How to Plan and Create Your Magnetic Island Wedding Ceremony

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Planning Your Magnetic Island Wedding Ceremony

Magnetic Island is a special paradise for your special day.  The success of your Island Wedding Ceremony, be it formal or casual, is simply a matter of planning and, planning simply. With a good celebrant it's easier than you think. We hope this Guide will be of assistance.So...

Beach Weddings? Island Weddings? Have a Magnetic Island Wedding

So, you want an island wedding or a beach wedding.
Why not have a Magnetic Island Wedding?
Just 8km from Townsville in Tropical North Queensland

Greetings from paradise, congratulations on your forthcoming wedding and for choosing to marry on North Queensland's tropical Magnetic Island - Australia’s most affordable, unique and accessible island venue for your special day.  I’m David Crusty Herron, call me David if you prefer, and I would be delighted to show you how easy it is to plan and create the island wedding ceremony of your dreams. Obligation free of course.

And every couple’s dreams are different. As an island resident celebrant with the experience of over 1500 beautiful ceremonies I realise that it is your wedding and that you are the reason and focus of the day. So your ceremony should be about you, your dreams, and your future together as a family written and choreographed just for you.

Townsville is planning the north’s biggest renewal of wedding vows to celebrate the centenary of one of the city’s most loved but understated icons, the Anzac Park Bandstand.

Celebrate your marriage...

Wedding Vow Renewal Anzac Park Bandstand Centenary Townsville

Townsville is planning the north’s biggest renewal of wedding vows to celebrate the centenary of one of the city’s most loved but understated icons, the Anzac Park Bandstand.

The Townsville City Council has put the call out to the hundreds of couples married in Anzac Park or any of the city’s parks over the years to take part in the ceremony during a big day of celebrations on Sunday, September 29.

Mayor Cr Jenny Hill said Anzac Park continued to be one of the most popular sites for outdoor weddings in the city. “The bandstand is an important piece of Townsville’s history and heritage and it’s important to mark the 100 year milestone with a community celebration,” Cr Hill said. “The bandstand has featured in many hundreds of weddings over the years and getting couples back to renew their vows as part of the big day is a terrific way to help celebrate the centenary."

“We are putting the call out for couples who were married in Anzac Park to register their interest for the occasion. “It’s a chance for couples to be part of an historic occasion and at the same time reaffirm their commitment to each other.”

Well known Magnetic Island-based Townsville civil celebrant Crusty Heron, who has married 50 couples at the bandstand, will officiate at the mass renewal of vows.

Brass and Brides: 100th Anniversary Anzac Park Bandstand is a free event and will include live ‘brass band’ entertainment, stall displays, historic re-enactments, croquet games, sausage sizzle, photographic displays of the bandstand’s past, and a kids’ zone. Keep the kids occupied while you celebrate your marriage.

The number of weddings in the city’s high profile public areas has grown steadily since civil celebrants were first introduced in the early 1970s.

Since 2008, 232 ceremonies have been held in Anzac Park alone.

Couples can register for Brass and Brides by email: rsvp@townsville.qld.gov.au or call:  07 4727 9013

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