Keith "Aussie" Eleftheriou - Celebrant & Emcee

02/09/2025

"Hey Aussie I just wanted to let you know how greatfull we are that you were our celebrant thank you again for making our wedding day possible it was amazing and couldn't have gone any better 😊"

She was late. Really, really, reeeeaallly late. That's cool.

Petals went down the back of my shirt. That's cool.

Three bazooka-sized and atomic sounding poppers were shot in unison - with no warning - nearly giving me another wedding day heart attack.

That's not fu***ng cool. 😏

But yep. I'm good.

Fu***ng good.

Call me...

18/08/2025

"I'd like to start off with saying, my partner and I when first viewing your page were absolutely keen on having you do it for us! We loved the humor (and dashing good looks) and are looking for a laid-back celebrant with a REAL sense of humor. I was hesitant to ask because our budget and you the photos of the weddings you had up on the site look very expensive, assuming your price range was to high but I took a leap of faith. We are extremely grateful for your reply and willingness and are really stoked your willing to do it. Out of all off the people on that list you were definitely the most preferred, so I am extremely honored!! You have made our week, or rather whole month with your reply and am VERY excited now instead of stressed with you agreeing to do this we now can just focus on saving and organizing the kids' outfits and our dress and suit making the anxiety and stress disappear!! we are so very thankful."

No worries, J & Q, just honored to have been considered.

And all for a box of Lion Brown. 🍻

Yep, I'm back, baby.

16/04/2025

Now, this would be cool to turn up to your Big Day Out in...

I convinced a mate of mine that he should offer it up from time to time...

Maybe it should be used for the Celebrant?

12/02/2025

Who remembers this place?

29/01/2025

"I was going to launch into a story of Biblical proportions, about how these two met when Jemima called in on Glen at his engineering firm and left with a warm fuzzy feeling as well as his advice on rectifying an issue with her horse float.

And I was also going to wax lyrical on how they grew close over the course of a couple of years and plenty of Friday night work drinks, and how Glen invited her home for a feed served on paint tin lids.

There was also the story of how it came to pass that they mutually agreed to pay an extortionate amount of cash to this here deviant in the hope of receiving a Government-sponsored rubber stamp of approval to their joined existence.

I could tell you that, but I won’t..."

I was coaxed out of the ceremonial wilderness by a lovely couple who I suspect were turned down by others. A shared love of dogs, cars, and drinks certainly made my decision to come out of exile easier...

What started out as a simple ceremony escalated rather quickly as I suggested some minor details; how about having a photographer, and a reception.

With a small of her fingers, Jemima made it so.

Add in a pair of Clydesdales, and a mad Scotsman in a kilt, and Hey Presto!

Aussie was back.

Congratulations to Jemima & Glen on their Big Day Out. See you for drinks soon.

Photography (raw data) by Cohen Simpkins.
Planning by Renée Eleftheriou.
Catering by Country Feasts (the pork belly was not on the menu!!).
Fu***ng Huge Horses by Hugh.

27/09/2024

Well, that didn't last long, did it?

OK guys, you know (one) of the most important things in my life is my beloved , and rides feature big in my fight against my inner demons, so when it was confirmed that the single best rally I have attended to date - The Kickdown Festival in Whangamata - is back early next year, Yours Truely intends to be there.

But, I want something more.

If anyone is aware of a couple who are looking to be married around the 8th February 2025, and would like to be married amongst 5000 or so partying two-wheeled maniacs, and would love to be able to say that they had The Dudes and Kora (amongst others) playing at their wedding, then please get them to get in touch with me.

I've done many a wedding, including weddings for fellow bikers, but I would love to perform one at a bike rally, and none would be better than The Kickdown Festival...and it also allows me to keep my license valid.
..so please share this via any channel you can, and lets see if we can make this happen.

Humbly Yours

Aussie, The Bacchanalian Biker

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11/04/2024

And that's a wrap!

While I'll never say never*, a huge Congrats to Stacey & (scruff) Nate who gave me full freedom in sealing their respective fates on their Big Day Out, and I couldn't have asked for a better couple to sign out on. It's not often you actually befriend your couples, but these two are worthy.

Was a shame I had to work the following day, for the wine doth flowed!

(photos courtesy of Andrea Kewish Photography)

*a return from retirement will depend on two weddings; my good pal Micky B, and Taylor Swift's - although I'm not sure I can officiate my own wedding.

03/02/2024

While my lovely wife is officiating in Oxford for Kayla & Stu, I'm up in (thankfully) sunny Nelson to destroy the lives of Rachel & Jamie.

13/01/2024

As most will know - especially those mad couples I've married during the height of summer - I don't do heat, which is why today I find myself locked inside with the air con running as the temperature climbs towards the high 20s...and taking the opportunity to write up a wedding (February in Nelson) and a funeral (Christchurch, no fixed date*).

27/12/2023

What's for dinner?

Fu***ng potato salad and ham.

Again.

F**k I hate post-Xmas dining.

06/12/2023

Symbolising strong roots and a relationship that's made to last, wood is the traditional gift given on your fifth wedding anniversary.

Knowing Malcolm, he won't know this, and if he did he would likely buy a wooden spoon...knowing Pang, she will take that spoon, and they will have to change the sixth wedding anniversary gift to bandages and antiseptic cream.

One of the great couples who share the same cheeky sense of humour as myself, Happy Fifth guys!!!

19/11/2023

As anyone knows, I'm partial to a le***an, or two, so when lovely ex-neighbour and friend, Sammy, switched codes and announced her engagement to the equally lovely Courtney, and asked if would join them, I was understandably ecstatic...
..as it turned out, it seemed that I may have misread the request.

*sigh*

Three years after their wonderful Big Day Out, I still live in hope...

Happy Anniversary, you beautiful creatures ###