Kayla and Josh

Jackie was so down to earth and easy to communicate with. She was respectful and responsive during the whole process. Without her guidance, we wouldn’t have been able to have had such a smooth ceremony. Jackie made the process inclusive and stress free for us who had...

Dan and Kate

Jackie was the perfect wedding celebrant for us. She is highly organised – Jackie took care of all the legal paperwork, gave us fantastic feedback on our vows and was exceptionally well prepared for the ceremony (for example, she has a terrific PA system and brought...

Anni and Eliott

I recommend Jackie to everyone. We feel so lucky to have been married by her. Throughout the whole process Jackie was patient, relaxed and generous with her time and expertise. She is a deep listener and put so much work in to ensure our ceremony went perfectly in...

Michael and Kek Koon

Jackie Bailey was the perfect wedding celebrant for us, a same-sex couple from outside Australia who were registering our marriage and holding our wedding in Sydney. Her institutional knowledge of procedures and paperwork, and her clear instructions (via texts and...

Wedding Review – Isabella and Ian

We had Jackie as our celebrant at our wedding and we couldn’t have asked for better. She was recommended to us by a family member who had attended another wedding she officiated. Jackie is warm, professional and knowledgeable. She was very flexible with creating...

Rachael and Adam

Jackie was incredible to work with throughout the entire process. She did a beautiful job writing our love story and weaving in my cultural elements into our ceremony and went above and beyond to make sure everything ran perfectly for us. We couldn’t have asked...

Underland: A Deep Time Journey

Robert Macfarlane (2019) Underland: A Deep Time Journey, London: Penguin Books. In Underland: A Deep Time Journey, Robert Macfarlane writes about the spaces deep below the surface of the earth which humans have explored, connected to, exploited and revered. His...

Big news! My book ‘The Eulogy’ has found a home

My book has found a home. Hardie Grant Books has acquired the world rights (ex US) for my autofiction novel The Eulogy, set to launch on 1 June 2022. It has been a long journey for this book, the one I really felt I had to write. I enrolled in a creative writing PhD...

Roanna Gonsalves is going to school me

The saying goes when you are a writer that you have to clock up 200 rejections before you can start expecting any acceptances. I have well and truly paid my dues to the literary gods, and this year I was accepted into the Writing NSW emerging writers mentorship...