Ballarat Marriage Celebrant Kate Ritchie
Highly experienced Marriage Celebrant, relaxed and fun!
Ranked in the Top 8 Celebrants in Victoria for 2023 and Australian Top 15 Celebrant for 2024, Kate Ritchie is an energetic, fun and engaging wedding celebrant who ensures all her couples have the ceremony which reflects them. Having a background as a Vocalist and performer for many years, as well as extensive public speaking experience allows diversity in the way Kate presents weddings. This means each ceremony is not only written for the couple, but presented in a manner which also reflects them. Kate is a 14 year consecutive ABIA Awarded Finalist as voted by past couples, for her ability to make their ceremonies fun, stress-free and heartfelt.
An Authorised Marriage Celebrant since 2008, for many than 16 years Kate has officiated as a Celebrant on many hundreds of occasions. Kate's strengths lie in the ease of communication, being highly organised and her attention to detail. Most importantly, through asking the right questions & listening to what it is her Clients really want, then providing them with options on how to best make it happen.
Kate is an expert Marriage Celebrant & leader in the local Ballarat Wedding Industry.
She is also:
Founder & passionate supporter of local business via the Ballarat Wedding Collective
Founder of the Ballarat Marriage Registry specialising in Registry styled Elopements & Affordable Wedding Packages
Ballarat Wish Leader with nationally registered charity www.myweddingwish.org - Gifting weddings to the terminally ill.
My Partners
WEDDINGS FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL
As a Marriage Celebrant and the My Wedding Wish - Wish Leader for Ballarat, I am so fortunate to have an amazing team of like-minded Ballarat Wedding Suppliers who gift their time and services to make dream Weddings a reality for the Terminally ill of Ballarat and their partners. If you would like to know more about this wonderful nationally registered charity, either as an interested supplier, someone who would like to donate funds or a couple wishing to apply for a gifted wedding, you can do so via www.myweddingwish.org or by contacting me directly.
My Wedding Wish Ballarat a national charity that gift weddings to the terminally ill. Wish Leader & Marriage Celebrant, Kate Ritchie with the first Ballarat wedding supplier to join the MWW Ballarat Team - Jimmy Simpson with his BLAK57
MARRIAGE REGISTRY ELOPEMENTS at Llanfyllin House FROM $595
NEW 'COMPLETE WEDDING PACKAGES' HOSTED AT 'ALLURAH' ALL YEAR ROUND!