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Application for Appointment

If you wish to become a Marriage Celebrant please email bdm.nz@dia.govt.nz or post your expression of interest to Births, Deaths and Marriages, ensuring you include:

Your name;
Phone number;
Postal address;
Email address;
If you belong to a church or organisation, its name; or
If you wish to be an independent celebrant (a person appointed solely on the basis of community service and independent from a church or religious organisation); and
Any other relevant details that you wish to include.

Once our office receives your expression of interest you will be contacted by post.

As part of the appointment process a Registrar of Marriages may interview you.

There is no charge for appointment.

Please note that holding other positions of responsibility (such as being a Justice of the Peace), or completing a Certificate in Celebrant Studies at Auckland University of Technology, does not automatically entitle you to be appointed as a marriage celebrant.

As an appointed Marriage Celebrant your name and address will be published on this website and in the New Zealand Gazette.

For further information on the role of a Marriage Celebrant in New Zealand view or print out Marriage Celebrant: A guide to the role of Marriage Celebrant in New Zealand.


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Last updated: 29/06/2009