Celebrant Consultancy Programme

Whether you are a new celebrant, experienced celebrant or someone looking to become a celebrant, there are always new skills to be learnt, to be refreshed and new ideas to be developed. The role of a celebrant is a fluid, continual and ever-growing one.
Whether you are a trained celebrant or not (training is not always necessary or required in some countries), there will be a point during your career where you need to make changes and new developments. Your initial training may have been helpful in building your confidence and skills as a celebrant but what about your skills as a celebrant in business?

Those taking the leap

Have you been to a wedding where a celebrant led a ceremony and you left feeling utterly inspired, knowing that you’d love to be able to help couples get married in a similar way? Or have you naturally become interested in the role of a celebrants and can feel it in your heart that it is something you’d love to do? No matter how you have arrived at wanting to be a celebrant, the most important thing is learning how to take your newly found passion and turn it into a viable business. As I know from ten years of being a wedding celebrant, there is nothing more wonderful than getting paid for a job that you absolutely love.

I can help you to form your business and take up the reins from where any training may have left off. My three starter modules; Becoming a celebrant, being a celebrant and the business side of being a celebrant, will give you all you need to start-up your celebrant business and set you up with all the infrastructure that you need for being a working, professional celebrant.

I can also help you take the next step in turning your growing business into a full-time career, and how to make the ultimate leap.

For newbie celebrants

Perhaps you have already undergone some form of celebrant training and may have conducted a number of ceremonies already. I can help you to look at ways to grow your business, whilst making sure that you’ve got a good infrastructure in place to help you with your growth.
Perhaps you have specific areas that need to be addressed, such as the marketing of your business or how to build up solid business relationships with wedding suppliers. Maybe you need help with converting enquiries into sales and learning new techniques to present yourself in the best way possible so that couples would find it hard not to book you! Maybe you are entering an already saturated market and need to think of ways to stand out?
The first few years as a new celebrant can be daunting, with periods of doubt and frustration, mixed with raw passion and the determination to find the right clients. It can be hard to build up your business and to spread the word on what you have to offer, but it isn’t impossible and once you know how they’ll be no stopping you.

For experienced celebrants

Perhaps you are a seasoned celebrant who needs to update their website and get better at handling the demands of social media? Perhaps, you need help converting enquiries in to sales? Maybe you’re suffering from a loss of confidence and need some advice and mentoring to get you back on track. Maybe you need a complete business audit to address the areas that are the weakest and identify where you need improvement.
Even the best and most experienced celebrants can plateau and reach a point where they are feeling uninspired, bewildered and a maybe even a little stale. Let me help to freshen up your celebrant business and leave you feeling raring to go again?
All of my sessions will be a mixture of one-to-one video chat sessions, e-books and work sheets, and continued online support as you start your celebrant journey or if you’re making new changes to your existing business model.

 A little about me

I became a working celebrant in 2007, after officiating a ceremony purely by accident and with no other choice, the year before. Despite my initial horror in having to officiate a ceremony I had not written, never read or practiced, I loved every second of it and so did the couple and their family. Did I get the celebrant bug from that or what!

After my celebrant website was launched in June 2007, during the peak wedding season (newbie error!), I got three late bookings from couples for that year. By the next year, that number had increased tenfold, and every subsequent year the bookings have increased more and more.

I am now at the point where my services are booked a year, if not two in advance and my numbers are capped to an amount that I am happy and comfortable with. I have more people asking me to officiate their ceremonies than I can physically do, as well as people offering to fly me abroad for their ceremonies. I work when I like, I have the winters off to recharge my batteries and have quality time with my family.  

I’m going to let you in on four little secrets about me and about what I did to get where I am now.

Secret one

I am not a trained or accredit celebrant, even though I have been a practicing celebrant for ten years. And more importantly, nor do I need to be. I am not affiliated to any celebrant organisations nor have I ever been trained by any organisations either. I do not provide a legal wedding ceremony, therefore no training is legally required. I dare say, I may have benefited from some training in the early days, but living abroad I was not in a position to do so. However, it has not hindered my development at all.  Everything I learnt, I studied, researched and taught myself. I am not anti-training at all, but I am a firm believer that being a celebrant is 99% down to the person you are as a human being and 1% is down to training and learning.

Secret two

Much of my early success was down to forging good relationships with key people within the wedding industry that I work within.

Secret three

A huge part of my success was down to having a top-notch celebrant website (although don’t look at it now, as it’s having a major facelift) and regularly updated and engaging social media and blog.

Secret four

Much of my success has come from being ethical, professional and responsible. This may sound obvious, but it speaks greater volumes than you can imagine.

If you are engaged (mentally) and ready to see your business grow, to learn from me in greater detail (especially learn more secrets) and want me help you to get yourself on track in your dream job, then get in contact, straight away. My consultation programme is independent, based on my own wealth of experience and knowledge accrued from ten years and over 600 wedding ceremonies.

I’m engaged and ready for you. 
Please note: The celebrant consultancy programme is not country-specific so I cannot advise on the legal, cultural or economic requirements for the country or area that you work or intend to work in. Nor can I advise on tax issues, business status or employment requirements. If you are not already working as a celebrant, you will need to do your own individual research into how celeebrants operate in your own country/area.