Our agreement to work together for a wedding

In addition to registering your marriage by lodging the official marriage forms and certificates after your ceremony, you’ll receive from me:

my undivided attention in creating the style and writing the words of your ceremony, including researching wedding customs from other cultures and other ages

• phone, fax and email contact to finalise your ceremony
• a copy of your ceremony as a keepsake
• a planning visit with you to your wedding venue, if possible 
• suggestions of music and poetry and their co-ordination within your ceremony
• the loan of books and excerpts from my Wedding and Ceremony library
• superb calligraphy on your Certificate of Marriage (elegant black, colours and embellishments)
• a 9-candle all-weather candelabra &/or other candle holders
• co-ordination of my outfit with your colour scheme and theme
• my guarantee to arrive in plenty of time to set up everything for your ceremony – up to an hour before the start time.
• tables, chair and Australian quill pen for signing the Register and certificates and
• clear, fluent, succinct and unrushed presentation so that everyone can hear and enjoy all of your ceremony.

What’s required from you:

•  your Notice of Intended Marriage (NOIM): completed, signed by each of you and both signatures witnessed by the specific persons listed on NOIM. It’s a requirement of Australian law (Marriage Act 1961 as amended) that NOIM is received by your celebrant at least a month and a day before your wedding – unless an authority has authorised the shortening of time.
•  written confirmation of the date, venue and time of your wedding.
•  if born in Australia: birth certificate/s or passport/s if born overseas.
•  other documents, as relevant eg divorce papers, Court papers (eg to shorten the time).
•  your vows and any other parts of the ceremony that you want to write.
•  final payment on your wedding day or before.
•  on your wedding day – your arrival close to the agreed time for the start of the ceremony.
•  ideally a photo or two of your ceremony, after the big day, for my portfolio.