Love Local Live Local: Just Love Celebrancy

Casey McBeath describes being a Marriage Celebrant as the most ‘thrilling and fulfilling accidental occupation’ that she ever could have hoped for. The bubbly mum of three started Just Love Celebrancy six years ago when her little sister got engaged and asked her to become qualified for the wedding. Casey has now performed almost 100 bespoke ceremonies for weddings, naming ceremonies and vow renewals on the Central Coast and surrounds.

Officiating some of the most important moments in people’s lives is a job that comes with a fair bit of pressure, but it is one that suits Casey down to a tee with her big smile, easy going personality and intuitive attention to detail. A self-confessed ‘tragic romantic’ she says that getting married is a beautiful, magical, emotional time and that she has always felt such a privilege to be invited as a guest to these events. “Long before and long after my husband and I tied the knot, I still found myself, obsessing over other people’s weddings. Friends, family, that friend of a friend I met once at a party,” she laughed.

“Having the opportunity to guide people from all walks and stages of life through one of the most important commitments they’ll ever make has become my passion.” Casey said that one of her proudest moments as a Celebrant was the day that marriage equality was legalised in 2017. “That was a really powerful time for me, I’ve never been so emotional about something political like that,” she said. “I married my sister on the day that it became legal and she was really passionate as well, so she asked me to acknowledge it during the ceremony. Everyone cheered, it was really special.”

Being a celebrant, Casey has so many interesting stories about her clients, including a recent wedding where she married a couple during the peak of the coronavirus lock downs. “We were only allowed two witnesses and myself, so the couple, who were married at the The Entrance, booked out all the balcony rooms at a hotel across from the park where they held the ceremony, so the guests could still be there, even from a distance. It was really great,” she said.