Client Review on Haiku Mill

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This venue charges your photographer $500 per year plus $50 per hour to shoot your wedding. Their contract requires the photographer to take a large number of shots dictated by the venue for the venue to use for marketing purposes. YES, that's right, they are forcing YOUR WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER to take photos for them AND PAY THE VENUE TO DO SO! They also contractually require that your photographer give the venue complete control over the publicity of the photos, so the photographer can't show their hard work publicly. Look up "Haiku Mill photographer fees" if you don't believe me.Most other venues on Maui are doing the same thing. In fact, if your photographer discloses these fees or passes them on to you, they get blacklisted across the island. This situation is extremely unethical and it is grossly unfair to bot the photographer who is being exploited and to you who thinks they're hiring a photographer for your wedding when you're really hiring a photographer for the venue to exploit.I strongly urge you to consider a different venue. Ask any venue that you want to use to show you their vendor agreements prior to reserving a spot. An ethical business won't have anything to hide in those agreements.