Your Big Day Journal
our journal, your wedding guide book
Let our Queenstown wedding celebrant journal become your ultimate wedding guide book. Our wedding blog posts include ceremony ideas and inspiration, vow writing tips and tricks, how-to guides on breaking wedding traditions, and real-life wedding stories and photos.
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Your top 6 wedding ceremony questions answered
Answers to your most important wedding ceremony questions answered: What is the wedding ceremony order? How long will it be? Wedding readings and more…
Wedding Ceremony Ideas & Inspiration
Some of our favourite wedding ceremony ideas to personalise your wedding day from the get go!
How To Include Missing Friends & Family In Your Wedding Ceremony
Some fun and easy ways to include loved ones from afar
How To Turn Your Queenstown Wedding into a Queenstown Elopement
Because a big wedding isn’t for everyone…
6 Ways To Elope in Queenstown – Winter 2020
How to make your Queenstown wedding dreams come true THIS winter!
Star Wars Wedding Vows
A Star Wars Day celebration! May the Force be with you…
5 Wedding Traditions and how to break them!
There are only a few things that your celebrant must include in your wedding ceremony… everything else is fair game!!
Real Stories: Postponing Your Queenstown or Wanaka Wedding due to Covid-19
Some true stories and what we can all learn from them…
Marriage Licence & Certificate Refunds Due To Covid-19
Our inside info on how to apply for your refund today
How to get your New Zealand Marriage Licence in 3 simple steps
Apply for your NZ marriage licence online from anywhere in the world! It’s about to get real… 💍
What to do if it rains on your Queenstown wedding day
It’s your Queenstown wedding day and the weather is crappy… what the hell are you supposed to do now?
Our Favourite YBD Wedding Dogs
Because your fur babies are part of the family too!