Your Wedding – Roles and Rules

Your celebrant

• The celebrant you choose attends to all the legal paper work for your marriage.

• He or she will work with you to create the ceremony that suits your personal needs and officiates at your wedding.

• Contact Judy or John to make a no obligation appointment to complete a Notice of Intended Marriage (click here to download). This must be done no less than one calendar month and no more than eighteen months prior to the date of your wedding.

And you

• You must both be over 18 years of age.

• If you were born in Australia, you must, prior to the day of your marriage, produce your birth certificates.

• If you were born in another country, you must make every effort to produce your birth certificate. If this is not at all possible, the passport of your country of origin may be accepted. In some circumstances, you may have to make a Statutory Declaration regarding your birth.

• If either of you has been previously married, you must produce your Certificate of Divorce.

• If either of you has been widowed, you will need to produce the Death Certificate.

• Citizenship papers may have to be produced, if applicable.

• On the day of your wedding ceremony, you will need two witnesses present who are over the age of 18 years.

When two people are at one in their innermost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron and bronze. And when two people understand each other in their innermost hearts, their words are sweet and strong, like the fragrance of orchids.
– From the ancient Chinese text, the 'I Ching'