Rebels' Guide

Here’s a pro wedding planning tip that no-one’s going to publish in a pretty wedding magazine or talk about in a wedding planning Facebook group. All wedding vendors, venues, creatives, artists, charge reasonably. They are all affordable. There’s no such thing as cheap or expensive. Those words are descriptors that just don’t exist in any creative industry where individuals are sweating it out to create meaningful and beautiful work for people getting married. What differentiates wedding creators isn’t whether they are cheap or affordable – or not – but it’s what you expect from them, what they can create for you, and if they have the capacity to create it for you. It’s about you knowing your expectations, and you being wise enough to communicate them, then for the wedding creator to be able to fulfil them. It’s about the work they are amazing at creating, and is that the kind of work you appreciate. Is it to your liking, does ...

Mike and Sara eloped and their elopement has been featured in Polkadot Bride! “Our celebrant Josh was amazing. He recognised early on that we didn’t want the whole spectacle of vows and readings – it was short and sweet! We’re not the kind of couple that likes to be the centre of attention or to be very overtly romantic in front of others. I really appreciated that Josh didn’t push an agenda here and that he wrote some short beautiful words for us instead.” Sara and Mike eloped in Melbourne city a few seconds before you weren’t allowed to earlier this year. The classic elopement A-team of The Elopement Collective with Bulb Creative , North St Botanical , and me of course at Spring Street Events’ Recoleta.

A big part of my job as a wedding celebrant, marriage officiant or what my American followers might call a justice of the peace, is talking about your vows. Our wedding vows are a response to the person standing opposite to you on your wedding day. You’re welcome to have some fun, crack a joke, cry or get emotional, but it’s a personal occasion, a mano-a-mano moment with your most loved. What’s necessary? In Australia the standard, default, necessary, legal vows go like this: Each person must say to the other: I call upon the persons here present to witness that I, [full name], take thee, [full name], to be my lawful wedded wife/husband/spouse. Or words to that effect, which means you can edit it up a little bit as long as it means the same thing. You can’t change the essentials like your names and that you’re taking a husband or wife. Bestie, BFF, lover, sexual partner, housemate, best-friend, partner or other non-marriage terms ...