Can I have a friend as my celebrant

Yes, your friend can co-officiate. You do need a registered celebrant to perform the legal vows and monitum, which is only a few minutes, and can be easily interwoven into the ceremony. Your friend can simply call upon the celebrant to come forward to say these few words then your friend continues. This is how I do it and it's a fabulous way to include someone very special on your wedding day. 

Hello Jessica , thats something that some celebrants would be happy to help with. I have faciliated exactly that situation in the past. Essentially you would still need to follow all the same legal requirements prior to wedding and build in the formal marriage to the proceedings but your friend could officiate and the chosen celebrant steps in to complete the legal requirements.  Happy to have a chat should that be helpful.

Dear Jessica,

Couple of points here Jessica.  Yes, your friend can act as celebrant on the day. However, she would not be referred to as your celebrant. Your friend would be presenting her address to you and your guests as your 'friend' .  The legals then can be done by a legal and registered Marriage Celebrant on the day or any day prior. This is easily done and personally, I have done it a number of times. 

The alternative to all this is if your friend has the time to study for her Civil Celebrant certificate then she is able to be your celebrant on all fronts.

 Have fun!    Jan 

Absolutely yes, but the celebrant will need to be there to do legal vows and the monitum. They can then do the paperwork.  My suggestion is to get your friend to do the ceremony then get a celebrant to do a registry type wedding at your house with a couple of witnesses 

Yes it certainly can. The best way to do it is to get your friend to deliver the ceremony but the celebrant does everything else with legals, supplying resources to help write the ceremony, logistics, sound, organisation, stage management, etc.