MARIANNE DELAFORCE

I am a registered Marriage Celebrant and Entertainer,

Freelance editor and Audiobook narrator.

ABOUT

Marianne Delaforce is an adventurous, brave, take-no-prisoners kind of woman with a big heart. Marianne grew up on a dairy farm at Telegraph Point, NSW. She has raised two sons and has four grandchildren. Marianne will have a go at anything if it interests her and believes if you’re not happy and don’t like what you’re doing, don’t whinge about it, change it! She can drive a road train, ride a motorbike, likes skydiving and bungy jumping. 

She has worked as a shop assistant, waitress, axeman on the Forestry Commission, sales rep, remote camp cook, furniture removalist and truck driver. She has owned and operated a transport company employing forty staff driving twelve trucks out of two depots, one each in NSW and NT. She has also owned and operated a Mediterranean restaurant on the riverbank of Port Macquarie. Over the past thirty-five years her real passion has been singing and entertaining. 

She sold her company and restaurant in 2014, packed up and took off on the adventure of a lifetime to find herself again on the “Free, Fabulous and 50 Tour”. Marianne has travelled Australia with her trusty blue heeler dog, Elly, by her side. Towing an off-road caravan with her Land Rover, they have made their way around Australia 3 times in 4 years, through the Gulf of Carpentaria, up to Cape York, across the Nullarbor, and have traversed both The Gibb River Road and The Outback Way, Australia’s longest shortcut. 

Since 2018 I have been based in Hat Head with my Mum. Life and priorities change but I’m still living life to the fullest and chasing dreams. I’m currently works as a marriage celebrant, entertainer, freelance editor and audiobook narrator.. I now have another gorgeous senior dog a staffy called Gibbs. I will be back out there doing small trips in 2024.