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Speaker 1: This is the Fits In with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk about wedding celebrants. They're funny little things, aren't.

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Speaker 3: They very funny little things? Do you know the individual

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Speaker 3: or the moment weddings?

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Speaker 4: No, weddings.

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Speaker 2: The weddings can be wonderful. I mean they're very they

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Speaker 2: are very complex. But no, I want to talk about

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Speaker 2: the person that you choose to stand there in front

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Speaker 2: of all of your friends and join you in what

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Speaker 2: is it something holy matrimony. So if you've got a

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Speaker 2: story about a wedding celebrant, maybe you're not a funny

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Speaker 2: little wedding celebrant. You think you're great. In fact, if

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Speaker 2: the wedding celestry turns out to be the celebrity of

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Speaker 2: the day. Sometimes and everyone that does give us a call,

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Speaker 2: they go into the running to see Teddy Swims at

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Speaker 2: the Nova Red Room in Melbourne.

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Speaker 4: So thirteen twenty four ten.

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Speaker 3: I'm always hoping they get the name wrong. If I'm

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Speaker 3: there and it's not my wedding or something that goes

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Speaker 3: to plan and it's like, oh no, that's not the

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Speaker 3: one o'clock. I've got one at three and I've got

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Speaker 3: the names.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got back to back to that, back to back.

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Speaker 2: Some of them are very popular, very hard to get

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Speaker 2: into this his story. None of this really went to plan.

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Speaker 2: Because why I'm talking about this wedding celebrant. It's a

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Speaker 2: local story. It's coming out of Melbourne, and he's not

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Speaker 2: even a wedding celebrant. But he was pretending to be

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Speaker 2: a wedding celebrany.

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Speaker 5: And up there I don't.

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Speaker 2: Know, but what he was, he would what's the word

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Speaker 2: called formalized.

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Speaker 3: He here he applied.

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Speaker 6: Oh my god, say that he was.

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Speaker 4: He's the one up the front doing the celebrant. Oh

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Speaker 4: my god, I've had a mental flo this morning.

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Speaker 2: He's the guy standing up doing it right, officiating.

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Speaker 4: Yes, all right.

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Speaker 2: And I don't even have a prize for you, but

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Speaker 2: you can go into the run.

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Speaker 4: Thank you. I love the show.

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Speaker 2: So he's done about oh, maybe about five weddings he's choosing.

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Speaker 2: He's charging people somewhere between seven hundred and a thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars to be the celebrant. He's even planned some of

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Speaker 2: the wedding with them. He's written the vowels. I think

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Speaker 2: he even was the celebrant at some friends' weddings. And

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Speaker 2: then after the wedding. Of course, you start having to

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Speaker 2: do all that paperwork, you know, the certificates that you've

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Speaker 2: all signed, and he's been the official at he's you know,

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Speaker 2: he's like delaying and delaying. I don't really have the paperwork.

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Speaker 2: And then in the end had to admit that he

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Speaker 2: wasn't a celebrant. But also he's been in court because

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Speaker 2: it's an official offense. He said, Look, I know I've

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Speaker 2: obviously taken the money off these people. I know it's

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Speaker 2: caused embarrassment, but I didn't know that it was a

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Speaker 2: public offense to impersonate a public official.

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Speaker 3: I would kind of agree with him. Now, if you

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Speaker 3: get to the end of your wedding day and you

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Speaker 3: haven't signed the official paperwork, but you went, you know what,

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Speaker 3: this celebrant has been awesome. Does it matter if he's

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Speaker 3: done the six week course or not.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter whether he's done this.

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Speaker 2: He may be great, but he doesn't he doesn't have

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Speaker 2: the qualifications. I mean, getting married is a big deal,

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Speaker 2: just even for the documents within the country.

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Speaker 4: That's why you have to go and file in news.

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Speaker 6: You've got to do all you can turn up afterwards,

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Speaker 6: like come home from your honeymoon and then do birthdre

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Speaker 6: some marriages, knowing that some guy turned up just as

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Speaker 6: Elvis and did a soul and did the ideas.

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Speaker 2: I don't understand those celebrants that you're saying, now you

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Speaker 2: can have an Elvis impersonator, that they make it about them.

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Speaker 2: I think, Jess, you were telling me yesterday about who's yes.

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Speaker 4: So this is my older sister.

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Speaker 7: Now keep in mind, the only thing my older sister

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Speaker 7: made her husband to be do was to.

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Speaker 4: Pick the celebrant.

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Speaker 7: We're pretty sure he googled Southern Highland celebrants and went

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Speaker 7: with the top Google search.

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Speaker 4: So done, baby.

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Speaker 7: So when we get there, she comes up to my mum.

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Speaker 7: So everyone's sitting there and she's trying to hype everyone up,

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Speaker 7: and she says, Bridget, you're gonna be my hype girl. Okay,

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Speaker 7: here is my iPhone. I'm gonna come back everyone, and

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Speaker 7: I want you all to cheer me in like we're

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Speaker 7: at a Taylor Swift concert. So she goes, all right,

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Speaker 7: here I go. And then so my mum fires off

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Speaker 7: this song. Oh no, but it's been changed and it's

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Speaker 7: celebrant good times.

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Speaker 4: She walks in.

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Speaker 7: That's heard she doesn't come down the aisle does so

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Speaker 7: then my sister, and given my sister probably didn't want

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Speaker 7: to be the center of attention, so I thought, maybe

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Speaker 7: that's good.

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Speaker 4: She's taken it. She's taken a bit of the energy.

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Speaker 7: My sister's halfway down the aisle and she goes, let's

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Speaker 7: do it, let's clap her in. So instead of this

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Speaker 7: beautiful moment, everyone's tearing my sister down the oars and.

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Speaker 3: No one's gasping for the bride, and tears weren't coming downsues.

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Speaker 4: No, quite the.

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Speaker 3: Experience that is one of the great stories.

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Speaker 4: Jim in Metreville. Hello Jim, Hi, how are we doing?

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Speaker 4: Watch your story?

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Speaker 1: So me and my husband got married about nineteen years ago.

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Speaker 1: We kicked them a celebrate randomly, probably out of the

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Speaker 1: Southern Corey or something. We went and met her and

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Speaker 1: she looked like day Edna Edwicks. And because she was

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Speaker 1: asking us questions about what we did, and I said,

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Speaker 1: I'm a nurse. She told me all about this vaginal

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Speaker 1: surgery she's had done and all the kind of stuff

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking, Okay, thanks for that. And then it came

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Speaker 1: to the wedding day and I came up to the

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Speaker 1: rotunda to you know, stand next to my future husband,

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Speaker 1: and she let out the biggest fanny part you've ever

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Speaker 1: heard of in your life.

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Speaker 5: To read this, distinguish between where it came from, yell,

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Speaker 5: I just.

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Speaker 1: Trying to put two and two together after she told

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Speaker 1: me all about her, know, feminine issues that she was having.

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Speaker 4: Turns up.

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Speaker 3: The operation.

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Speaker 1: Might need to go back up for some fightening.

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Speaker 4: Poor Ash has lost it. Oh my god, Jimma happily married.

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Speaker 4: Put your hands together, we're together. Let's clever in. Oh my, Tomsy,

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Speaker 4: you're in the running. Tenny Swims, Jenny.

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Speaker 3: Swims has actually demanded you're there to tell that.

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Speaker 4: Story before performs.

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Speaker 2: I guess, I mean, I mean, she's completely upstaged, but

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Speaker 2: at least, excuse you something.

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Speaker 1: Gave the best teatowls I've ever seen as well on

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Speaker 1: the Televant know I can't even remember, but nineteen sixties

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Speaker 1: they were awful.

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Speaker 3: Jimmy, can you please go through your back catalog of

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Speaker 3: inappropriate stories and continue to call this show every day.

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Speaker 3: You're welcome on the show.

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Speaker 1: Jim Thank you very much.

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Speaker 4: Steph impressed. It's what happened at the wedding.

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Speaker 8: I went to my cousin's wedding a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 8: and the moment in the in the ceremony where the

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Speaker 8: celebrant is supposed to tell the story of the lovers,

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Speaker 8: the celebrant broke into plugging her own podcast and radio show. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: and you know, gave us the details and where to

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Speaker 8: find her, and we hope, she hoped we listened because

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Speaker 8: she's been working really hard on it, and audible groans

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Speaker 8: and the audience was so bad.

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry. I promise I won't do that again.

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Speaker 3: But to be halfway through and say, if you've enjoyed today,

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Speaker 3: there's some great news. You can find me at Celebrant

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Speaker 3: Celebrant Fund, the Celebrant Fun podcast.

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Speaker 2: This is what I've been I do think some celebrants

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Speaker 2: make it all about Yes they do.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for call Stare for Loba, Fits In.

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