Josh Withers 
How to have a generic wedding
A text from a friend sparked this reflection on what actually creates a memorable wedding day. Spoiler alert, it's not the venue, styling, or even your celebrant.
Award-winning Hobart marriage celebrant Josh Withers
Hobart Wedding Celebrant
From the Huon Valley to the Derwent Valley, Hobart to Cradle Mountain, I create awesome weddings!. I'm Josh Withers and I am a male fun Hobart marriage celebrant ready to create a fun wedding ceremony for you!
Southern Tasmania wedding and elopement packages
For weddings and elopements within Southern Tasmania all travel expenses covered
Elopement
Intimate ceremony
$ 1200
including GST - Intimate and short marriage ceremony
- Video call for paperwork and planning
- All legal marriage paperwork & registration
- Up to (about) 20 guests
- No speaker or microphone
- Short and sweet
- Only available outside of peak days and times
popular
Ceremony
The best wedding ceremony ever
$ 1800
including GST - Best marriage ceremony ever! Fun and personal, honest and huamn ceremony, nothing weird or awkward
- Legal marriage paperwork & registration
- Official certificate of marriage from the Tasmanian Births Deaths and Marriages
- Professional loud and good PA system and wireless microphone plus 10-bit audio recording
- All the planning meetings required to calm any nerves
- Exlcusive to you, no other bookings taken that day
- Post-wedding ceremony hugs included
premium
Ceremony and MC the reception
$ 2800
including GST - Everything in the wedding ceremony package including the best wedding ceremony you could ever want
- Wedding planning and timeline liason with all other wedding vnedors
- Reception co-ordination with all vendors involved so everything runs smoothly and professionally
- Voice of the reception as your MC
- Walking your grandma to her car at the end of the night
Josh Withers + your wedding
A match almost as good as the two of you
Unique ceremony
I believe your ceremony should be the best part of the wedding, so I work my behind off to make it unqiue, meaningful, fun, and honest.
Feels like home
The moment you walk down the aisle and become a married couple should be comfortable. People love to tell you it's stressful and awkward. If I'm your celebrant it's not.
Photography
I work with your photographers and videographers to make sure that the ceremony records as well as it feels in-person.
Prices and packages
I have four packages, but the most popular is where I'm your celebrant and MC at the reception. I'm available to be just your celebrant in a wedding or an elopement package, and also just the paperwork-only in a registry-style wedding.
Meetings
We need to meet at least once to sign pre-marriage paperwork, but I'm available in-person or on video call for as many meetings as you need to feel confident.
Marriage law
To get married in Tasmania you need to be 18 or over, not related, not currently married, and consenting and willing to marriage. Proof of place and date of birth is needed, along with evidence of former marriages ending.
Time required
Australian marriage law requires one month's notice to get married in Tasmania and Australia-wide. As far as booking a celebrant, I recommend booking the right celebrant early, but most couples book nine to 18 months in advance.
Visitors to Tasmania
Any and all people can marry in Tasmania, regardless of nationality, religion, gender, ciizenship, or visa. You simply must be 18 or over meet the rest of the marriage law requirements.
Climate and attire
Visitors to Tasmania often forget about Tasmania's weather, which is to say: bring a jacket. Plus, if you're eloping in the wilderness, consider not wearing heels.
Favourite Tasmanian Regions
Hobart and Mount Wellington
Kunyani/Mount Wellington looming large over Hobart is what drew my family to Tasmania, so the Hobart region will always be my first love.
Huon Valley
I call the Huon Valley home, Ranelagh to be precise, so I'm always up for a meeting at the famous Summer Kitchen down the road from my house.
Cradle Mountain
I've spent more time in Cradle Mountain than some wombats, I'd love to marry you around Dove Lake.
East Coast
It's worrying that more people haven't considered a Bicheno lobster roll an important part of their wedding day, but when you elope on the east coast it can be a reality!
The best places to wed on the Apple Isle
Triabunna and Spring Bay
Spring Bay Mill would be one of my favourite places to create weddings!
Cambridge
It is no accident that Frogmore Creek Wines is one of the most popular wedding venues on the Apple Isle.
Bruny Island
The intimacy and peace on the island is addictive and you may not find the energy to ever leave.
Launceston and West Tamar
One of the biggest Tasmanian secrets is how lovely the West Tamar region and Launceston is for a wedding.
Words from real brides and grooms
"Our wedding day was an absolute dream come true, thanks in large part to our incredible wedding celebrant, Josh Withers. From the moment we met him, we knew we had found someone truly special to officiate our ceremony. Josh's warm and friendly personality instantly put us at ease, and his genuine passion for what he does was evident in every interaction."
Belle
from Toowoomba
"Josh was an amazing celebrant! Calm, relaxed and genuine. It is evident in his work that he has years in the wedding industry - professional and experienced. Josh managed our family friendly ceremony with ease making the ceremony both intimate and fun. I particularly liked that he didn’t pretend to know us or to tell our story - he left that for us to do in our vows."
Kerri-Anne
from Noosa
"Josh made our wedding everything we wanted! After years of trying to organise the millions of wedding details and never landing on something that truly reflected us as a couple, we were blown away by Josh's ability to make our day fun, memorable, relaxed, meaningful, and deeply personal. The whole process was hassle-free, and we wish we could relive the whole day over again! Thank you to Josh and the whole team for making our wedding dreams come true."
Harriet Dawson
Mount Warning Elopement
Get in touch
If you want a long and weird, boring and drab thing to occur before your wedding reception begins, please, for the love of God, do not contact me
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