Yours, not hers
Sharon has a voice and it does not belong in your ceremony. The test she applies to every draft is simple — if a guest closed their eyes, would they know who this was about?
About
Hello — I’m Sharon
Celebrant, chronic note-taker, and the person who will remember the name of your grandmother’s dog and put it in the ceremony.
Some people find the idea of standing up and speaking in front of a hundred people horrifying. Sharon has never been one of them — which is lucky, because somebody has to.
[PLACEHOLDER BIOGRAPHY — replace with Sharon's own words.] She came to celebrancy the way most good celebrants do: sideways. A friend asked her to speak at a wedding, the room laughed in the right places and cried in the others, and three people asked for her number before the entrée.
She has lived in the Hunter for [X] years, which means she knows which road floods, which vineyard lawn turns into a wind tunnel after four o'clock, and roughly how long it really takes to get from Newcastle to Pokolbin on a Saturday in March.
Away from weddings she is [interests, family, the dog, the hobby that makes her human — two or three specifics beat a paragraph of adjectives].
- Registration
- Commonwealth-Registered Marriage Celebrant, No. A123456
- Based in
- Cessnock, NSW
- Covers
- Hunter Valley, Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Maitland, Port Stephens
- Ongoing
- Annual professional development, as required of every registered celebrant
How Sharon works
Four things that never change
One wedding a day
Never two. Nobody is watching a clock, nobody is leaving early, and if your ceremony starts forty minutes late because of a bridal car, it genuinely does not matter.
The paperwork is not your job
Notices, declarations, certificates, registration. All of it prepared, checked and lodged. You will be asked to sign and almost nothing else.
Say the real thing
The ceremonies people remember are the ones that risked something — the joke that was almost too much, the name that made the room go quiet. Sharon will push you gently towards those.
Kind words
What couples say afterwards
Half the room was crying by the second paragraph and the other half was laughing. She somehow got both our families in there without it ever feeling like a list.
We are not ceremony people. We told her that at the first meeting. She wrote us something ten minutes long that we still quote at each other.
The paperwork side of it never once became our problem. She just quietly dealt with all of it and told us where to sign.
Thirty years married and she still found something new to say about us. Our kids had not heard half of those stories.
Next step
Shall we have a coffee about it?
No obligation, no hard sell, no package deck. Just a conversation about your day and whether Sharon is the right person to stand in front of you.