1. Ask your married Sydney friends for recommendations
2. Trawl the internet for 3 months and discover that there are over 3000 registered celebrants in Sydney
3. Put together a criteria list (see below)
4. Read through the endless reviews, forums and testimonials
5. Procrastinate for a few more weeks and then reduce the list from 3000 to 10
6. Make contact with the top 10 via email
7. Chuckle over the style and content of responses received
8. Select the top 3 and arrange a time to meet each of them. Travel a total round trip of 100 kilometres for these meetings
9. Decide that the celebrant that will work for you is the one you met over wine and cheese at the pub.

Aiva’s Criteria

-  Be able to pronounce my full Greek name (now that we know this needs to be said at least once for the whole thing to be legit)
- Be able to contain the excitable Greek rello’s
- Avoid any soppy Kumbayah wording
- Make it long enough for those who have travelled to enjoy and short enough not to bore everyone to death.

Craig’s Criteria

- Female
- Older than us but not old
- Memorable yet totally forgettable
- Whole thing done and dusted within 17 minutes
- No poems or readings and for the love of all things holy - No doves.

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