Joyful Occasions Celebrant

24/12/2024

What more can I say!!!

15/12/2024

When one or both partners are teachers, they have invited their class to write… what is love …. and we have included their words in the wedding ceremony!

Loved by the guests!

Lots of wonderful ideas to share with wedding couples!

A teacher's wedding has gained massive attention online thanks to adorable centerpieces featuring sweet and funny notes written by the groom's fourth grade students.

Lindsey Monte, a bridesmaid and cousin of the bride, shared photos of the centerpieces from Halle Strieter and Thomas Randles' wedding.

The centerpieces displayed the students' responses to two questions: "What is love?" and "Why do people get married?"

Among the answers: "When you look at a person and your heart goes fast and you're in love" and "So they can get smoochey smoochey with each other."

Read more: https://abcnews.visitlink.me/h-V4AM

06/12/2024

Yesterday’s service was for a much loved father, brother, grand, great grand and great, great grandfather for had a sweet tooth - hence the biscuits in his floral arrangement - and biscuits were offered to attendees as they left the chapel, in his honour!

06/12/2024

Ensure that you check all your wedding suppliers for the services you are buying - here’s a warning from NSW Fair Trading about a wedding phototgrapher!

TIPS:
Is your supplier a member of an industry association?
Ask to speak with former clients & not simply read reviews

Source: Daily Telegraph



03/12/2024

What does a wedding cost? Well, it depends on your dreams, goals, and budget, but there are lots of ways to keep the costs down.

Decide what is important to the two of you first, and start building your wedding plans from there. And as always, Celebrant Joy is here to answer your questions and suggest ideas!

Andrew and Gemma have tried everything to keep the cost of their wedding down - and they're not aloneBy 9News Staff5:50pm Dec 2, 2024 Tweet Facebook Mail Andrew Ives and Gemma Dallarmi have faced several tough decisions while planning their wedding.From trimming the guest list to relying on family m...

18/11/2024

Isn’t this a lovely touch - heart shaped serviettes!

14/11/2024

I’ve officiated at hundreds of weddings, plus namings and funeral and memorial services - I’m here for you!

In this episode, The Conversation Hour team explores the evolving art of celebrancy.

13/11/2024

What inspiring people -

Kath Koschel had to learn how to walk again twice. The help she experienced on the way inspired her to teach young people about the healing power of kindness.

25/10/2024

I’ve had some interesting wedding guests too! Horses, bulls, ducks, swooping birds, reptiles!

It adds to the fun and variety of being a travelling celebrant!



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02/09/2024

These incidents of forced marriage in Australia are heartbreaking.

As an Authorised Marriage Celebrant I will ask if you are a willing party to a proposed marriage - consent is real.

Forced marriage is the most common form of human trafficking in Australia. We speak to a victim-survivor about how she escaped.

24/08/2024

With the weather warming, spring weddings are almost here!

Couples need to lodge a Notice of Intended Marriage form at least ONE MONTH before your wedding date, unless there are exceptional circumstances.

Here to answer all your wedding questions.

29/07/2024

As an Authorised Australian Marriage Celebrant, I am required to ensure that a person is not a forced party to a marriage.

Yes, it does happen in Australia and we need to protect the vulnerable.

A woman has collapsed in court after a Shepparton mother was jailed for at least a year for forcing her daughter to marry a man who murdered her six weeks later.

19/06/2024

Do you have a will? As a Marriage Celebrant, we are required to give couples a Happily Ever After brochure from the Australian Government. It’s a five minute read and one of its important messages is that, when you marry, it may make your current will, null and void.

This article from today’s Sydney Morning Herald is another 5 minute read.

So add making wills to your post-wedding planning, and mark your diary to review it regularly!

10/06/2024

Love the happy faces and love in this photo! 100 year old weds his 96 year old bride in France!
Source:DailyTelegraph

27/04/2024

Fabulous idea of gift for new parents!


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14/04/2024

Digital birth certificates set to be trialled in NSW. As reported in today’s Sunday Telegraph

23/03/2024

No wedding ceremonies this afternoon so I completed my Professional Development for 2024. This is an important (and legal) requirement of being an authorised celebrant in Australia.

02/03/2024

Your wedding, your way! Here’s a simple idea to include the matriarch’s of the family as flower girls. I’ve had a wedding with them as ring bearers

When Michaela Treloar was planning her wedding, she had no inkling that her big day would turn her and her groom's grandmothers into an online sensation.