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
For experienced celebrants
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.