The description on the site describes one of the rental houses as “the perfect home for ... family reunion, birthday celebration, weddings” and the pictures show a beautiful home that can accommodate up to 11 overnight guests.

The problem, neighbors say, is that the wedding event attracts too many cars to park in a residential neighborhood, and hosts multitudes of guests at late night parties that keeps them awake until the wee hours of the morning, most weekend nights.

Santa Rosa Island Authority board member Vernon Prather asked if a time limit can be established on noise over a certain decibel level.

“We do not want to discourage weddings from taking place out there, or birthday parties or reunions,” Prather said. “We want them to behave themselves.”

The SRIA board discussed looking at the ordinances Escambia County already has in place to deal with noise and parking issues. One suggestion was to ask guests to use the trolleys from a remote parking lot or to park on one side of the street to allow for ambulance or emergency vehicles to pass on the streets.

Additionally, Prather said that businesses operating in residential neighborhoods must pay all applicable fees, including the SRIA fee.

Tammy Bohannon, a real estate agent who is also a member of the SRIA board, said a benefit of using a rental agency is that the agency pays all fees.

However, rental agencies located off the island, renting homes on the island do not have to pay the SRIA fee paid by those located on the island.

“They don’t pay the SRIA fee but they are doing business out here,” SRIA Executive Director Buck Lee said.

Bohannon said that weddings are big business on the island, providing condominium rentals, hotel rentals and services provided by photographers, caterers, disc jockeys and liquor stores.

“You have to look at the whole picture and the economic improvements that weddings bring. We don’t need to exclude weddings,” Bohannon said.