One Celebrant, Michelle Anderson

24/02/2022

Last Saturday was an early morning wedding- sunrise at Surfers Paradise Beach for Peta and Jason from Tasmania. The morning sun resulted in amazing photographs and it turns out that we are even more amusing, witty and charming at 5am! (Breakfast menu included champers obviously…) The wedding was casual, relaxed, just the 5 of us. Lots of laughs and zero stress. Perfect in Paradise! (Surfers Paradise Beach) Congratulations!!!

10/02/2022

24/10/2021

Has anyone been to Cali Beach in Surfers Paradise? It’s been going off all weekend! ... slowly but surely, the Gold Coast is coming back to life!

03/11/2020

28/09/2020

Splitting hairs by Michelle Anderson

During these dark and boring times, I turn to a topic that’s entirely trivial and un-newsworthy.

My hair.

Like a lot of people I’ve found myself with a bit of spare time on my hands and so I’ve been spending more and more time in the bathroom. This has meant some serious CSI investigation in to my looks. Until now, I’ve never really bothered too much with that girly stuff. After all, I don’t have to look at myself; you do!

Not a day goes by that a complete stranger doesn’t spontaneously mention my hair colour. In a good way thankfully. One 5 year old girl looked at me with shining eyes and exclaimed, “You have unicorn hair!”

The label stuck.

I found my first unicorn hair at age 18. It’s not hard to find in a haystack of black... Sticks out like lighthouse and begs to be struck by lightening. True to the wives tale, when I plucked the first one out, seven more grew in its place, and seven more for each one after that and so on and so on until DIY colouring became a routine every second day.

I just couldn’t keep up. Those white supremacists were too strong and quick to dominate the blacks.

Numerous hairdressers over the years have done a brilliant job of disguising the white as “highlights”.

Try they did. For years.

Now at 43, I have well and truly lost the white war against mother nature. My brunette locks are long gone but a new me has emerged in time for Act II Scene 1
of life.

Not everyone is happy about it.

My brother told me recently that he much preferred me as a brunette. I turned to him and told him that I agree, being a brunette is way better. Then I told him that I preferred him with a full head of hair.

He shut up after that.

As we unicorns say, the only way to truly fly is to believe in your wings. (Well I’m not altogether sure that that’s what unicorn say but it sounds very good doesn’t it. Very deep and metaphorical.)

Well, it’s not all doom and gloom - there are a few positives to being a silver fox;

when I go to the RSL, ladies say that I look “stunning” and that means a lot because, of all people, they can appreciate a decent purple rinse any day of the week.

Other positives;
I can basically change my hair colour to anything at any point in time because the white hair acts much like a white canvas. Eat your heart out Ken Done!

My skin looks more olive - even in winter...

I can’t quite see how many hairs are on the bathroom floor...

and the bus driver charged me a pensioner’s rate this afternoon!

Oh well at the end of the day there are some things you just cannot change; your age, your DNA and the likelihood that you’re going to end up looking like your Sri Lankan Aunties no matter what you do.

(At least I addressed that whole bra issue years ago or, going by the Aunty theory, the b**b to knee ratio would narrow and be cause for concern.)

One out of two ain’t bad.

23/08/2020

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10/04/2020

Cavill Ave, Surfers Paradise, Saturday 2am. Empty.

09/04/2020

05/04/2020

I found them!

05/04/2020

Midday 🌞 Sunday 🌊 Surfers Paradise 🐚 Peak time of the weekend.... that’s what the website said...🤷🏼‍♀️

27/03/2020

Ah Weddings...😍 When I became a full time Marriage Celebrant 7 years ago, I theorised that The Industry of Love is an industry never to die. After all, stock prices may fluctuate, wars rage on, but there will never be a shortage of couples falling head over heels, right? I was wrong.
In a period of only a few days, all weddings have been postponed or canceled and, as those invitations float off in to the distance, so too does the main source of income for all wedding service providers. (Eg. Me.)
The Wedding Industry generates $4 billion per year in Australia. That’s a lot of cake that won’t be eaten, dresses left unmade, disco balls at standstill and special words unspoken.
It doesn’t break my heart as such, we all probably needed a break to be honest, but it will break the bank -eventually.
Some cool celebrants had a rad idea to save us a little bit of coin. The annual registration fee is not enormous, but still it is another bill to add to our pile... so we respectfully request that the annual government registration fee for celebrants be waved this year please. 🙏🏽
It’s a token movement that says “yo, while our work isn’t life and death, it makes for life until death.
We don’t save lives, we do change lives.
We symbolise an ancient tradition that marks one of life’s greatest moments. Whilst fun, we get paid to do it and we do it well.
But now, we don’t get paid.
Please don’t sting us while our butts are still swollen from the tumble we took when we fell from grace.”
👣SO, if you have one minute, friends, CAN YOU PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION?🖊
This is a time to reflect, reorganise and reignite. I expect that we will come back sickeningly happy, overly enthusiastic, a little bit poorer yet slightly concussed, ready for a wave of couples who are itching to 🥳 party!
Bless the power of two with the power of love.
Wishing you and yours outstanding health & wealth.
Michelle Anderson “Michellebrant”
Marriage Celebrant- Gold Coast

800 signatures are still needed! Waive the annual registration fee for Marriage Celebrants in 2020 due to impact of COVID19

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