Danielle Smith - Celebrant

05/11/2024

Love is in full bloom ❤️🌷
Congratulations to all the gorgeous early spring couples I have married recently 🥂

19/10/2024

I am proud to be a Canz Registered Funeral and Wedding Celebrant
This means I am committed to ongoing professional development and I am part of a community of trained and dedicated celebrants who support each other ❤️

19/10/2024

Tonight we say goodnight with this beautiful post!

Old dogs don't die....

Old dogs don't die; they can't. They've merely run up ahead; they're waiting for us just out of sight. Close your eyes late at night and you may smell his musky odor, or perhaps hear his snuffle from the next room. Pay attention and you may feel his nose on your hand or the back of your calf. When your final day comes, you can go on to meet him; he's never left you and never will, and when you close your eyes for the last time, you'll open them again to be met with his Bright eyes and wagging tail.

Old dogs don't die, at least, not those dogs who take the biggest chunks of our hearts with them when they leave us. Those dogs are inextricably part of our souls, and they go with us wherever we are. Though we may not see them, we know they're there because our heart is still beating; we still breathe, and those of us who have been truly touched by a good dog know our lives really started the day we met them.

Magnificent dogs don't die. They shepherd our dreams and only allow the good ones through the gates of our consciousness. They watch over us much as they did in life, and that moment when we step just barely outside of death or disaster, it's because they moved our feet or they stopped short in front of us as they did in life.

You see, a good dog is something only given to a few people. They are a gift from the universe and, though they're with us only a short time, they never really leave us. They are loyalty and love perfected, and once we are graced with that sort of love we can never lose it. We merely lose sight of it for a time, and that is our fault; for how can love like that ever go away?

It can't. It can't, and it never will. For these brave souls trade their hearts for ours, and they beat together beyond sickness, beyond death. They are ours, and we are theirs, for every sunrise and every sunset, until the sun blazes its last and we once again join the stars.

By Leigh Curtis,
K9 Companion Dog Training
Port Jervis, NY

Photos: The beloved dogs of Old St Clement’s waiting for us at the rainbow bridge ❤️🌈
Felix, Timmy, Hugo, Dusty & Poppy ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

04/10/2024

Embrace every season of life 🌈❄️🍁🌷☀️

20/09/2024

Congratulations Ria & Ruth on one month of marriage. ❤️🥂
In a love filled ceremony with whanau and friends it filled me with joy to be able to share such a special day with you and your two gorgeous dogs of honour 🐶❤️🌈
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

14/09/2024

NEW BLOG POST..

Check out this weeks blog.. A very small and intimate wedding that was organised in just 3 weeks... and wait until you read how long these two have been together..❤

Marriage Celebrant - Danielle Smith

Click on the link 👇 and enjoy.

https://www.angeladunnphotographer.nz/blog/after-21-years-they-finally-tied-the-knot

02/09/2024

Springing in to September 🌷
I am delighted to congratulate all the lovely couples I have celebrated with during winter’s frosty days ❄️💍❤️

05/08/2024

True love warms the heart ❤️
Congratulations Ana & Matt 🥂

20/07/2024

Cold hands, warm hearts 💕
Wonderful winter weddings ❄️
Congratulations T & M 🥂

13/07/2024

In the chill of winter it fills me with joy to think back on sensational summer days
Congratulations on four months of marriage L&M❤️🥂☀️

09/07/2024

I am loving all the wonderful winter weddings ❄️❤️
Congratulations A&M 🥂

21/06/2024

To the peace of cozy winter evenings and ever-brighter days. ...
❤️❄️⭐️☀️

20/06/2024

LOVE CAME FIRST

You don’t move on after loss, but you must move with. You must shake hands with grief, welcome her in, for she lives with you now. Pull her a chair at the table and offer her comfort. She is not the monster you first thought her to be. She is love. And she will walk with you now, stay with you now, peacefully. If you let her.
And on the days when your anger is high, remember why she came, remember who she represents. Remember. Grief came to you my friend because love came first. Love came first...

Donna Ashworth

12/06/2024

It’s a great day when everyone gets the memo for the dress code !
Congratulations on a wonderful winter wedding 🥂

24/05/2024

In honour of a fabulous lady who left us this week but whose presence in my life made it so much more beautiful 🦋
The world will be a far less stylish and graceful place without you ❤️

Not all mothers are mothers. Some mothers are aunts by blood, or by royal appointment. Some are best friends with safe spaces for laps and listening ears so large they can hear silent cries. Some are teachers who will be remembered lifelong for all the right reasons. Not all mothers are mothers. And if you have one in your life, you are blessed. They have much love to give. And they are walking around this earth with nurture flowing out of their fingertips. Not all mothers are mothers, but oh they mother so very well.

Donna Ashworth

05/05/2024

Congratulations on one month of marriage
L & S ❤️
A beautiful location for a delightful ceremony and a blending of cultures as you came together as one family

25/04/2024

25/11/2021

Two weeks ago I married the most beautiful couple in a stunning location on a perfect day.
It was a day filled with so much love and joy.
I was then blessed with a surprise visit from the gorgeous newlyweds and these perfect peonies - my favourite flowers
Feeling the love 💕