WOW! You’re Getting married!!
CONGRATULATIONS
Let’s make it the most joyous occasion in your entire life. It should be.
You deserve it; Your love deserves it.
I’m ready and waiting for your call.
A Life Celebrant – Lou Szymkow
+61 (0) 457 00 1922 
lou@alifecelebrant.com.au
A celebrant for all special occasions in your journey of life.
Your Life Events: Weddings, Unions & Commitments; Naming Ceremonies; Funerals, & More
Let’s make it the wedding you want and will remember.
You need a Commonwealth- Registered Marriage Celebrant
A Ceremony created by Lou Szymkow, A Life Celebrant; with over 30 years’ experience in public life, and married for 40 years, will ensure that it is uniquely and authentically your own; an enriching, memorable experience.
- a traditional ceremony,
- a simple ritual,
- a grand gathering, or
- perhaps in a specific or fun theme or personal style reflecting your character, or
- a ceremony in a style that has not yet been thought of;
- Think of your dream wedding, what you want included or excluded and we can confidently work together to ensure your ceremony will be exceptional.
One of the most joyous events of your life
Feel free to call me any time.
+61 (0) 457 00 1922 lou@alifecelebrant.com.au
Let’s meet, decide, and confidently plan.
I’ll offer guidance where I can but more importantly I will listen.
I will ask questions but will also look for words, phrases and stories, images and experiences that will offer me guidance in designing a ceremony that will define the how you want this wonderful occasion celebrated.
I am at your service, and will travel as needed.
Click on the link below for more information:
- Legal Requirements for Marriage.
- Notice of Intended Marriage (NOIM)
- Poetry & Readings
- Wedding Songs
- Weddings Ideas
- Weddings Ceremony Ideas & Suggestions.
- Code of practice for Marriage Celebrants
- Follow this link to more info from Government pages
- Document outlining the obligations and consequences of marriage and stating the availability of marriage education and counselling [PDF 164KB]
Weddings:
Where To Begin
Creating and arranging a ceremony can take up a great deal of your time, so I am flexible, after all, I do this full time, so we can arrange to meet in my home office in St Clair, your home, your venue, a café, or any time & place of your choosing.
In our initial meeting, I will outline my services, how I can guide you through creating a ceremony of your choice covering:
- Helpful advice and ideas.
- options for readings, vows, poems, exchange of rings.
- options for included rituals, such as unity and candle ceremonies and more etc. (see samples below)
- Suggestions for music
- we will review and complete legal documents (see below)
- Easiest way is that you can start the legal paperwork by following this link to your Notice of Intended Marriage (NOIM) and the information will go straight to me for finalisation. Providing a complete form to me is your ‘lodgement’:
- or you can print up the forms from the Attorney Generals’ office and hand them to me:
NEW Notice of Intended Marriage [PDF 130KB]
NEW Notice of Intended Marriage [DOCX 446KB]
My Services Include:
- All meetings, phone calls and emails.
- Assistance with completion of all legal paperwork.
- Lodgement and registration of all legal documentation.
- My travel costs within 60 kilometres of St Clair.
- the signing of documents and register
- Commemorative Marriage Certificate.
- Commemorative copy of your wedding ceremony.
- PA. sound system.
- signing table if needed
- other benefits that remain a pleasant surprise
I work towards Marriage ceremonies which celebrate your individuality and choices, while carefully including the legal requirements needed for your wedding as prescribed by the Federal Attorney Generals Department and The Marriage Act.
Legal Requirements for Marriage
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- Completion of the Notice of Intended Marriage (NOIM) form with your celebrant, no earlier than one month prior to your wedding date, but not more than 18 months before the wedding date.(I like to add an extra day to give time to solve any discrepancies)
- You can start the legal paperwork by following this link Notice of Intended Marriage (NOIM) .
- You must be over 18 years of age.
- You will need to provide an original Birth Certificate or Passport as proof of date and place of birth
- You must provide photo ID such as a passport or drivers licence
- your Passport can serve as both proof of of date and place of birth as well as photo ID)
- If you are a divorced person, you will need to provide documentation of the termination of your previous marriage.
- If you are widowed, you will need to provide the Death Certificate of your previous spouse.
- On the day of your marriage you will need two witnesses, preferably who know you, who are over 18 years of age.
- All documents in a foreign language, must have a certified English translation when to be sighted by a Celebrant.
- Before the ceremony, couples are required to sign a Commonwealth Statutory Declaration of ‘No Legal Impediment’ to you being married.
- the Celebrant (Me) has this document.
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- Being a celebrant is a special and important role in the community. It attracts obligations and legal responsibilities. Failure to meet those responsibilities can have serious consequences. As an authorised celebrant I must:
- solemnise marriages under the Marriage Act 1961 and Marriage Regulations 1963
- conduct myself in accordance with the Code of practice for marriage celebrants
- comply with your ongoing professional development obligations.
- Register marriages with the registry of births, deaths and marriages in the state or territory in which the marriage took place within fourteen days.
- If you have a question that is not covered here, Call me and I will do my best to assist you.You will also find interesting and useful information on other tabs including:
- Poetry & Readings
- Wedding Songs
- Weddings Ideas
- Funerals – Questions and Answers
- Music for Funerals & Memorials
- LINKS to very Helpful People
- Venues
The main reference sources for information relating to marriage are:
- Complaints
- The Marriage Act 1961
- Guidelines On The Marriage Act 1961 For Marriage Celebrants
- Code of practice for Marriage Celebrants
- Marriage Regulations 1963 (up until 31/3/2018) and
- Marriage Regulations 2017 (from 1/4/2018);
- Marriage Act 1961 and Marriage Regulations 2017
- Newsletters issued by the Attorney General’s Department
- Fact sheets issued by the Attorney General’s Department
- Guidelines on conflict of interest and benefit to business for Commonwealth-registered marriage celebrants – Updated April 2018 [DOCX 189 KB]
- Guidelines on advertising for Commonwealth-registered marriage celebrants – Updated April 2018 [DOCX 85KB]
- Maintaining your registration as a Commonwealth marriage celebrant – Updated April 2018 [DOCX 100KB]
- About the Marriage Celebrants Programme – Updated April 2018 [DOCX 98KB]
- Celebrants obligations when solemnising marriages – Updated April 2018 [DOCX 96KB]
- Complaints against a Commonwealth registered marriage celebrant – Updated April 2018 [DOCX 87KB]
Copies of legislation and eegulations can be viewed online or downloaded from ComLaw.
Follow this link to another tab to find Lots of tips, Weddings Ceremony Ideas & Suggestions
A Life Celebrant – Lou Szymkow
Friendly, professional, reliable, helpful, approachable.
- Civil, Marriage, Commitment, Naming & Funeral Celebrant
- Commonwealth- Registered Marriage Celebrant
- St Clair NSW. Australia – covering the mountains to the sea
I am your local Celebrant.
It is your ceremony so let’s design it together, hold it at the location of your choice and be guided by your imagination, hopes, dreams and wishes, and make it one you want to be at.
A Ceremony created by & with Lou Szymkow, A Life Celebrant; with over 30 years experience in public life, will ensure that it is uniquely your own; an enriching, memorable experience.We can confidently work together to ensure your ceremony will be exceptional.I love doing what I do.What I enjoy most about my experiences is meeting people and hearing their own story. Everyone has their own story and it is often amazing what can be learned. Sharing time with people is the greatest of experiences.
+61 (0) 457 00 1922 lou@alifecelebrant.com.au
A celebrant for all special occasions in your journey of life.
Your Life Events: Weddings, Unions & Commitments; Naming Ceremonies; Funerals, & More
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