Hi, I’m Deanna — an Authorised Marriage Celebrant.

I live in Adelaide, South Australia with my husband and daughter. Before becoming a celebrant, I spent more than a decade working in marketing, writing copy and creating content for some of Australia’s most loved brands in hospitality and wine. My job was to listen closely, ask thoughtful questions and find the words that felt true to the people behind the story. Becoming a celebrant felt like a natural extension of that work (same craft, different dress).

Not long after my first ceremony, my husband and I decided to pack up our lives and spend a year living between Italy and Greece. We left looking for adventure and came home with a different understanding of love.

A wedding is one day. A marriage is mostly made elsewhere.

It's there in the way two people move through the world together. In love practiced daily: one ice-cream, two spoons. Strangers greeting each other like old friends. In questions masqueraded as care: “are you hungry? are you warm enough? do you remember this song?”

I came home convinced that love is less about the milestones than the life built between them. It's choosing each other in hundreds of (very) normal moments, until they become a way of being. That's the version of love I'm interested in telling.

When we work together, my goal is simple: to create a ceremony that feels unmistakably like you. Honest, thoughtful, a little playful where it should be, and filled with the moments your favourite people will recognise before you've even reached the end of the sentence. A ceremony that feels effortless to stand in and unforgettable to look back on.