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Shae Spry Civil Marriage Celebrant

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Shae Spry Civil Marriage Celebrant

Celebrant for legends
10 yrs in biz
Bringing 😆 & 🥲
Funerals worthy of departed

04/01/2025

My loves, I am retiring as a Civil Marriage Celebrant at the end of 2026.

Deep, deep joyful gratitude to every couple who has entrusted their wedding ceremony to me - such a special thing to have co-created with you and what an honour it was to have been a part of your lives in this way.

To all couples with bookings for 2025, of course they will be honoured - business as usual for you!

To all couples who are intending to marry this year and would like me to be your celebrant - please do enquire. If it aligns we can go for it.

Why this decision? I have been contemplating how I can be of most service to my community and the world broadly.

From the celebrant perspective, I have come to the conclusion that this is through my services in officiating funerals and my work as a death walker (supporting the dying and their loved ones with the transition from life to death).

The "death work" is philosophically and practically very much related to the "life work" over at . Follow me there for yogic wisdom and practices, spiritual activism and conscious creativity.

I am letting go of marriage celebrancy to make more space for funeral celebrancy, death walking and everything that Satsang with Shae encompasses.

Knowing that each wedding I am part of this year is one wedding closer to the final one I will ever officiate will only heighten my appreciation of how epic it is and has been to marry so many legendary couples.

Thank you for the memories we have made, and those we are yet to make.

Love,
Shae

📷 Thank you to for this pic of me 🙏

08/12/2024

This lovely love story began with a swipe right on Tinder, but it wasn’t just any swipe.

Steph was ready to delete the app, but before she did, she wrote a challenge in her bio: if you want a response I’m going to need a 500-word essay. And Nelson, being the determined and charming man he is, rose to the occasion. While his essay wasn’t quite 500 words, he understood the assignment and it was enough to impress Steph.

The two of them began a conversation that would lead to a perfect first date: a chicken schnitzel with gravy and a chicken parmy at a window table at The Mac’s, with a long chat, lots of laughs and big smiles.

When they caught up again, they did the seal walk out at Bridgy, the Enchanted Forest and Cape Nelson Lighthouse (I'm puffed out just thinking out it!) ending with pizza and a movie at Nelson’s house.

Admittedly, Steph was a little perturbed by the large hunting knife that Nelson had casually sitting on his buffet draws, but then again Steph chose Wolf Creek for the movie so I guess that made them evens.

Yesterday they swiped right for life, and I couldn't be happier for them.

Congratulations you two!

12/11/2024

In this episode of “Farmer Wants a Wife” Shane and Sam embark on a journey through the fields of love. They sifted through the hay to find their perfect match. Shane, with a heart as big as a tractor and a smile that could light up the darkest barn, has finally found his partner in Sam, who is ready to plough through life's challenges together.

Whoops, wrong program...

When I asked Sam and Shane how they met, they revealed to me that it was initially because Shane was Sam’s landlord! So maybe we should be parodying “Love it or List it.”

Or better yet, because Sam's bestie Melissa set Sam and Shane up for their first drink, perhaps we should be parodying the dating show “Are You The One”?

All jokes aside, after that first date, Shane said to Melissa that he thought Sam was “marriage material.”

Well, he was spot on. And on the weekend they got married at Cobboboonee Vineyard, in a ceremony that proved that their genuine connection is way better than anything on a “reality” TV show.

Congratulations you two!

16/03/2024

"Morning... Thank you again so much for yesterday and everything prior. We were so lucky to have you with us. All of our crew are still raving about you, the best celebrant on earth. Agreed! Love Steven & Fergus."

Waking up to messages like this 🥲

Every moment I spent with Steven and Fergus was an absolute pleasure for me. Every email, every coffee, every text, every time I sat at my laptop typing away with them as the subject, and then standing with them during their ceremony... feeling the plethora of emotions that are present when a twenty year love story culminated in the milestone of this legal and symbolic commitment. Pure bliss.

And they wore velvet jackets. Perfection.

01/03/2024

"Just wanted to say a huge thanks once again, couldn't imagine having anyone else" - Emma

Yesterday Emma and Nick got hitched in their loungeroom with their fam bam, their dog, and their two best mates. They'll never forget their wedding anniversary...it only comes around every four years.

And, can please we take a moment to celebrate Emma in her dress (her words: "the girliest dress I've ever worn"). Emma found it at a local op shop for FIVE BUCKS but she looks A MILLION DOLLARS. I love the vibe of tatts against a white dress. It's so rock n' roll.

25/02/2024

Robbie and Anne first contacted me four years ago, but COVID well and truly got in their way! These two have waited patiently and made significant effort to be together, and the life and family they have created was once only a dream. It was so wonderful that they got their special day yesterday, finally.

Also, a massive shout out to their family friends who hosted the wedding in their garden. So many of the ceremonies I get to officiate are at private homes, mostly at the homes of the couples or the homes of someone close to them. So much goes into hosting a wedding. To all of the people subtly working away to make things just right, I just want to say: I see you and I appreciate you.

24/02/2024

Bernie and Greg tied the knot today (literally, with a handfasting included in their ceremony) beside the Fawthrop Canal in Portland.

When Bernie and Greg met they fell for one another quickly, hook, line and sinker. I'd say they each caught a good one! 🎣

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