Your Wedding / Marriage Celebrant is
John Murray of Lane Cove, NSW
Authorised Civil Marriage Celebrant No. A10819 (Australia)
I am located at:
10/510 Mowbray Road,
Lane Cove NSW 2066 Australia
I get to these places easily:
Chatswood, Willoughby, Artarmon, St Leonards, North Ryde
i.e. the lower North Shore, and also the Eastern Suburbs and the inner Southern Suburbs of Sydney, but I am willing to travel anywhere.
Contact Details:
Email:
john.murray@tpg.com.au
Phone/fax: (02) 9418 8424.
Mobile: 0409 039 495
Experience:
To date, September 2010, I have performed 56 weddings. I am an experienced and skilled public performer and speaker.
General qualifications.
I am a Graduate Architect
B.A.(Sociology),
B.Sc(Architecture), B.Arch.,
Grad Cert Housing Studies.
Statement of Attainment: Marriage Celebrancy
(I
can design your wedding ceremony and then design your home!)
Celebrancy qualifications
International College of Celebrancy - unquestionably the best in the business !
My approach to ceremony:
I understand the requirements of a professional approach from my other professions of social planner and architect. Once you have engaged me I do everything possible to make the ceremony an excellent one.
The process with me is consultative, I assist you to develop a ceremony which is personal, giving guidance as to what is essential and what is possible.
The initial consultation is free and without obligation. We would probably have at least two meetings to develop the ceremony and deal with the legalities. Other meetings as required.
We email and telephone each other as required.
About resources - I have considerable textual resource available. I recommend the purchase of Dally Messenger's excellent book Ceremonies and Celebrations, or I can lend you a copy. I can arrange live music as required. I am skilled at helping you articulate your wishes and advising you on the best expression of your values and beliefs.
How do we create the ceremony?
We start with a traditional outline, showing the elements that are required by law, and personalising it from there. I encourage creative freedom for you and am very happy to have particular cultural elements incorporated into your ceremony. With a brief from you that I can help you formulate, I can develop any elements you do not feel confident composing yourselves. You give the final approval of the whole ceremony.
The Rehearsal.
I
strongly recommend an on site rehearsal of the ceremony - a good time is a day or so before the wedding with everyone having a role in the ceremony being present. Readers need to practise reading their passage aloud privately and at the rehearsal. I can coach readers who are unfamiliar with this role.
The ceremony itself
The ceremony needs to be dignified and memorable, doing justice to the solemnity of the occasion, but it should also be a joyful event and an element of fun or humour can be incorporated appropriately. As a celebrant, I do not adopt character roles (e.g. Elvis). The celebrant's role, in my view, is to be the Master of Ceremonies and the official State Witness. The stars of the show are the Bride and Groom and the less noticeable I am the better. After a good footie match you remember the players, not the ref.
Legal requirements and how I register the ceremony.
All the legal requirements are explained and attended to in the interviews.
Funerals and Namings and other ceremonies
Procedure follows a similar one to weddings.
Weddings Fees
$600 plus travel and accommodation expenses outside of Sydney.
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Other ceremonies- Fees
$80 per hour including time spent in consultation, preparation, rehearsal and the ceremony itself.
Thank you for reading my website
John