Hi, I'm Ellie.

I'm originally from Mexico. Came to Australia for uni many moons ago, met my husband, never left. I've got my Aussie accent too now, but still remember to make amazing tacos from our home on the bottom end of the Gold Coast.

Four kids run the show around here. The dog runs second. Between drop-offs and pick-ups, working with kids during the week, an early boxing class, and the occasional swim before anyone else wakes up, I somehow squeeze in writing wedding ceremonies. Honestly? Best job in the world.

How I ended up doing this

I cry at every speech. I love a good love story. I love watching families who haven't all been in the same room for ages turn up and act like adults again because two people they love decided to get married. That's the part I'm in this for.

At some point I realised the celebrant is the person actually shaping that bit of the day, and I thought, oh, that's the job. So I trained, got registered, did my first ceremony, and never looked back. I still leave most weddings with my face hurting from smiling.

There's a thing called post-wedding break-up syndrome and nobody warns you about it. You spend months getting to know a couple, write their story, stand up and say it out loud at the biggest moment of their year, and then they're off into their married life and you don't see them again. The good ones I miss for weeks.

And yes, I do ceremonies in Spanish too

I do ceremonies in Spanish, in English, or both at the same time, and the Spanish is the real deal because that's actually my first language. If you've got family on both sides of the language line, this is one of the things I love writing most. There's a whole page on how that works.

What you can expect from working with me

I write ceremonies the way I'd write them for a friend. Warm, personal, the right amount of crying, no "we are gathered here today" energy. I handle all the paperwork myself so you don't have to think about it. I show up early. I stay calm when something goes sideways on the day (it usually does, in some small way). And I take your wedding seriously without taking myself seriously.

If you've read this far, you probably already know whether we'd get on. Send me a message with your date and we'll go from there.