9 March 2025
Why should commitment ceremonies be reserved for romantic love? Join this community celebration of chosen family – and for the bold, bring your bestie and “put a ring on it”!
| Date | Time |
| Sunday 9 March 2025 | 6pm |
| Ticket | Price |
| Standard | $35 |
$8.95 booking fee applies per transaction
Prices correct at the time of publication and subject to change without notice. Exact prices will be displayed with seat selection.
The only authorised ticket agency for this event is Sydney Opera House. For more information about Authorised Agencies, see the frequently asked questions below.
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Wheelchair accessible:
There are a number of wheelchair and companion seating locations in our theatres. To book accessible seating contact Box Office:
Telephone
+61 2 9250 7777
(Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm AEST)
Email bookings@sydneyoperahouse.com
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Run time
This event runs for approximately 60 minutes.
Event duration is a guide only and may be subject to change.
Age
Recommended for ages 15+.
Marieke Hardy, upon getting friend-marriedIt unexpectedly deepened something for both of us. We are family, blood. She comes before anybody else.
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A celebration of holy mate-rimony
Celebrate your deep and abiding best friendship in this joyful participatory commitment ceremony – complete with marriage vows and a celebrant. Created by Forever Friends Emilie Zoey Baker and Marieke Hardy, this dynamic duo have been conducting friendship nuptial services all over Australia since 2019.
Pals who take part will be celebrated in a personalised ceremony. Their platonic knot-tying will be immortalised with a commemorative wedding photograph, and they will take home an official(ish) bit of paperwork declaring a friendship that will stand the test of time.
There are two ways to be involved – as a marriage participant or a wedding guest:
For those ready to get hitched, please email the names of all proposed marriage participants to marryyourfriends@sydneyoperahouse.com. Marriage registrations are limited and all marriage participants must hold a ticket to this event. You will be contacted if your marriage is able to be facilitated, with ceremony spots assigned on a first-in, best dressed basis. Get in quick to secure your spot to walk down the aisle!
Remaining ticket holders will be wedding guests, celebrating all of the registered marriages in a jam-packed series of ceremonies. Guests may be required to participate from their seats – think confetti throwing, sing a wedding song – and are required to bring the revelry and joy. Bridal parties are encouraged but must remain seated for the duration of the event.
Presented by Sydney Opera House
Marieke Hardy (she/her)
Marieke Hardy is a screenwriter, producer, curator, radio host, podcaster and playwright. In 2011, she won an Australian Writers’ Guild Award for Best Comedy for Laid, which she co-created, wrote, and produced. The show ran for two seasons and was awarded the AACTA Award for Best Television Series in 2012, and it has recently been ordered to series at Peacock in the US starring Stephanie Hsu and Zosia Mamet. She has written for numerous other Australian TV series, including Packed to the Rafters, Heartbreak High, Please Like Me, Seven Types of Ambiguity and Sunny Nights.
Outside of the television space, Marieke was a regular co-host on ABC’s The Book Club for eleven years and Artistic Director of Melbourne Writers Festival from 2017 to 2019. She was the recipient of the prestigious Sidney Myer Fellowship in 2015. Her debut as a playwright - an adaptation of Dario Fo’s No Pay No Way! - opened at the Sydney Opera House in 2019, and had a smash season in 2022 at Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester UK, before being remounted in Sydney in April 2024. Her podcast, Marieke Hardy Is Going To Die debuted in February 2024.
Emilie Zoey Baker (she/her)
Emilie Zoey Baker is an award-winning Australian poet and spoken-word performer who has toured nationally and internationally performing and writing. She was a Fellow at the State Library of Victoria, and has previously been poet-in-residence for Museums Victoria and coordinator for the National Australian Poetry Slam. She teaches poetry and slam in primary and secondary schools and is the creative director of OutLoud Australian Poetry’s first youth slam.
She is also the host and co-producer of the monthly spoken word event Better Off Said with Marieke Hardy.
Plan your visit
Venue information
Our foyers will be open 90 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and two hours pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. Refreshments will be available for purchase from our theatre bars.
All Sydney Opera House foyers are pram accessible, with lifts to the main and western foyers. The public lift to all foyers is accessible from the corridor near the escalators on the Lower Concourse and also in the Western Foyer via the corridor on the Ground Level (at the top of the escalators). Pram parking will be available outside the theatres in the Western Foyer.
Getting here
The Sydney Opera House Car Park, operated by Wilson Parking, is open and available to use. Wilson Parking offer discounted parking if you book ahead. Please see the Wilson Parking website for details.
Please check the Transport NSW website for the latest advice and information on travel. You can catch public transport (bus, train, ferry) to Circular Quay and enjoy a six minute walk to the Opera House.
Frequently asked questions
Ticket purchases and collection at our Box Office is discouraged and eTicket or postal delivery methods should be used, wherever possible. However, if you are collecting your tickets from the Box Office, we recommend doing this at least 60 minutes before the event starts. If you have already received your tickets, the venue doors will be open 45 minutes pre-show for Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and 30 minutes pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. Please take your seats as soon as you arrive.
If you are late, we will seat you as soon as we can and, where possible, in your allocated seat. However, to reduce movement in the venue as well as minimise disruption to the performance and other patrons, ticketholders may be seated in an allocated latecomer’s seat. Please be aware that some events have lock-out periods. In these cases, latecomers will be admitted at a suitable break in the performance. On occasions, this may not be until the interval, or at all where there is no interval.
Details of our right to refuse admission can be found in our General Terms and Conditions for Tickets and Events.
In accordance with our venue security procedures, Opera House security will be scanning and checking bags under the Monumental Stairs, prior to entering the building. Bags will be scanned by an x-ray machine, and staff will wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) when handling your belongings, such as gloves. Cloaking facilities will be open 60 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and 60 minutes pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. However it is strongly encouraged that you travel lightly to minimise contact and queuing. Any bags larger than an A4 piece of paper will need to be checked into the Cloak Room.
The authorised agency for this event is the Sydney Opera House.
Only tickets purchased by authorised agencies should be considered reliable. If you purchase tickets from a non-authorised agency such as Ticketmaster Resale, Viagogo, Ticketbis, eBay, Gumtree, Tickets Australia or any other unauthorised seller, you risk that these tickets are fake, void or have previously been cancelled. Resale restriction applies. For more details, please refer to our General Terms and Conditions for Tickets and Attendance at Events.
Please contact Box Office on +61 2 9250 7777 as soon as possible to advise if you can no longer attend.
Foyers will be open 90 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and two hours pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. Refreshments will be available for purchase from our theatre bars.
The venue doors will be open 45 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and 30 minutes pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances.
Please bring a credit or debit card for any on site purchases to enable contactless payment. You’re welcome to bring your own water bottle but no other food and drinks are permitted inside our venues.
The health, safety and wellbeing of everyone at the Sydney Opera House is our top priority. In line with this commitment, the Opera House became a smoke-free site in January 2022. Read our Smoke-free Environment Policy.
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