Marriage Registration

Me and Beary are currently deciding whether to have our marriage registration here in Malaysia or in Sydney.

We originally planned to have it here in August but our plan got slightly disrupted as we did not manage to submit our registration application when he was here last month (we didn't know that he must submit his single cert form then....)

The procedure of getting married/registered in Malaysia includes submitting an application form (he must be present to sign-it, where in order to do that, he needs to be in cty for a min 7 days) and then a 21 days period before the registration could take place. We could get an 'exception' for the 21 days period by paying additional RM100 but then again, it would depend on the place/celebrant availability as well after that to see if we could have our registration on our preferred date.
It's tough because he could probably only take a maximum of 2 weeks leave from work. Thus if we choose to register in Malaysia, we need to take a risk as we would probably have 6 days left after we submit the application, to book the place/celebrant etc.

The procedure of getting married/ registered in Sydney is less complicated - I don't have to be there to submit the application form. Which means that I don't need to take long leave from work and we could plan better even with 2.5 mths to go.
The only catch is it's freaking expensive to apply, and appoint a celebrant :(

In Malaysia, the max price (with the exception fees) is probably RM130 but if we have it in Sydney, it'll probably be around AUD430 i.e. RM1200.

Sigh... To take or not to take risk and just pay pay pay?
Can someone remind me why am I marrying an Australian again?
:P