Welcome
My name is Toni Macdonald and have been a celebrant since 2006 and enjoy celebrating life’s significant events.
I have had the great privilege of conducting many meaningful and memorable wedding, naming and commitment ceremonies. I am a creative person who writes personalised ceremonies to suit each occasion and reflecting who you are and being it at the beach, a garden, a vintage theme, a black tie event, or a traditional theme.
I am also a funeral celebrant who can support your family in times of loss and sadness. I will assist you to write a eulogy that commemorates and celebrates the life of your deceased loved one while delivering a sensitive memorial or funeral services
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To add structure to your event and hold it together with an opening and a closing?To formalize the occasion?To move it at an appropriate pace?To pave the way for food, laughter & song?To set the tone from which the future will flow?To give thanks for what has been and hope for what will be?To facilitate the communication of meaning & intention?To assist with designing the type of ceremony intended?To advise with readings, poems, music choice & other resources?To demonstrate the respect required for persons being celebrated?To listen to values ?To edify?To remind people to stop and smell the roses and that their grass is just as green as everyone else’s?To provide opportunity to do something special for someone you love?To help you move on and start again?To stimulate & facilitate the hidden energies of support?To make memory with ritual?To give a gift.
You cannot have a legal wedding without an authorized celebrant, They are familiar with the law and all the legal documentation. Knowing the Marriage Act they will be able to guide you through legal relationship issues that impact on your ability to enter a marriage contract. In addition to this the celebrant can (and usually does) write your ceremony after consultation with you, gives you ideas, makes adjustments, plans thoroughly, arranges a rehearsal, performs the ceremony, takes responsibility for the marriage certificates, communicates with the Dept of Births, Deaths & Marriages and generally makes sure the ceremony runs smoothly and to your expectation. Celebrants are obliged to do ongoing professional development each year and the Attorney General’s Department is extremely concerned that all Celebrants give their clients the quality of service that is expected and there is a particular process for complaint should this be necessary
Once you have decided on a date and a venue you should find a Celebrant. You will need to know if the one you would like is free to do the wedding that day and there are documents to be completed. The Celebrant will ask for a non refundable deposit to secure the day for you.
No. Anyone may marry in Australia providing you are both over the age of 18 and not legally married. If one or both of you is between 16 and 18,you are required to obtain parents consent on the required form and a court order under Section 12 of the Marriage Act.
No. All documents must be originals