About Pete hordern

It’s all about family life for me; my wife Grace and three adorable (tho crazy) daughters live on the doorstep of the Yarra Valley.

I absolutely love listening to podcasts (so much so I started my own: The Wedding Guide Podcast), audiobooks (fantasy, sci-fi, psychology and health mainly) and dabble in a few hobbies of beer making, gin distilling, bee keeping, cycling, gaming and Netflix’ing…that can be a hobby right?

I originally moved down from Sydney over a decade ago to live my dream as a youth pastor – while doing that, I changed, my worldview changed and I wanted to branch out from the 4 walls I’d known so comfortably. The skills I left with were years of public speaker training, from a group of 20 – 400 was a regular week in MC’ing and teaching. Understandly I didn’t want to throw those skills out the window to go and work for someone else and was thankfully directed by another celebrant to consider being the role.

As you can imagine and see from all the smiling pics, I’m so glad that I chose to become a marriage celebrant. I’m even more thankful that I can do this full time, the average yearly weddings a celebrant does is 8 and last year over 80 couples trusted me to make their day as incredible as they wanted it to be.  

If you want an easy, engaging and relatable celebrant to make your day and the journey towards it better than you hoped – we should really chat.