Paul Bonadio - a Stand-up Celebrant

26/08/2024

Emails will be a little slow this week..

29/12/2023

24/08/2023

Lauren and Tolga 🥰😮🥰

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16/01/2023

This review from Pete and Janine was actually at the script writing stage.

Wedding takes place Feb 4 this year.

DM for tix.

Photo - (from Bec and Dan’s wedding)

22/08/2022

Wedding season is coming.

We are ready.

01/08/2022

Chuffed to be a five-star award provider for 2022. Thanks a bunch 😄

p.s. pinch and punch for the first day of the month

20/07/2022

Still probably my favourite wedding photo ever.

Shot by Elsa Campbell Photography

13/07/2022

What I discovered from reading Harry Potter for the first time as a fully-grown, adult, human-being man person. SPOILERS.

Unlike many adults, I’m not time-poor.

Sure, I have important things to do, like meet couples, write scripts, and cotton-bud the dirt from my dog’s left ear (why is it always the left?).

Still, for the most part, if I want to sit down at 3:30PM and watch Tipping Point, I can.

And I do.

This brings me to why I’m here - to discuss my reading of every single Harry Potter book.

Firstly, buying any Harry Potter novel as a 30-something-year-old has most likely put me on a list.

Buying the entire series has definitely alerted the neighbours.

I don’t care. I had a blast.

Harry is a wizard whose journey into the world of magic coincides with voice breaks and having a mad crush on your best mate’s sister.

Basically my puberty in nutshell.

I’m not going to summarise the plot, or even apply my advanced Year 12 Lit Award analysis.

I’ll just say two things; I love Ron. I love Luna Lovegood.

Harry is nothing without Ron.

Ron’s a failure at most things. His spells are cactus, and he takes at least five novels to realise Hermione wants to take him underneath the invisibility cloak.

The point is, he keeps trying. He’s always there for support. He’s why you should surround yourself with good people.

My ex also said when I was heaps fat I used to look like him. And that’s nice (I think).

I also dig Lana. She’s pure. She’s had some bad things happen to her. It’s probably why she walks around like she’s in a ketamine hole.

Like Ron, she’s always there. She’s herself. Genuine. That’s all you can be, right?

There were parts when I was genuinely affected.

How about when those Deatheaters escaped Azkaban? Or when Harry made Dumbledore drink that poisonous stuff to get the Horcrux? Or when Cho would not shut the f*ck up about Cedric?

I had a ball. I even saw at my local Woolies that they have a kids' Harry Potter dress-up competition.

Kids? Stuff it. I entered.

Can’t imagine what sort of list I’m on now.

06/06/2022

Happy birthday meeeeeee…

I know some of you forgot.

There’s still time.

16/05/2022

That proud, beautiful moment when you wish you had the groom's hair.

Glorious mop, Mitch (only bested by Courtney's, of course) 🥹😄

Photo - Jason Retchford

02/05/2022

What did you do on the weekend? I married my ex-girlfriend.

As a Celebrant (of course).

It happened.

Blog soon. Motion picture later.

26/04/2022

First, I was given the gift of life. Next, I was given this beautiful, personalised bottle of red from the lovely and 😋

It's a full-bodied, pulsating drop, with hints of redwood, honeycomb and oregano.

What a gift. I'm floored.

20/04/2022

Hey Jada Pinkett. My colleagues at Target used to call me Friar Tuck. They were right to do so. Embrace it. You're hot and you have a Ferrari in the driveway.

It’s ok to be ok.

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13/04/2022

You can't 'tell' a bridesmaid how to walk down an aisle. You have to 'show' them.

Look at the hip rotation. The stride length. The 'who me?' stare.

So fetch.

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14/03/2022

There's something lovely about taking two beautiful humans, their family & friends, and having a little ceremony down the laneway of a vintage Brunswick nook.

01/02/2022

A Huge Announcement

18/01/2022

My side profile is my moneymaker. I make no apologies for that. It's ravishing.

All credit is due to my barber (middle) and my new best friend - his now wife - (right).

I got them hitched last Thursday at Town Hall.

We're laughing about something here.. and it's definitely not my grooming (it's probably my squat numbers).

Thanks to , I look incredibly sexy and sophisticated for every wedding I do.

Behind every good Celebrant is; A) an excellent sound system; and, B) a great barber.

I praise the old Gods and the new that I posses both of these.

p.s. I'm not a religious Celebrant. It's a Game of Thrones reference.

pps I've just started reading Harry Potter, too. Holy s**t, I'm hooked. I'm up to Goblet of Fire. I love Professor Lupin.

He's got so much heart.

12/01/2022

20 years ago I'd play basketball with Alvin every lunchtime at school.

Today I got to marry he and his beautiful wife, Georgia.

There’s a Lion King quote in here somewhere and I’m not sure what it is.

It was bloody lovely, nonetheless.

p.s. yes, I brought the basketball.