Celebrant · Murwillumbah & Tweed Valley · NSW
Celebrant, Murwillumbah & Tweed Valley
Murwillumbah is home for Felicity Best, a registered marriage celebrant, so there is no travel charge anywhere in the Tweed Valley and no minimum booking. Ceremonies here run from $650 for legals only to $1,200 for a full Saturday wedding. Tyalgum, Uki, Crystal Creek and the Tweed Regional Gallery are all inside twenty minutes, and a same week booking is usually possible midweek.
Venues
Places I've stood in the Tweed Valley.
- Wollumbin
- Tyalgum
- Uki
- Crystal Creek
- Crystal Creek Rainforest Retreat
- Tweed Regional Gallery
- Mount Warning Rainforest Park
Ceremonies in the Tweed Valley
Home prices, and no travel charge.
The Tweed Valley is home, so nothing carries a travel charge. Every price is published in full on the prices page.
The valley, practically
Murwillumbah sits on the floor of an eroded volcano, with Wollumbin at the western end of nearly every view. The roads out run twenty to forty minutes and all of them narrow as they climb: to Uki and Kyogle, to Tyalgum, to Chillingham and Numinbah, and down the river to Condong and the coast. After heavy rain some of them close, which is worth knowing when the ceremony is at four and half the guests are coming over the range.
Mobile coverage is good in town and unreliable above Uki or past Tyalgum. For anything in the upper valley the practical answer is a printed run sheet, a meeting point rather than a dropped pin, and one phone number that belongs to somebody already standing at the site.
What being local actually buys you
No travel charge anywhere in the shire, no minimum booking, and no half day of driving behind any of it. If you want me to look at a site before you commit to it, that is a twenty minute drive rather than a billable exercise, and I can usually take a midweek date at a week's notice because nothing has to be moved to make room for it.
It also means I know the Tweed Shire permit system rather than having to look it up: which reserves take ceremonies, which of them have parking, which get taken first for summer sunsets, and what the fee is before you ring the council, since you book and pay for it directly with them.
Which registry
A marriage in the Tweed Valley is registered in NSW by the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages: a standard certificate is $70 and its own registry ceremony $482 on a weekday. What differs across the border.
Questions
Questions people ask
- Do you charge travel in the Tweed Valley?
- No. Travel within 80 km or an hour and a half of Murwillumbah is included in every price, whichever gets you there, and the whole valley sits a long way inside it: Uki, Tyalgum, Stokers Siding, Burringbar, Crystal Creek and everything up to the base of Wollumbin. Past both rings I charge $1 per kilometre round trip.
- Where do people get married in the Tweed Valley?
- Private property is the most common answer here, because so many families have a paddock with Wollumbin in the background. After that: Crystal Creek Rainforest Retreat, the Tweed Regional Gallery grounds, the Tyalgum hall and the hinterland pubs, and the swimming holes above Uki for very small ceremonies.
- Do we need a permit to marry in the Tweed hinterland?
- On private property, no. In a Tweed Shire reserve, park or swimming hole, yes. The shire runs a booking system, and popular spots get taken months ahead. You book and pay for it directly with the shire.
Guides for Murwillumbah & Tweed Valley
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Send the date, or the season, and where for a ceremony in the Tweed Valley. I will tell you whether it is free and exactly what it costs. No obligation.
Most days, 9am to 7pm.