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Planning your dream wedding requires you to choose your wedding suppliers. This includes your wedding celebrant who will be responsible for making your marriage official. Finding the best celebrant that will celebrate with you on your special day is an extremely important decision. But how can you find the right celebrant for your wedding? Where do you even start? Find out how below.

Ask recommendations from friends and family

A wedding celebrant is someone that goes beyond the qualifications written on paper. They need to have the right personality and presence to make your wedding ceremony a memorable one. You can start your search for the best celebrant by asking your friends and loved ones who have gotten married just recently. Ask for their unbiased opinion and feedback on everything from the way the celebrant communicates, perform the job and plan the actual ceremony.  

 

Ask recommendations from wedding suppliers

The professionals and people behind the wedding industry are closely tied with each other. In fact, you may notice that practically everybody knows everyone. Leverage on this chance by asking your wedding suppliers, say, your wedding planner, for their recommendations regarding the best wedding celebrants. There is a big chance that your hired suppliers have already worked alongside before with several celebrants so they will be able to give you honest feedback and recommendations regarding who the top celebrants are.

 

Check Reviews

Google reviews are the honest opinions of a celebrants previously happily married couples. The more reviews a celebrant has on Google you can bet they have triple the amount of happy couples who have shared their special day with that celebrant.

Most celebrants offer consultations to discuss what you want on your big day, so once you have found a shortlist of potential celebrants give them a call and arrange a meet up so you can find if they are the right fit for your wedding.

Just because you’re holding your wedding on a budget doesn’t mean it’ll be a cheap wedding. If you’re clever, innovative, and open-minded, then you’ll soon discover that cutting down the cost of your wedding won’t diminish the whole wedding experience for you and your guests.

Keep your guest list to a minimum

 

 

While it may be great to include everyone you know on your special day, that isn’t always a brilliant idea, especially if you’re on a budget. Each additional guest you put in your list will add to your cost so you’ll have to be particular this time on who you truly want to invite. Besides, fewer guests you have, the more intimate your wedding will as it will only be witnessed by the people you hold dear.

Ask for help from your loved ones

 

 

If you’re born in a multi-talented family, or maybe your groom is, then take advantage of this opportunity. For instance, if you have a family member, a close friend, or relative who is excellent at taking pictures and is willing to be your photographer as his/her wedding gift to you, then all the better. Asking your loved ones to offer help or service in lieu of a gift is another excellent way to reduce your expenses.

Create your own wedding invitations

Making your own invitations is entirely possible with a quality home printer. You can look for a simple blank invitation kit and then print a classic font and a simple text on it. Since you will be cutting the number of guests, you won’t have to create that many invitations. You can also order stylish and affordable wedding invitations online if you want them ready-made.

Don’t go overboard with flowers

 

 

Flowers are expensive as hell so instead of spending loads of money on flowers that will die shortly after, keep your floral usage to a minimum. For instance, you can assign one rose for each bridesmaid and a small yet beautiful bouquet for yourself as the bride. Sometimes less can be more elegant.

Second-hand shopping won’t hurt one bit

 

 

If you want a designer wedding dress, you can get them on a less costly price from consignment sales or resale websites. In fact, there are lots of once-worn designer wedding gowns with half off the price on several pre-loved dress sites.

Top top it off, why not hire a professional celebrant to make your day extra special by contacting Jay today!

As a celebrant it’s really important for to me to tell your story at your wedding ceremony – you’ve bothered to invite a few people or heaps of friends and family to your wedding day. The wedding ceremony should always be about you guys – if there is one place to remind your guests about how this happened, how you two are taking the big step of getting married – it’s right now at the ceremony.

I always ask couples to help me with ideas and details about ‘their story’ – I like these stories to be fun, real, funny, meaningful and true but I’m always looking for some heart and soul. Something that I can play with but mostly something that reflects you two in a positive light.

When I first started marrying people years ago, I got some pretty interesting stories – this is an example of what I’m not really looking for in the opening of your story reminder to guests:

“When I met Rory, I had just returned to work from maternity leave after having my first daughter Emily. Emily’s father and I had just split up due to his multiple infidelities (Emily was only 3 months old) – I know what loser.”

Now this is not the type of story I’m usually looking for to present to your guests on your wedding day with your new spouse – how much of a tool your previous partner was has not much to do with your current wedding ceremony – maybe we can save that for small group talk at the reception.

‘Your story’ should have lots of heart and soul but most importantly have your guests’ thoughts and feelings centred on you and the commitment your about to make to each other. Let’s keep your story positive, optimistic and looking forward to the great things ahead in your marriage.

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