Rebels' Guide

I’ve got a very specific and seemingly different way of looking at how to create a wedding, it’s my own little wedding planning method, The Withers Wedding Method. If that was a sexier name I’d probably make a book, but until I get a sexier book title, I’ll drop it here as an episode of The Rebels Guide To Getting Married podcast and vlog. Watch, listen , or read below and find links to subscribe the The Rebels Guide To Getting Married at therebels.guide Welcome to another episode of the Rebels Guide To Getting Married. I’m your host Josh Withers, I’m an Australian civil marriage celebrant, which means I marry people to other people. And this is a podcast that, the whole reason it exists is just to help you, just to help you plan a wedding that matters, a wedding that is good, a wedding that actually puts a smile on your face and just makes you feel happy, not just to be married, but also to get married. And I know that a lot of people are in that wei...

The words “wedding tradition” don’t actually mean anything. Here’s what I mean by that, on a personal note to you, and your family and your people, the word “wedding tradition” mean something, but to a wedding professional they are less descriptive than you would know. There’s no formal list of things that we understand when you say you are, or aren’t having a traditional wedding. For one couple that means you’re having a bedding ceremony (Google it, trust me, Google it), and for another it means you’re walking down the aisle as a couple (as is the original Catholic tradition), where for the next couple they couldn’t imagine walking in together because a father is going to walk a daughter down the aisle. Wedding tradition isn’t something you obey or disobey, something you follow or leave. It’s just a descriptor for ‘at weddings, people like us, do things like this’ and that’s fine. But there...

How to spend your wedding budget, a quick Rebels Guide. Book a wedding planner who doesn’t refer to their clients as brides. Brides don’t get married, couples do. Book a photographer that shares ceremony photos. The ceremony is a place the photographer has no control and no influence on the posing or light. It’s the hardest part of the wedding to shoot beautifully. Book a celebrant that talks about marriage, because it’s so much more important being married over getting married. Book a videographer that talks about their couples not about their gear. Because the logo on your camera pales in significance to the moments being recorded. Book a band or DJ that right down in their very soul wants – nay, needs – to play the soundtrack to your marriage. Book a caterer that knows that the food is how we connect as a family. Book a stylist and a florist that cares about how your wedding feels, not just how it looks. Book a wedding venue that will remember your name. Book a wedding ca...