{"id":4672,"date":"2023-08-03T17:27:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T17:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4672"},"modified":"2023-08-03T18:03:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T18:03:52","slug":"dont-snuff-out-wedding-barns-badger-institute-and-other-groups-tell-wisconsin-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4672","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t snuff out wedding barns, Badger Institute and other groups tell Wisconsin Legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badgerinstitute.org\/dont-snuff-out-wedding-barns-badger-institute-and-other-groups-tell-wisconsin-legislature\/\">https:\/\/www.badgerinstitute.org\/dont-snuff-out-wedding-barns-badger-institute-and-other-groups-tell-wisconsin-legislature\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"height:2px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<p>A wedding barn is nothing like a tavern \u2014 especially in ways that matter for liquor laws. The Badger Institute is happy to join an effort to fill in Wisconsin lawmakers on why.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Wisconsin-wedding-barn-liquor-license-1024x705-1.jpg\" alt=\"A Wisconsin couple drinking champagne at a wedding barn venue\" class=\"wp-image-47823\" width=\"364\" height=\"251\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The institute is part of a coalition of free-market organizations \u2014 led by the Wisconsin Institute for Law &amp; Liberty \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/coalition-of-free-market-groups-urge-lawmakers-to-oppose-wedding-barn-legislation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">writing to lawmakers Thursday<\/a> to warn them that proposed changes to liquor laws will put the burgeoning wedding barn industry out of business.<\/p>\n<p>The venues host private events, such as wedding receptions, at which caterers hired by the renters serve food and drink brought in from elsewhere. The proposed bills would require the barns either to get a liquor license \u2014 often hard or impossible to obtain in rural jurisdictions \u2014 or to limit their business to an absurd six events a year, no more than one a month.<\/p>\n<p>As the letter puts it, wedding barns shouldn\u2019t be regulated as if they were public taverns because \u201cweddings are purely private events. Only personally invited guests can attend. Wedding barns do not become \u2018public places\u2019 under the liquor licensing law simply because they are available to rent, just as an apartment or vacation rental home does not become a \u2018public place\u2019 simply because members of the public rent it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Badger Institute agrees, just as it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/wisconsin\/article_d961fdc2-8c82-11e9-a9c5-77cee7fb140e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">did in 2019<\/a>, when it joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wispolitics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/190609Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a coalition<\/a> of pro-liberty groups to fend off an earlier attack on Wisconsinites finding new uses for their barns as wedding venues. Then, as now, we oppose entrenched interests using regulators to interfere with entrepreneurs finding new ways to please customers.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the new letter <a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/2023-Wedding-Barn-Memo-4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"elfsight-app-996a0fda-002f-4b80-8df8-d0969c986500\"><\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.badgerinstitute.org\/dont-snuff-out-wedding-barns-badger-institute-and-other-groups-tell-wisconsin-legislature\/\">Don\u2019t snuff out wedding barns, Badger Institute and other groups tell Wisconsin Legislature<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.badgerinstitute.org\">Badger Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.badgerinstitute.org\/dont-snuff-out-wedding-barns-badger-institute-and-other-groups-tell-wisconsin-legislature\/ A wedding barn is nothing like a tavern \u2014&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-badger-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4675,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672\/revisions\/4675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}