--- title: "The Wedding Fair" description: "What's on, and where, for couples planning a wedding." source: "https://theweddingfair.com.au/" markdown: "https://theweddingfair.com.au/index.md" --- # The Wedding Fair [![A black and white portrait of a couple on their wedding day, her head resting on his shoulder. Kinda chic to only invite the person you are actually marrying.]()]() [![A newly married couple kissing while holding martinis. Kinda chic to finish your ceremony and immediately order a martini.]()]() [![The cover of Volcanic Winter, a novel by Mark Rutherford.]()]() ## [Volcanic Winter, by Mark Rutherford]() — When a plan to combat climate change threatens life on Earth, one man has seven days to stop it. [markrutherfordwrites.com]() [![A couple embracing on a clifftop at golden hour above a forested valley. Kinda chic to say your vows with mountain views instead of a reception schedule.]()]() ## [Advertise in The Wedding Fair]() — A directory entry runs for thirty days from $20 including GST, goes live once it is approved, and stays on the site afterwards at a decaying position rather than vanishing. You set the amount and you can change it whenever you like. [mafia.net.au]() [![Advertisement for Wedding Computer: what if all of the wedding vendors, the planner, the venue and the couple were all reading from the same sheet?]()]() ## [The Internet, by Josh Withers]() — A web development studio building websites for small Australian service businesses that need a modern site: fast, plainly written, and built to be found and quoted by search and answer engines as readily as by a person. [theinternet.com.au]() ## [Lodging your Notice of Intended Marriage]() — Every Australian marriage needs a Notice of Intended Marriage lodged with the celebrant at least a month before the day, and it is the step couples get wrong or leave too late. NOIM Easy walks you through filling it in and getting it witnessed. [noimeasy.au]() ## [Getting married at the centre of the country]() — Which locations at Uluru and Kata Tjuta permit a ceremony, who travels out to the Red Centre to run one, and where your guests stay at Yulara. [uluruwedding.com.au]() ## [Wedding people worth recommending]() — A national register for when the search is not tied to one town. Good Wedding Directory lists suppliers across Australia by what they do, rather than by the suburb they happen to sit in. [goodweddingdirectory.com]() ## [Thinking about eloping instead]() — Elopement is the Australian guide to getting married without the wedding: what the paperwork actually needs, what it costs, where you can legally hold a ceremony for two, and the celebrants and photographers who only do this. [elopement.au]() ## [Wedding Magazine]() — Australian wedding people and the writing that goes with them: a national register of celebrants, photographers, venues and planners, alongside plain writing about getting married. [weddingmagazine.com.au]() ## [Officiants]() — An international register of wedding celebrants filed by destination — Tuscany, Santorini, Bali, the Cotswolds — with what each one charges and where they travel, for when the ceremony is somewhere you do not live. [officiants.directory]()