Love Wins with Lins - Marriage Celebrant

15/09/2024

💜💜I was delighted to be asked to be the Celebrant for Cheianna and Will’s wedding as they are close friends of my son Blake.

So I had a new tinsel jacket especially made for the day💜💜

Such a fabulous day at the stunning
tinsel jacket by .nice
Wedding dress by Blake!

15/08/2024

17/07/2024

Ever wonder what happens to my couples after I’ve married them??
Do I stay in touch?

Well that’s entirely up to you!

Some couples just disappear and get on with their life, happy that I’ve married them.

Others like this happy couple who have just celebrated their 2nd anniversary Naomi and Amy stay in touch.

Messages on instagram now and then, or if they attend an event they know I’ll be at - they’ll come and say 👋.

This is still one of my favourite pics!
Such joy as they chose their witnesses via a “Witness Lotto”.

Happy Anniversary ❤️❤️ Naomi + Amy

12/07/2024

Let’s talk VOWS!!
They are the promises you make to each other on your wedding day.

❤️What do you read your vows from on the day? Your phone? A scrappy piece of paper?

❤️Well …if I’m your celebrant - you can send your vows to me (separately- so your partner doesn’t see) and I will print them out and place them in my beautiful “ I promise “ “and I promise “ vow holders for you to read from on the day.

Benefits -
1. you can write your vows a few weeks/months ahead of time, send to me and then that’s one less thing to think about.🤍

2. You don’t have to remember to bring them on the day🤍

3. It will look lovely on your photos.🤍Just check out this gorgeous photo taken by Kylie from KWP Studios Flagstone of Gina and John on their special day🤍🤍

And if white🤍isn’t fitting with your theme…I have them in red ❤️❤️too!

08/07/2024

🥂Such a beautiful wedding last weekend marrying Gina and John at the fabulous Plunkett Villa Tamborine.🤍🤍

30/06/2024

I’m often asked the following questions regarding a “ Legals Only” ceremony. So here’s the answers!!

Can I get married this week⁉️No sorry, from signing the paperwork with me - you have to wait ONE MONTH before marrying.

What should I wear⁉️ whatever you want. I’ve had couples in a long white wedding dress, and a suit. I’ve had others in jeans and a tee that have nipped out on their lunch break!

Can we bring flowers⁉️💐yes absolutely

Can we take photos⁉️yes absolutely.

Can we bring lots of guests⁉️no - just your 2 witnesses

Do we need to go to the courthouse(Registry) afterwards - to register the marriage ⁉️ no - I’ll do all that for you.

Can we get married in the evening as we both work⁉️ yes we can find a time that suits us both.

Can we exchange rings⁉️yes absolutely

Can we say personal vows as well as the legal ones⁉️yes absolutely.

This is exactly what this lovely couple did. 5pm on a Thursday. Then they went to the local pub to meet all their friends and to tell them they’d just got married. And they spent a lovely evening celebrating.

If this sounds like what you’d like - get in touch and let’s make it happen.❤️💜

23/06/2024

Formally Ever After Qld Inc. do so much for the community. It was my honour to be their celebrant ❤️💜

The best celebrant in the entire world 🧡🧡
Lins Simpson from Love Wins with Lins - Marriage Celebrant has become a good friend of ours plus she did our amazing ceremony 🧡🧡
Lins is just such an incredible human
So kind and selfless
Lins decided she wasn't charging us for our ceremony. She decided to do it for $0 !!
We were absolutely blown away by kindness towards us
Plus she's a bloody funny celebrant 😂
We really loved every single second of our ceremony with Lins 🧡
If you need a celebrant please go check out her page 🧡🧡


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Formally Ever After is a Community program designed to help students who are struggling to attend their formals 🧡

Saving items from landfill 🧡🧡

18/06/2024

Save the date 🏳️‍🌈❤️ Logan’s first PRIDE
Saturday 12 October

Logan City, located south of Brisbane, is one of the only regions in south-east Queensland without its own Pride event, but that will finally change later in the year. To celebrate International Coming Out Day, the new event Loud & Proud Logan will take over Kingston Butter Factory precinct with a v...

18/06/2024

Thanks to Paul for organising another fabulous networking breakfast, at Cafe 63, Marsden.

Great to catch up with the regulars and meet a few new people. 🎉

18/06/2024

Such a pleasure to marry these two. It truly was a community event ❤️❤️❤️❤️

My gorgeous dress cost me $50 at the Op shop in Logan Central , the big Lifeline 😍
It had stains on it so I asked for it to be reduced . An angel ( the manager ) came over and said yes it could and bought it down to $50
Then my beautiful friends at Bridal Bright Wedding And Formal Dress Cleaning took it away and cleaned it back to its glory , all stains gone plus whiter then before , all for FREE 🧡
I am just so grateful to them for the amazing v job they did .
I bought my veil online for $6 or $7 , it was full length and had silver sparkles
My flowers were fake flowers bought from a cheap shop in woodridge ( dollars and sense ( , $2.50a bunch and put together by my friend Councillor Teresa Lane Div 2 LCC . Plus she drove me in her car which was shining like new because of her amazing husband John 🧡
The suit athol is in was donated , as was the bow tie and vest and shirt and shoes
The round photo prop was lent to us by my good friend Donna from Storage King Australia and our venue was with our great friend Lynda at Amputees Queensland venue Ben Matthews Playground Community Centre at Logan Central 🧡🧡
Boys hair done by Nicky Spasifik Cuts Barbershop
Girls hair and make up done by my oldest girl Ryleigh 🧡
The Ceremony was done by Love Wins with Lins - Marriage Celebrant
The music in the ceremony was by Emma Jordyn , followed by the band from Kalvin Ace and Chanel from the KingStones Innovative Disability Support
The event was decorated by myself , lynda and the beautiful Penny from Event Mania
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My gorgeous friend Jenny did the most incredible Lolly Buffet and all the printing, placecards , decorated our crocs and so much more
The Girls dresses and boys suits came from Formally Ever After Qld Inc.
The main cake was made by the lovely Shan from Bravery Box - Rewards for Kids with Cancer 🧡
Lynda made our second cake
Brenton from Jim Chalmers MP office did photos for us 🧡
I know I've probably missed someone but ill be doing posts all the week about the great people who contributed to make our wedding a dream come true 🧡🧡

For now I just want to show this amazing dress

Family and friends gathered around us and helped us have the most amazing wedding
Our guests bought in a dish to share 🧡

Everything was perfect and there was so much love in the air 🧡
We are very blessed

23/05/2024

Hi! I’m Lins, and my branding colours are red ❤️ and purple 💜 and rainbow 🌈
But why Lins??? Such an unusual combo!!

Well - red ❤️ is obviously the colour of LOVE ❤️ no explanation needed.

And purple 💜 is for independence.

I feel these are the 2 essential elements for a successful marriage ❤️💜

You need LOVE ……but you also both need to have that level of INDEPENDENCE where you still are the creator of your own life.
To still have that ability to be yourself no matter what. No-one should tell you what to wear, how to have your hair, or what friends you can see. That is not love.

And a 🌈 heart in my logo - shows I am a proud ALLY for the LGBTQIA+ community. 365 days of the year.
I don’t turn it on or off depending who I am with. It’s how I live my everyday life. ❤️💜🌈

And the fact that ❤️ and 💜 are on both ends of the 🏳️‍🌈 that works for me too!
So now you know !!!

Thanks to Kirsty for these great shots taken at a recent branding session by the lovely Roxy and as always got to hang with my celebrant friends from The Celebrant Society - where it’s all about “Community over Competition “

16/05/2024

May 17 - IDAHOBIT
International Day Against LGBTQIA+ Discrimination

🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️Wear your rainbow colours!

🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️As a proud ally and activist - I wear something rainbow each and every day. My home is filled with rainbows from the moment you arrive at the front door….right through the whole house. 🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️

🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️This sends a message to everyone I meet - I am an ALLY I’m here for you…no matter what day of the year it is.

🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️I marry all couples whether they be q***r, trans, NB, cis. I don’t change my marketing to suit different couples. My rainbow 🌈 heart is on my business card for all to see. This is unapologetically who I am. Some couples may not be q***r themselves - but they may have other guests who are - so it is important to them to have an 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️inclusive 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️celebrant.

….and I can wear my rainbow 🌈 tinsel jacket for all couple’s weddings!

🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️ have a fantastic day🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️

21/04/2024

❤️❤️When I first met Whitney and Diana last year, they asked me would I travel to Stanthorpe to be their Celebrant?

I replied - “ yes of course!”
and what a beautiful day it was…surrounded by 100 of their closest family and friends❤️❤️
❤️❤️Love Wins❤️❤️

11/04/2024

Wednesday wedding?
Why not???
🤍🤍
Yesterday I had the joy of marrying the sweetest couple Lauren & Mathijs at the most stunning location of Summergrove Estate.
🤍🤍

08/04/2024

❤️🌈Love Wins 🌈❤️On Saturday I had the absolute joy of marrying Bree and Emma at Samsonvale Hall.

It was such a beautiful day with just the right mix of formality and fun, which included witnesses names being drawn out of a Bunnings hat! Even their beloved fur child Moose appeared with the rings (a total surprise for Emma!)

In the ceremony- the couple also acknowledged all the people from the q***r community that had gone before them, the people that have campaigned and fought for Marriage Equality so that Bree and Emma could stand here today to say “ I DO”

❤️🌈LOVE WINS🌈❤️

17/03/2024

Such a beautiful wedding today when I married Danny and Grace 🤍🤍

10/03/2024

Ever wondered just how my couples find me ⁉️

This weekend I married the fabulous Josh and Mac, who I met last year at Ipswich Pride (***rswich).

They walked up to my badge stall (yes I make badges AND marry humans!)and we started chatting.

They saw that I was a huge ally and activist for the LGBTQIA+ community and decided that I was the Celebrant for them.

It was such a beautiful ceremony out at Samsonvale.

❤️🌈Love Wins🌈❤️

02/03/2024

❤️Love Wins❤️
Yesterday I had the absolute pleasure of marrying Diana and Laura at their home on the Gold Coast, surrounded by a handful of their very closest friends.

They both looked absolutely stunning in their matching outfits, even down to the matching Connie’s! Such a beautiful day.

Flowers by

14/02/2024

❤️Happy Valentine’s ❤️
No weddings for me today! So I thought I’d try a different type of work - delivering flowers for the lovely All’s Rosy Florist.
To see the surprise and delight on the people’s faces - priceless!!
Happy Valentine’s Day! However you choose to celebrate.
(And don’t forget- in the words of Miley - you can buy yourself flowers 💐)

08/07/2023

Witness Lotto ⁉️ Never heard of it?….
then let me explain.

If you have so many awesome people at your wedding and you really can’t decide who to choose as your 2 witnesses ……

Then you can put all your guests names (over 18’s only) in a hat (or in Amy and Nao’s case - a little box with dinosaurs 🦕on - because they love dinosaurs 🦖 ❤️) and draw 2 names out…..and voila ……they come forward to sign the legal paperwork.

I just love the looks on Amy and Nao’s faces as they announced the “winners” !!!!
Happy first anniversary ❤️❤️Amy and Naomi.
Enjoy ###x

24/06/2023

Special wedding anniversary ❤️❤️❤️wishes today goes to my mum and dad ( aka Baz n Bez) 63 years !!!
As a celebrant - I always like to find out couples ” Love Story” of how they met. Well I asked my mum and dad and they told me they worked at the same place. One day they passed on the stairwell and my dad asked “hey - what’s your name?” To which my mum replied “why? Who wants to know!!!”
He knew then - he had met a keeper !!! And they were married a couple of years later when mum was just 19 and dad was 20!!
63 years later…still going strong ❤️❤️❤️

23/06/2023

✨✨And the brides wore …..GOLD ✨✨
When Megan and Claire told me they were both going to be wearing GOLD wedding dresses - I just knew this was going to be an awesome day ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
So much love and fun - I was privileged to be a part of it.
Thank you 🙏
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈LOVE WINS 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈
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Photo - mjcarlin_wedding photography

11/06/2023

No weddings this weekend! I was having fun at Moreton Bay’s PRIDEFEST 🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️, with the crew from Free Mum Hugs.
Giving out Free hugs. So much love 🏳️‍🌈❤️🏳️‍⚧️

01/06/2023

What’s the best day of the week to get married? ❤️❤️
That’s a great question!!!
It used to be a Saturday…but now it can be any day that SUITS YOU.
Take Mikey and Ian - they chose to marry …21 YEARS to the day, since they very first met in a crowded Sporties.
And that day just happened to be a Wednesday. So Wednesday it was! ❤️❤️
and what a gorgeous day it was!

The most stunning Florals - ❤️💜