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Celebrations and Ceremonies for Life’s Big Moments
Your life is full of significant moments: weddings, birthdays,
career changes, anniversaries and births. A civil celebrant acts as a guide
to create ceremonies to honour and celebrate major rites of passage.
Ceremony brings families and communities closer together. Ceremony helps us
to understand our lives and those of our family and friends; it gives us pause
in our busy lives to take stock and honour important transitions.
Mary Williams is a qualified civil celebrant. She has a deep intuitive understanding
of all aspects of ceremony and its importance in our lives. She holds a Graduate
Diploma of Arts (Civil Ceremonies) and as such, has been trained to the highest
standards in Australia. Mary is currently a Committee member of the Civil
Celebrants Graduates’ Association (CCGA). She also holds a Bachelor of Theology
degree.
Fully Personalized Wedding Ceremonies
Your wedding day is one of the most important days of your
life. You and your partner - two unique individuals - are celebrating your
love and life long commitment. You want it to be perfect.
Mary takes the time to get to know you both, to make sure that your ceremony
and vows reflect your unique love for each other. She sets aside time to meet
with you and discuss in detail your ideas, hopes and dreams so she can create
a ceremony that really reflects who you are.
Mary offers an in-depth consultative process which engages you in every aspect
of the ceremony. You get the highest level of personal input into the events
of the day and into your promises to each other. Mary works with you to craft
your ceremony in every detail. This is a joyful creative process - a collaborative
effort to create the words and the vows that are perfect just for you.
Mary’s Wedding Packages include:
- Friendly guidance & advice on all aspects of your ceremony: readings,
poetry and music
- Composing and writing of your ceremony & vows
- Meetings/emails/phone calls as necessary to organize and fine tune your
ceremony
- Filling in and lodging of all legally required marriage paperwork
- Assistance with a wedding rehearsal (if necessary)
- A wedding ceremony delivered with relaxed, confident professionalism
- A keepsake copy of your vows on fine parchment paper
Mary’s role in your wedding ceremony is to act as a guide
and leader. She is sensitive and intuitive enough to ensure that you and your
partner are the main focus of the day.
If you wish, Mary can include more traditional elements into your wedding
ceremony. This may involve integrating aspects from other cultures or religions.
Mary has recently performed weddings that respectfully integrated elements
from the Hindu, Sikh and Zen Buddhist amongst other traditions.
Baby Naming Ceremonies: A Joyful Celebration
The arrival of a new child is one of the most joyful and
blessed events of our lives. A naming ceremony welcomes your child into the
world and formalises the child’s chosen name. It also acknowledges parents,
grandparents and godparents as significant people in the child’s life. Mary
can create an uplifting and happy ceremony to celebrate the start of life’s
journey.
Life’s Other Significant Events…
You can create a ceremony to honour any kind of major event.
Be it starting your own business, a sea change, a birthday, or even a separation.
Ritual helps us celebrate and assimilate major changes in life. It acts as
a way of acknowledging these changes to our family and friends and helps them
to recognise our transition.
Funerals
Saying goodbye to someone you love is one of life’s saddest
events. But a carefully planned funeral can be a loving celebration of a person’s
life, relationships and achievements.
Mary is an experienced funeral celebrant; she understands the emotional magnitude
of losing someone close to you. She conducts her funeral ceremonies with compassion,
sensitivity and calm guidance.
For more information on how a civil celebrant can help you, call Mary on
0428 999 130 or 03 9889 6820 for a relaxed,
obligation-free chat.
“A ritual is the marking of an ordinary person’s journey, which tells them
that the journey is significant…
To recognise what is happening to us, and pause to do so, is to make the moment
significant.”
- Dorothy McRae-McMahon
Contact Me
- Email
- 0428 999 130
- 03 9889 6820
Qualifications
Mary holds the following qualifications:
- Grad Dip Arts (Civil Ceremonies)
- B. Theol
Mary is a committee member of
The Civil Celebrants
Graduate Association
She adheres to
The
Australian Code of Practice for Marriage Celebrants
