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Registry Weddings

A directory of registry-style wedding services across Australia: registry offices, marriage offices, and celebrants who run short, legal, paperwork-first ceremonies.

Josh Withers smiling between a newly married couple holding hands at a coastal ceremony. Two testimonials say the ceremony felt comfortable, calm, happy and lovely, and that Josh helped make a stressful ceremony feel calm.

A bride smiling at the camera while her groom kisses her forehead on their wedding day.

Melbourne Celebrants

— Personal, unscripted wedding ceremonies across Melbourne, the Yarra Valley, Mornington Peninsula, Geelong and regional Victoria, with clear legal guidance and professional sound.

melbournecelebrants.com.au

A black and white portrait of a couple on their wedding day, her head resting on his shoulder. Kinda chic to only invite the person you are actually marrying.

A newly married couple standing beneath the sails of the Sydney Opera House.

The Sydney Celebrant

— Personal, unscripted wedding ceremonies across Sydney, the Blue Mountains and New South Wales, with the legal work, vow support and professional audio handled.

thesydneycelebrant.com.au

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A newly married couple kissing while holding martinis. Kinda chic to finish your ceremony and immediately order a martini.

A couple embracing on a clifftop at golden hour above a forested valley. Kinda chic to say your vows with mountain views instead of a reception schedule.

The cover of Volcanic Winter, a novel by Mark Rutherford.

Volcanic Winter, by Mark Rutherford

— When a plan to combat climate change threatens life on Earth, one man has seven days to stop it.

markrutherfordwrites.com

Advertisement for Wedding Computer: what if all of the wedding vendors, the planner, the venue and the couple were all reading from the same sheet?

New South Wales

Newcastle Marriage Office

— Affordable, registry-style marriages in Newcastle and the Hunter: the paperwork, a celebrant and two witnesses, without a reception attached.

marriageoffice.net.au

New South Wales

Sydney Marriage Office

— Cheap, simple registry-style marriages in Sydney for couples who want the legal part done properly and nothing else booked.

marriageoffice.sydney

Victoria

Melbourne Marriage Office

— Cheap, simple paperwork-only marriages in Melbourne. A private celebrant, a short ceremony, and the certificate at the end of it.

marriageoffice.melbourne

Queensland

Brisbane Marriage Office

— A low-cost, registry-style marriage service for Brisbane couples who want the legal bits without the wedding around them.

themarriageoffice.com

New South Wales

Byron Bay Marriage Office

— Simple, low-cost paperwork marriages in Byron Bay and the Northern Rivers, for two people and a couple of witnesses.

byronbaymarriageoffice.com.au

Queensland

Gold Coast Marriage Office

— Simple, affordable paperwork-only marriages on the Gold Coast. Book a time, bring your witnesses, and be married in about ten minutes.

goldcoastmarriageoffice.com.au

Queensland

Mackay Marriage Office

— Low-cost, paperwork-only marriages in Mackay and the Whitsundays region of central Queensland.

mackayweddings.au

Queensland

Sunshine Coast Marriage Office

— Simple paperwork-only marriages for Noosa and the Sunshine Coast, without a venue, a guest list or a run sheet.

sunshinecoastwedding.directory

Queensland

Townsville Marriage Office

— Low-cost paperwork-only marriages in Townsville and across North Queensland.

townsvillewedding.au

South Australia

Adelaide Marriage Office

— A low-cost, paperwork-only marriage service in Adelaide: the legal ceremony, the signatures and the certificate.

adelaidemarriageoffice.au

Western Australia

Perth Marriage Office

— An affordable registry-style marriage service in Perth and Fremantle for couples who want the marriage and not the production.

themarriageoffice.au

Tasmania

Hobart Marriage Office

— Affordable registry-style marriages in Hobart, at 163 Macquarie Street. Short, legal and done in a morning.

marriageoffice.org

Tasmania

Launceston Marriage Office

— Affordable registry-style marriages in Launceston and the north of Tasmania.

marriageoffice.org

ACT

Canberra Marriage Office

— Helpful, budget-friendly paperwork-only marriages in Canberra and the ACT.

canberramarriageoffice.com.au

Northern Territory

Darwin Marriage Office

— Low-cost registry-style marriages in Darwin and the Top End.

darwinmarriageoffice.au

The Internet, by Josh Withers

— A web development studio building websites for small Australian service businesses that need a modern site: fast, plainly written, and built to be found and quoted by search and answer engines as readily as by a person.

theinternet.com.au

Lodging your Notice of Intended Marriage

— Every Australian marriage needs a Notice of Intended Marriage lodged with the celebrant at least a month before the day, and it is the step couples get wrong or leave too late. NOIM Easy walks you through filling it in and getting it witnessed.

Getting married at the centre of the country

— Which locations at Uluru and Kata Tjuta permit a ceremony, who travels out to the Red Centre to run one, and where your guests stay at Yulara.

uluruwedding.com.au

Wedding people worth recommending

— A national directory for when the search is not tied to one town. Good Wedding Directory lists suppliers across Australia by what they do, rather than by the suburb they happen to sit in.

goodweddingdirectory.com

Thinking about eloping instead

— Elopement is the Australian guide to getting married without the wedding: what the paperwork actually needs, what it costs, where you can legally hold a ceremony for two, and the celebrants and photographers who only do this.

Officiants

— An international directory of wedding celebrants filed by destination — Tuscany, Santorini, Bali, the Cotswolds — with what each one charges and where they travel, for when the ceremony is somewhere you do not live.

officiants.directory