October 2026
We had our wedding at our home in Kinglake. Daniel was happy to travel out to us for the day. We met up with him in the months leading into the wedding to organise all the paperwork. He was very knowledgeable about the whole process and made it feel very easy. During this meeting, when we told him we wanted to do a handfasting, he remained open minded, researched how to do it and practiced tieing the knot until he got it right, even though he had not done it before. It went really well on the day. We had a home wedding that had a lot of little things to organise and the months leading up to the wedding we were very busy with many late nights organising. My husband and I were quite late getting our vows and questions back to Daniel, and he still managed to put it altogether really well. For me as the bride, I felt very stressed leading into the wedding. The minute Daniel arrived on site, he was very grounding and helped me to feel calm, and that everything would be okay. He patiently directed the ceremony rehearsal the night before the wedding and afterwards I felt a lot better and confident that everything was going to be okay. My husband felt like during the ceremony, Daniel was very responsive to our needs - when our 4 year old niece ran up to us in the middle of the ceremony, he briefly paused the ceremony and checked in with us that we were fine to continue. We both really liked and appreciated that. Daniel was great at entertaining the crowd and conducting proceedings during the ceremony. There were many emotional moments that he weaved in, full of laughter and tears from everyone, and afterwards everyone said what a beautiful ceremony it was and how well it was put together. Many people said it was the best ceremony they had been to! Overall we would say he is very knowledgeable, personable, easy to work with, grounding, patient and funny. It was a really special experience that he put a lot of effort into. If we had to pick a celebrant again we would c
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