Meet your celebrant: Pan!

Hi, I’m Pan. I’m a mum, unofficial organisation queen and marriage celebrant.

In case you are wondering: “is Pan a typo for Pam?” rest assured, its not!

Pan is short for Panayiota and I’m Greek Australian - which means I love a big meal, lots of talking and any occasion where you can get together with family and friends. Which sounds like the recipe for a great wedding if you ask me!

After over a decade in marketing I traded my corporate role for my next adventure; marriage celebrant. You know those moments in life where everything just clicks into place? That’s what this decision felt like to me. As a marketer, so much of my work involved telling stories. Now, I get to tell stories as part of the most magical days of peoples’ lives. Talk about a fulfilling and rewarding career path.

To me, there’s nothing more meaningful. I get the privilege of being privy to people’s love stories. To those stolen glances and intimate moments. To the little quirks which make each couple so unique. It’s incredible.

But, let me take you back a few steps. Flashback to 2015, I was planning my own wedding. Our ceremony was conducted in a Greek Orthodox Church and although the Greek traditions are incredibly meaningful to me and my family, I struggled with being able to add my own flair to my ceremony. It just didn’t feel quite like ‘us’, and that’s what it should be all about, right?

Through Married by Pan, I want to give people the opportunity to create a ceremony which truly reflects their love story.

I’ll let you in on a massive wedding industry secret…. You don’t actually have to follow all the traditions. I know, right? Shocking. If a certain tradition or ritual doesn’t feel authentic to you, then you don’t have to do it. Your wedding is your chance to write your own narrative. This is your story. You can build it however you’d like. And it’s my job to guide you through that process.

That leads us to where we are today. I’m now a registered marriage celebrant who gets the pleasure of being part of incredible wedding days in Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula. And I’d love to be part of yours. Get in touch to find out how I can weave my story telling magic into your ceremony.