Celebrant Celebrants are encouraged to work with couples to provide a ceremony that meets their needs, and to help couples who wish to design and write their own. In all cases, the celebrant is responsible for ensuring all legal requirements are met. Things you need to know: Only people appointed by the Registrar-General as Marriage and/ or Civil Union Celebrants, and whose name appears in the List of Celebrants in the NZ Gazette, have
authority to solemnise marriages and/or civil unions in New Zealand It is important that those at the wedding do know who the celebrant is. There has been a recent trend for a ‘friend’ of the couple to conduct the wedding, with an official celebrant just signing off on the legal requirements. This is not acceptable The marriage licence is a document confirming that it is legal for the marriage between the two parties to go ahead Two copies of ‘Particulars of Marriage’ or ‘Particulars of Civil
Union’ are signed in front of two witnesses and the celebrant at the ceremony. A copy of this is sent to the Registrar of Births Deaths and Marriages within 10 days of the ceremony. It is from this that a Marriage Certificate can be issued. Not everyone requests a Marriage Certificate. – it is a nice to have, but not necessary
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