Vow Writing Service

Anyone can offer services to write your vows. There are no qualification or credential requirements and no oversight apart from basic consumer protections.

So why do I make a big deal of being an active registered marriage celebrant?

Simple, really. Because I am immersed in the totality of the ceremony, I understand the role of your vows, and how they integrate with the rest of the ceremony. And that guarantees a better result. For you. And for your guests.

👉 In case you are wondering, failing to pay the annual fee that Australian Celebrants are required to pay for the privilege of delivering a core government service - legal marriage - is the only thing for which Celebrant must be automatically deregistered

Witnesses. They are not just a legal requirement. They have an important social role.

Your vows are meant to be heard with the ears and the heart. Write like you speak. Not like you’d write an essay or an office memo!

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Everyone getting married in a secular marriage ceremony in Australia must say, out loud, the statement that creates the marriage.

It’s called The Legal Vows. And embedded in it is a word that comes direct to us from Old Norse, the language spoken by the Vikings.

As someone who has a generous sprinkling of Viking genes, that gives me goosebumps!

Can you guess which word it is?

“I ask everyone here to witness that I (Name) take you (Name) to be my lawful wedded (wife/husband/spouse/partner-in-marriage)”

Answer in first comment.

Not performative on the day, nor performative every day thereafter, your vows are your commitment to acts of love and kindness that only your partner sees, the acts that strengthen a marriage and make it invincible.

When you write your own vows, you add promises that express your commitment to your marriage to the words that create your marriage.

The Law dictates the legal vows. Only your hearts can shape your personal promises. Which is why generic vows don’t hit in the same way.

Express the big commitments - to being loyal, faithful, and kind - in your own way. Authenticity creates feels better than perfect language!

Add an extra layer of drama to your vows by ceremoniously unwrapping them.

Card in an envelope, for example, or as I did for a couple whose marriage I solemnised recently, gatefold cards tied with ribbon.