Funny Surprise Wedding Vows
I love this Groom’s version of his Love Story!!!
P.S. Online Dating does work!!!
How to choose the right Celebrant
Congratulations on your upcoming marriage!
Your wedding is one of the biggest days of your life – and the official start of your exciting future together. It’s important you choose a Marriage Celebrant who puts you at ease and offers a high level of care, positive energy and lots of ideas to suit your personalities.
I just tied the knot myself recently and loved every aspect so much I wanted to do it all over again! (Except for someone else, as an Auckland Marriage Celebrant!) And because of my own recent wedding I know how crucial finding the right Celebrant is – they can make or break the atmosphere.
When my Husband and I were choosing our Celebrant the most important thing for us was getting the right fit with our personalities – someone professional, yet relaxed enough to make our day fun and memorable.
Ways to find your Celebrant
Word of mouth recommendations are great and we found our Auckland Marriage Celebrant online. New Zealand Weddings magazine is a great source too.
Book in plenty of time
Like photographers and venues, Auckland Marriage Celebrants get booked out up to a year in advance. Give yourself as much time before the big day as possible to find the Celebrant who is right for you.
Meet your Celebrant
A good Celebrant will offer you an initial obligation-free consultation and to make sure whoever you choose is going to represent your partnership and love for each other well. You will just ‘know’ when you find the right Celebrant, like me and my husband did.
Make sure you check
Make sure your Celebrant is registered with the Department of Internal Affairs. And a member of the Celebrants Association of New Zealand like I am. Do your research on who they are and what their customer reviews say about them.
How they will help you
Your Marriage Celebrant should give you lots of options and ideas to formulate your welcome, vows, readings and legal aspects. They will add lots of value when it comes to the fine details and guide you through the process so you get the wedding ceremony you imagined. You’ll may have a lot of questions and a good celebrant will make themselves available to answer these and reassure you throughout the journey to your big day.
Obviously I would love to be your Celebrant. Click here to read how I can help you.
Best regards
Kimberly
Kimberly Sanders ♥ Marriage Celebrant, Auckland ♥ Lucky in Love Wedding Planner
Get in touch:
phone ♥ 021 761 547
email ♥ [email protected]
What should your wedding song be?
Can’t decide what you should play for your first dance together – check this out, it’s really fun!!
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ailbhemalone/what-should-your-wedding-song-be#.fvVWXX4eR
Wedding Theming
My Darling found this incredible and hilarious show for me – My Fair Wedding Unveiled with David Tutera who is apparently a wedding planner to the ‘stars’.
The concept is disorganised couples about to get married send a video in and beg David to come and plan their event – with only a couple of weeks to spare.
The bride and grooms usually have some sort of major disagreement and you wonder why they’re together at all – but then David swoops in and pulls it all off in grand style.
The theming is just incredible – this one was in a plan hangar – each corner themed as different parts of the globe. Stunning! Check it out…
http://www.budgetfairytale.com/2012/10/my-fair-wedding-unveiled-recap-traveling-teacher-bride/
How to include kids in your wedding
Whether they be your own children, family or friends children, there are so many neat ways you can include them and give them special roles in your big day.
My favourite has to be the Wright family who I was lucky enough to marry on the 1st of January this year. Michael was marrying Maree and they were becoming a family including Maree’s three cute kids! The two daughters walked Maree up the aisle where Michael and their son were waiting for them. After Maree and Michael exchanged rings Michael presented the children with some beautiful gifts to symbolise the start of their new life as a united family – it was just gorgeous (although their son was worried he was going to be given a pretty necklace like the girls as well!). The children remained at the altar throughout the ceremony with their eldest daughter reciting a poem before I pronounced them ‘the Wright family’ Michael!
Here are some other great ideas:
♥ Traditionally children have been included in the bridal party as ring bearers, flowergirls, page boys or ushers.
♥ Older children may like to be marriage partnersmaid or best woman/man.
♥ Adult children may be witnesses to your marriage.
♥ Children can also walk their parents down the aisle.
♥ A special exchange could happen from parents to children – the girls could receive necklaces and the boys could be given age appropriate watches.
♥ As we saw in the Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt wedding – you could even have your children decorate your wedding dress! A less risky creative option however may be to let them make decorations to be included in your theming.
♥ If your children are of a certain age appropriate vows could be crafted for them.
Unity Ceremonies are also an option which the entire family can be involved with. There is the Candle Ceremony, Sand Ceremony or Rose Petal Ritual which there are a few variations of.
♥ For babies, you could theme their cot to match your wedding colours and have at the altar with you.
However you decide to include the children – just don’t do this:
http://www.q107.com/2014/06/02/this-is-one-way-to-include-your-baby-in-the-wedding-ceremony-wtf/
Kimberly Sanders ♥ Marriage Celebrant, Auckland ♥ Lucky in Love Wedding Day Event Management
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Why I'm a Marriage Celebrant…
…so I can help lovely couples like Tracey and Hayden.
Thanks for the cute note Tracey and Hayden!
April Fools Marriage Proposal
OMG – I think the Bride proves she makes fantastic marriage material – she stays incredibly calm under the pressure of a potential plane crash!
Sorry, wanted to post this on April Fools Day (although it is still April Fools somewhere in the world!)
Kids plan the darndest weddings!
Flava radio station ran this crazy competition – Kids Plan the Darndest Weddings!
It all started with a ridiculous comment from one of the breakfast DJs (a single man) made the comment that he didn’t know what all the drama around wedding planning was about and that weddings are so easy to plan a kid could do it!
And that’s what the lucky couple who had been together for 10 years – their two kids planning their Frozen themed wedding at Rainbows End amusement park!! Incredible!!
They had a little help though with lots of wedding vendors donating goods and services, but the kids chose the venue, the menu (including ice-cream and marshmallows) and I when the kids were asked how their mum would get to the wedding – they said the bus!! But fortunately a limo company came to the party!
I would love to officiate a wedding like this one day!
Check out the video snippet…