Celebrating love in South Australia, with a Scottish twist I was born and grew up in Scotland, with strong Irish family connections.
My celebrancy style is both fun and meaningful, and my ceremonies will have you and your guests having all the feels, from tears to laughs as we celebrate your love. From my teens to late thirties, I dotted between Glasgow and Adelaide before settling here permanently. I still have my Glasgow accent - in fact, my husband says it's getting stronger as I get older! I’ve had a varied career in corpor
ate communications, theatre, and stand-up comedy, I’m a professional writer and storyteller to my bones – storytelling is oxygen to me – so your personal story is in safe hands! I love working collaboratively, and together with my dear comedy sisters I’ve won Adelaide Fringe Awards for writing, acting, and comedy – we even took out the 2007 Adelaide Fringe People’s Choice Awards for our groundbreaking all-female stand-up comedy showcase Titters! More recently, over the past few years I've been the dramaturg and director for the Fringe shows of Adelaide writer and performer Tracy Crisp. What all this means for you is that I know how to create, direct, and deliver a fun and meaningful ceremony, in collaboration with you, to celebrate your love. I also love to incorporate the culture of my original homeland, and If that's your choice, I'll be thrilled to help you explore any of the beautiful ancient rites and rituals that come from Scotland and Ireland, to bring some Celtic magic and romance to your ceremony. Get in touch and let's have a wee blether!
I love conducting weddings. Yesterday’s was so beautiful and heartfelt. It’s a double treat when we get to celebrate love through ancient Scottish rituals and old friends are on the guest list. Great to catch up with you Louise Louise Miller-Frost MP!
Irish group The High Kings sing Caledonia at The Gov. Love getting a dose of my Celtic culture.
Looks like Violet didn’t get the memo about it being an unplugged wedding!
A beautiful poem by Matt Mullins!
Wedding Poem
Forget if you will the flowers
and gowns and suits of music;
forget the priest or rabbi
or judge and see only these
two coupled now before All, coupled
before the golden door
of their own future.
Look at them. Happy fools.
Beautifully ringed souls wearing a shock
more exact than their own skins, grins
Cheshireing up around their ears. It's obvious
they've come here to prove something.
So here we are, the Invited,
looking upon their proof, this bride and groom
and room full of well-wishers more than ready
to fling hopeful bullets of rice for the truth
of love's humanity. Relatives, friends,
human and flawed as we all are, we're with
those two up there at love's altar
though the truth of living
can make us a tough crowd to satisfy.
But this bride and groom, they're still willing
to take us on, willing to take on Time.
Willing to stand up and swear
that love is the first four letter word,
the deepest need that can do nothing
but awaken their separate bodies and minds
into the idea that two lives can be one
as much as two can be.
After Ceremony, at the party
or on the way there, but after we've seen
these two blessed and kissed and gliding past us
on scented carpets of air, we'll philosophize
simply: 'Wasn't that beautiful? '
'Isn't she beautiful? '
'Isn't he handsome? '
And of course we mean every word,
we always do; but champagned as we are
at seeing Ephemeral Life tricked out of fact
yet again, we still have no idea
what we're saying.
What we really mean to say is thank you
Bride and Groom for proving love's defense
against a life where so much can pass us by unrealized.
What we mean to say is thank you
for re-making the world's first miracle:
the birth of each watery, singular cell
into something far more complicated
and intoxicating.
Tonight these two must hear all this again
and again in different words, but what each
congratulation truly says, truly means and wants
is to take away the tux and gown
and lead them both slowly down an even path
with the wind at their backs then through
another golden door and into bed thirty years
from now, dreaming spooned inside their past,
arms flung around each other, breath as one.
Better yet, it wants to set them face to face,
a nose's inch apart, their eyes still pouring life
into each other, their bodies brushing to the touch
of a wind-turned branch against the bedroom window.
Thirty years married, and children sleeping
in the other rooms or no, all the beauty
and sadness of their years together rests along
the dark line of their bodies pressed together toward
that night which is proof enough of love
and what we're here for.
Matt Mullins
Some dads put a lot into their father-of-the-bride speech, but I've never seen anyone go this far! https://fb.watch/rA761gRZot/
Last weekend I was privileged to officiate at the wedding of dear friends at such a beautiful location The Currant Shed. It was my first solo wedding (with Steven as my trusty roadie), and it all went very smoothly. Woo hoo!
Ahem! Five stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
A very funny and thought provoking show
Yay - Tracy's show is recommended by In Daily!
As the 2024 summer festival season kicks off, we asked eight of our writers and reviewers to share tips for must-see shows and events across the Adelaide Fringe and Festival programs. Their recommendations offer something for every taste.
Tracy opened her show Stitches last night at the Goodwood Theatre and Studios with a sold out preview, and a room full of laughs and feels. I love working with her - its been six years since we started working together to bring her shows to the stage and each time is an utter joy. We've known each other for about 20 years now, and I am not only inspired by her talents, but also her determination, resilience, and seemingly endless reserves of compassion and empathy. She really is one of the golden people to have in your life. So, if you love great storytelling, get a ticket for Stitches. I promise you will not be disappointed. https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/tracy-crisp-stitches-af2024
We should celebrate all kinds of love on St Valentine's Day. In the Celtic tradition, there is the idea of soul-love; the old Gaelic term for this is anam cara. Anam is the Gaelic word for soul and cara is the word for friend. So anam cara in the Celtic world was the "soul friend."
John O'Donohue, author of the book Anam Cara says "In this love, you are understood as you are without mask or pretension. The superficial and functional lies and half-truths of social acquaintance fall away, you can be as you really are. Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home."
"The anam cara experience opens a friendship that is not wounded or limited by separation or distance. Such friendship can remain alive even when the friends live far away from each other. Because they have broken through the barriers of persona and egoism to the soul level, the unity of their souls is not easily severed. When the soul is awakened, physical space is transfigured. Even across the distance, two friends can stay attuned to each other and continue to sense the flow of each other's lives. With your anam cara you awaken the eternal." Book: Anam Cara https://amzn.to/42TLqzn)
Celebrant work has slightly paused while I work with on her show Stitches for . Opening night this week. It’s a beautiful, funny show- get your tix! https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/tracy-crisp-stitches-af2024
Since we're still in the silly season, let's just all have a magical Monday. Oh and if you feel like it, tune in to Radio ABC Adelaide tonight at 9.30pm. I'll be sitting in with my old pal Jason Chong on his evening radio show, playing a few of my favourite records that bring back memories and having a good ol' chat
So many people getting engaged right now. But when you start to organise your wedding, where do you begin?
Congratulations! You’re engaged to the love of your life and the next step is to plan how you will both make the leap into your new phase with your wedding. Planning a wedding is exciting but it’s difficult to know where to start. It’s a cacophony of choices, emotions, and anticipation, and am...
It was a dream to write Will and Jace's wedding ceremony, to speak with them and understand the things that are important to them, that play an important part in their lives and love story, and to translate that in a fun and meaningful way for themselves and their guests.
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Life Celebrations, or funerals, aren't a focus of my celebrancy work, but goodness me, this is a fantastic funeral for Shane McGowan, reflecting the happiness and celebration his music brought, and honouring his legacy in a fitting and joyous way. I think he would have enjoyed it!
Still enjoying the lovely vibes from my first wedding last week of Will and Jace, and want to shout out to the people who contributed to such a lovely day!
for being an amazing co pilot for the legals, as I waited for my registration to come through (it did! Halfway through the ceremony!) - you are wonderful and I will jump at the chance to work with you again!
Alyssiums on Pirie for beautiful flowers 💐 Knightsman Bespoke Tailors for making our gorgeous grooms look sharp and Paloma Bar and Pantry for great hosting, hospitality, food, and drinks
What's a girl to do when she's STILL waiting for her Marriage Celebrant registration to come through? Well, she toddles along to the Feast Festival Q***r Wedding Expo to check out all things gorgeous, glamorous, and gay at My Lover Cindi in Pirie St!
I told this as a story at Ten X 9 at The Jade last month. It felt good to start to talk about this exciting adventure of celebrancy.
This is a tale of two tales. One began roughly 250 billion years ago, and the other begins on Hogmanay (31 December) 2022. This stone is the hero of the first tale. It has lain on a beach on the island of Iona, one of the inner Hebridean islands off the west coast of Scotland, for somewhere between....
Beautiful afternoon visiting the venue and liaising with my couple and the photographer to deliver a killer ceremony and MC job afterwards for our dear friends who were the catalyst for me becoming a celebrant. Looking forward to the big day next March! 😍🥰😎
One of the great things when you're a budding celebrant is the chance to widen networks and your professional community. This not only allows you to grow and learn from the experience of those who have been doing it a lot longer, but also helps you to provide clients with the comfort and certainty that they are hiring a fully recognised and insured professional Celebrant. And with all the details taken care of, we're free to concentrate on the important stuff - like celebrating love!
The gift of belonging - one of the great joys as a celebrant is to write and create a welcome or naming ceremony. The person may be a baby, an older child, or even an adult. It's a welcome to someone of any age to the family through birth, adoption, marriage/engagement, or family blending. A welcome or naming ceremony formally and joyfully says 'We're glad you're here, you're now one of us, you've found your clan, and you are home'.
When you start to look at the world differently, like when you study celebrancy, it seems complicated at first. There is a LOT of legal stuff at the start, and it's important but you soon realise that this part is all about keeping people safe regarding their rights as human beings.
And then the other thing you realise (and my beautiful friend LIbby McArthur Celebrant, in Scotland, was first to point me in this direction) is that ALL of the rest of it is love. It's all love. All the baby namings, all the weddings, all the funerals, all the graduations and significant birthdays and vow renewals - they're all celebrations of love. And who doesn't love love? Simple 💖
Here's the wedding DJ you do NOT want at your reception (or maybe you do! 😁)
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Irish group The High Kings sing Caledonia at The Gov. Love getting a dose of my Celtic culture.
What an absolutely amazing day! Did my first wedding, co-piloting with Tina the Celebrant, and after the ceremony - well, watch the video!
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