Marriage, Naming & Funeral Celebrant - Dr Kim Jewel Elliott AC JP

Marriage, Naming & Funeral Celebrant - Dr Kim Jewel Elliott AC JP Whatever your dream day is, I would love to craft a ceremony that helps you have a personal and memorable wedding. Full of love and about what matters to you!

Kim (she/her) Seasoned, thoughtful and authentic. When I'm not officiating beautiful ceremonies you'll find me walking in the forest, napping by the sea, trying new restaurants, soaking up an art gallery or talking about shoes. As a warm, calm, creative and organised Celebrant, I enjoy crafting and delivering ceremonies that will give you cherished memories. I love to write and specialise in weddi

ngs, elopements, civil unions, funerals and memorials. I have performed weddings on land, sea and air within NZ territory. If your preference is to marry in Australia, I can connect you with trustworthy Celebrants in Tasmania and NSW. Whoever you love, whoever you honour, whatever way you want to wed, I'd be delighted to celebrate your unique and vaulable relationship. In a happy cross-cultural marriage myself, I support inclusion. Based on the serene waters of Orakei Basin, Central Auckland, I also offer elopements and registry-style weddings from home. Look forward to hearing from you, Kim

ps, While I'll happily travel anywhere in Aotearoa New Zealand for you, most often I'm in Auckland, Waiheke Island, Northland, Coromandel, Waikato and the Bay of Plenty. Be in touch! [email protected]
027 227 5091

20/06/2026

The wedding professionals you choose, your venue, your Celebrant, your photographer, your florist etc, do so much work behind the scenes. All the magic of the day doesn't just appear in the short time guests are gathered together, it's an incremental process of unseen work by many people, to bring your wedding vision to life. Make sure you choose good people!

- Last month I attended a professional development workshop at Te Haerenga, the Onehunga High School Marae. The works...
17/06/2026

- Last month I attended a professional development workshop at Te Haerenga, the Onehunga High School Marae. The workshop was run by Celebrants Aotearoa New Zealand and was all about rituals in ceremonies.

We each shared rituals we incorporated in wedding ceremonies, such as drinking kava, pouring arras coins, broom jumping, candlelighting, sand mixing, handfasting, ringwarming, drinking whiskey from a quaich and red thread tying.

I shared my water ritual for wedding ceremonies and there are many others, like the first anniversary wine box, breaking a glass and the seven circles around a fire!

These small rituals within a ceremony help make it personal and unique to you. As long as it's meaningful in some way of course, no need to do any of them if they don't mean anything to you!

13/06/2026

I love Love and supporting couples on the journey to their wedding day. Your wedding ceremony is the only aspect of the day that makes it a wedding - if everything else disappeared, decorations, cake, music, photos, flowers, rings, reception etc, you'd still be legally married with a wedding ceremony!

Yes there are small legalities to include, but mostly you can do whatever you want to do. Since you need a wedding ceremony to be married, let me show you how beautiful and meaningful one can be 💍❤️

– Grace and Eddy married in the Springtime, 6th October at elegant Kauri Bay Auckland in Clevedon. They had seen me o...
09/06/2026

– Grace and Eddy married in the Springtime, 6th October at elegant Kauri Bay Auckland in Clevedon. They had seen me officiate two other weddings and sought me out for their own wedding. I was so delighted by that!

Wedding gems :

We wrote happily over many months to get their beautiful ceremony just right for them. It was a bilingual ceremony, with their friend Jin translating everything into Korean. We wrote the happy couple’s lovely love story, of how they met because Eddy’s sister Julie decided to sort his romantic life out. She knew he was a good guy and so she arranged for him to meet the right person, exactly 10 years and a day before their wedding ceremony. The wedding proposal happened the previous year while on holiday in Switzerland, in a picturesque wee village close to the mountains. Eddy secretly asked approval beforehand from Grace’s father to propose, and Grace’s mother helped by finding out her finger size for the ring. A holiday photo shoot was already planned, so Eddy messaged the Swiss photographer and explained it would be something much more.

On their wedding day Leaf and Honey dressed the elegant square arch with pink and white blossom branches, roses and orchids. Wearing traditional pink and blue hanbok, the mothers of the bride and groom brought forward the wedding rings to be given to their child’s partner, as a symbol of support for the marriage. Big coloured bubbles poured from the bubble machines as the newlyweds walked back down the aisle, through the cheers and laughter of their family and friends.

It was a celebration filled with great love, and the vibrant, joyful, new beginnings energy of Spring. May that fresh happiness always be with you Grace and Eddy.



[A note on wedding fashion. I appreciate and respect that the aesthetic of a wedding can be very important to couples. While I am no supermodel, I do offer couples the option of choosing what I wear on their wedding day, so they can be sure in advance of my look. Grace and Eddy selected a full length silk dahlia dress by Juliette Hogan. Culturally appropriate, fitting with the season and modest]

📷 Bek Smith

06/06/2026

The Grotto is a small patch of native bush, originally planted in 1997 with further plantings in 2005, located on the southern side of Cornwall Park.

It is perfect for small wedding ceremonies of 5 – 20 people, covered with dappled light and greenery. You can see from the video why it is often known by park visitors as the fairy garden or the secret garden!

Just outside the fenced Grotto at the top, opposite the archery club, is a large grassed lawn that is perfect for larger ceremonies with more native trees and views out to surrounding Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. There are park facilities close by including free parking, toilets and water fountains.

29/05/2026

Whatever has meaning to you, we can incorporate it into your ceremony. I created a water ritual, representing care and the water that runs through us all. Some common rituals including candle lighting, champagne toast, sand mixing, ringwarming, prayer and petal sprinkling. Handfasting, broom jumping, arras coins, drinking whisky from the quaich, and tying the red thread are wonderful rituals! There are many more you can choose to include in your wedding, just tell me what matters in your life! 💕

- It was a delight to marry Brianna and Daniel on 26th September at Kumeu Valley Estate This Maori/Australian couple ...
26/05/2026

- It was a delight to marry Brianna and Daniel on 26th September at Kumeu Valley Estate This Maori/Australian couple live in Waikato, but chose to marry in Auckland as most of their family were up here. And of course they loved this rustic green venue, with an abundance of pink cherry blossom in the Springtime!

Wedding gems:

Held in the forest, their chosen wedding ceremony began with an acknowledgement of departed loved ones, remembered with our words as well as photos and flowers on chairs up the front. We then took time to connect the people present, recognising that the love between the couple also brought their families together as one, and that this ceremony formalised that connection.

Amidst flickering candles, pretty flowers and white swathe arch styling by Bella, Brianna and Daniel shared their heartfelt vows and then exchanged wedding rings in te reo Maori.

As the guests rose to toast the happy couple with champagne at the end, the big bell in the bell tower on the property rang in celebration. Bell ringing at weddings is an Irish tradition from the 16th Century. In those times wedding guests brought along small bells to ring at the end of the ceremony, to wish the couple good luck and prosperity in their marriage and to ward off any potential evil spirits. The joyful sound of wedding bells is a rare service that this country venue is able to offer.

Congratulations Mr and Mrs Larmour! Celebrated by whanau, forest and the languages and traditions of your ancestors, you are well and truly married in all ways. Wishing you love, light and spring blossom in all your decades ahead!

📸 Chris Turner Photo + Video

[A note on wedding style - I appreciate that the aesthetic of a wedding can be very important to couples. So much planning goes into your big day and I respect that. While no supermodel, I do offer couples the option of choosing what I wear on their wedding day, so they can be sure of a coordinated look. Brianna and Daniel selected a pinky peach silk dress by NZ Designer twenty-seven names. Woodland themed, colour matched and long-sleeved for the spring chill!]

22/05/2026

Getting out of the car, far behind your guests, behind trees and a big barrel, before you commence your walk down the aisle to the pergola at Kumeu Valley Estate


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