Marry Me, Memily

18/11/2024

Happy happy happy first anniversary to these two 10/10 stunners, my last married couple for 2023! Genuinely cannot believe it’s been an entire year. Does anyone know where 2024’s gone? I hope it’s been an excellent one for Amelia and Jo, anyway. 💖

📸 😘

15/09/2024

One of my proudest moments, only two years into celebranting around the country—proposing the idea of a roaming ceremony, leading them and their closest few let in on their secret elopement. We ducked and weaved, at times accidentally drawing a crowd, as Bec looked very much to be A Part Of All This in her red and black Oscar de la Renta number. WOOF!

And then the finale, that fiery kiss. What a shot. What timing! What an absolute highlight.

I wouldn’t say there’s anything traditional about me, truth be told. And isn’t that bloody excellent? 😌🦄

23/08/2024

22/08/2024

Hello, everyone! Don’t mind me, just dusting things off around here…

Things are ticking away to keep the winter chills at bay and what that means is that I have painstakingly sorted through five years worth of wedding photos supplied by incredible photographers, with great thanks and love to my couples who’ve been happy to share with me.

Everything now has its own delicious category, so I can put up little collections like this one. Had to start strong, you know? This album’s just called DOGS; the best/most chaotic wedding guests (and sometimes even I Do Crew members 🥰).

What do you reckon? Would your dog be a part of your day?

22/07/2024

Lisa and Thomas got married on Saturday at Tom’s mum’s house with a small handful of their loved ones and it was just SO lovely, I tell ya.

I love marrying couples who are legit obsessed with each other and also clearly have a healthy, communicative and supportive relationship. Reminds me to keep my own standards up, yanno? Marriage isn’t a life box to tick, babes—it’s a celebration of something top tier, and if it’s anything less then are you sure you really want it?

Tom and Lisa? Top tier. ❤️‍🔥

20/07/2024

They say when you know you know… and I knew when I first laid eyes on that it was the expo for me. 🥰 Absolutely stoked to announce that I’ll be one of a handful of invited vendors at Tassie’s inaugural non-traditional Til Death Wedding Expo!

I don’t think anything about the lil space I’m cultivating in this industry could be deemed traditional in any sense of the word. Just ask the guests who take one look at the purple-haired, tattooed, fat and funny babe up the front and think… for real? Are we sure this is the right person for the job?

Don’t worry. I‘ve won 98% of them over by the time I leave, through no effort of my own apart from doing my job (that I love and am good at) to the very best of my ability, every dang time for five years now. FIVE YEARS. 😳

Tell your friends. Especially the ones who are disgustingly in love but haven’t done anything legally binding about it yet. Reckon they’ll have a pretty fu***ng epic time under the Cathedral (lol) on Sunday 13th October with us. Subscribe to Til Death Wedding Expo’s mailing list to get access to early bird tickets THIS THURSDAY. 🔥✨

21/06/2024

It’s one of the greatest freakin’ honours to be asked to officiate for couples who’ve been guests at one of your previous weddings—it’s only happened to be a few times so far and each time I’m absolutely chuffed, because it’s such a compliment?
Do they even know???

I sure hope Steph and Jan know, because after they got engaged on the same trip to Tassie as their friends’ wedding, they their friends’ celebrant (me) up and were like, “HEY you were so much fun but we live in Melbourne, who’s as much fun in Melbourne???” and I said, “Babes. Babes, please. I’m an AUSTRALIAN Marriage Celebrant, see you in June”.
(I’m pretty confident they know.)
But do they know just how much fun *I* had getting to tell THEIR story?
I HOPE SO 🤞 because it was a WHOLE LOT.

P.S. is a legend and I can’t WAIT to see her piccies!!!
P.P.S. is ALSO a legend and not only leant me her PA so I didn’t have to lug mine around the mainland BUT stayed around to roadie for me and help with the petal toss! I love our celecommunity 🥰

20/06/2024

I’ve been around for every but 2021 probably takes the cake. The very fiery cake. Call me a forever fan of these two (and their crew). 🖤

18/06/2024

CONGRATUWELLDONE THAILAND!!! 🏳️‍🌈

02/06/2024

Where do I start with Yee Lin and Nicole’s day at ? It’s taken me six weeks to post our selfie because I don’t want to accept that it’s over. WHAT A PARTY. From their trio of mushroom cats attending in the form of cardboard cutouts, to the flashmob first dance (that had an almost-immediate do-over because Yee Lin’s mum was in the bathroom), to the pink pink pink theme—these two legends and their chosen few travelled from Singapore and beyond to celebrate their love in little ol’ nipaluna / Hobart and I feel SO lucky that they found me to be a part of it 💜

Now I’m just patiently waiting for them to move to WA so I can meet those mushrooms in person, and hang out with these two glorious (MARRIED!!!) humans again!

14/05/2024

I had a big plan for a post about celebrating my 100th marriage but then it got TOO big and I got overwhelmed and the longer time went on the more pressure I felt. Social media, hey? And being a sole trader—on the side of a full time job, mind you—and all sorts of other things, so I’m just gonna skip right over that because I may be a ✨businesswoman✨ but also no I’m not, I’m just a Mem.

And this photo sneakily snapped of me and Nicole having a sweet celebratory and grateful moment on the other side of her and Yee Lin’s ceremony last month gives me all the warm fuzzies, and that’s what I’m really in this for.

I am so, so full of warm fuzzies after facilitating marriages for over 200 people in the world. How lucky am I? 💖

28/03/2024

My 100th couple, Adrian and Eboni, just felt right. A sweet garden moment with a handful of nearest and dearest, the dress AND cake of Eboni’s dreams, plenty of giggles and lots of love—done exactly the way they wanted, just as it always should be. 💜

26/03/2024

hang on wait wait wait you’re telling me it’s been one whole year since Georgie and Joe got married? you take such s*xy photos did you know it’s been one whole year??? WILD NEWS TO ME

11/03/2024

Sometimes I forget my selfie. It’s true. It happens. Sometimes I remember last minute and pull a quick save, but once in a blue moon, I just totally forget.

One time that happened was almost exactly a year ago, when I hung out with Izzy and Kyron to do their paperwork a few days before their party, because their party was happening the same weekend as (and I would be attending the latter and therefore unable to attend the former). Sweet solution reached AND I still got to marry these cuties.

…and then I got to celebrate their first anniversary with them when I ran into them at this year—AND got our selfie. What a delight to get to spend some bonus time with these legends! 🎶🥰🥳

12/02/2024

*slaps roof* this early-mid February timeframe can fit so many anniversary dates in it 🚙

My spidey senses were tingling yesterday but I couldn’t remember what I was missing (and didn’t think to check my anniversary list because I’m still a little post-holiday rusty ok I’m old) until I saw Reanna wish James a happy first anniversary and I was like OH YEAH, THE ELEVENTH OF FEBRUARY. OF COURSE.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO THESE MINT CONDITION COLLECTIBLES! What an excellent excuse to gaze upon the absolute greatest scene steal I’ve had yet at a wedding—arrival (casually strolled up mid-ceremony like Hey are we doing a thing here? Sweet, I’m in), timing (we’d literally just begun with important legal bits and were about to hit vows), presence (Olivia had the entire crowd in the palm of her tiny hand)… unbeatable combination.

Can’t wait to see you all at the next family wedding. Whenever that ends up being. I’m just an email away. 👀😏🥰

12/02/2024

I’m co-opting my gorgeous pal Bianca’s post to point it specifically at your wedding day. IMAGINE. 💜