Choosing a Celebrant Over a Registrar for Your Wedding: Adding a Personal Touch to Your Special Day
Joanne McLaughlin Joanne McLaughlin

Choosing a Celebrant Over a Registrar for Your Wedding: Adding a Personal Touch to Your Special Day

When it comes to planning your wedding, there are so many decisions to be made, from selecting the perfect venue to choosing the right flowers and music and deciding who will make the guest-list. Among these choices is the decision between opting for a registrar or a celebrant to officiate your ceremony. While registrars are often the default choice, many couples are now turning to celebrants to add a personal and meaningful touch to their wedding day. Here is a little rundown of the benefits of choosing a celebrant over a registrar and how we can help create a truly unique and extraordinary wedding experience.

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What is an unplugged ceremony and should you be having one?
Joanne McLaughlin Joanne McLaughlin

What is an unplugged ceremony and should you be having one?

There are so many beautiful, special, once-in-a-lifetime moments in a wedding ceremony: the walk down the aisle, the couple’s faces as they see each other for the first time, the exchange of rings, the kiss. So, the question is, do you allow your guests to document these moments on their own phones and cameras or do you have an ‘unplugged’ ceremony and leave it up to the professional you have hired to capture them just for you?

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Renewing your wedding vows - should you do it?
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Renewing your wedding vows - should you do it?

Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel have done it; Sharon and Ozzy Osborne have done it; Ellen DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi have done it; even Beyonce and Jay-Z have done it! Let’s face it, these celebrity A-Listers know how to plan spectacular weddings but now it seems once just isn’t enough.

So, why do couples renew their wedding vows?

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Unique, fun and alternative wedding ceremony ideas for non-traditional couples who dare to be different.
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Unique, fun and alternative wedding ceremony ideas for non-traditional couples who dare to be different.

A celebrant wedding really opens up the possibilities for your ceremony to be so much more than people once expected. Gone are the days of following the ‘rules’! So, if you’re the type of people who dream of something more unique than a typical white wedding (sorry Billy Idol), an alternative ceremony with a twist, something memorable and symbolic yet extraordinary to add a bit more of a personal or fun touch into your day, then read on, my daring friends, for five of my top unity ceremony ideas to spice up your day.

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