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title: "Wedding celebrant, Tweed Coast | Best Ceremonies"
description: "Wedding celebrant at Kingscliff, Cabarita and Fingal Head. $950 midweek, $1,200 weekends, PA included, plus a Tweed Shire beach permit."
url: "https://bestceremonies.com.au/weddings/tweed-coast/"
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Wedding ceremonies · Tweed Coast · NSW

# Wedding celebrant, Tweed Coast

A full wedding on the Tweed Coast with Felicity Best is $950 Monday to Thursday and $1,200 Friday to Sunday, with a PA and wireless microphone included because Kingscliff, Cabarita and Fingal Head are all exposed. A beach or reserve also needs a Tweed Shire permit. Book six to twelve months out for a summer Saturday.

## What it costs on the Tweed Coast

| What you get                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Mon–Thu | Fri–Sun |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ------- |
| **Wedding ceremony**: Getting to know you both, a ceremony written to tell your love story, help with your vows, a rehearsal, PA and wireless microphone, arrival well before your guests, lodgement of your legal paperwork, your commemorative certificate. | $950    | $1,200  |
| **Friend officiates, celebrant does the legals**: The legal requirements taken care of, your ceremony prepared with you, coaching for the person you have chosen, everything done correctly on the day.                                                       | $950    | $1,200  |

Australian dollars, no GST. Travel within 80 km or an hour and a half of Murwillumbah is included, whichever gets you there; beyond both it is $1 per kilometre, round trip. Booking fee $250, which comes off the total. Witnesses supplied at $60 each. Council permits for beach and park ceremonies are booked and paid for directly with the council, and are not included. 

 The Tweed Coast is about 25 minutes from Murwillumbah. Travel within 80 km or an hour and a half of Murwillumbah is included; beyond that it is $1 per kilometre round trip. Allow about four months for a weekend date in season. 

Venues

## Where on the Tweed Coast

- Kingscliff
- Cabarita Beach
- Casuarina
- Pottsville
- Fingal Head
- Osteria
- Fins Plantation House
- Salt Beach

Ceremonies on public beaches, reserves and parks usually need a permit, which you book and pay for directly with the council or land manager. The requirements and fees vary between councils and sites, and they are not included in the ceremony fee. 

## Decide the wet weather plan in advance

Rain here arrives in short heavy bursts, so the plan is usually a delay rather than a relocation. Two things need deciding before the week of the wedding: where you would go, and who makes the call. A two hour window and one nominated person beats a group message at eleven in the morning.

Osteria and Fins Plantation House both have cover, the surf clubs along the coast take a ceremony at short notice, and most of the Kingscliff and Casuarina accommodation has a deck that holds thirty. A council permit buys a site at a time. Moving to private ground does not need one at all.

## Where the reception is, and what that decides

Most Tweed Coast weddings put the ceremony on sand and the reception somewhere with a kitchen, which means a transfer. Twenty minutes from Fingal Head to Kingscliff, ten from Cabarita to Casuarina: short enough that guests will drive it, long enough that it belongs on the invitation with a time against it.

Where one venue does both, the ceremony usually moves to their lawn or deck and the permit disappears. Osteria and Fins work that way, as do several of the Salt and Casuarina properties. It costs you the beach in the photographs and buys back an hour of the afternoon, and couples split about evenly on which is worth more.

## The paperwork, in NSW

 A ceremony on the Tweed Coast is recorded by the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, because a marriage is registered in the state it took place in. A standard certificate there is $70, and its own registry ceremony is $482 on a weekday. [What changes across the border](https://bestceremonies.com.au/getting-married-nsw-qld/), and [the NOIM in full](https://bestceremonies.com.au/noim/). 

Questions

## Questions people ask

How much is a wedding celebrant at Kingscliff?

$950 on a weekday and $1,200 Friday to Sunday for a full personalised ceremony, with no travel charge, because Kingscliff is inside the included ring. Most Tweed Coast celebrants charge in the same band, and mine sits in the middle of it.

Can we marry at Salt Beach or Casuarina?

Yes, with a council permit. Both are Tweed Shire reserves with formal booking, and the beach access points at Casuarina are narrow enough that the exact site matters, so a look at it before you book a photographer is worth the drive. Osteria and Fins are the usual wet weather fallbacks nearby.

## Nearby

- [Everything in Tweed Coast](https://bestceremonies.com.au/areas/tweed-coast/)
- [Wedding ceremonies — prices and what is included](https://bestceremonies.com.au/weddings/)

Get in touch

## Check my date

Send the date, or the season, and where for wedding ceremonies on the Tweed Coast. I will tell you whether it is free and exactly what it costs. No obligation.

[0400 110 959](tel:+61400110959)

[felicity@bestceremonies.com.au](mailto:felicity@bestceremonies.com.au)

Most days, 9am to 7pm.

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