Celebrant & Ceremonialist — Geelong, Bellarine & Surf Coast
Weddings, funerals, renewals and the moments in between. I bring the legal words, a lot of heart and a little sugar and spice, so your day feels like yours.
"A ceremony is time. A space to pause and honour the life event in front of you. A mark on your heart and soul."
Our lives hold sacred moments and light ones, grief and hilarity, ups, downs and everything between. Those chapters shape your ceremony, whatever kind it is.
As a Commonwealth Registered Celebrant, I marry you and your partner and handle the legal paperwork, so your love is recognised by law in Australia. That's one part of the role, and an important one. The other part is building a ceremony around your story and bringing it to life.
With a background in holistic counselling and a lot of life lived across different careers, one thing stays true for me, for you and for everyone on the planet: we need to share our stories. My role is bringing yours to life in celebration.
Contact me for a no-obligation chat, and we'll see what unfolds.
Choose the ceremony
Four ways I walk alongside people, and countless ways each one gets shaped around you.
Yes, I marry you. The both of you, any kind of the both of you. I bring energy and personality to your story, with humour and heart. Warm, engaged, and a little cheeky.
Packages from $500 →Death is part of life, and often hard to talk about. A send-off holds sadness, since a loved one has passed, and beauty, since it's a chance to remember and celebrate how they lived. Your choice, your loved one, a ceremony fitting for them.
From $750Full of joy and good times. Renewing your vows means you're deeply in love, and that deserves celebration. You're telling each other, and the world, "I love you more now than I ever have."
From $700Commitment ceremonies, pet memorials, and the Reclamation Ceremony for life endings and divorce, honouring an ending with the same weight as a beginning, so you move forward lighter.
Wedding packages
From the kitchen-table legals to the full ceremony with every ritual. Pick a starting point, then we'll shape it around you.
Kitchen, coffee shop or the park. The two of you, your witnesses and me. Only the legal words, and a lot of love.
Travel over 30km incurs a fee.
When you don't want "everything" but want a few magic touches sprinkled through. Ceremony time: around 10 to 15 minutes.
Travel over 50km incurs a fee.
With you both from start to finish, weaving a ceremony filled with every emotion that matters to you.
Travel over 50km incurs a fee.
My story
I love connecting with people, connecting people to each other, and helping people connect to their own stories, then bringing those stories to life.
I bring a huge bag of tips, tricks and talents to the role. For me, it's all about the feeling and all about your story. I weave that together, add sugar and spice, then let the ceremony unfold, whether it's a wedding, a funeral, a renewal or one of the many other ceremonies that mark a chapter closing or opening.
Servicing areas
Servicing Melbourne, Geelong, Bellarine and the Surf Coast in Victoria. Outside these areas? Get in touch and we'll work out the details.
FAQs
Absolutely. Love is love. As long as a couple meets the legal requirements to marry, I'm honoured to officiate the ceremony.
A registered Civil Celebrant walks couples through the legal requirements of marriage and makes sure every required step happens, so the ceremony stands as legally binding.
A registered Civil Celebrant performs wedding ceremonies recognised under Australian law. Someone offering a ceremony without registration as a marriage celebrant provides a ceremony without legal standing. Have a look through the ceremony options above for what each one includes.
Everything, from elopements and small weddings to celebrations with 100 or more guests. Kitchens, chapels, the beach, the backyard, wherever holds meaning for you. I draw the line at jumping out of a plane.
Yes. Your own voice matters here. I help with vows whenever it's useful, and the words stay yours.
Yes, across weddings, funerals and other ceremonies. I want your own voice and style carried through the ceremony, and my role is weaving those pieces together into the whole.
Weddings. Funerals, memorials and celebrations of life. Renewal of vows. Commitment ceremonies. Pet memorials. Life endings, divorce and reclamation ceremonies.
The prices shown across this site are starting points. Final cost depends on the ceremony, location, travel and what your day needs. Get in touch for a no-obligation conversation, and we'll work out the details together.
A ritual is an action marking a moment within a ceremony, think candle lighting, a rose ceremony, handfasting or a sand ceremony. Rituals sit in everyday life too. Feeding the cat and the first coffee of the morning count as rituals in my house.
Get in touch
No-obligation chat, face to face or online, so we work out if I'm the right fit for your day.
nataliejaneceremonies@gmail.com