Perth Christian Marriage Celebrant
Hello!
As a someone who values faith and who works as a Civil Celebrant in a full-time capacity, here in the City of Perth, WA I am very honoured to come alongside couples who wish to include faith elements into their services on their wedding day.
If you’ve landed on this page, and faith isn’t for you, please don’t panic, I marry loads of couples from all walks of life and they can attest to the fact that I’m not going to ram my faith down your throat.
A little about my faith journey…
Having starting my life at Mt Hawthorn Baptist Church, it was in my late 20 & 30’s that I called Claremont Baptist Church home, and it was here that I met my gorgeous husband of 20 years, Iain!
We spent a couple of years attending Westcity Church in Wembley, before I joined the staff team at Riverview Church for 10 years. It was at Riverview that I oversaw the Children’s Foundation, and made lifelong friends with international partners who seek to ‘Rescue, Protect, and Empower’ vulnerable people.
While no longer in this role, my heart is very much still for the people of Cambodia, India, Rwanda, Tanzania and Timor Leste, and I continue to support projects personally in these countries.
Becoming a full-time Celebrant in 2022, my family, and I, now call Nations Church, in Myaree home.
I love to ‘give back’ and do this by serving as a Board member of Regent College and advocating for the urban poor in the developing world.
How can we include our faith into our ceremony?
You may choose to include readings from the bible, some of my favourite passages are include below.
An opening prayer, or a prayer of blessing. If your parents share your faith, one lovely idea is to have them come and stand with you after you’ve been pronounced as married, and have your parents pray a blessing over your marriage.
You might like to include a time of worship, or congregational singing, or have someone sing a song that is important to you as your sign the legal documents.
There are so many ways we can include faith…
Meet Dorothy and Hassan…
Their initial enquiry…
We are both a filipina-african couple who loves Jesus. We wanted our wedding ceremony glorifying God.
I have asked some recommendations from the page All About Weddings Perth and heaps of people recommended you.
Their post wedding review…
I don’t know where to start because Amanda has been so great towards us from the start of the planning until the very end.
She is organised and a very detailed Celebrant. Also, she made us go for how we want our Ceremony to be like and she doesn’t mind at all!
Knowing for a fact that we are Christians, the Ceremony is the most important part for us and the fact that she wants us to be happy for our big day is what makes us so glad to have her. Very calming and peaceful voice.
Very professional. She also gave us not just our marriage certificate but a little gift which we were both so happy to have! Overall, I highly recommend her for being a Celebrant. I am so glad that you marry Hassan & I, Amanda. Highly recommend you!
Some of my favourite bible passages about LOVE!
1 Corinthians 13: 3 - 8
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
Matthew 19: 4 - 6
“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator “˜made them male and female,' and said, “˜For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
Ecclesiastes 4: 9 - 12
Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their labour:
If either of them falls down,
one can help the other up.
But pity anyone who falls
and has no one to help them up.
Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.
But how can one keep warm alone?
Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
Meet me
If this all sounds great, let’s get a G&T or a coffee together.