Joyful Occasions Celebrant

18/06/2025

Embalming - what’s it all about?

Full embalming is required by law in NSW if the deceased is being put into an above ground burial or to be sent overseas on a repatriation. Here's what the process actually looks like.

07/05/2025

1st visit to MacArthur Memorial Park, Varroville with its state of the art chapels and technology

07/05/2025

Want an extra special wedding cake?

Gillian BELL travels the world to bake wedding cakes and includes local ingredients.

Gillian has the best job in the world — baking sumptuous and heartfelt wedding cakes, using foraged and fresh produce to tell a couple's story through taste, texture and fragrance. Cake has been a staple in Gillian's life, through immigration, adventure and loss. (R) Her motto is 'has whisk, will ...

28/04/2025

Nice to know I put sunshine in some lives!

18/04/2025

Easter 2025 - always a busy time for weddings, but on Good Friday, I decided that coffee, a hot cross bun and some quiet time to complete my official 2025 Marriage Celebrant Ongoing Professional Development.

The topics of knowledge of law and real consent was interesting and thought provoking. Completed in under the anticipated two hours. TICK!

15/04/2025

Tony grew over 400 varieties of crysthamisums - RIP beautiful man

13/04/2025

Wedding cakes can be whatever you want them to be!

09/04/2025

As a journalist and former crisis manager, I am used to thinking on my feet. In wedding ceremony discussions, I offer advice to reduce risks to ensure a perfect ceremony.

No 1 tip if the ceremony is outdoors - always have a backup wet weather plan.

Here’s how one SA couple’s wedding day panned out …

Jade Jensen had been meticulously planning her nuptials for a year – but nothing could have prepared her for everything that went wrong on the day.

28/03/2025

TIP! Always have a wet weather ceremony plan!

It’s one thing you cannot control!

Breathe - rain on your wedding day washes away past lives ready for your new lives as partners for life!

22/03/2025

An elopement style wedding this morning! And a little rain to wash away past lives ready for their entwined lives!

22/03/2025

Out Celebranting today and couldn’t resist a pic of this pink frangapani tree!

21/03/2025

It’s Harmony Day! Love our diversity! This weekend I have great diversity with couple from different cultures - they share so much resource and warmth about their past, present and futures