Celebrant, Tweed Heads & Coolangatta

The state border runs down the middle of this suburb, so a ceremony at Point Danger can be registered in New South Wales or in Queensland depending on which side of the line you stand. That changes the certificate fee — $70 in NSW, $58.10 in Queensland — and nothing else. Ceremonies run $495 to $1,350, twenty minutes from Murwillumbah.

Ceremonies at Tweed Heads

Every price is published in full on the prices page. Travel to Tweed Heads & Coolangatta is about 20 minutes from Murwillumbah, included within 30 km and $1 per kilometre round trip beyond it.

Venues and places

Where the border runs, and the hour it changes

The line runs along Boundary Street and out to the monument at Point Danger, so two halves of one suburb sit in different states. For six months of the year they also sit in different hours: New South Wales observes daylight saving from the first Sunday in October to the first Sunday in April, and Queensland does not. A ceremony at Rainbow Bay called for five o'clock is at six o'clock to anyone driving up from Kingscliff.

It is the most common piece of confusion in this suburb and the easiest to fix: put the state next to the time on every invitation, run sheet and supplier confirmation between October and April. Otherwise guests coming from each direction arrive an hour apart, and exactly half of them will have been right.

Choosing a registry

The choice is made by where you stand, not by a form. A ceremony held on the Queensland side is registered by the Queensland registry; one held on the New South Wales side goes to New South Wales. The celebrant lodges with whichever it is, and you choose by picking the spot.

What follows is small and permanent. A standard certificate is $70 in New South Wales and $58.10 in Queensland, and the state that registered the marriage is the one you order a replacement from in twenty years, wherever you are living then. Nothing about the notice, the witnesses or the ceremony itself changes.

Which registry

A marriage at Tweed Heads is registered in NSW by the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages: a standard certificate is $70 and its own registry ceremony $482 on a weekday. What differs across the border.

Questions people ask

Does it matter which side of the border we marry on?
For the marriage itself, no: it is a Commonwealth law and a celebrant is authorised Australia-wide. What changes is which registry receives the paperwork and what a certificate costs — $70 standard in New South Wales, $58.10 in Queensland — and, if you ever order a replacement, which state you order it from.
Can we marry at Point Danger?
Yes, and the border monument there is on the line itself. It is a Gold Coast City and Tweed Shire boundary site, so the permit depends on exactly where you stand; the lookout, Rainbow Bay and Snapper Rocks are all popular and all get booked for sunset slots months ahead in summer.
Are you registered in both states?
The question does not quite apply. Marriage celebrants are authorised by the Commonwealth Attorney-General under the Marriage Act 1961 and may solemnise a marriage anywhere in Australia. There is no state registration to hold, which is why a Murwillumbah base covers both sides of the border with no extra step.

Not yet taking enquiries here

This site is being built. The phone number, the Google listing and the entry on the Attorney-General's register of marriage celebrants will be published together, as one identical set — which is what a search engine needs in order to be sure they all describe the same business.

Prices, inclusions and paperwork on this site are complete and current. Only the contact details are outstanding.