Francesca Ellul – Sunshine Coast Marriage Celebrant
Your Heart Centered Celebrant
Fun + relaxed ceremonies on Australia’s Sunshine Coast
Organising your wedding should be fun and exciting and together we will make the magic happen. I have a bright and bubbly personality with a wicked sense of humour which reflect the ceremonies I write.
Weddings on the Sunshine Coast are my speciality and I will offer many suggestions to give your ceremony shape, excitement and passion. You will feel secure in knowing that even the smallest detail will be taken care of throughout the whole process.
Read more about Francesca
I lived in St Helens, Tasmania for 26 years before making the move to the Sunshine Coast of Queensland. I owned and operated a Dance School for 21 years and loved being part of a small community.
My reason for becoming a Civil Celebrant is quite simple, I still have the desire to be of service but now to the community of the Sunshine Coast. I love being a Celebrant and helping people… They let me into their lives for a brief moment… a moment that is precious and never forgotten. I also am a Justice of the Peace and volunteer at Maroochydore Courthouse.
I am a current member of Australian Federation of Civil Celebrants and am pleased to be able to provide a professional service to the Sunshine Coast and surrounding areas as an authorised Civil Celebrant and also as a Justice of the Peace.
If you have any questions I encourage you to contact me and so we can have a chat over a cuppa.
Sunshine Coast Wedding Ceremonies
On your first visit, I will provide you with a variety of information. I would encourage you both to write your own personal vows and I would be only too happy to guide you if you felt the need. We can work together. Your ceremony can be whatever you wish it to be – anything from casual, formal, traditional or contemporary. You can select readings and verses of your choice or include some of your own cultural traditions. Your ceremony is just that, your ceremony.
The more you share with me, the more personalisation in your Ceremony. Let me guide you and together we will make the magic happen.
The Elopement
$500 to $600
What's Included?
(2 to 6 guests)
(duration 7 mins)
Monday-Thursday
$500.00
Friday-Sunday Mornings Only
$600.00
A quick, easy and very basic wedding which covers all legals
The Intimate Wedding
$750
What's Included?
(30 guests)
(duration 15 mins)
A ceremony without all the fluff!
I will write a short personal heartfelt ceremony that you will relate to
All legals taken care of before, during and after the ceremony
PA system Signing table & 2 chairs (if required)
The Ultimate Wedding
$900
What's Included?
(duration 30 mins)
A fully customised personal ceremony, filled with love, laughter and a happy tear or two that you will relate to. I deliver uplifting fun ceremonies
After getting to know you, I will offer many suggestions to make the magic happen. I will also include your guests to make them feel like that are part of the ceremony
Rituals such as ring warming, sand ceremony, wine ceremony etc
Readings
Sound System and microphones for the ceremony
All legals, before during and after your ceremony
Rehearsal (if required) extra fee if over 100km each way
Invite all your loved ones
How it all works
Get in touch
We’ll arrange a zoom or face to face meeting to discuss your ceremony
You and your partner can fire off any questions you may have for me
Ready. Set. Go!
Let’s book in your wedding date
We’ll plan out all the nitty gritty details – I’ll craft a ceremony that reflects you both
I will handle all the paperwork
You get married
It’s your wedding day – time to pop the champagne! You show up – I will handle the rest.
Love Letters & Rave Reviews
Francesca has been with us since we had to postpone our wedding in 2020 and then to September 2022. During this time we have gotten to know her and she to us, so much so, that she feels like part of the family. I think my husband really took her line “wicked sense of humour” to heart, so he did his best to make her laugh as well. Our day of love was AMAZING and the words Francesca wrote were heartfelt and encapsulated our love story beautifully – there wasn’t a dry eye at our ceremony. Francesca also got right in there and rearranged the arbor flowers so they sat correctly. Thank you Francesca, you are a dynamic, lovely, kind, big hearted and funny lady and we are so grateful that we chose you to marry us. We have a lot of love for you
We absolutely adore Francesca! She is incredible, amazing, professional and very kind and helped us construct our perfect wedding. She made Ash and I feel comfortable through the whole process and wrote beautiful vows on our behalf. We would highly recommend Francesca to anyone considering getting married. She is an outstanding Celebrant and exceptionally organised. Both my husband and I thought Francesca was the perfect celebrant and couldn’t recommend her more!
Francesca seriously is worth her weight in gold – we were thrilled with her the first time we met and she did not disappoint. In fact, after the ceremony, our guests all commented about how wonderful she was. Thank you Francesca for being you, and for bringing so much happiness (and fun) to our day.
We had the pleasure of meeting Francesca for the first time at the Caloundra Powerboat club at a small wedding expo. We knew straight away that we wanted Francesca to marry us on our special day.
Francesca is very professional, detailed and help us making sure we had everything planed out right. She coordinated with the venue and other contractors prior to the day to make sure everyone was on the same page.
Our wedding day was beautiful and went really well and we thanks Francesca for all of her hard work.
I highly recommend anyone getting married to use Francesca.
Courtney & Kevin Carbe
Courtney & Kevin Carbe
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Courtney & Kevin Carbe.
Francesca seamlessly transformed our small housewarming party into a beautiful surprise wedding. At every moment of the planning she was there to prepare all the legal paperwork, guide, advise and make suggestions as to how we could bring it all together and surprise our guests. It was extra special that she could be our celebrant as she is a long term friend of my husband and recently reconnected! Our service was lovely, personal, poignant and with funny moments thrown in of course and Francesca’s words and our personal vows were all presented to us printed and in a beautiful folder along with a card and special little gift. She worked her magic, it was all as I imagined it would be and I would not hesitate to recommend Francesca as your celebrant. Her passion for what she does and her experience speaks for itself on the first conversation you have with her regarding your wedding day.
Francesca was exceptional! Her professionalism, passion and care made our ceremony just what we wanted. Francesca stepped us through the whole process and kept in touch throughout the lead up to our wedding, to make sure we felt comfortable with the plan. It all went perfectly on the day.
She was amazing. We went into the meeting having no idea what we wanted for our ceremony. Straight away she had a dozen ideas and everything single thing she offered up to us was like she had known us for ten years. She’s naturally really good at reading people and has a great sense of humour. Extremely happy with the service. Went above and beyond.
We are VERY happy we chose Francesca. From the first phone chat I knew she was perfect for our day. Her happy, bubbly, cheeky and humorous personality was an absolute hit with our guests and made our ceremony far from boring! We absolutely adore her. Thank you Francesca! xx
Francesca was very detailed and very open to adjusting something if there was anything that I wasn’t 100% about. She personalised everything and it was just flawless!
Francesca made the whole process easy, from getting all the legal paperwork sorted for getting married overseas, zoom meetings to get to know us and sending us a questionnaire to help personalise the ceremony. On the day she was so welcoming and putting us at ease. She it made it a fun relaxed experience which is exactly what we wanted.
