LGBTQ+ · Same Sex · All Love
Love takes a lot of beautiful shapes, and your wedding should look exactly like yours. I'm a gay-friendly celebrant on the Gold Coast, and same-sex and LGBTQ+ ceremonies are some of my favourite work. No tokenism, no awkward energy from the person up the front.
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Same-sex and LGBTQ+ ceremonies are some of the weddings I get most excited to write. If you've been picturing two grooms, two brides, non-binary, chosen family in unusual roles, your dog walking the rings down the aisle, basically anything that doesn't read like a stock wedding script, that's exactly the energy I'm here for.
The ceremony you want is the ceremony I want to write. That's never been complicated.
Vows that sound like the two of you, not vows from a template. Music that has nothing to do with a wedding playlist. Chosen family standing up beside you instead of the relatives tradition would have queued for the role. A reading from a sibling. A traditional moment kept because it means something to you, and a different one dropped because it doesn't. Whatever the day looks like, it should look like you.
Favourite example: a wedding where the couple's two rescue dogs were the ring bearers. Went exactly as well and as badly as you'd expect, and absolutely nobody minded. That's the bar for these weddings, honestly. Not whether everything goes to plan, but whether it feels like yours.
I'm based on the southern Gold Coast / Tweed Coast and travel across the Gold Coast, Byron Bay, and the Tweed. Send me your date and where you're picturing, and let's make it happen.
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Names you go by. Pronouns if it matters. The kind of wedding you've been picturing. Anything you definitely don't want me to do or say. A couple of paragraphs is plenty for me to know what fits.
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Together we work out chosen family roles, language that fits, traditions kept or skipped, vows written from scratch if you want. I send you drafts. You change anything that doesn't sound like you.
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I deliver the ceremony, the paperwork is sorted, and the only question I want anyone asking by the end is where the bar is. You're legally married, with a certificate that's the same as any other.
Yes. Same-sex marriage has been legal in Australia since December 2017. Legally there's no difference between an LGBTQ+ wedding and any other: the same Notice of Intended Marriage, the same Commonwealth marriage certificate, the same legal protections.
Whatever you want me to. Wife and wife. Husband and husband. Partner and partner. Spouse and spouse. Just your names. Tell me what you want me to say in the ceremony and that's what I'll say.
Absolutely. Anyone over 18 can be a legal witness, and chosen family routinely walk people down aisles, give readings, hold rings, and stand up beside the couple. If a tradition feels right with the people you actually love in those roles, we keep it. If it doesn't, we throw it out and replace it with something better.
Most are, in some shape. I've worked with couples whose families are entirely on board, couples whose parents weren't speaking, and couples who deliberately built their guest list around chosen family rather than blood. None of that is awkward for me. Tell me where the tricky bits are and I'll write the ceremony to navigate them.
Yes, and not infrequently. Australian marriages are legally valid worldwide; the certificate is the certificate. Couples from places where their marriage wouldn't be legally recognised at home come here, get legally married, and have a real wedding day they couldn't have had otherwise. Those ceremonies tend to land harder, for obvious reasons.
Same as any other wedding. Packages start at $550 for a legals-only ceremony Sunday to Friday (Saturdays from $750) and go up to $1,250 for a fully custom one. There's no premium and no LGBTQ+ surcharge, and there isn't a discount either. The work is the work.
Send me your date and a couple of sentences about the wedding you're picturing. I'll come back with availability and the package that fits.
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