Booking terms and conditions

Last updated 9 November 2026. These terms are also printed on every invoice.

In short

A non-refundable booking fee of 30% confirms your date.
The balance is due at least 45 days before your ceremony.
If your ceremony hasn't started within 45 minutes of the scheduled time, we may need to reschedule it.
If your ceremony won't go ahead with us and you've paid only the booking fee, we can transfer your Notice of Intended Marriage to another celebrant for $155.

These terms apply when you book a ceremony or other service with Sydney Marriage Celebrant (Ange Teulon, authorised marriage celebrant A21283, or Michael Teulon, authorised marriage celebrant A6330). "We" means your celebrant and Sydney Marriage Celebrant; "you" means the couple.
Your date and time are reserved once we have received a non-refundable booking fee of 30% of your total fees. Until then, we can't hold the date for you.
The booking fee covers the time we reserve for you, which means turning other couples away for that date, and the work we do from the moment you book, including preparing and receiving your Notice of Intended Marriage.
The balance of your fees is due no later than 45 days before your ceremony. If you book within 45 days of your ceremony, the full amount is due when you book.
If you chose an in-person first meeting, the $155 meeting fee is credited towards your booking.
All prices are in Australian dollars and include GST. Your invoice sets out exactly what is included.
If the balance has not been paid by its due date, we will remind you. If it is still unpaid 7 days after the reminder, we may treat the booking as cancelled by you.

Please tell us about any cancellation or change of date in writing, by email.
The booking fee is non-refundable in all cases where you cancel or change your plans.
If you cancel more than 45 days before your ceremony, we will refund any amount you have paid above the booking fee. If you cancel within 45 days of your ceremony, fees paid are not refundable, because we are unlikely to be able to rebook the date.
If you would like to move your ceremony to another date, we will do our best to help. If we are available on the new date, your payments carry across. If we are not available, the change is treated as a cancellation.
If your ceremony will not go ahead with us and you have paid only the booking fee, we can transfer your Notice of Intended Marriage to another authorised celebrant for a transfer fee of $155, so you don't need to lodge a new notice or restart the one-month notice period.

Please arrive on time. If your ceremony has not started within 45 minutes of the scheduled start time, for reasons outside our control, we reserve the right to reschedule it to another time or date. This is because we may have other ceremonies booked that day. Rescheduling in these circumstances is not a cancellation by us, and fees paid are not refunded.
Unless your package says otherwise, you are responsible for your venue, any council or park permits, and a wet-weather plan. Please let us know of any change of location as early as possible, and at least two hours before the ceremony.
We take care of everything we are responsible for, but we cannot accept liability for loss, damage or injury caused by guests or by conditions at the venue.

We conduct every marriage in line with the Marriage Act 1961, the Marriage Regulations 2017 and the Code of Practice for Commonwealth-registered marriage celebrants. Some words must be said in every ceremony; we will work with you on everything else.
Your Notice of Intended Marriage must be received by your celebrant at least one month, and no more than 18 months, before your ceremony. Only a prescribed authority can approve a shorter notice period; your celebrant cannot.
Before the ceremony you must provide original evidence of date and place of birth, photo identification, and, if either of you has been married before, evidence of how that marriage ended. Two witnesses aged 18 or over must be present.
If your marriage cannot legally go ahead because required documents or information have not been provided, the ceremony is treated as cancelled by you.
After the ceremony we send your marriage documents to the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages within 14 days, as the law requires. The official marriage certificate is ordered from the Registry, which charges its own fee.

In the unlikely event that your celebrant cannot attend because of illness or an emergency, we will arrange another authorised celebrant to conduct your ceremony, wherever possible from within Sydney Marriage Celebrant.
If we cannot provide a replacement celebrant, we will refund all fees you have paid, including the booking fee.

We collect and keep your personal information only to plan and solemnise your marriage and to meet our legal obligations, including keeping marriage records for the period the law requires. See our privacy statement.

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or changes any right you have under the Australian Consumer Law.
The terms that apply to your booking are the ones in place when you paid your booking fee. They are printed on your invoice.