I receive many, many letters from couples and families, thanking me for taking part in their celebrations.  

Dearest Coral
 
It was our absolute pleasure to vote for you on the ABIA site. No words can truly express the respect and thanks we have for you. You are truly a gift. We will always remember you in our hearts for making our day so special and so intimate for our close family & friends. 
We hope that we have other events in the future to call upon you again.
 
We also emailed John from ABIA to express our thoughts on your amazing service. I have sent you a copy with this email just so you could see just how much we appreciate everything you did. No words we wrote express well enough just how special you made our day.
 
Thankyou so much
 
Warmest regards
Olivia & Timothy Hoogendyk

... as sent to ABIA...

Dear John (ABIA)
Australian Bridal Industry Awards Chairman
 
My husband and I felt really compelled to write to you.
We were so fortunate to have had the opportunity to have Coral Kortlepel as our marriage celebrant on Sunday 6 April 2008.
Words just cant express how special our Ceremony was due to Coral. She is the most amazing person. Her kindness and support was just unwavering we could not fault her at all. Throughout the whole process she made the whole experience totally stress free and relaxed. I never worried because I felt total trust and ease with Coral the whole time.
We were also fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to have our ceremony in Corals beautiful courtyard area.
My husband and myself will never forget Coral for making our day so special and intimate for our family and friends, we look forward to booking her in for future events when we have children for their Christenings, I would not have anyone else.
 
Kind Regards
Olivia & Timothy Hoogendyk

Hi Coral

Well here we are, all returned from our absolutely amazing honeymoon and jetlagged to the eyeballs (pardon the pun!!)

I wanted to take some time to let you know how we feel about the absolutely incredible service you gave for our wedding in September this year.

Leading up to a wedding is an extremely overwhelming, stressful time, as you are well aware! You made the preparations for our ceremony so absolutely easy, comfortable and the reassurance that you gave was perfect. Planning a wedding from overseas proved to be very challenging at times, but your willingness to communicate over email was deeply appreciated. Your enthusiasm to meet with me during my “flying” trips through Sydney made my job even easier.

The rehearsal, which again you exceeded all expectations by coming to Balmoral Beach, was wonderful. Your ability to assist in bringing all of my dreams and images in my head to a reality was such a blessing. This was also the first time that you had a chance to meet Matt, and I know, just as I did, that he knew you were the right person to marry us.

Your encouragement, your support and true love for sharing these special times with people really shines through from yourself personally and through the words that you deliver, whether they are in ceremony or just in conversation.

The ceremony itself was absolutely everything that Matt and I ever dreamed of. Your wonderful words, true caring nature and gentleness was felt by every person there. Not only the written word that we had you read, but the unwritten that you delivered was truly inspirational. There was not one person there that did not ask about you, who you are, how we found you and how lovely you and your words were.

It is so very hard to put into words how we feel about the love you added to our special day, I can only hope that you read this with all the love and thanks that it was written with.

We have sent you some photos of our special day and hope that you will remember our ceremony. These pictures have been substantially reduced from their original format and therefore may not print well. If you would like printed versions, we would be most happy to send them to you in the post or email you the larger files that you can print from.

So in closing Coral, a huge thank you from both Matt and I. We are truly thankful that the Universe lead us to you. We could not have wanted for anything more. Your poise, grace and love is truly inspirational.

With warm love
Matt and Tracee Rothschild

Dear Coral,
I will always remember Micheal and I completing our vows and realising we were above the Opera House and the gorgeous Harbour. As you know Mike and I decided,that whilst a ''traditional '' wedding would have been nice,we wanted to concentrate on ourselves on the day and not get caught up with some of the issues that can sometimes evolve when organising such a wedding. We had a beautifully relaxed day and enjoyed every moment.

We would like to thank you for your help,kindness and professionalism.Your portfolio of vows and poems was wonderful and we loved the very beautiful Apache wedding Poem that Jo read. Thanks again Coral. You helped make our day very special. We will certainly be contacting you again for renewal of vows and hopefully a baby naming ceremony.
Much love
Allison and Micheal Weekes.

Dear Coral,

Thank you very much for being our marriage celebrant on Sunday, 10 June 2007. You provided a wonderrful, calm atmosphere for all and it was greatly appreciated.

Your lovely, calm nature and welcoming smile put this very nervous bride at ease! Your easy instructions and words of wisdom were welcomed by all members of the bridal party.

Since our wedding day we have received many complements on our ceremony and have you to thank!

You provided a very moving, sentimental ceremony which Chris and I were very pleased with. Your stylish presentation and beautiful smile made the ceremony even more pleasant for us and our guests.

Again, thank you for a fabulous job and the very fond memories we carry with us today.

Kindest regards,
Jude Lambeth

Hi Coral,

As promised please see attached photos of the ceremony. I've included one of the ring warming, which everyone loved, by the way. We appreciated your professional and compassionate approach to the ceremony and would certainly recommend you to other prospective couples.

Kind regards,
Kristi and Terrence

Dear Coral,

Well we're finally back from a great honeymoon in Thailand after having such a fantastic wedding! Thankyou so much for the beautiful ceremony you gave on the day and the time and effort you spent helping us to get it just right. Everybody has commented on how much they enjoyed the ceremony and said you were lovely! We couldn't have asked for it to be more perfect.

I have attached a couple of pictures of the ceremony that i thought you might like. We have also filled out the rating form over the internet and we will post the ceremony/vow choices folder that we have back to you asap. We hope you enjoyed the day as much as we did and hopefully we will cross paths again!

Best wishes,
Jessica and Damien

Hi Coral,

Just a quick note to say a BIG thank you for Thursday.
Besides the rain all went very well. You are a wonderful celebrant and we are certainly glad we chose you to help celebrate our day.

Thank you again. I have attached a couple of our photos but I will send through some professional ones too when I recieve them.
Cheers Danielle & Richard

Dearest Coral,

Happy New Year to you. Hope you are well.

I just wanted to say a BIG THANK YOU for everything you did for Daniel & I. Our wedding day was just perfect & the ceremony delightful. Everyone commented on how wonderful you were & how personal you made the ceremony. If I know of anyone getting married, looking for a celebrant I will recommend you highly. Thank you so much for making our day so special. I am just about to go onto ABIA website to vote for you.

Hope you have a great 2008!

Lots of love,
Bianca AKA Mrs Katsanos!!

Hi Coral,

This is just a quick notes to say ' Thank you so much for the fantanstic Wedding service !! ' everyone there did nothing but compliment us in our choice of Celebrant, saying how lovely they thought you were!

Again, thank you,
Narelle Johansson

Dear Coral,

Just a final email to say thank you for the reaffirmation ceremony you conducted last Friday evening at Seven Shilling Beach for Raphael and I.

Considering we didn't meet until just before the event, had arranged everything by email, and that things felt completely disorganised at our end, we were thrilled with the ceremony. I loved how calm you were prior to the event - as we made final arrangements only 15 minutes beforehand and how you tranformed what we'd sent you into a cohesive and beautiful presentation. I know I made a great choice in asking you to perform the ceremony for us. You made it all very easy - which is really what we were after.

No stress nor fuss. We loved the entire evening. Thanks for being part of it.
Cheers,
Karen & Raphael (the Swiss Aussies)

Hi Coral

Thanks so much for making our ceremony so lovely it was the most beautiful romantic wedding I have been to, we are so happy and will continue to be through our lives.

We loved meeting you and we are so grateful you married us, we couldn’t of asked for a better celebrant. We will send you some photos as soon as our photographer gets them to us.

Kind Regards Suzi & Grahame Gare

Hello Coral,

We have just arrived back in Perth hence the delay in contacting you.

Both Jim and I would like to thank you for your assistance in providing a wonderful event for our son's wedding. Your assistance was most appreciated especially since I was trying to arrange everything from Perth by email.

Everyone that you recommended was very good. We have filled in the form on the ABIA website and given you 100% on all points.

Thank you again for all your help.
Regards, Joye & Jim Dormon

Hi John,
General Manager of (ABIA) Australian Bridal Industry

My name is Kylie & I wanted to vote for what I believe the BEST CELEBRANT EVER! Coral Kortlepel was our celebrant on 19th Oct 07.

We have just got back from our honeymoon & cannot thank her enough. We were married on the Sydney Glass Island which she has done many weddings on board & all went perfectly. I already had a celebrant booked until my fantastic florist Floradiction highly recommended I meet with Coral. I was looking for an elegant lady with style & class to represent our black tie wedding & when we met Coral there was no question! We booked her straight away. Not only her stylish appearance but her switched on mind! As we have no idea what has to be done we found her to be professional & super organized with a personal touch. I remember our final meeting with Coral my mind was turning to mush with brain over load organizing the wedding & her words & professional take charge attitude left me at ease. She told us at the end of all details – just turn up looking beautiful & remember to breath. So anything she previously told me we had to do on the day I knew not to stress because she would lead me.

The other added service we both appreciated with Coral was that she took charge of the boat – to get all guests on board & positioned. She doesn’t wait around for this to happen she became part of the SGI team! She introduced herself to my family & made them also feel very comfortable. In fact everyone commented what a lovely celebrant we had. How she looked so the part & they felt proud she was marrying us in such an elegant setting. I can see why she is in such high demand & we are so fortunate to have been able to book her.

I thought you may appreciate the feedback direct from me with regards to voting her the BEST EVER CELEBRANT! J

We will always recommend her in the future.

To dear Coral Kortlepel

We had the most amazing wedding day and a day we will cherish forever. The day turned out to be the most magical wedding day we ever could have imagined.

We would like to thank you immensely for and absolutely superb service. Our ceremony certainly would not have been as incredible as it were, if we did not have you as our celebrant. You did the most amazing job, and we will cherish the beautiful ceremony in our hearts forever.

Thank you ever so kindly for being perfect in what you. We truly loved our ceremony

Your sincerely
Kristie and Andrew Stubbs
Wedding 8th September 2007

Dear Coral

I wanted to write and thank you, on Dave's and my behalf, for making our wedding day so special. Our family and friends who were there with us, all commented on how beautiful the ceremony was, especially with Yasmin and Ryan being involved.

Your reference folder made designing the ceremony so easy and our visits to your office, with kids in tow, always left us feeling reassured that everything would run smoothly. Even your suggestion of Lilli Pilli Point Park as a venue couldn't have provided us with a better backdrop for our photos - luckily the sun shone!

We wouldn't hesitate to recommend you as a celebrant and, once again, many thanks.

All our love Fran, Dave, Yasmin & Ryan

Dear Coral

Thank you so much for helping to make our Wedding Day absolutely perfect. Everyone who attended commented on how lovely you were and we whole heartedly agree. We were so fortunate to find our perfect celebrant.

Thank you, Jeff & Lyn Hayes

Dear Coral,
We have just arrived back in the UK with some of the most wonderful photographs of our day.

Dearest Coral,

Thank-you from the bottom of our hearts for helping us make our wedding so beautiful. Your ceremony was lovely and all of our family and friends agreed. Your special 'little touches' were appreciated and we will cherish them forever. We hope to see you not to far in the future for another name day.

Love Scott & Toni

Dear Coral,

We just wanted to say thankyou for being such an important part of our wedding day.We loved the ceremony and many people commented on the vows and the incorporation of the traditional Jewish vows and practices.

It was perfect....thank you !!! and we were so blessed with the break in the weather.
Thank you again for a wonderful day, we couldnt be happier...with Love,

Brooke and Glenn Grindlinger

Dear Coral,

Both of us, together with our families would like to thank you once again for the beautiful weremony that you created for us on  Saturday 22nd January 2005. We truly had the time of our lives that day and will treasure the memories in our hearts forever.

Love, Mr and Mrs Cusack!

Hello Coral,

Hi Coral,

Well we are back in the UK and our holiday and wedding seem like they were
ages ago! It's taken us so long to get back into the swing of things here and we are both still pining for Australia!

Thank-you so much for everything you organised for the wedding. It really
was perfect and couldn't have gone any better. The location, weather, music, ceremony, archway...everything was fantastic! Thanks again for helping to make our day so perfect. We won't forget it.

John and Vickie Davis.

Dear Coral,

James and I wanted to thank you for marrying us and being a part of our wedding on the 14th May, 2006. You did such an amazing job and suggested lovely touches to make our ceremony unforgettable. The gift giving to Jordan was, to everyone, the icing on the cake. No one had seen anything like it before and we know that people will be talking about it for a long time to come. All thanks to you.

You impressed everyone and people are still asking us where we found out about you. Your words touched them all. You're a beautiful person Coral and we were thrilled that you shared in our special day.

Many, Many Thanks, Irene & James Bradden

Hi Coral,

I just wanted to say thank you for marrying Paul and I on 4th November.
We had such a great time, although the ceremony is a bit of a blur to us
both, everyone commented on how beautiful it was-we were even told by
one couple it was the most beautiful wedding they've seen!

We both had such a great day (despite the rain!), so thank you for
playing such a special part in our day.

You made us feel so comfortable and as relaxed as possible.

Thank you again,
Angela and Paul

Dear Coral,

Many thanks for your warmth and wonderful words on our wedding night, many people commented on how impressed they were with the words and the way you spoke them – so many thank-you’s for making the moment special.

Should any of our friends be tie-ing the knot in the future, we’ll certainly be recommending you.

As soon as we have the photo’s (next couple of weeks – we’ve just returned from honeymoon) we’ll shoot you through one or two!

Cheers,

Pippa and Jim.

Dear Coral,

Please see as attached.
This is a picture taken on the day by a guest at Camellia gardens.
I will send you more when I have some more of the gardens and one with
you in the photo with Darren and myself!!!
Just wanted to say a big THANK YOU!!!!
You really made our ceremony at Camellia gardens so special on Saturday
28TH October 2006 and we really appreciate it.

We had comments all day about how lovely the ceremony was.

Thanks Coral and Have a great Xmas and new year.

Regards,

Kristy & Darren Suddery.

Dear Coral,

I am sorry I did not manage to find and thank you on Saturday for the magnificent way you conducted Mariana and Casey's wedding. Peter and I want to thank you now. Everything about the way you led the wedding was just right - so warm, so calm and so professional. It was a lovely wedding, we all thought. Many of the guests commented on finding it an unusually beautiful ceremony.

Warm regards,

Marysia Green

Dear Coral,

Gareth and I would like to thank you so much for our beautiful wedding ceremony. I honestly have never heard such beautiful words, and the way that you deliver them was amazing.

So many of our guests commented on you and the way the ceremony was put together.

Our special day wouldn't of been half as wonderful if it hadn't of been for you. You made us both feel at ease and the day was more perfect then we could of hoped for. The first thing I did when I came back from our honeymoon was vote for you on the abia website and we gave you 100 for every category, and that's being totally honest, you are fantastic!

You are more then welcome to use those photos and what I wrote about you for your website or anything else.Take care and hopefully I'll run into you at another wedding.

Kim

Dear Coral,

On behalf of myself, Lee and Sam, I just wanted to say thank you so much for the amazing ceremony you gave us on our wedding day.

So many people (even guys!!) Came up to me later and commented on how lovely you were and how perfectly suited the vows were to us.

Under such miserable weather we had the most beautiful day ever.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Lots of love,

Jule, Lee and Samuel Miles (my family)
XOXOX

Dear Coral,

Thank you so much for marrying us! We couldn't be happier with your service and everyone is still commenting on how beautiful the whole service was.

We fee blessed to have found you and we thank you for making our day such a special one!

Much love,

Richie & Jamie
XO

Hi Coral

Hope you are well!!

Tan and I just came back from our beautiful honeymoon!! We do apologise for this late email but would like to Thank you so so so very much from the bottom of our hearts for marrying us!!!

We had such a beautiful wedding day and could not have asked for more! Your knowledge, experience, professionalism and immense care made our very hectic and emotional day especially beautiful, calm and enjoyable!!! We truly mean this!! We are very fortunate to have you marry us and hope that future couples you will be marrying will appreciate you as we did!! We will definitely be recommending you to our friends!

Please find enclosed pictures of our marriage take at the Royal Botanic Gardens!

All the best and keep smiling!!

With lots of love,

Tan & Peggy

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