Here’s an example of a good planning checklist
I see so many couples stressed out over unnecessary stresses at their wedding. Expectations set by family, friends, wedding magazines and the wedding industry. Scrap it all, throw away your old wedding checklist and get a real one. I might have over simplified the...
I’m a guest on the Wedded Podcast
Jenn and Steve Van Elk invited me onto their podcast, Wedded, a conversation about getting married and being married. We talked about a subject that I’m far too passionate about: getting married your way. Enjoy!
Missing Dave
My favourite thing about weddings is that they’re a rare sanctioned time for all of us to be real with each other. We say things we don’t normally say and talk about things we don’t normally talk about. We’re encouraging, honest, and again,...
Disgustingly awesome wedding vows
If you’re wondering what awesome and personal wedding vows look like then you need to put the rest of the world on hold for four minutes, click play, and get disgusted by Josh and Emma’s marriage ceremony at White Chapel Kalbar. The other photos in this...
How wedding planning by algorithm is like using sat nav
Driving around California this week following Google Maps’ directions I can see a similarity between satellite navigation and wedding planning. Locals driving around Los Angeles always know where to go, and they know all the major highways and routes. They’ve...
Please vote yes to make “Walk of Life” the only song that we can end a marriage ceremony on
I believe the traditional way of finishing a marriage ceremony with a song of your choosing, although it has worked well up until now, is a tradition that needs to end and all marriage ceremonies should end with Dire Straits’ ‘Walk of Life’. This...
16 for 2016
A little blog post throwback for year that was 2016 in the world of Josh and Britt.
Spoiler alert: it was awesome.
Note: There were 365 days of awesome in this year, to boil that down to 16 points was hard, so at least 349 people, elopements, weddings, events, and celebrations are missing, sorry!
Joel and Liezl partied at Sirromet!
Joel and Liezl were dead set on not having just another wedding, but on celebrating the creation of their own marriage. They wanted something real, and meaningful. It happened! Involving myself, Sydney’s Hannah Blackmore photography, Newcastle’s Light...
Can wedding dresses stop being a thing?
I’m sorry. The headline was designed to make you feel something. Designed to get you into the article, I really wanted you to read it! In the media world this kind of thing is called clickbait, but this article isn’t. There’s not even a top 10 list! The headline is...
Thinking about wedding creation differently
Creating and running an event is a skill worthy of a university degree. Seriously, people go to university for four years to learn the skills that you’re trying to enact in creating your own wedding. So apart from really good advice along the lines of “hire a wedding planner for the love of God and your own sanity”, I thought I’d put some thoughts of my own into a blog post about how you could take your wedding planning in a personal and intimate direction.
Creative ways to finance your wedding
As most wedding blog posts start, things aren’t as they used to be with more and more couples paying for their wedding on their own. Traditionally parents would pay the $30,000-60,000 bill but that came with all the negative aspects of your parents having far too much...
Who Cares Wins – Brisbane workshop
Full day workshop on Sunday, July 3, 2016 in Teneriffe, Brisbane This is a workshop for people that are in the business of care. It’s not a celebrants workshop, it’s not even really a wedding industry workshop, although if you’re in the wedding...
I’m interviewed on Luke & Susie’s radio show!
I was a guest on Luke & Susie’s national radio show about faith, family and culture and fun things like that! It just aired this week so you might have heard me on air, but if you missed it, click the play button below or follow the link to listen on their...
2015: Oh what a year
When you’re “in the trenches” of life, that is, doing the work that you’re called to do you can sometimes have a restricted view. I know that for many times this year my view was restricted to that last disaster or problem or issue, and...
One word that makes your wedding vows better
I see a lot of wedding vows, I hear even more, and over my 7 or so years as a marriage celebrant I think I’ve become a bit of a ‘vow connoisseur’. I think I know the secret one word to great vows.
I’m on Hans’ podcast
Han, a celebrant in North Carolina, hosts a podcast about celebrating things, which is something I spend most of my life doing, so he invited me onto his show to talk about why I do what I do, how I do it in part one. We talk about same-sex marriage and marriage law...
I’ve been awarded a WIPA three diamond award!
I’m a very lucky boy, I’m the first marriage celebrant in Australia to be awarded a WIPA Three Diamond award! What’s WIPA? It’s the “Wedding Industry Professionals of Australia” awards ran by the very excellent WEOA! What’s WEOA? WEOA stands for “Weddings and Events of Australia” and it’s an industry body that represents the professional end of the wedding industry.
Listen to my interview on the @HumansOfTwitter podcast
My friend Steve Molk makes a really fun podcast called ‘Humans of Twitter’ where he interviews humans from the social network, where you can follow me @joshuawithers, him at @molkstvtalk and the podcast @humansofthis. Listen to me spill my guts on who I...
Vow writing workshop on YouTube
I think that the most important aspect of the wedding day is that moment where you become husband and wife, your wedding vows. So I want to help you write amazing and person wedding vows!