03 Mar 2025 | Ceremonies

Wendy’s Retirement from Marriage Celebrancy!

30 years! The story of my retirement as a marriage celebrant, the rituals, the party, the photos and the music!  (PS I will still be conducting funeral ceremonies by request!) A few photos as a teaser for the story next month!    

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25 Jul 2024 | Poetry

Strength and Courage

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu     I wrote this poem after reflecting upon the vows we make to each other.   For Better, For Worse I marry you Knowing That you will die Or leave; Or, that…

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07 Jul 2024 | Poetry

Ventures Wild

I’ve been writing a few ceremony poems lately for couples and families. This one captured a whole story in a few lines which family and friends enjoyed.   “I’d like to share a very short reading, a poem; it’s called:   Ventures Wild Weekends planning, holidays packed. Cars, bikes, kayaks,…

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30 Mar 2024 | Ceremonies

Levenvale Farm

Levenvale Farm…peaceful tranquility with a wide vista of the surrounding farmland, forest, hills and wide open skies in Gumbaynggirr Country…with the sound of the birds and an occasional moo and bellow. Levenvale Farm, a beautiful place to hold a ceremony. I visited there last week for Michelle and Celeste’s ceremony…

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09 Mar 2024 | Ceremonies

A Beautiful Pair Married in Canberra

Miri and Iain were married on the land of the Ngunawal and Ngambri people, the original custodians of the land where the National Gallery of Australia now sits by the lake. A land of rich colours that has been witness to many ceremonies, songs and stories for tens of thousands…

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10 Jan 2024 | Ceremonies

We will live in birds…

A Quote from The Amber Spyglass A Reading for a Wedding Ceremony   Every atom of me and every atom of you. We’ll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds   Phillip Pullman   Photo by Rodolfo Clix: https://www.pexels.com/photo/blue-and-black-damselfly-on-green-leaf-1024898/

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17 Dec 2023 | Ceremonies

Wedding at Minnie Water

A beautiful couple hosted a very small and intimate gathering for their wedding in the reserve overlooking Minnie Water. I arrived at the holiday home half an hour before the ceremony was to start. Once we were all ready we walked down to the reserve to stand under the shade…

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02 Dec 2023 | Ceremonies

A Wedding in the Promised Land

The Promised Land On a warm December morning, the bride, her brother-in-law and I drive along the winding road into the forest to set up the ceremony space. It is a dark forest. A magic forest. A thick canopy drapes light and shadows across the river. We step out of…

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The Eyes of Love

07 Oct 2023 | Ceremonies

Seeing Through the Eyes of Love

When Mina and John shared their love letters with me, I was delightfully surprised. I love co-creating ceremonies with couples and families because you never know what will come forth given the space for creativity. They had gone off the ‘love letter’ script that I offer all my wedding couples….

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What is Love Imelda May

02 Jul 2023 | Ceremonies

What is Love?

What is Love? Home by Imelda May ‘What is love?’, you ask My head spins, recallin’ every song Story, words, and glorious things I ever heard Every cliché rings in my ears Like a bell announcin’ the birth of a new day Or the death of yesterday Depends on how…

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