World Pride March… hey is that one of my couples in the crowd?

On Sunday the 5th of March, hubby and I got up early with our two beautiful diverse children and headed into North Sydney to take part along with 50,000 members of the lgbtqia+ community and their allies to walk in a colourful, peaceful, loving and celebratory march that ended Sydney’s World Pride Celebrations.

As I looked behind in awe at the sea of people, I became overwhelmed, overwhelmed with happiness. Holding hubby’s hand and watching our kids walk, dance and take photos we realised how lucky we are to accept and understand diversity through them. They continue to teach us and we never stop learning.

As a Celebrant, I get the joy of conducting wedding ceremonies for some amazing couples. I am fortunate enough to stay in touch with a few. So it was absolutely joyous to run into one of my favourite couples and their grooms party whilst I basked in the festivities on Oxford Street. “We thought you would be here” they said. So we jumped in a photo! I love what I do…

The 2017 Yes vote here is Australia marked the path of what I already had been thinking for many years. This is the time to become a Celebrant. It mean’t my children would now be able to legally marry. It meant that marriage was no longer between a male and a female but “between two people to the exclusion of all others”, the legal wording got changed!

I get to marry all types of couples, I love them all, straight, gay, multilingual and aged diversed, as long as there is love with a story to be told, it is all that matters to me.

So let the World Pride celebrations reminds us to be accepting, non judgemental and embrace the diversity in our world, in your part of the world… in your own community… you never know what wonderful surprises you may find in the crowd!