Darcie Price Celebrant

22/06/2025

In the dark, as the night and dawn hung in balance, we wrote their names in the sand for the tide to claim.
We looked for the stars and found Puanga... Matariki was hiding shyly behind clouds.
We watched the sunrise.
We shared food with family,
Put our hands in the dirt and felt the heat of fire.
I made my desires for the new year known to the sky.

Manawatia a Matariki ma Puanga ✨️✨️✨️🌟

22/06/2025

Sorry whānau, I've been quiet. Winter is always a time to reflect, be with family, go slower but there's been a bit going on since wedding season ended. May and June have taken a lot out of me. 2 lots of study.. finally I've finished one with 91% and 96% results for each paper. My other study will continue until November.
The loss of 2 loved ones within a week of each other has been more than I could handle. So I've been hiding on the land, in the sunsets and sunrises, with my family. There was much healing in our Matariki ma Puanga ritual this weekend.

I will be in touch with all my couples over the coming days to book in your ceremony planning sessions.

07/06/2025

04/06/2025

Shared from Facebook, Te Wiki o te Reo Māori.

While the language is different, there are similarities.

30/05/2025

A beautiful ceremony for the cutest couple! I'm honoured I got to be their celebrant

Dennam and Felicia wed at rest home, proving love has no age limit.

26/05/2025

There was some talk last night at hula that it's easy to make my cry. Pono! Absolute truth. A song, an animated kids movie (son watches closely with tissue), a story, a kids kapa haka performance, food brought to me (my love language).

And then there are the moments when people appear and the joy leaks from my eyes. I love all my friends, wholeheartedly, but there is something extra special when your mate from your childhood and his whānau travels 300km for a hug, to sing around the fire, to share a joke (even if the joke is me) and to bless your whenua in a sunrise ceremony. The time together was fleeting but has filled my cup for at least a few months!

💛💛💛love you, my brother, and the fam bamz more than words will ever be able to say!

25/05/2025

Just in case you thought I wasn't weird enough!
This is what happens when I'm not in the middle of a hot wedding season 😉
It's nearly then ends of May and that's my month to put up my feet and chill out after helping 30 couples get married their way. Once we are past June and Matariki, I'll start connecting with this coming seasons couples - exciting 😄

Until then... Yep... I mad hatter'd out!

20/05/2025

There have been questions posted this week that is you answer, will put you in the running for few entry to the Matariki Online event with us.

Get in there and answer!

Want to join our 2025 online Matariki event? Look out for our daily question and if you answer correctly, you will go in the draw.

Question of the Day -
There are 5 places in Aotearoa New Zealand that a sea burial can take please - name one of them

The Celebrant School presents: Matariki Online Event 2025
Monday 9th June, 7pm
To book: https://www.celebrant.school.nz/product/matariki-2025/

20/05/2025

Throw back to this cool island wedding with

11/05/2025

Matariki has set. You can still see Orion and Puanga. The moon will be full tomorrow morning at 5am. Once we move into the Tangaroa moon phases, we farewell Te Waka o Rangi and our loved ones who have passed in the last lunar year and await Matariki return in June.