the celebrant to marry a celebrant

taken from www.wedbykez.com (back and blogging it!)

Even celebrants have the need to hire celebrants and Mickey and I could not have been happier with our choice.



We heard of Amber through our Bestman, who had only recently wed. They had tried to book her but because she is in such demand it was not to be. Mickey and I had discussed the kind of celebrant we wanted. We wanted a woman, young (if not then young of heart) and someone who wouldn't flip out at our requests. We didn't yet know the type of ceremony we wanted, but we wanted to feel comfortable enough to ask for the world...

We met with Amber about a year and a half out from the wedding and after one meeting we decided to look no further. We were welcomed into her home office where she asked questions about our engagement, our life and also gave us a feel for her and what she does.

From the start, Amber was a true professional. I was torn with whether or not to let her know I was becoming a celebrant and once, she knew, she was more than willing to offer advice and share some of her experiences with weddings. I'm also a woman of integrity and so kept my wedding, and wedbykez seperate. The last thing I wanted was to compromise the relationship between us as a couple and our celebrant. It is so important.

We booked our Ceremony with Amber and I made sure to contact her intermittently to keep her update to date.

About a year out with had a change of wedding time from 4pm to 4:30pm which I immediately made known to Amber in case of conflicting weddings. I also received the wonderful news that my Bridesmaid would be 8 months pregnant on our wedding day and would not be able to travel to Newcastle for the wedding.

When my bridesmaid became a Bridemate I let Amber know.

I thoroughly appreciated that communication with Amber via email was so easy. With a busy job and a wedding to plan getting on the phone all the time was difficult.

Amber provided us with plenty of options as to creating our ceremony. Being a celebrant, and having a writer for a fiance, I knew we were going to draft a lot of the words that were said ourselves and it is something I encourage a lot of couples to do. It is a really wonderful way of personalising your ceremony. One month out from the big day we emailed Amber our words.

When it came to the wedding rehearsal Amber offered a lot of expertise and advice. Everything from how to stand for the best shot to how to avoid the nerves. Being completely honest, I would have liked a second run through of the ceremony to quickly confirm all that we had decided but Mickey and I should have spoken up about that.

The wedding day was an absolute dream

Amber was prefect in presentation and delivered our words as we had asked. While we had asked her to read certain things and intro the wedding with our story, we wanted Amber to conduct the wedding in a way that would make her natural style and love of weddings shine through.

Amber won the hearts of all our guests and us. I feel that any bride and groom able to secure Amber for their wedding - will have a ceremony that they remember for the rest of their lives.

If you would like to know more about Amber please have a look at her website here