Your celebration may be formal, informal or completely casual. It may be at your home, a beach, a restaurant, on a boat, in a park, a marquee, courtyard or vineyard… delighfully intimate, or on a grander scale. You may wish to use traditional words, adapt them to suit your individual and ceremony style, or create some fresh expressions for your values and love. Symbols, too, are often chosen to enhance the magic and focus of every kind of occasion. I have many suggestions – including ‘the warming of the rings’, ‘blending sand’, a union in wine or roses, or lovely candle ceremonies. However you wish to make your celebration special … I look forward to being your celebrant!
A few years ago my best friend asked me to officiate her wedding ceremony in New York. It was such an incredibly love-drenched, joy-filled and life-affirming experience that on the flight home I decided I would start studying to become a Marriage Celebrant in Australia. I’ve got a lifetime of experience as a writer, editor and presenter in my back pocket. I’m a former magazine editor (I was at the helm of Gourmet Traveller, Sunday Life, CLEO and Girlfriend) and I’ve been a contributor to the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. So, if you’d like a journalist with over 20 years of experience at crafting great stories to pen your wedding ceremony, we should work together.