Coalition of Celebrant Associations

Australia’s Peak Celebrant Body

Q18 For the majority of your marriages, what would be the approximate number of guests?

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Summary:

  • 79.28% of marriage conducted by Commonwealth Marriage Celebrants have 26 or more people present.
  • 83.35% of marriage conducted by Commonwealth Marriage Celebrants have 11 or more people present.

Section 46 implications - including a definition of marriage in every wedding (not just civil) for public education

This would represent for 120,000 weddings per year or 1.2 million weddings in a decade.

Taking 20 guests per wedding - as at conversative end of the distribution above - would be an ANNUAL audience of aprox. 2.4 million quests

Or an audience of approx. 24 million quests

Perhaps to counteract the Marriage At First Sight impression that Australia does not have a waiting time of One Month to give notice to hold a legal wedding.

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