What's New?
If you’re planning a wedding celebration, you won’t want to miss this exclusive cocktail evening on Saturday 5 May 2012 at The Lane Vineyard nestled in the heart of the Adelaide Hills.
RSVP Tuesday 1st May 2012 phone 8388 1250
What else is new?
Three exciting alternatives to the traditional weekend marriage celebrations!
Registry Office Style Weekday Weddings - anywhere!
Why not
Marry on Monday
Tie the knot on Tuesday
Wed on Wednesday
Thumbs up for Thursday
Now there's the added option of celebrating your love for one another in a Registry Office style Weekday Wedding but without the less-than-romantic experience of queuing for your wedding in a one-size-fits-all-ceremony.
With Merrilyn at CelebrateLife! you can choose a warm, happy, intimate, heartfelt Registry Office Style Weekday Wedding ceremony that incudes your own personal ideals and marriage vows.
You choose the time from Monday to Thursday, from dawn 'til late! (sorry, excluding New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day)
You might choose a small celebration with your nearest and dearest, or maybe a romantic elopement with only your two witnesses and with me as your celebrant!
My fee for a Registry Office Style Weekday Wedding - anywhere - is $350.00
Please note that an additional travel fee applies for venues further than 30 kms from my office in Littlehampton.
COMPARE THE SERVICES OFFERED BY THE REGISTRY OFFICE
with a
REGISTRY OFFICE STYLE WEEKDAY WEDDING WITH MERRILYN
Registry Office Wedding Services or Registry Office Style Ceremony with Merrilyn
Restricted to Monday - Friday 10 am - 4.30 pm / Monday-Thursday 24/7 incl most public holidays
Restricted to Chesser House / Anywhere
Standard marriage ceremony / Personal ceremony with your input
Proscribed vows / Personal vows
Potential parking problems and fees / No parking issues
Seating for 30 guests + standing room / Maximum of 40 guests incl bride and groom
Can bring your own music or musicians / Same
No dress code / Same
No rehearsal / Same
$235.00 for Registry Office Wedding Services
$350.00 for Registry Office Style Weekday Weddings with Merrilyn : so many more choices!
Email Merrilyn to discuss how this magic happens!
For an even more special wedding destination
consider this alternative
Registry Office Style Weekday Weddings
in the Adelaide Hills
Celebrate the beginning of the next chapter in your lives as marriage partners in a Registry Office Style Weekday Wedding in the Adelaide Hills.
With Merrilyn at CelebrateLife! you can choose a warm, happy, intimate, heartfelt Registry Office Style Weekday Wedding Ceremony in the Adelaide Hills that incudes your own personal ideals and marriage vows.
You choose the time from Monday to Thursday, from dawn 'til late! (sorry, excluding New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day)
You choose the place - within the heart of the Adelaide Hills. Think about celebrating in your own home, at a restaurant or cafe, in a park or a forest, in a winery, in your (big) tinnie on the dam - the list of possibilities is endless.
My office is in Littlehampton and, as an added service, I travel to places within the boundary outlined on the map below - at no extra cost to you! You'll be amazed at how many options there are within 30 km radius of Littlehampton!

1. Strathalbyn
2. Monarto South
3. Harrogate
4. Mt Torrens
5. Birdwood
6. Gumeracha
7. Cudlee Creek
8. Cherryville
9. Norton Summit
10. Mt Lofty Summit
11. Crafers
12. Stirling
13. Cherry Gardens
14. Meadows
I'm pleased to recommend a number of superb cafes, restaurants and boutique wineries within the boundary to host your special Registry Office Style Adelaide Hills Weekday Wedding.
Here are a few teasers ... more to come!
And have you thought about this alternative?
Wonderful Warm Winter Weddings
especially designed for couples who don't want
either a Registry Office Style Weekday Wedding
or the big celebration with all the bells and whistles,
but who do want a warm, relaxed, intimate and elegant ceremony.
It's another exciting option - exclusive to CelebrateLife!
Think about stepping outside the traditional and the predictable and into a Wonderful Warm Winter Wedding.
Consider an early morning ceremony followed by a gourmet breakfast or brunch, a late morning ceremony followed by a delicious lunch, or even an early afternoon ceremony with a scrumptious afternoon tea to follow.
Or if you wish, combine your meal with the ceremony and say 'I do' between mains and dessert!
Imagine this ......... it's a cold crisp winter's day at one of the stunning Adelaide Hills Boutique Wineries. The fog is swirling through the vines, now dormant after the harvest. It's quiet, beautiful, inspiring and enervating .... and refreshingly chilly!
Inside there's a roaring log fire, a couple of deep soft leather couches inviting you to curl up with the love of your life, sharing fine food, washed down with a glass or two of your favourite wine. It might be red or white, still or bubbly.
To celebrate your marriage invite your intimate circle of friends to join you ... or not!
Include them as participants in your ceremony ... or not!
Listen to the rhythm of the rain as you hold hands, look into each other's eyes and speak your vows of love and commitment.
My name is Merrilyn Williams. I'm an experienced and professional Civil Marriage Celebrant living and working here in the beautiful Adelaide Hills. I can help you to make an ordinary day into an extra-ordinary day filled with rich and lasting memories to treasure!
We work together to create your ceremony which really and truly is all about you! Reminisce about how you met, recall the important things that have happened, big and small, since you began to share your lives. Re-tell your favourite stories. Let there be laughter and tears. Talk about your hopes and dreams for your future and then, when you're ready, you marry each other.
It's a new and wonderfully refreshing way to celebrate your togetherness. It's intimate, relaxed, joyful, romantic, exciting, imaginative and different ... and I'm here to help you. Of course there are requirements which must be fulfilled for your marriage to be legally recognised .. that'll be my job too!
Embrace the winter as a time of contemplation and rejuvenation; a time to celebrate relationships and what's important in your life; a time to share with your nearest and dearest your joy at finding each other as you publicly declare that you will live together as marriage partners.
Your fabulous and vibrant, warm and engaging marriage ceremony is my business!
If any of these alternatives fit your wedding day vision, go to the contacts page and tell me your plans!
or pick up the phone!

