Rebels' Guide

Instant apologies for the clickbait headline, but lets be honest, if I’d used my original headline “The internet isn’t having your wedding, only you are” there was a 50% less of a chance of you getting this far into the piece. And luckily for all of us, that is pretty much the gist of the whole article. The internet isn’t celebrating your marriage to your favourite, with your family, and your friends, in your town, your way. The internet is the algorithmic average of all seven billion earthlings. If the internet was going to give you anything, it’s a halfway mark. Look at all the awesome hashtag wedding inspo and you’ll know you’re halfway. You’ve got half your ideas, the most average of them all, and now you just need to sprinkle your “you” glitter all over it and you’ll have the perfect wedding. Scroll through the hashtags, the mood boards, the trends, and the blogs, and take them for what they are – not a g...

We’ve all been on the outside before. We’ve been the person not picked for the sports team, the friend not invited to dinner, the person not thanked in the shopping list of thank yous. It sucks. I hear it from my couples every day, they tell me about how their family is this and that, and how they don’t want such and such mentioned, all in the name of inclusiveness. I’ve always been 110% behind including everyone present, after all, I was the loser not picked for the soccer team, and the guy who would see friends come back to town after living in London for a few years and I’m not invited to the big catchup. That’s just the way life goes, but it sucks when you’re not included. That’s why I work so hard to include everyone in my business, I don’t care who you are, what your skin colour is, what your beliefs are, who you love and what their gender is, if your worldview lines up with mine, I would love to be the voice of your wedding, y...

If you’re wondering what awesome and personal wedding vows look like then you need to put the rest of the world on hold for four minutes, click play, and get disgusted by Josh and Emma’s marriage ceremony at White Chapel Kalbar . The other photos in this blog post are by their photographer, Fotoco . On the side, if you’re looking for a sweet little venue that’s a short hop and a skip from the city, but not too far away, I can highly recommend White Chapel , it’s a beautifully kept wedding venue. Kalbar is only an hour west of Brisbane and an hour and a half from the Gold Coast.

Our words matter, your marriage matters, so why not say some words around it. This is a quick video to help encourage you to put a drop of effort into your wedding vows and write some awesome personal vows.

Our words matter, they make our world, and explain where our heart is. That’s always been at the heart of my work and what I create, and we’ve always been deliberate with our words in this business. You might notice that we don’t use words like “Bride and Groom” or we don’t call our clients “brides” because we want our business to be inclusive to all people. So if this matters to you, you’ll love this helpful primer from Catalyst wedding magazine called “Say this not that” .