Weddings by Julia

You can book your Celebrant at anytime (securing your date and time with a 50% booking fee).  Legal documentation can only be officially lodged from 18 months out, to no less than one month and one day before your wedding day.  Good Celebrants are always booked out in advance and may already have one or two other ceremonies on the same day as you have chosen.  The more time in advance you book your key items (Celebrant, Venue, Reception, Photographer), the more likely you will have your first choice in everything.

Meetings are held here in my office/home at Glenella Mackay.  Last evening appointment is 7pm.  Weekends are also good to meet as they are less frantic, however meeting times are dictated by actual wedding ceremonies on those days.

Depending on your requirements, the normal time frame is half an hour.  Add in one or two readings and a ‘symbolic’ element and the ceremony can pad out to be longer.  If you don’t like standing in front of family and friends for too long, then we create a 20-25 minute ceremony while still being a gorgeous, significant moment for you.  Weddings come in all shapes and sizes, dependent on how you want it to be.  Big or small, long or short, all weddings are significant no matter what the time frame.

Yes, of course!  Preferably on site and within the week prior to the Ceremony.  Granted, if the ceremony is convenient for everyone to get to, then that’s ideal.  If not, we can simply meet where is convenient and run through the placement of people, what to do with the bouquet when it’s time to join hands, how to place on the rings, where the readers will stand.  Just so your photographs on the wedding day don’t show you with a look of shock and confusion. Think a stress-free day. The declaration can be signed at the rehearsal.

Which really means – don’t turn up with a rig full of equipment like you’re about to hold a “Bon Jovi” concert.   My PA system covers the ceremony area well, all the guests can hear clearly and the neighbours won’t be disturbed.  It is a legal requirement for everyone at the ceremony to hear clearly, whether that is for 3 or 300 people, the only way to ensure this is with the PA system.