for a small period of time, even with a small cake table or a couple of chairs. I have photographed over 400 weddings and have never heard a single complaint during any of the weddings from other beachgoers. |
| 88 | William Geoghegan | During challenging economic times the enforcement of this permitting system is only putting a further strain on Maui's wedding industry. I know for a fact that couples are making alternate plans rather than deal with this new bureaucracy. Please drop this permitting system which is only going to hurt Maui's economy. |
| 89 | Lori Lawrence | Weddings are a huge draw to Maui, and it is sad when brides and their whole wedding guest list have to go elsewhere to have their weddings on the beach.
Support Annual Permits over per wedding permits. |
| 90 | Linda d'Avella | |
| 91 | Melissa Rupert | |
| 92 | REV. GUY CONTEMPLO | |
| 93 | LINDSAY HAWORTH | |
| 94 | Rev. Maha Conyers | In this time when tourists have become rare due to reduced flights, popularity of other destinations for weddings, increased gas & general prices, as well as the loss of vacation rentals it seems absurd to add another burden - on the already challenged wedding industry.
We ask to make the process of permitting transparent and in support of the local economy. |
| 95 | Desiree Maher | |
| 96 | Nancy Guthrie | |
| 97 | Kenneth R. Rapozo | |
| 98 | Rep. Angus McKelvey |
| 99 | Archbishop Dr. RC Anderson | The DLNR has placed far too many restrictions on the wedding industry, and are trying to regulate a religious ceremony and dictate what a religious rite of the church should consist of for it to be performed on the beaches. |
| 100 | K. Marshall | |