Wedding and Baby Naming celebrant performs ceremonies any day of the week, and will arrange an appointment location convenient for you, at no extra charge. 

Telephone: (07) 3283 8567, Mobile: 0415 324 982

PO Box 394, Redcliffe. Qld, 4020. 

Email: vlady_celebrant@ yahoo.com.au

Locating Lost Documents required for a legal marriage  

Locating lost documents which the Marriage Celebrant needs to sight before performing the wedding ceremony.

(a)    Birth certificates:  
Enquire at the State Registry office in the state of your birth.

(b)   Divorce documents:  
If the dissolution of your marriage took place before 1975 enquire at the Supreme Court where the dissolution took place.   The information will be available at the Family Law Court if the divorce took place after 1975.

(c)   Death certificate:    This will be available at the State Registry in the state where the death was registered.

State Registry Offices for Birth, Deaths, and Marriage Certificates:

ACT Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages: Phone (02) 6207 6444
N.S.W Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages: Phone 1300 655 236
NT Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages: Phone (08) 8999 6119
Qld: Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages: Phone (07) 3247 9203
SA: Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages: Phone (08) 82049599
TAS: Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages: Phone (03) 6233 3793 
Vic:Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages: Phone 1300 369 367
WA Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages: Phone (08) 264 1555

Birth Certificates for those born in United Kingdom
Registry Office of United Kingdom

Family Law Courts throughout Australia:
Website: Family Law Courts 

Supreme Courts:-

Australian Capital Territory
New South Wales
Northern Territory
Queensland http://www.courts.qld.gov.au
South Australia http://courts.sa.gov.au
Tasmania http://www.courts.tas.gov.au
Victoria http://www.supremecourt.vic.gov.au
Western Australia http://www.supremecourt.wa.gov.au

Person Born Overseas
If the necessary documents are not procurable by persons born overseas, they can complete a Statutory Declaration giving specific reasons why the documents are not available, have the Declaration witnessed and give it to the Celebrant instead of the documents. Find out more details, before downloading and completing your Statutory Declaration.

Changing your name after Marriage

Traditionally a wife changes her name to that of her husband once she gets married. There is no legal requirement that she does that, nor does she register the new name if she does decide to take her husband's name. 

However, if she takes her husband's name she will need to change her name on such things as her drivers licence and car registration, passport, bank accounts, superannuation, insurance policies, Medicare, private health funds, electoral enrolments, memberships, store accounts etc., When she contacts these various people she needs, for the purpose of identification, her Marriage Certificate, and a Birth Certificate.