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| Carolina and Scott with Michele National Arboretum Canberra 26 July 2025 |
Thank you for visiting this page about my fee and what it covers. If you'd like to book me as your celebrant, please visit my contact page.
My fee from November 2023 is $700 (first increase since April 2020)
This fee is all inclusive (unless I need to travel beyond the
Canberra/Queanbeyan region. See info below.)
I've been a registered civil marriage celebrant for more than 20 years and I've never missed or changed a wedding plan through illness, or for any other reason. Sometimes I say that I'm 'the celebrants' celebrant' because six civil celebrants have chosen me as their celebrant for their own weddings.(How good is that?!) I have been celebrant at almost 1500 weddings, mostly by word-of-mouth. I have never paid to advertise my celebrant service.
Experienced...efficient...flexible...friendly. That's me!
I'd like to give you all the help you need in making your celebrant choice. I invite you to phone or text me on 0406 376 375 any day from 9am to 9pm with any questions you may have. Or use this Contact Form. Or would you prefer a video chat on Zoom? Or FaceTime?
I'm available day and night to answer your calls, texts and emails. (9am to 9pm any day)
If you'd like to see how I look and hear how I sound, please visit my new YouTube channel for my marriage celebrant service. There's also a sound file in the My Profile part of this blog.
Please note that I hold meetings only with couples who have booked my service as their celebrant.
Fee: $700 payable at our one-hour meeting, in Weston. (Or before)
When Registry Office weddings ended in the ACT in the mid-1990s, I set up this
service to give couples the opportunity to have a very simple, registry-style wedding. Since then, many hundreds of couples have chosen this option of a wedding, large or small, that's beautifully simple and simply beautiful.
All of our preparation for your wedding takes place at our meeting. I have streamlined the process to just over one hour. This includes all legal requirements, notes about your certificates, exactly what will happen at the wedding and so on. You'll choose the wording of your ceremony and the font you'd like me to use for your certificate and wording.
If your wedding plan changes, a refund of $350 may apply.
Please note that after many years of helping couples with their Visa applications, while one of them is living overseas, I no longer provide this service. However, if you're both in Australia at the time of your wedding I'd be very happy to be your celebrant and help you with your Visa application.
I've been a registered civil marriage celebrant for more than 20 years and I've never missed or changed a wedding plan through illness, or for any other reason. Sometimes I say that I'm 'the celebrants' celebrant' because six civil celebrants have chosen me as their celebrant for their own weddings.(How good is that?!) I have been celebrant at almost 1500 weddings, mostly by word-of-mouth. I have never paid to advertise my celebrant service.
Experienced...efficient...flexible...friendly. That's me!
I'd like to give you all the help you need in making your celebrant choice. I invite you to phone or text me on 0406 376 375 any day from 9am to 9pm with any questions you may have. Or use this Contact Form. Or would you prefer a video chat on Zoom? Or FaceTime?
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| Beautiful Spring Bride Taisa |
If you'd like to see how I look and hear how I sound, please visit my new YouTube channel for my marriage celebrant service. There's also a sound file in the My Profile part of this blog.
Please note that I hold meetings only with couples who have booked my service as their celebrant.
'Simply beautiful and beautifully simple'
Service
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| Taisa and Ernesto married in my Heart Garden 7 September 2019 |
When Registry Office weddings ended in the ACT in the mid-1990s, I set up this
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| 2020 - Beautiful June Bride Jasmine |
All of our preparation for your wedding takes place at our meeting. I have streamlined the process to just over one hour. This includes all legal requirements, notes about your certificates, exactly what will happen at the wedding and so on. You'll choose the wording of your ceremony and the font you'd like me to use for your certificate and wording.
If your wedding plan changes, a refund of $350 may apply.
Please note that after many years of helping couples with their Visa applications, while one of them is living overseas, I no longer provide this service. However, if you're both in Australia at the time of your wedding I'd be very happy to be your celebrant and help you with your Visa application.
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| Belle makes her vow to Mino The Heart Garden Late Spring 2016 |
I also post on Instagram, especially 'Just Married' photos, straight after the wedding ceremony (always with permission).
By the way, you may notice that in any photos of wedding ceremonies that I put online, like this one of Mino and Belle, there's no celebrant standing right in the middle, between the bride and the groom. To my way of thinking, this is your special space, even your sacred space. I stand to the side. This also means that when your photographer and guests take photos of your wedding for you, you two will be centre stage - just the two of you, making your vows, exchanging rings and sharing your first kiss as husband and wife. I think you'll love that.
The fee of $700 covers:
You'll choose the wording for your ceremony at our meeting. There are several wording options allowed in law to personalise the legal ceremony set by the Marriage Act of 1961 and make it more your own. (Rather than using the standard wording you probably hear at most weddings, I'll give you every option the Attorney-General allows.)
- My presentation of your ceremony at your wedding. I'll print your wording on elegant parchment paper, with your choice of font. After your wedding, I'll put your personal Certificate of Marriage and your wording into a clear plastic protective wallet for you to take with you. You may like to bring personal vows to your wedding to read to each other during your ceremony.
- One hour meeting (in Weston) at least one month before the wedding is included in my fee. And of course, day and night access by phone, text and email with any questions you may have.
Simple wedding at any location, large or small,
any day or night, at any time.
- At your wedding, if you have around 30 or more guests, I'll use my top quality, small yet powerful, portable PA system, with battery-powered cordless microphone and amplifier. I'm happy to use my PA at smaller weddings on request. You may like to play a music file on you phone, through my amplifier as the bride arrives.
If we need to work with an interpreter, we can use my extra microphone.
- With any more than, say, a dozen guests, we'll do the signing as part of the ceremony. A presentation of the newlyweds can end your ceremony, after the signing. Because the signing's been attended to, you're then free to mingle with your guests. (I'll bring the paperwork and sound equipment. I'll ask you to provide a small table and one chair.)
- With any more than, say, a dozen guests, we'll do the signing as part of the ceremony. A presentation of the newlyweds can end your ceremony, after the signing. Because the signing's been attended to, you're then free to mingle with your guests. (I'll bring the paperwork and sound equipment. I'll ask you to provide a small table and one chair.)
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| Nicole arrives with her father for her marriage to Luke Lanyon Homestead 6 April 2019 |
My fee of $700 fee covers everything except travel beyond Queanbeyan, and Canberra extremities of Hall, Watson and Lanyon.
(Extra travel is $1 per km, for my return journey from the edges of Canberra/Queanbeyan, up to $300 max e.g. for a trip to the south coast or southern tablelands. For Murrumbateman for example, add about $25)
When you contact me -
I'll email you a Notice of Intended Marriage and three files of simple, comprehensive information, before we have our first meeting.
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| I was celebrant for Kellie and Manuel on 7 November 1992. They renewed their vows, after ten years in 2002, then again in 2012 at their home in Burra, twenty years after their wedding. And then ten years later in 2022!  |
If you pay before our meeting, please send me an email or show me the transaction on your phone screen. If you prefer, you can make the transfer during our meeting, or pay in cash. I'll give you a receipt.
If you have any questions about my fee, or getting married in general, please feel free to phone or text me on 0406 376 375, fill in this contact form.
If you contact me, there's no obligation implied for you to book my simple service for your wedding. I have an extraordinary amount of experience as a civil marriage celebrant and I'm very happy to share this with anyone who has questions.
If I am your choice of celebrant, thank you. I'll be delighted to be part of your special day. Let's make you a wonderful wedding, just the way you both want it!
- Michele the Celebrant
August 2025
Your day is my focus
That's my promise
It's my pleasure
 Zenaida walks along the garden path to her groom Peter The Heart Garden 26 October 2023  A very private elopement The Heart Garden November 2022 |
