Times to Treasure

Name: Times to Treasure
Address: Launceston, TAS, 7250, AU
Telephone: +61427437710
Price range: $$$
Rating: 5

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Times to Treasure

My name is Mary. I am a Tasmanian based Registered Civil Celebrant. Contact me to start a discussion about your upcoming event.
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From marriage ceremonies, milestone events to funeral services, my promise is to honour and hold unique moments.

12/11/2023

Are you still wearing your wedding dress 38 years on?
I am!!
Check out the lace of the bodice… can you find it on the corner of the scarf?
The buttons from the bodice back are felted into the merino wool on the opposite scarf corner…
Pieces of lace from the skirt are incorporated randomly throughout the scarf…

I have such fond memories of shopping with my mum for the satin fabric and then the lace… Mum’s best friend made the dress for me. It was a very special process, choosing it together, and her friend making it. It’s so lovely to be able to still wear aspects of it in this ‘every day’ item. A Tassie merino scarf.

If you have your dress packed away for mould and moths, pull it out, contact me and let’s get designing! Time for rebirth 😊

21/10/2023

That’s another year’s legalities testing done ✔️
Every 12 months, as a Registered Marriage Celebrant I am obliged to pass a test concerning the legalities of marriage within Australia.
Topics covered range from conduct and integrity of the ceremony, to integrity of evidence provided around identity, legality of parties to marry, right through to coercion and forcing individuals into marriage.

My role to you as a Celebrant authorised and appointed by the Attorney General’s Office is to ensure that your marriage is legal.
Basically, that’s it.
I’ll make sure that all aspects of your marriage are in accordance to Australian law ☺️

Message me if you are considering it! 💕

03/08/2023

Facilitating for family and friends at the funeral of their loved one is so much about gathering stories and memories and assisting in the presentation of them.
This one was a beauty!!

The owner of this Collingwood Premiership Port had followed Collingwood his entire life. He watched every single game. Year after year they lost… he called them the ‘collywobbles’ 😉. For 35 years he supported them, and when they lost… he said anyone who barracked for Collingwood was in for a life of disappointment 😩

Then, in 1990 they WON!!! 🎉

With great jubulation this celebratory bottle of port was purchased - but it wasn’t drunk…
Collingwood didn’t win a premiership for another ten years. On that occasion anyone who hadn’t already drunk the celebratory port, did so then. But not this individual.
It’s a rare drop in this bottle of UNOPENED 1990 Collingwood Premiership Port.
It’s location is a big secret 🤐 😜

21/06/2023

I’m driving away from a funeral feeling very … something… it’s hard to capture in words…

Knowing her days were very limited, a woman wanted to meet with me to share some of her life stories in preparation for her funeral. I’d already conducted a funeral for a member of her family previously and she was familiar with my ferreting about to uncover significant life events and poignant moments. She wanted to save me the trouble and give it to me herself.

Today at her funeral I told her stories. I delivered her last message to her children. I shared her romantic thoughts of when she first met her husband 60 years ago.

She was a very private lady, and emotions were not easily or readily expressed.
The family listened intently.
After the ceremony her children and grandchildren marvelled at some of the history revealed.
They wanted a copy of my notes to keep the details.
They said she was a very private person and much of what I had shared was not known to them.

I left with a profound sense of privilege in the realisation that this woman had shared so much with me, an almost stranger, and that I had been able to gift it on to her children. Through the physical loss of their mother and matriarch, they had gained a greater understanding, love and intensified respect of who she was.

It’s a strange role, this funeral celebrancy. I often never quite know the complexity of what I’m doing in the simplicity of celebrating a life.

12/11/2022

The absolute honour of assisting a dear friend to celebrate the life of her departed love.
How to summon sufficient words to portray how special he was...
Insufficient words.

A privileged and unique life moment.
Wearing a 'flanny' (flannelette shirt) as he always was when I saw him 🧡

08/10/2022

Special guests selected to share in the witnessing of the official marriage documents. Congratulations Mr & Mrs Kristensen!

05/10/2022

Can there be any greater joy than the privilege and honour of officiating at the marriage of a dear and special friend to his gorgeous love…

10/06/2022

With your hand in mine, anything is possible 🥰
(My granddaughters ❤️)

30/05/2022

Honouring and saying goodbye to a loved one can be tailored to whatever feels right for you.
Today, sitting in a very small private group around the coffin enabled a particularly personal and intimate occasion. It is a deep honour to facilitate an event of such importance to the participants.

22/05/2022

Exploring Wrest Point grounds. Stunning location for a wedding. Private, lush green, scenery!!!

18/05/2022

It is indeed a special time of discussion and planning, and then the ultimate event, when both parties are passionate about sweeping white satin, lace and pearls 🥰
Such a privilege to be amongst it all, and to formalise the wedding of Hollie and Maddie 😊

26/03/2022

I'm fully convinced that every time I conduct a marriage ceremony, some of the magical love dust swirling around settles on me 🥰

25/03/2022

Excited for tomorrow's wedding at Brickendon. Such a stunning setting 🙂

09/03/2022

Always happy to help ☺️

14/02/2022

I love seeing a drip in the eye… sure sign the heart is engaged ☺️

11/02/2022

Remember the recent pictures depicting the little girls needing a 'sister's courage hug' before they walked the isle??
Well, that hug must have contained something very powerful....
As the event progressed... 👏👏👏

09/02/2022

It can be very overwhelming for little people to have so much attention on them. A hug with your sister makes anything doable 🥰

26/01/2022

Finding ways to authentically represent a person whose life is being honoured ensures that the celebration of their life is both personal and meaningful. The gentleman being farewelled on this particular occasion loved growing vegetables - but would never grow flowers because you can't eat them!

15/01/2022

Little satin cushions provide an 'anchor' for little people in the wedding. The letter of their first name provides a personal message and security for each child: 'This is your special place, this is where I want you to sit' - an important indication on the big gazebo steps 👏

11/01/2022

It is a great honour and privilege to work with family members after the loss of a loved one. Prompting ideas and opportunities to enable them to fully express the richness of the person and the 'bigness' of their life, is a beautiful thing.

29/10/2021

Playing with flowers from my garden... Maybe a posy for a sweet flowergirl 😊

27/10/2021

OPD celebrant training...
Annual obligatory training to keep sharp around all the legal complexities incorporated in celebrancy work!
What is law if
* Someone who has been adopted into a family wants to marry their sibling of the adopting family ie there is no biological connection?
* An individual has arrived as a refugee and has no identification papers?
* An couple want to marry before the legally required month of notice because a parent is dying?

*** Not like Hollywood. It's actually a big legal responsibility ☺️

25/10/2021

Destination wedding! Serenity and romance of a beautiful river… small and private, intimate…

Book out the small boat to exchange promises with your 18 nearest and dearest surrounded by river reflections and serenading birds

Borders are opening 👏
Leave the hustle and bustle for a unique destination elopement in Tasmania!

22/10/2021

Times to Treasure
* are varied and precious
* are unique to each situation
* Can be life-changing

This unique occasion acknowledges Pen as a ‘rainbow’ person.

21/10/2021

Tis the time of flowers!!
What is your flower of choice…

18/10/2021

If a bride could carry a lens ball containing an entire field of tulips! Pink romance 🤩

01/10/2021

It’s a rare and unique privilege to assist an individual with dyslexia to collect their thoughts, organise them, and, in partnership, to present them. A tribute to his passed love.
A privileged role! Funeral Celebrant

08/09/2021

The honour and privilege of officiating at funerals gives me the opportunity to hear succinct, distilled messages about what the departed person valued most.
As these messages build, one on top of another, what do you think the stand-out value would be?
It’s family. Every time. Value, appreciate and nurture your family unit and the individual relationships contained within it.
Message reinforced again yesterday from a woman who had 90 years at life. Got to be some wisdom in that! 🥰

03/09/2021

‘Honouring & holding unique moments’.
That’s my tagline.
That’s my purpose.
Stand apart from the hurly-burly of life. Stand apart from emotional stress.
Let me assist you in being in the unique moment, to honour it, and to hold it.
Creating Times to Treasure.

23/07/2021

What is love? 🤔
Such a difficult state of being to describe, but however you look at it, there is a significant component of emotion.
‘Emotion’ is a fluctuating state, forever changing…. No one is ‘happy’ all of the time, nor angry, sad, or anything else.
Love too has changing states. Whoever you have decided to love, work on it! Expect and accept changes in intensity.
How do you keep your love healthy and alive?

Address

Launceston, TAS
7250

Telephone

+61427437710

Website

http://www.timestotreasure.com.au/

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