Annette James,
Melbourne Marriage Celebrant
Beautiful ceremonies, told with perfection, straight from the heart.
Celebrate. Love. Together.
You’re planning your wedding day, and your wedding ceremony comes up.
Your partner says they want something simple and easy,
your mum says it needs to be loud enough for grandma to hear,
dad says just make sure everything is legal and correct,
and your bridesmaids want you to choose some great songs!
And you ….. You just want it all to be perfect, and for your guests to love it and talk about how great your ceremony was for years to come.
I’m so glad you’ve found me! I promise we’ll create a ceremony that everyone will love.
Celebrate Love Together – Melbourne Marriage Celebrant
I love creating perfect, relaxed, happy ceremonies
Why choose Annette?
A GREAT LISTENER
TELLS A TERRIFIC STORY
EASY-GOING, RELAXED
Your ceremony will be amazing and all about the two of you.
I will be relaxed, happy and personal.
Your family and friends will love them.
Annette is the perfect celebrant! After meeting with her, she wrote the perfect ceremony for us; it captured us, our relationship and the feeling we wanted – it was amazing! Annette helps you every step of the way, she has a fantastic resource kit for inspiration and she was always there to answer any question we had. She also helped calm any nerves that popped up or any doubts about whether our vows were ‘good enough’.
We cannot recommend Annette highly enough!! We can’t say it enough – our ceremony truly was perfect because Annette cares and she listens. Thank you!!
Wedding Ceremony Packages
Just Legals
“We don’t want any fuss, we just want to get married.”
“All we want is to know that everything will be legal – simple, quick, and easy.
No-fuss. No frills. We just want you to do whatever needs to be done, so that we are legally married.
Just the 124 words that need to be said, our legal vows, all papers signed and submitted to Births, Deaths and Marriages (BDM) on time.”
The Choice is Yours
“We want to decide what we pay for. And we want something simple and relaxed – just like us.”
“We want a happy, relaxed ceremony and our story to be told.
We want to have very personal or surprise vows, and we want our best friend to read something – maybe a poem or a reading.
We don’t think we want a rehearsal, and we’ve got a good mate who can do the music.
We don’t want to pay for things we don’t need”
Legals with Love
“We want a happy and romantic legal wedding ceremony, with some love on the side.”
“We want it to be really easy, and we want to get married on a weekday, or before 11:00 am on a Saturday or Sunday.
We want a really simple and easy ceremony – and we want to write surprise vows for each other, and give each other a wedding ring.
We’d like a friend to read a poem, and there’s only going to be about eight of us there.
We want to remember our wedding day as something very personal and special.”
Your Dream Ceremony
“We want our ceremony to be everything we’ve dreamed of. Happy, relaxed, personal, romantic and full of great memories”.
“When we think about our dream wedding, we see it as relaxed, calm, easy, and that our celebrant will know exactly what to do if anything unexpected happens on the day.
We are excited and a little bit nervous about our day, so we want to have a rehearsal. Then we’ll know everything will be perfect on the day.
And we don’t want to worry about music. We want our guests to relax, so we’d like someone to control the audio and music.
That would be our dream ceremony!”
The Lunchtime Celebrant
“We want to get married at lunchtime, and enjoy every minute of the day ahead of us.”
“Getting married at lunchtime, followed by a long, lazy, lunch, is exactly the type of wedding we’d love to have.
Sharing our day with just a handful of our closest friends and family, followed by a laid-back and happy celebration lunch is our idea of a brilliant wedding.
Melbourne is known for its amazing restaurants – something small, intimate, personal, relaxed, and all about us is exactly what we want.”
Yours for the Day and Night
“We want our celebrant to continue the vibe we created at our ceremony into our
reception.”
We’ve learnt alot about each other as we planned for our ceremony, so it makes sense that she will be our MC at our celebration.
We want someone who will stay calm, make sure everything is going to plan and happens on time.
They won’t steal the show, but will make sure that everyone is cared for, having fun and enjoying their night. We don’t want Uncle Bob, or one of our mates doing the MC gig. It’s too stressful for them – we
want them to kick back and enjoy the night, and not have to worry about staying sober, writing speeches and keeping everything going to plan.
We want an MC we can trust.”