Lucky days to get married (and other good luck signs)

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Lucky days to get married? You betcha!

Traditionally couples choose to get married on a Saturday. But what if you wanted to add extra luck to your marriage by choosing a lucky days to get married? I googled the heck out of this question, and it appears there’s no actual consensus on how each day brings luck to a marriage. So, I made up a ditty ….

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Helping couples achieve their ceremony goals since 2008 (Wedding Season 2018-19: a Celebrant’s memoirs)

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Anita Revel, Celebrant: Helping couples achieve their ceremony goals since 2008

Did you know I’ve been helping couples achieve their ceremony goals since 2008? And that I’ve keeping a diary of all my weddings? Given that my 10-year anniversary snuck up on me in September 2018, that’s a lot of diary entries! Here is the next chapter in my Celebrant Memoirs — that of my 2018-19 season which kicked off with four weddings on August 4…

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Winter weddings — why they’re amazing.

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Winter weddings — the pros and cons (and why they are amazing!)…

Winter weddings are becoming a thing? Hell-oh YES! In my ten years of being a Celebrant I have never before seen such a strong trend emerge… It has got me thinking about the pros and cons of getting married in the cooler months of winter.

Feeling the frustration of securing your preferred suppliers, only to find they’ve been booked out for months? Or finding it’s gonna cost a bomb to make your Dream Day come true? These are just two reasons why some couples are moving away from peak-season weddings and joining the growing trend of winter weddings…

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LOVE wins: the same sex wedding festival

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When the Australian government FINALLY voted to remove discriminatory phrasing from the Marriage Act, I happy-danced until I was dizzy… Perhaps that’s how I came up with the idea of creating a Same Sex Wedding Festival to celebrate?!!

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Wedding Season 2017-18: Let’s Break Some Traditional Wedding Rules!

elope in Margaret River Celebrant Anita RevelNormally I can rely on a three month lull during winter to head overseas and enjoy some sunshine… Not this year! Wedding season launched with a spectacular winter wedding, and has just kept rolling along.

It appears traditional wedding rules are gearing up to be broken by couples prepared to think outside the box. Yay!

I do love every single wedding I do, and so that I’ll remember (and cherish) them all forever, I write down my impressions and recollections of ceremonies I’ve conducted. Here are my stories from my 2017-18 season…

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Thank you for voting me #1 Celebrant South West (again!)

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modern celebrant south westI’m so humbled and excited to find out that you, my beautiful brides and grooms, have voted me #1 Celebrant South West for a third time…

(Squeeeeeeee!!)

I wish I could vote for YOU as best couples, because, wow, you really are awesome!

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wedding season 2016-17

celebrant margaret river anita revelWedding season normally starts off with a trickle in September and ending in May. This season, however, I came home from my three months off, and hit the ground running with four weddings and a funeral — literally — in my first week home. So it appears no season is ever the same, (which is a good thing — it keeps things interesting!)

So as is my custom, here are my impressions and recollections of ceremonies I’ve conducted.

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