James Stephen Celebrant + MC

You must both be over 18 years of age. 

If one person is under the age of 18, marriage is still possible by parental consent as per section 12 of the Marriage Act.

A Notice of Intended Marriage (NOIM) must be lodged with a Celebrant at least one calendar month prior to the wedding ceremony.

This form must reach your celebrant no later than one month before the wedding.

If you were born in Australia, you will need to provide me with your passport, your birth certificate or a birth extract. If any party was born overseas you will need to provide an overseas birth certificate or an overseas passport, translated into English. If either party has been previously married, I will need to cite an original Divorce or Death Certificate.

Translated documents must have a NAATI accredited Translation Certificate provided with them.

You will require two witnesses. Witnesses are required by law to be present and sign legal documents at the wedding ceremony. They must be over the age of 18 and understand English otherwise an interpreter will need to be present.

Once we've discussed all the details of your ceremony I will then email you both a questionnaire that I require you to fill in. The questions are all based on your relationship. To make things more exciting I always ask that you fill in the questionnaires  separately. It's always so nice to read the different and similar responses. Once your ceremony is written I share it with you, where you can read it together for the first time, edit anything you want and send it back to me. Your script becomes a working document until you are completely satisfied with it.

If it is something you'd like to incorporate into the ceremony, most definitely. Outside of the legal wording of the monitum and some specific wording in your vows, civil ceremonies can be structured any way you'd like.