ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. -- Exchanging vows in the sand as waves lap the seashore may seem romantic to many, but for a few St. Augustine beachside residents, it has become an annoyance.

Some residents in St. Augustine are asking the city to ban weddings on the beach.

"My neighbors over here have some parking problems where they can't back out because so many people along the beach there," said 10th Street resident Minas Sarris.

He said his neighborhood gets packed on the weekends because of beachside nuptials and that's why some of his neighbors have complained to the city commission, asking for a ban on beach weddings.

"I think it's ridiculous, actually. If anything like this happened -- I can't imagine beach weddings," said Jackie Williams, who runs a beach wedding company in St. Johns County.

She said each year the company does about 200 weddings along St. Augustine beach.

Williams said some of the unhappy neighbors have threatened to be unwelcome guests at her next wedding.

"She threatened to sit in the middle of our weddings, and we had to call the police to come and mediate that. That's why this has ended up in the hands of the city commission," Williams said.

Tenth Street residents said automobile and foot traffic gets pretty heavy because on a typical weekend day there will be between three and five weddings.

Sarris said he has seen more than five weddings in one day.

"I've seen as many as seven in one day. I think that's a little much with all the traffic up and down the street," he said.

Williams said most of the guests to the beach weddings stay at a nearby hotel, so traffic isn't that bad. She also said the beach is public property and not the personal property of those that live along it.

"People are getting married. It's a public beach and a public access. Seems a little ridiculous. When you buy a condo you don't own the beach there -- it's public," Williams said.

The city commission will take up the issue at its next meeting in early July.