Ask me for a copy of a Notice of Intention to Marry  (NOIM) form, or you can down load it from the website of the Attorney-General’s Department.  Go to www.ag.gov.au  and look out the section on Getting Married for background information and you will see a link to the NOIM   -  it is a PDF document.

Call me on  (03) 6267 4181 to make an appointment to meet.

Arrange to obtain a copy of your birth certificate, change of name document (if applicable) from the Registering authority nearest you.  Under no circumstances am I allowed to accept a photocopy, fax or scanned copy of your certificates.

If you have been married before, you must show me an original  copy of your Decree Absolute, or Divorce Certificate.  If you are a widow or widower, I will need to see the Death Certificate of your late spouse.  If you or your intended spouse is under the age of eighteen, we need to talk about that because special permission may need to be granted by the Courts.

When you decide on a date for the Wedding Ceremony, please allow sufficient time to make your arrangements.  The Attorney-General’s Department requires you to present your Notice of Intention to Marry to your Celebrant, at least one calendar month before the wedding date and certainly no more than eighteen months before the happy day.

It is actually great to have a bit more time to make arrangements and fill in all the forms needed. It is good to have two or three or more appointments to get to know each other so we can be sure of meeting your needs on your wedding day.  A rehearsal a week before, or  the day before the actual date is almost guaranteed to iron out any problems we have not foreseen on paper.

The Notice of Intention to Marry, your identification documents.

The Declaration...is made before the wedding can take place.  This certifies there is no legal impediment to the marriage taking place.

On the Wedding day, there are three documents to sign.

(Certificate of Marriage, Celebrant’s Register and the Couple’s souvenir copy.)

It is my responsibility to register your marriage with the Registrar of Births Deaths and Marriages.

Please ask your two most favourite people by all means.  (...and yes, it can only be two!)

So long as they are over the age of eighteen, speak or understand English and are not impaired intellectually (so they do not understand proceedings), or  medically (influenced by drugs or alcohol), it can be whomsoever you wish!