I am so proud to share this snippet of the magic that was Ash & Royce’s wedding at
Mt Duneed Estate on 15th February 2020.

This video was expertly shot and created by the very talented Iconic Pictures!

You may recognise some of the voice over in the start of this video….. that’s me!

Enjoy! Love Nicole. xxx

That’s ME!…………………………………..
Check out my guest BLOG post at Geelong Wedding Guide where I explain exactly how it works when I am your “Go-To” person for your Wedding Day!
You will have no stress as I will have helped create for you a seamless Wedding Day for you, your fiance and your family & friends to enjoy, where no one needs to lift a finger!
(Except me!)
“May the love in your life create a life to love”….
Love Nicole. x

 

A huge shout out goes to Your Local Wedding Guide for offering Australian Wedding Suppliers FREE advertisinng with them on their website during this Coronavirus Pandemic.

And in return, all they ask is for us all to have a link back to their website to send some traffic their way! Easy done! CLICK HERE!

Couples are still getting engaged, still planning their Wedding Day, so they still need us! They might want to get married now with only the 5 people legally allowed to be there, or be planning their big day for 2021 when hopefully all this is behind us and we can hug and kiss one another like crazy!

I have advertised with Your Local Wedding Guide numerous times over the last 11 years – you can find my (free, thanks to Jeff) listing here!

Their website has a great variety of wedding suppliers from car hire, florists, photographers, to venues, make up artists and of course – CELEBRANTS!

 

So head on over to their website www.weddingguide.com.au and find everything you need to start planning your dream day!

Enjoy! xxx

Amongst this current world-wide shut down… Wedding Suppliers are still open for business!
One day (not sure when) but one day… weddings will look the way they use to – with over-flowing drinks on the dance floor, 100+ loved family and friends partying with you to celebrate your love for one another, kissing, hugging but still…  keep your coughs and sneezes to yourself!

SO YES – I am still open for business.

However… dates are filling up fast with all my current couples having to postpone their dream day to later in 2020 or even early 2021…. so I suggest you get in touch quickly to make sure I am still available for your dream day!

Feel free to pop me an email at nicolepenning@gmail.com and let me know your big (or small) plans and I will check my diary for you.

Remember, all we need is love, and clean hands! Nicole. xxx

A HUGE thank you to all my 2018 couples who voted for me in the ABIA Awards last year. Thanks to all your votes I have been awarded the title of one of Melbourne’s BEST Celebrants! Ranked #4 out of the 17 listed to be exact.

I completely love what I do as a Celebrant and feel honoured every single time a couple ask me to marry them, let alone the moment I stand by their side as they exchange their vows with one another!

I feel so incredibly lucky and humbled that “I” get to do that!

This is my dream job that I get to live every single day and I truly never feel like I am working a day in my life.

I can not thank my couples, colleagues and my family & friends enough in supporting my Celebrant career over the last 10 years!

To see the ABIA list of The Top “17” Melbourne Marriage Celebrants click here!

I am super duper proud to be able to share with you all a new chapter of my career – I think personally and professionally this next step will be rewarding, challenging and life changing in ways that I clearly am not aware of just yet!

Yesterday I took part in the Upstart Entrepreneurial Challenge Mentor Training program.

Here I was joined by some amazing business leaders in Geelong, where we will come together to inspire, motivate, challenge and lead our kids of today to be tomorrow’s leaders of our future!

The Upstart Challenge Program works through Geelong schools, mentoring secondary school kids to come up with ideas that will help change the world they and we live in, in a positive way!

WOW!!! (Didn’t have that when I was at school!)

So watch this space as I delve into the world of teenage high school kids and hopefully make a change for the better!

I can finally scream it from the roof tops – our big exciting news that we have been working on for nearly 12 months!

I give you …..(insert drum rolls please)….. The Geelong Celebrant Collective!

What brings eight celebrants, from all walks of life and with uniquely individual
personalities together? Each member of the Geelong Celebrant Collective is
dedicated and passionate about creating a truly incredible experience for their
couples. We are united in our belief that your ceremony is the start of your
celebrations, and should be crafted to reflect the people you are.
Geelong, the Bellarine and Surf Coast regions are filled with spectacular wedding
locations, and we believe couples celebrating their wedding here deserve a
premium, authentic and professional service. Our couples experience a journey with
us, full of excitement, fun and seamless support.

Let me introduce our amazingly talented, passionate, dedicated GCC Members –

Nicole Penning | | www.nicolepenning.com.au
Jessie Belle | | www.jessiebelle.com.au
Sue Warner | | www.bellarinecelebrant.com
Niki Currie | | www.weddingsbyniki.com.au
Anita Jenkins | | www.anitajenkinscelebrant.com
Laura Kate | | www.laurakate.com.au
Di Schmidkte | | www.dianneschmidtkecelebrant.com
Chloe Jetson | | www.chloecelebrant.com

As co-directors and founders of GCC, Chloe Jetson & myself hope to lead the way in the Geelong Wedding Industry, surrounded by our beautiful colleagues, in showing Geelong and it’s regions couple’s JUST HOW AMAZING their Wedding Ceremony can be!

Love, The Geelong Celebrant Collective xxx
geelongcelebrantcollective@gmail.com or 0406 110 529
www.geelongcelebrantcollective.com.au

I am very excited to continue my new career path as a Funeral Celebrant, alongside this brilliant organisation – NDAN – Natural Death Advocacy Network.

I was introduced to NDAN by my amazing mentor and Celebrant idol, Sally Cant
who is a proud advocate for natural death and dying and is strongly leading the movement for change in Victoria and Australia wide in educating families on
WHAT IS POSSIBLE when you or a loved one dies.

• Did you know – you can hold your Funeral Service on your favourite beach that you grew up visiting as a child on school holidays with your Grandparents?
• Did you know – you can have your Funeral conducted in your backyard where you spent hours tenderly caring your beautiful flowers and vegetable patch which was your pride and joy!
• Did you know – you can have your body at home, in your front lounge room where you always enjoyed a cup of tea, whilst reading your favourite novels – where your loved ones can come and visit you over a period of days…..saying their goodbyes, sharing with you their last words and holding your hand to pay their respects before your body leaves this world.

The possibilities around death, dying and funerals is endless – but the sad part is – most families DON’T KNOW THIS!

I will be proudly sharing these ideas and having these conversations with my family, my friends, my clients – and anyone that is willing to listen!

If you have any questions, or would like to know more – please feel free to ask me, or visit www.ndan.com.au for more information.

I proudly support #marriageequality and want what is right for all humans – the right to get married, the right to choose if they want to get married, the right to publically acknowledge their love for someone and have that legally recognised under our Australian Marriage Act Laws.

LGBTI+ couples rights in all other areas of Australian Law are recognised as being equal, except under the Marriage Act. As a Celebrant, reciting the Monitum {Section 46 (1) of the Marriage Act} can be a very difficult and emotional legal requirement, but by law we are obligated to do at every Wedding Ceremony we conduct.

But this is not just an issue about Marriage – this is an issue about LIFE & DEATH.
Defacto LGBTI+ partners have no rights to their deceased partner when it comes to their body, their death and their funeral!

If you can’t support #marriageequality can you support #deathequality?????
Shouldn’t all loved ones be able to make funeral arrangements for their soul mate who has passed away? This is a huge reason why I support #marriageequality and one that not many people stop to think about. Because no one does, until it it too late.

I’m #votingyes and I have lots of other reasons why. I hope you can help support the #voteyes campaign and steer Australian’s future in the right direction, one where we can proudly tell our children and our grandchildren that we helped make this world a better place, for all humans.

Check out my new logo!!!

I LOVE IT!!!

I was very lucky to stumble across, Bec, Lily and Barb at Autumn Lane Paperie in the United States and they came up with this pretty little number for me!

It has been over 8 years since my business had a face-lift….
so while Winter is here and every Wedding Supplier in town is working ON THEIR BUSINESS, rather than DOING their business, I thought it was time for a change!

This logo is definitely ME – gold and florals really are my thing.
I will miss my traditional black and white, but will pay tribute to my old logo every time I write a ceremony and put black font to white paper when I type!

A big thank you also to my amazing website team, Evolution Design Agency for helping me bring my new logo to life on my website! (And also taught me to do cool links like that – click on their business name!)

So here is to a new ME – a new LOGO and exciting times ahead at Nicole Penning Civil Celebrant!

WATCH THIS SPACE!