Celebrant-Jude Vachre TePuke, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

16/04/2024

🌸Married 05.01 24 🌸
Summer wedding for J & H held at Bledisoe Park with their friends family and extended whanau.

05/12/2023

The wedding of Nikita and Liam captured by .

03/12/2023

During this past week, we farewelled a much respected friend of our family.

It was indeed a privilege that his family entrusted me to led his celebration of life service.

His family centred service complete with the sounds of the bag pipes signalling his entrance into the chapel and then piping him out on his final journey was so befitting for this man.

14/11/2023

📣 Have received notification today that I have been reappointed as an independent marriage celebrant.
I’m so proud to continue working in this role to provide support to all my couples !

20/08/2023

Wedding rehearsal this arvo for Nikita and Liam at one of my fav spots

05/04/2023

Receiving this in my inbox today cements why I love my work.

31/01/2023

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08/12/2022

A small intimate ceremony for Amrita and Yogesh this evening with their son Krish at their side.
Congratulations to you both.

14/11/2022

📣 I am delighted to have been reappointed as a Marriage Celebrant for 2023. My Celebrant role is very special to me and to be able to work alongside couples in planning their day is an absolute privilege. I look forward to being able to offer my services throughout the Bay of Plenty.

09/07/2022

🤍Thank you to those people that connect me to others, I really do appreciate the support. 🤍

25/06/2022

Empowering!

In the stillness of your soul….
In her own words;
Judi Dench
"Don’t prioritise your looks my friend, as they won’t last the journey.
Your sense of humour though, will only get better with age.
Your intuition will grow and expand like a majestic cloak of wisdom.
Your ability to choose your battles, will be fine-tuned to perfection.
Your capacity for stillness, for living in the moment, will blossom.
Your desire to live each and every moment will transcend all other wants.
Your instinct for knowing what (and who) is worth your time, will grow and flourish like ivy on a castle wall.
Don’t prioritise your looks my friend,
they will change forevermore, that pursuit is one of much sadness and disappointment.
Prioritise the uniqueness that make you you, and the invisible magnet that draws in other like-minded souls to dance in your orbit.
These are the things which will only get better."

18/06/2022

I had the most delightful morning as a marriage celebrant being involved in this wedding ceremony for Riteti and Eren who are from Kiribati. So openly welcomed into their space and joined with them all in a shared meal following their ceremony .
Ko raba = Thank you

20/02/2022

My room with a view at The Elms for the wedding of M&B yesterday in the chapel. It’s steeped in so much history. I even wore black to honour the brides favourite colour🖤 Elms | Te Papa Tauranga

21/01/2022

My love of flowers are being used for a wedding today. It’s an extension of what I love to do

15/01/2022

I 100% agree with this. Such great words with the simplest of truths.

💖💫💭🙏🏻Sundays Sentiments🙏🏻💭💫💖

15/01/2022

A reflective thought…

Our life's purpose is to learn how to love and be loved, without masks and pretences.

~ Shavasti www.shavasti.com
Artwork by Gestandene

14/11/2021

Reappointed as an independent celebrant for 2022.

14/11/2021

With my renewal as a independent celebrant confirmed for 2022, I felt it was important to let you all know that I am fully vaccinated.

02/11/2021

Very thought provoking. The essence of what is written, in my opinion is simply quite true

On the day I die a lot will happen.
A lot will change.
The world will be busy.

On the day I die,
all the important appointments I made will be left unattended.
The many plans I had yet to complete will remain forever undone.
The calendar that ruled so many of my days will now be irrelevant to me.
All the material things I so chased and guarded and treasured will be left in the hands of others to care for or to discard.

The words of my critics which so burdened me will cease to sting or capture anymore.
They will be unable to touch me.
The arguments I believed I’d won here will not serve me or bring me any satisfaction or solace.
All my noisy incoming notifications and texts and calls will go unanswered.
Their great urgency will be quieted.

My many nagging regrets will all be resigned to the past, where they should have always been anyway.
Every superficial worry about my body that I ever labored over; about my waistline or hairline or frown lines, will fade away.
My carefully crafted image, the one I worked so hard to shape for others here, will be left to them to complete anyway.
The sterling reputation I once struggled so greatly to maintain will be of little concern for me anymore.

All the small and large anxieties that stole sleep from me each night will be rendered powerless.
The deep and towering mysteries about life and death that so consumed my mind will finally be clarified in a way that they could never be before while I lived.
These things will certainly all be true on the day that I die.

Yet for as much as will happen on that day,
one more thing that will happen.
On the day I die, the few people who really know and truly love me will grieve deeply.
They will feel a void.
They will feel cheated.
They will not feel ready.
They will feel as though a part of them has died as well.
And on that day, more than anything in the world they will want more time with me.
I know this from those I love and grieve over.

And so knowing this,
while I am still alive I’ll try to remember that my time with them is finite and fleeting and so very precious—and I’ll do my best not to waste a second of it.

I’ll try not to squander a priceless moment worrying about all the other things that will happen on the day I die, because many of those things are either not my concern or beyond my control.

Friends, those other things have an insidious way of keeping you from living even as you live; vying for your attention, competing for your affections.
They rob you of the joy of this unrepeatable, uncontainable, ever-evaporating Now with those who love you and want only to share it with you.

Don’t miss the chance to dance with them while you can.
It’s easy to waste so much daylight in the days before you die.
Don’t let your life be stolen every day by all that you believe matters, because on the day you die, much of it simply won’t.

Yes, you and I will die one day.
But before that day comes: let us live..

Words ~ John Pavlovitz
Art ~ Sarah L Luginbill Fine Art

Always With Love

10/10/2021

My wedding season is underway. Even with Covid restrictions in place, Kim and Brad chose to go ahead with their wedding with diminished numbers.
My congratulations to you both on becoming Mr & Mrs
Photo credit 📸David Vachre

26/07/2021

Sharing a moment… Baby naming ceremony this past weekend for little master ‘H’.

29/04/2021

Dual role for this wedding as Marriage celebrant & MC for the recent ceremony of Razia and Zameer.