Congratulations on your exciting wedding plans.
This is a very special time in your life and you deserve to have your day your way.
Planning a wedding has so many aspects that demand your attention and detailed decision making. It’s fairly easy to decide on colours, types of flowers, style of dress, etc. however, when it comes to the ceremony most people do not even know where to start.
Why Knot marriage officers Andred and Alison Hayward have nearly 30 years’ experience in creating and performing private wedding ceremonies for more than 6000 couples from over 30 countries.
We have a well-earned national and international reputation for providing a highly professional yet intimately personal and unique service for each couple.
Whether you are planning a large wedding or a simple “just the two of us” elopement, you can rely on us to make it memorable for you and your guests.
The ceremony should set the tone for the day and the mood for the party.
This is a very special time in your life and you deserve to have your day your way. Planning a wedding has so many aspects that demand your attention and detailed decision making. It’s fairly easy to decide on colours, types of flowers, style of dress, etc. however, when it comes to the ceremony most people do not even know where to start.
Why Knot marriage officers Andred and Alison Hayward have nearly 30 years’ experience in creating and performing private wedding ceremonies for more than 6000 couples from over 30 countries. We have a well-earned national and international reputation for providing a highly professional yet intimately personal and unique service for each couple.
Whether you are planning a large wedding or a simple “just the two of us” elopement, you can rely on us to make it memorable for you and your guests. The ceremony should set the tone for the day and the mood for the party.
Types of Wedding Ceremonies
Blessing
A Blessing is a comfortable combination of civil, religious and/or cultural elements. This may include prayers, meaningful readings or music.
Civil
A Civil ceremony is conducted without religious connotation. It follows the same general order of service. Readings and blessings are substituted with non-religious options.
Religious
A religious ceremony doesn’t need to be a “sermon”. An appropriate reading from the Bible or other Sacred writings along with seeking God’s blessing on your marriage, would constitute a religious ceremony.
Spiritual
A spiritual ceremony would merge most of the above options including readings from great writings like: The Prophet, Neale Donald Walsh, Shakespeare, Donne, etc.
Interfaith
Often, couples come from different faith backgrounds and neither have any objection to incorporating elements or “rituals” from the other’s faith. Eg: Jewish/Christian, Muslim/Christian, Catholic/Christian. These elements will add a richness to your ceremony without it feeling forced.
Same Sex (Civil Unions/Partnerships)
We have marriage officers who are fully licensed with the Department of Home Affairs to conduct Civil Unions for same sex couples or hetrosexual couples who do not wish to be married under the “old marriage act”.
What our clients say…
We wanted to take a moment to express our sincerest gratitude for the outstanding service you provided for our wedding day. Your dedication, professionalism, and attention to detail made a significant difference and truly exceeded our expectations.
Your commitment to ensuring that everything ran smoothly was remarkable. It’s not often that one encounters such a high level of service, and your exceptional work truly stood out. Your willingness to go above and beyond reflects a true passion for what you do, and it made a significant impact. Your kindness and the care you put into your service not only made our wedding day enjoyable but also memorable.
We genuinely appreciated it and I am extremely grateful for all that you have done.
Andred & Alison, you guys were the most incredible team to have with us on our wedding journey. From our first interaction you were warm and accommodating. Leading up to our wedding day you gave us the utmost attention & guidance and made sure everything was taken into consideration on the way we envisioned our day. Andred, on our wedding day we have never felt so comfortable and you made us & our guests get taken on a beautiful journey. The ceremony was everything we dreamed of and we are so grateful to you for marrying us and making it such a memorable day. THANK YOU
We would like to thank Alison for guiding us through the whole process. We were absolutely clueless about what needed to be done. She was most helpful from day one. On the day she was on time and well presented. She added a bit of herself to the “ceremony”, with some short and sweet words, which made our day/ceremony very special and she made us feel very comfortable.. We would highly recommend using Alison as a marriage officer.
We cannot express how happy we were with Andred being our officiator, we genuinely could not have asked for better! He spoke so incredibly well and the entire experience with Andred and Why Knot has been a seamless pleasure – which we are so incredibly grateful! I will be sure to put a Google and Facebook review up, as well as recommend Why Knot to anyone needing your services. 10/10 .