Over my long career creating wedding ceremonies there have been numerous occasions where a parent, or parents couldn’t attend their child’s wedding. At our own wedding it was because some weren’t invited, at others their parents could not be present on the day because...

Instant apologies for the clickbait headline, but lets be honest, if I'd used my original headline "The internet isn't having your wedding, only you are" there was a 50% less of a chance of you getting this far into the piece. And luckily for all of us, that is pretty...

What is a wedding for? Is it for getting married? Surely it’s more than that, because the legal simple act of getting married only requires 120 words and five signatures. Is a wedding for the couple? Is it for the family? What is a wedding for? We could keep on asking...

Like anyone in the wedding industry, I love a good trend. They give us just enough guidance to keep our creativity flowing, with an equal outpouring of freedom so we can find our own way through the noise. So let me present to you a trend I invented all on my own: the...

Everyone has an opinion on wedding speeches, personally, when they're encouraging and engaging I love them. And so many people asked to make a speech spend the whole wedding flipping out over the fear of making one. Here's an easy and fun way to replace boring, long,...

Don't thank every single person that you need to thank. That's it. If you stop reading this post now you can move on with your life a little bit wiser. I attend more weddings than the average bear, albeit I'm usually MCing the reception, or performing the marriage...

Bridal parties exist because of the historical threat of real actual demons attacking weddings. True story. Our ancestors used to be stressed about demons attacking the good things in life, like marriage ceremonies. Now I’m not going to be the guy to downplay the...

A common conversation we have with couples being married is about their wedding budget, and in particular, their budget for a celebrant.

I’m answering a very common and innocent question on my blog today: how much styling and furniture do I bring to your wedding?

Photographer and friend, Kristina Childs, posed this question on Facebook today, and I wanted to answer it in a blog post: What are you supposed to do at the end of the ceremony? So, here's 20 things you can do at the end of the aisle after your ceremony, according to...

Photos before the ceremony If you're looking for the simplest, easiest, and most meaningful way to introduce some peace and calm into your wedding day, here's a solution that has been just sitting there waiting for you. 45-90 minutes before the ceremony, as everyone...

All of the details regarding obtaining a marriage license so you can legally marry in Australia with a civil celebrant or religious minister

The Daily Mail newspaper asked me to think back over the past year of weddings and name the top ten things that could go wrong at your wedding. The article is live here but I thought I’d share my answers in verbose here for my bloggies!

I am putting a call out to the wedding industry worldwide: we need to change. We need to give the sexist wedding industry the middle finger and move into the modern age we’ve been afforded.

Britt spends all day working with wedding vendors, photographers, venues, florists and other professionals as part of her role creating elopements in The Pop-Up Wedding. We figured that her experiences might help you in choosing people to work with in creating your marriage celebration.

I just read this article on Offbeat Bride and had to share it. There's some really good points to think about when a friend is doing something, photography for example, that you'd normally pay $6000 for, for free. Read the whole article here, but I liked these little...

I just met with Stefan and Sarah who wanted to assure me that they wouldn't drink before their wedding ceremony because another marriage celebrant at a different wedding had told all of those bridesmaids and bride at a different wedding that they weren't allowed to...

You're the funny, loud, guy or gal that the bride and groom asked to MC their wedding reception? I was that guy a long time ago and now I'm that guy professionally. So hopefully I can offer some helpful tips! Don't stress about it too much, it's just a really awesome...

Five things I think every groom should have in mind leading up to the wedding. Please note the list is completely exclusive of all of the normal boring wedding planning tips!

Social media, be it Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, ello, Google+, LinkedIn, or that new fang-dangled network that wasn’t even invented when this was written, is such an amazing way to share your story. After all, that’s what we’re here for, creating, telling, sharing, an awesome story. Every day is a new page and your wedding ceremony, a new chapter.

A quick survey of last year’s weddings tells me that 11% of wedding ceremonies had enough chairs for everyone to be seated. There’s nothing wrong with making people stand, but there’s a human brain thing that everyone is missing. Read on.

They're the second best looking group of people on your wedding day, why not put all that goodness to work and get them involved in your wedding ceremony! Here's seven different ways you can get your bridal party involved with your wedding ceremony craziness: 1. The...

This blog post could get me in trouble. It's going to shake the very foundation of the modern Australian wedding and question every wedding ever held, this blog post is about the combo-wedding. The mere fact you can read this means that "they" haven't got to me in my...

There’s always a new and different way for you to make your wedding ceremony yours, a quick and easy way to hack it and make it feel more like you, and your fiance. I would hope that every ceremony I perform would scream the bride’s and groom’s passions and...

When you start searching for a "normal" wedding ceremony or a "traditional" ceremony most of it's elements have their roots in Christianity and Catholicism.   The Gaelic traditions tend to lean to the civil and worldly side of the marriage ceremony spectrum. Here's 10...

The church pew style of wedding ceremony is so common that the need to break free of it and really make your mark on your wedding day is very tempting. Here's 13 photos of unique wedding ceremony layouts to inspire...

Following up on 16 unique wedding ceremony ideas - here's 8 more to inspire you and your wedding ceremony. Design your wedding ceremony with inspiration from how you both met. If you both love Dr Seuss, try these Dr Seuss vows or a Dr Seuss reading. Or if you met on...

Here’s some crazy wedding ceremony ideas that will hopefully bring a unique and ‘different’ feel to your awesome wedding.

The happiest, most momentous day of my life was the day that I asked Britt to be my wife. I actually asked her to "stay with me". Because I really liked it when she was around. Just under nine months later we were wed at the Gold Coast Botanical Gardens in Benowa and...