Pride Ceremonies®
by Jennifer Cram, Civil Partnership Notary and Celebrant
by Jennifer Cram, Civil Partnership Notary and Celebrant
Celebrating 12 years of providing relaxed, entertaining, non-traditional ceremonies for the LGBTIQ community, initially under the banner of GL-Unions, the first celebrant in Australia to provide a dedicated website focusing on the needs of same-sex couples. Rebranded in 2009 as Pride Ceremonies.
Pride Ceremonies® is owned and operated by Jennifer Cram, voted Queensland's #1 Marriage Celebrant - Winner, ABIA Awards 2013
LOVE WON! SAME SEX
MARRIAGE LEGAL IN AUSTRALIA FROM 9 DECEMBER.
Here's what you need to do
Here's what you need to do
- You have to give Notice of your intention to
marry to your celebrant at least a full calendar
month before the big day using the official Notice of
Intended Marriage
- You have show your celebrant proof of your date and place of birth (birth certificate or passport), together with photo ID.
- If either of you has been married before you have to show proof of how that marriage ended (divorce or death certificate)
- You have to sign a Declaration of No Legal Impediment to Marriage quite close to the big day
- On the day you have to have two adult witnesses present. They do not have to be Australian citizens or residents.
- Your celebrant still has to recite a passage
from the Marriage Act which includes the legal
definition of marriage, which now reads "the union
of two people"
- You have to say certain words to create the marriage
- You, your witnesses and the celebrant have to sign the Register and the certificates