Byron Bay Wedding Celebrant|Oceana

Celebrate your love!

 

Oceana embraces the freedom for everyone to marry. It is time to end marriage discrimination and Oceana is delighted that Same Sex Wedding ceremonies are particularly welcome in Byron Bay.

 

All loving and committed couples ought to have the same options for marriage and in Byron Bay this is going to be celebrated. The Byron Shire council voted to declare itself a supporter of marriage equality at their council meeting in March 2013 with the council proposing that Byron Shire certificates of same sex marriage will become available and Oceana is excited to say that the certificate and a registar is now available to same sex couples.

 

The Mayor of Byron Simon Richardson said “While it may be symbolic, we have the opportunity to lead within Australia and it’s time to take a stance.  I am delighted to support same-sex couples in creating a public affirmation of their love and commitment to each other."

Something very precious and soulful happens with these deeply moving ceremonies of the love shared by two hearts in a public proclamation.  Oceana is honoured to assist you to create a commitment ceremony that celebrates your loving bond as something that is unique to you.

 

Creating a ritual to bless and honour your deep and lasting relationship.  These commitment ceremonies publicly nurture, strengthen and support couples.  Lots of same-sex couples desire to marry. They wish for this for similar reasons as their opposite-sex counterparts – to openly declare and rejoice their love, devotion and commitment, to protect and look after their children, to guarantee lawful and social acknowledgment and for an entire multitude of additional reasons. These couples would to a great extent benefit from being able to realise their choice to get married, a powerfully individual option that is extensively recognised, at least for heterosexual couples, as a fundamental human right.

 

In the future, same-sex couples in Australia will have the legal right to marry. That is inevitable. As with every major human rights advance: eg allowing women to vote, upcoming generations will look back and question how anyone could have opposed such a fundamental human right.

Oceana looks forward to the day, hopefully in the not too distant future, when parliament gives the long awaited approval granting the opportunity for same sex couples, to have access to equal marriage and legal rights as heterosexual couples enjoy today.  In the mean time Oceana is delighted to be offering same sex commitment ceremonies Oceana is proud that Byron Bay will be leading the way with same sex wedding ceremonies.