Sydney Elopement Celebrants
This curated list of elopement celebrants in Sydney features licensed marriage officiants who specialise in small and intimate wedding ceremonies with 2 - 20 guests. They're all commonwealth-registered celebrants with the legal authority to make your marriage official, and they offer elopement packages from $500 - $1,900 that include:
- All legal paperwork & marriage certificate
- Elopement ceremony
- Registration of your marriage with the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages
- And in some packages - ceremony styling & hire
The professional celebrants featured below offer a wide range of ceremony styles for couples eloping in Sydney, from fully bespoke nuptials built around your love story, to simple legals-only ceremonies. They also offer a wide range of locations to say "I do", whether you want elope on Sydney Harbour overlooking the Sydney Opera House, at a quiet beach or garden, or in the privacy of a home registry office.
Here are the top 15 Elopement Celebrants in Sydney, including several who are named among the best elopement celebrants in Australia.
Top 15 Elopement Celebrants in Sydney
Michael Janz Elopements
- Service Area: Sydney CBD, Eastern Suburbs
- Experience: 800+ ceremonies
- Cost: $795
- Availability: Monday - Sunday
- 5 Star Reviews: 400+
- Elope at Sydney's iconic landmarks
Michael is a highly experienced marriage celebrant who offers simple elopement ceremonies in iconic Sydney locations including the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, Bondi Beach, Coogee Beach and Centennial Park. He's a popular choice for non-local couples wanting to elope at Sydney's famous landmarks, as he offers comprehensive planning support from booking locations and submitting paperwork to organising your official marriage certificate.
Michael's all inclusive elopement package is priced at $795 for weekend ceremonies and includes pre-wedding meetings to finalise your legal documentation which can be done online, and a warm and intimate ceremony which takes around 10 - 15 minutes in your chosen location. Michael's warm presence and natural ability to connect with people of all ages and backgrounds makes him an ideal celebrant for mixed culture couples eloping in Sydney.
Bar Elopements with Marry Me Zoe
- Service Area: Sydney CBD, Inner West
- Experience: 400+ ceremonies
- Cost: $995
- Availability: Monday - Sunday
- 5 Star Reviews: 200+
- Relaxed bar & cafe elopements
Zoe Sabados is Sydney's party-starting queen of elopements. She brings a joy-filled atmosphere to small-scale weddings with her infectious sense of fun and energy, delivering highly personalised ceremonies built around your love story. Her elopement ceremonies perfectly blend heartfelt moments with hilarity and laughter, making her well suited to couples who want an incredibly memorable ceremony that feels intimate, relaxed and definitely not traditional.
Zoe's elopement ceremony is priced at $995 for up to 20 guests and includes a 15-20 minute custom-written ceremony in a Sydney metropolitan location of your choice, plus all legal paperwork and a copy of your marriage certificate.
Bar Elopements ($3k) - Zoe also offers fully coordinated elopements at Bar Planet in Newtown or Doom Juice Cellar Door in Marrickville for around $3,000 including your ceremony, venue hire, photography and first round of drinks. Ceremonies are typically officiated 30 minutes before opening time (around 4.30pm) with the couple & guests staying on afterwards for drinks and shenanigans.
Melissa Soncini
- Location: Surry Hills, NSW 2010
- Experience: 1,200+ ceremonies
- Cost: $1,450+
- Availability: Monday - Sunday
- 5 Star Reviews: 400+
- Story-led elopements on Sydney Harbour
Melissa Soncini specialises in story-led elopements that celebrate your significant milestones and moments. Eloping with Melissa is a fun experience that starts well before your ceremony with an in-person or online meeting to share the story of your journey together. She then creates a meaningful celebration that honours your unique connection, with the perfect blend of relaxed humour, warmth and sentimentality.
Elopement ceremonies in Sydney are priced at $1,450 and include 1-2 pre-wedding meetings, unlimited correspondence, an intimate ceremony custom-written just for you, and the officiating of your ceremony at one of six city locations. Choose from Observatory Hill or Mrs Macquarie's Chair on Sydney Harbour, Hyde Park in the CBD, Prince Alfred Park in Surry Hills, Diamond Bay Reserve in Vaucluse or Bondi Beach.
Elope With Megumi Carver
- Location: Rosebery, NSW 2018
- Years In Business: 12+
- Cost: $1,900 (Mon - Thu), $2,000 (Fri - Sun)
- 5 Star Reviews: 180+
- Fully styled elopement with flowers
Megumi Carver offers an all inclusive elopement package from $1,900 that includes an intimate wedding ceremony in a beautifully styled setting for couples who simply want to turn up and say "I do". Rather than organising multiple vendors, Megumi provides everything you need for a memorable and personal ceremony in one package, combined with a simple and stress-free planning process.
You have a choice of coastal parks or picturesque garden locations around Sydney's Inner West and metro area, where 8 ceremony chairs, a signing table, linen and silk floral arrangements are set up prior to your arrival. You'll then be legally married in a relaxed, warm and heartfelt ceremony that celebrates your journey and what makes your relationship special.
Vicki Frittmann Elopements
- Locations: Maroubra Beach, Coogee Beach & Pagewood
- Years In Business: 12+
- Elopement Package: $600+
- 5 Star Reviews: 40+
- Oceanfront elopements
Vicki Frittmann is an experienced elopement celebrant who specialises in legals-only ceremonies that include a simple signing of marriage documents at Mistral Point in Maroubra. The whole ceremony takes less than 10 minutes and the location has beautiful ocean views and rock backdrops for your wedding photos.
Vicki's elopement package is priced at $600 and includes submission of your NOIM (Notice of Intended Marriage), legal ceremony with the option to include personalised vows and ring exchange, and registration of your marriage (the official marriage certificate is an additional $70). This package is transportable to your Sydney CBD location of choice.
Margaret Janz Marriage Celebrant
- Location: Randwick, NSW 2031
- Experience: 20+ ceremonies
- Cost: $550
- Availability: Monday - Sunday
- Private garden elopement
Margaret Janz currently offers the cheapest elopement package in the Sydney CBD area with a $550 registry-style wedding ceremony in her home garden in Randwick. There's no need to hire any furniture or styling as the garden is perfectly designed with a private area for your ceremony including a signing table.
Margaret's $550 elopement package is available Monday - Thursday excluding public holidays (Friday - Sunday is $600), and includes the signing of your official marriage documents, a simple ceremony with the essential legal wording, lodgement of your marriage with the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages and a copy of your marriage certificate. With no extra $70 certificate fee, this package will suit couples looking for the quickest and most affordable way to get legally married in Sydney.
Elegant Hearts
- Service Area: Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, Blue Mountains
- Experience: 150+ ceremonies
- Cost: $600 - $3,900
- Availability: Monday - Sunday
- 5 Star Reviews: 80+
- All-inclusive elopements in Western Sydney
Kellie Warren is a Western Sydney elopement celebrant who offers a wide range of small wedding ceremony packages from affordable legals-only weddings ($600) to all-inclusive packages with set up, styling, photography and a fully bespoke ceremony ($3,900).
The most basic elopement package is $600 and is designed for couples who want zero fuss or who are having a seperate ceremony in an overseas country where it's simply easier to get married in Australia first. This package includes completion of your NOIM via video call, then a simple legal-wording ceremony on an agreed date at Kellie's home office in Londonderry.
All other elopement ceremonies start at $1,200 and include a personalised ceremony, a signing table & chairs, and all legal paperwork including the official marriage certificate. You can either pick your own venue, or Kellie offers a choice of picturesque locations including Govetts Leap Lookout and Lincoln's Rock in the lower Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury Lookout and the Weir Reserve on the Nepean River in Penrith.
Liz Watson Weddings
- Location: Erskinville, NSW 2043
- Service Areas: Greater Sydney
- Cost: $850
- Availability: Monday - Sunday
- 5 Star Reviews: 80+
- LGBTQIA elopements
Liz Watson is one of Sydney's most popular elopement celebrants for same sex and non-binary couples. She's an involved member of the LGBTQIA community and is well known for creating non-traditional ceremonies around the unique love story of her couples. Liz has a caring and inclusive approach, and is a calming presence on the day, creating a fun elopement experience filled with meaning, warmth, laughter and love.
Liz is based in Sydney's Inner West and offers elopement ceremonies from $850 all over Sydney and throughout New South Wales. You can either pick your own location or Liz can recommend places to suit your story and vibe.
Mick Goldie Elopement Ceremonies
- Location: Coogee, NSW 2034
- Service Areas: Greater Sydney
- Cost: $500 - $900
- Availability: Monday - Sunday
- 5 Star Reviews: 70+
- Relaxed elopements with no guest limit
Mick Goldie eloped himself before becoming an authorised marriage celebrant so he could help other couples have a small, relaxed and fun celebration without the expense of a traditional wedding. Mick's elopement ceremonies are priced at $500 for a quick & simple celebration or $900 for a custom-written ceremony and he's one of the only elopement celebrants in Sydney to have no limit on guest numbers so it can either be just the two of you or 20, 30 or 40 guests.
Most couples opt for Mick's $500 elopement package which includes all your official paperwork completed & submitted for you, and a basic ceremony involving the legally required wording without any personalised story. You can exchange your own vows and rings and have a reading of your choice or include any other elements you like into the ceremony, and it will be $500 as long as it requires no custom-written script.
Mick is well suited to laid back couples wanting a relaxed elopement that's not constrained by traditions or rules. You can elope on Sydney Harbour with the Opera House as your backdrop, or at your own dining room table.
Love In Life Marriage Celebrant & MC
- Location: Newport, NSW 2106
- Service Area: Northern Beaches
- Cost: $650 - $1,250
- Availability: Monday - Sunday
- 5 Star Reviews: 30+
- Waterfront elopement on the Northern Beaches
Lizzie Robertson offers picturesque elopement ceremonies at Newport and Palm Beach on Sydney's Northern Beaches. You can either opt for legal wording like a registry-office style ceremony and personalise your vows and exchange rings which is $650, or she'll fully personalise your ceremony around your love story from $1,250. Both packages are pet friendly and include all legal paperwork completed and submitted for you.
Jacqua Celebrant
- Service Area: South Sydney, South Coast
- Experience: 500+ ceremonies
- Cost: $1,350
- Availability: Monday - Sunday
- 5 Star Reviews: 200+
- Fully bespoke elopements on the South Coast
Jacqua designs modern wedding ceremonies for couples who want a more unconventional experience that feels incredibly personal and perfectly them. She's a non-traditional marriage celebrant who doesn't just design fully personalised ceremonies, but a unique experience reflective of you - like her own special day when she eloped to the Nevada Desert at sunset in a classic red Rambler.
Jacqua is based in Wollongong making her an ideal celebrant for Sydney couples wanting to run away and elope on the South Coast. She charges $1,350 for a fully bespoke ceremony including all legal paperwork, vow writing support and registration of your marriage. Pre-wedding meetings are part of the experience where you'll discuss who & what is mention in the ceremony, whether you'll walk the aisle and exchange rings or do something instead that fits your vibe.
Simple Ceremonies Sydney
- Location: Milsons Point, NSW 2061
- Experience: 2,000+ ceremonies
- Cost: $350+
- Availability: Monday - Friday
- 5 Star Reviews: 700+
- DIY paperwork elopements
Simple Ceremonies are local specialists in small & quick wedding ceremonies that get you married in under 5 minutes on the waters edge of Sydney Harbour. You'll find Michael Teulon stationed at McMahon's Point most weekends where he marries more than 1,000 couples per year overlooking the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge.
Michael's elopement ceremonies at McMahon's point are $350 and include attendance for up to 20 guests, the ceremony and registration of your marriage. This package is best suited to couples who feel confident to DIY paperwork as you'll be provided with information and links to submit your own NOIM and apply for your own official marriage certificate (which costs an additional $70). Elopement packages with an arbour and seating cost $649.
Gary Mooney Wedding Officiant
- Location: Waverley, NSW 2024
- Experience: 2,400+ ceremonies
- Cost: $750+
- Availability: Monday - Sunday
- 5 Star Reviews: 140+
- Bondi Beach elopements
Gary Mooney is local to Sydney's Eastern Suburbs and officiates elopement ceremonies at Bondi Beach, Coogee & Maroubra. He's a genuine & easy going celebrant who has officiated more than 2,500 weddings & elopements including the marriages of several celebrities such as Sophie Monk.
Gary's elopement package is $750 including a personalised ceremony on the beach of your choice with all legal documentation completed and submitted for you. Chairs and signing table can be hired via Wedding Chair Hire if seating is required.
Oliver Thomson - Sydney
- Service Area: Greater Sydney
- Experience: 700+ ceremonies
- Cost: $1,200
- Availability: Monday - Sunday
- 5 Star Reviews: 170+
- Adventurous elopements
Oliver Thomson is the perfect elopement celebrant for adventurous couples who want to say "I do" in nature. He'll marry you on the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge or while hot air ballooning across the Sutherland Shire. From scuba diving nuptials to cliff top ceremonies, he's the elopement specialist you need when your wedding location requires an authorised celebrant who's fit, willing and unafraid of heights.
Elopements start at $1,200 depending on your location and include a heartfelt, story-led ceremony delivered with plenty of fun and humour. All paperwork and your official marriage certificate is included.
Robyn Pattison - Sydney
- Available Venues: Parks, gardens, public spaces, commercial venues
- Elopement Package: $900
- Inclusions: Personalised ceremony, 2 meetings, travel in Sydney,
Robyn lives in Ryde, one of the multicultural heartlands of Sydney and her elopements reflect this clientele. She's a regular at mixed culture ceremonies and has a particular skill for including all guests regardless of language barriers. She's often seen delivering phrases in all sorts of languages to surprise her couples.
Expect a fun, bubbly and warm personality who can't do enough for you. Cheaper elopements are available Monday - Thursday.
Elopement celebrants know how to set a comfortable tone within a small and official ceremony setting. They are experts at creating a momentous event of your wedding with just a handful of people present. Elopement celebrants are a special kind of celebrant, with a special expertise.
Because of the limited number of guests at an elopement, it stands to reason that your celebrant will play a more pivotal role in your wedding ceremony. Aside from being your officiant, they’ll also be one of your special wedding guests. Without the presence of a large audience, it will be with your celebrant that you share the joy of being freshly joined in marriage.
For this reason, choosing a specialist elopement celebrant for your wedding ceremony provides peace of mind that your big day will be as memorable as it is intimate. The above marriage celebrants have been chosen as the top elopement celebrants in Sydney for their special expertise in small wedding ceremonies. You can find out which celebrants are available for your preferred date and location by sending a single request for information here.
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