Above, a couple enjoying the Grand Tetons at Jackson Lake. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Getting married in Grand Teton National Park seems to be a dream come true to many. Except the regulators wanted to lay down permit rules on wedding photographers.
This caused a bit of a stir. However, the park has "walked back" the permit requirement.
According to the Jackson Hole News & Guide:
Facing an onslaught of criticism over its plans to require portrait photographers to acquire a permit for the upcoming season, Grand Teton National Park has walked back the requirement.
“It’s essentially reverting to the way it was,” Chief of Staff Jeremy Barnum said of park policy.
Amid the scuffle, Barnum said the National Park Service also has decided to launch a review of how it handles portrait photography generally in its 423 units spanning the 50 states and territories.
Jenny Anzelmo-Sarles, the service’s chief of public affairs, confirmed that in a Tuesday afternoon email.
For local wedding photographers like Erin Wheat, who earlier raised concerns about the park’s push to further regulate weddings and wedding photographers, the change is a relief.
“We’re way too close to the season to be trying to figure this out,” Wheat said.
But the change also puts a slight kink in the changes Teton Park was trying to make this summer, aiming to mitigate the impact of increased visitation, particularly weddings.
Requests for wedding permits more than doubled in the past two years, increasing from 150 in 2020 to 325 in 2021. As that happened, park officials told the News&Guide they’d received a number of complaints about wedding parties who had allegedly not been complying with the conditions of their permits, bringing in non-native flowers and asking other visitors to leave the area so they could have their ceremony. Grand Teton made a suite of changes to how weddings would be permitted to try and bring some of that under control.
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