In the two weeks since Maine voters approved a law to allow same-sex marriage, Clay Hill Farm has access to homosexual couples telephone and e-mail asking if the opening date and wedding packages restaurant and wildlife protected areas in New York a popular wedding site.
The law will not take effect more than six weeks,rental bridal gowns but has state and the requirements of the couple, Jennifer Lewis McShera, say, who is responsible for the wedding department.
The mud Mountain Farm dozens of one-year wedding ceremony and reception and rehearsal dinner, and in other places to provide catering services, wedding party. Same-sex marriage the legalization only help, Lewis McShera said.
"This will increase business in this regard, because we will attract more and more couples from Boston and New York metropolitan area,custom bridal gowns it can have the wedding of their dreams in Maine," she said. "This makes Maine on the map."
Coast of Maine shore of the Chesapeake Bay and Lake Washington, Bank of gay wedding destination.
Next month and take effect in January, the law that allows same-sex marriage in Maine, Maryland and Washington.
Is the first state voters by such laws, rather than legislators or the courts.
Nearly 18,000 head in these state same-sex couples exchanged vows after three years, a new legal effect, it is estimated that the national think tank of Williams College, the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.
And the law should generate at least $ 166 million over the next three years, the state of the couple alone in the wedding expenses in the three states, tax increases, creating new employment opportunities.