The best tablet computer for celebrants, is it the...
Posted by Josh Withers | Dec 12, 2020 | The Art of Celebrancy | 4 |
How to name your celebrant business
Posted by Josh Withers | Dec 5, 2020 | Marketing and Social Media | 1 |
How to collect wedding guest information for your ...
Posted by Josh Withers | Nov 30, 2020 | COVID-19 | 1 |
011 Social Media Challenge: A day in the life of &...
Posted by Josh Withers | Nov 1, 2020 | Social Media Content Challenge | 0 |
Tasmania (BDM) gets the internet
Posted by Josh Withers | Sep 30, 2020 | Free Podcast | 0 |
All

Portable PA speaker system purchasing ad...

A massive change to how marriage celebra...

Which iPad and which apps do you recomme...

Where I stand during the ceremony. Sarah...

Wedding rehearsals – a video

Personal vows and their content

Marketing: if I was starting today

Running side hustles alongside your cele...

Can the Marriage Registry transfer a NOI...

Ceremony script writing skills. Sarah...

How do I do marriage certificates?

Signing and transferring a NOIM
All
LatestWe’re hiring celebrant trainers for 2021
by Sarah Aird | Jan 15, 2021 | Community News | 0 |
We're searching for the best celebrant trainers in Australia to join us for our 2021 ongoing professional development program. If you're a passionate celebrant who is proud to pass on your wisdom and experience to others then we would love to interview you for a role with the Celebrant Institute RTO for our OPD 2021 program.
-
Be the CEO your wedding celebrant business needs you to be
by The Celebrant Talk Show | Jan 15, 2021 | Free Podcast | 0 |
-
026 Social Media Challenge: It’s not about you today
by Josh Withers | Dec 31, 2020 | Social Media Content Challenge | 0 |
-
025 Social Media Challenge: Meme me baby
by Josh Withers | Dec 27, 2020 | Social Media Content Challenge | 0 |
All
Top Rated005 Social Media Challenge: Let’s get podcasting
by Josh Withers | Oct 6, 2020 | Social Media Content Challenge | 0 |
Podcasts are so much more powerful than most people imagine. My little podcast, [The Rebel’s Guide to Getting Married], has maybe...
-
Receiving ID documentation securely
by Josh Withers | Jan 8, 2020 | The Business of Celebrancy | 2 |
-
Shortening of time: the celebrant’s role
by Sarah Aird | Jun 29, 2018 | Our Guidelines to Australian Marriage Law | 0 |
-
Latest podcast episodes
Listen NowBe the CEO your wedding celebrant business needs you to be
It's time to life up our heads from managing, or surviving, in our wedding celebrancy business, and to actually lead our businesses to a place where they bring us joy and happiness again.
- Marketing and Social Media
- The Art of Celebrancy
- The Art of Funerals
- The Art of Ceremony
- The Business of Celebrancy
- Our Guidelines to Australian Marriage Law
- Community News
See out 2020 with a social media challenge
by Josh Withers | Sep 15, 2020 | Marketing and Social Media, Social Media Content Challenge | 0 |
I'm writing a social media challenge for Celebrant Institute members to see out 2020...
-
Where should we get clients to review us?
by Josh Withers | Aug 14, 2020 | Marketing and Social Media | 1 |
-
Replying to new wedding enquiries with Bonjoro
by Josh Withers | Aug 12, 2020 | Marketing and Social Media | 2 |
-
What does Instagram Reels’ launch mean for the wedding industry?
by Josh Withers | Aug 4, 2020 | Marketing and Social Media | 0 |
-
How to be your own publicist
by Josh Withers | Aug 2, 2020 | Marketing and Social Media | 2 |
Are you a workaholic?
by Josh Withers | Oct 20, 2020 | The Art of Celebrancy | 0 |
It’s a weird world in 2020, one where our workload has significantly decreased, yet in other...
-
OPD in 2021 is changing
by Josh Withers | Oct 1, 2020 | The Art of Celebrancy | 0 |
-
Approach a wedding ceremony as a work of art
by Josh Withers | Aug 22, 2020 | The Art of Celebrancy | 0 |
-
Sarah’s gear – a video
by Sarah Aird | Aug 4, 2020 | The Art of Celebrancy | 3 |
-
Words to an aspirational celebrant
by Josh Withers | May 22, 2020 | The Art of Celebrancy | 6 |
Getting your start in funerals
by Sarah Aird | Aug 10, 2018 | The Art of Funerals | 6 |
Mercy asks: Like you I want to create beautiful funeral ceremonies. Because I think funerals can be beautiful. An assignment in my celebrant course had me visit a local funeral director with a bunch of questions on how they work...
Should I use a speaker stand, and should I use a PA for 10 guests?
by Josh Withers | Sep 20, 2020 | The Art of Ceremony | 0 |
Tam asks: I have my first wedding coming up next month. My question is in regards to using my PA system. I have Bose S1 with Sennheiser microphone. The wedding is only small (approximately 10 guests). Would you use a PA system? They are having a videographer so I didn't know if this would play into whether or not to use it? If you suggest not using it, at what size wedding would you? Also I have not yet brought a stand. Is this an absolute must/do you recommend any particular brand/price point to aim for to get a decent one? Complete newbie with all this stuff! All good questions, Tamika, and I’ll address them separately.
-
You don’t have to do everything
by Josh Withers | Aug 7, 2020 | COVID-19, The Art of Ceremony | 0 |
-
Live streaming a wedding, and what about the music copyright?
by Josh Withers | Aug 7, 2020 | The Art of Ceremony | 0 |
-
We’ll do it live!
by Josh Withers | Jun 23, 2020 | The Art of Ceremony | 3 |
-
Creating an intimate ceremony, and including kids
by Josh Withers | Jun 22, 2020 | The Art of Ceremony | 0 |
Creating elopement packages
by Josh Withers | Sep 23, 2020 | COVID-19, The Business of Celebrancy | 0 |
A reader asks: "I have a handful of elopement related questions, and I think they will be more relevant than ever given how our world has changed in 2020 and how weddings have changed/will change in the coming year(s).
-
If you have a non refundable deposit
by Josh Withers | Sep 4, 2020 | COVID-19, The Business of Celebrancy | 0 |
-
Seth Godin on selling your time
by Josh Withers | Aug 10, 2020 | The Business of Celebrancy | 0 |
-
-
How to to-do
by Josh Withers | Jul 28, 2020 | The Business of Celebrancy | 1 |
Moving a wedding from Queensland to New South Wales
by Josh Withers | Sep 29, 2020 | Our Guidelines to Australian Marriage Law | 0 |
Luke asks: One of my couples that had a Qld wedding booked, now want to change the ceremony location to NSW since the new border easing. What do I need to know and how do I go about doing a wedding in NSW? Is there a set criteria that determines the couples eligibility for getting married over the border into NSW?
-
Correcting marriage paperwork
by Josh Withers | Sep 16, 2020 | Our Guidelines to Australian Marriage Law | 0 |
-
-
-
Form 15 Record of Use in Excel
by Sarah Aird | Jul 25, 2020 | Our Guidelines to Australian Marriage Law | 1 |
We have changed membership systems
by Josh Withers | Jul 25, 2020 | Community News, COVID-19 | 0 |
Just a quick note for members of the Celebrant Institute, your membership management, updating of cards, changing plans, logging in, and just using it, has become a whole lot easier. It’s involved four weeks of work on my...
-
Look out for a zero dollar invoice for the annual celebrant charge
by Josh Withers | Jul 13, 2020 | Community News | 0 |
-
Annual fee waived!
by Sarah Aird | May 15, 2020 | Community News | 0 |
-
MLCS & celebrant associations/networks meeting 5 May 2020
by Sarah Aird | May 11, 2020 | Community News, COVID-19 | 2 |
-
Help us catalogue the podcast!
by Sarah Aird | Apr 27, 2020 | Community News | 4 |
024 Social Media Challenge: Can I answer you a question?
by Josh Withers | Dec 23, 2020 | Social Media Content Challenge | 0 |
Today’s challenge is a little more casual after some intense training days, and it’s about Quora.
Read More023 Social Media Challenge: The writing game
by Josh Withers | Dec 19, 2020 | Social Media Content Challenge | 0 |
Today your challenge is to write non-stop for five minutes.
Read More022 Social Media Challenge: You can ASCII me anything
by Josh Withers | Dec 15, 2020 | Social Media Content Challenge | 0 |
In the beginning there was the text, and the text was good. It was all we knew. We called it ASCII, ASCII codes represent text in computers. When I first used a personal computer in 1991 “computer graphics” were mostly just text in the shape of graphics, like this was a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. And despite us inventing all of the great technologies that allow us to view videos, blogs, photos, and the rest online, in today’s challenge, we’re sticking with the original: text.
Read More021 Social Media Challenge: Charting the course
by Josh Withers | Dec 11, 2020 | Social Media Content Challenge | 0 |
Here’s a chart that tells a story about my business. Before you read on or scroll, what story do you think it’s telling?
Read More020 Social Media Challenge: Josh’s Wheeeeeelllll of Content
by Josh Withers | Dec 7, 2020 | Social Media Content Challenge | 0 |
Today you get a rare and direct peek into my brain. This next diagram explains how I think about content.
Read More019 Social Media Challenge: Combine the five
by Josh Withers | Dec 3, 2020 | Social Media Content Challenge | 0 |
We’re on the home stretch in this social media challenge, and you guys are absolutely nailing the challenge to the wall, good work!
Read More018 Social Media Challenge: Create demonstrating content
by Josh Withers | Nov 29, 2020 | Social Media Content Challenge | 0 |
I started this little streak of content prompts highlighting the fact that there five different kinds of good content. This is the fifth: demonstratable content.
Read More017 Social Media Challenge: Let me, entertain you!
by Josh Withers | Nov 25, 2020 | Social Media Content Challenge | 0 |
Today’s challenge, once more without stipulation of network or medium, is to entertain us.
Read More016 Social Media Challenge: Inspire us
by Josh Withers | Nov 21, 2020 | Social Media Content Challenge | 0 |
Today’s challenge is to mentally stimulate us, to make us feel something, something creative,...
Read More015 Social Media Challenge: Be educational
by Josh Withers | Nov 17, 2020 | Social Media Content Challenge | 0 |
Good morning students! Today you’re all teachers and we’re taking your audience back to school.
Read More014 Social Media Challenge: Be relevant
by Josh Withers | Nov 13, 2020 | Social Media Content Challenge | 0 |
There are five different kinds of good content. Before you click post on anything, ever, forever, it should be at least one. If it’s two, you might get a like, three and you’re having a party, four and you just put a hashtag in front of the word winning.
Read More013 Social Media Challenge: Who do you love?
by Josh Withers | Nov 9, 2020 | Social Media Content Challenge | 0 |
Today’s challenge is 98% in your hands, 1% in the calendar’s hands, and 1% from me.
Read More012 Social Media Challenge: Something beautiful
by Josh Withers | Nov 5, 2020 | Social Media Content Challenge | 2 |
Ansel Adams said that we don’t take a photograph, we make it. Your challenge today is to make a...
Read More010 Social Media Challenge: Let’s take the conversation to 11
by Josh Withers | Oct 26, 2020 | Social Media Content Challenge | 0 |
Today we’re taking that controversial thought in your mind, and we’re turning it all the way up to [eleven, Spinal Tap style].
Read More009 Social Media Challenge: Your genesis story
by Josh Withers | Oct 22, 2020 | Social Media Content Challenge | 0 |
Today’s challenge is an easy one, you already know everything about it, the key to the challenge though is 1. Articulating it, 2. Telling it, and 3. Sharing it to as many mediums as possible
Today we’re telling your genesis story, the story of how you started, why you started, and how you felt you could do something important and different.
Read More008 Social Media Challenge: Beat your own drum and testify
by Josh Withers | Oct 18, 2020 | Social Media Content Challenge | 0 |
If someone speaks well of you, you’ve got to remember that, embed it deep into your soul, and know that you’re good at this.
And once you’ve done that you need to share that testimony
There’s a whole philosophy behind referrals and testimonies, but I’m not sharing them today, because I’m not a psychologist; I’m just a boy, standing in front a celebrant, asking them to testify! Testimonies about how you are good at what you do, and you do it in a certain way that makes a certain kind of person happy.
Read More007 Social Media Challenge: Blog a common reply
by Josh Withers | Oct 14, 2020 | Social Media Content Challenge | 0 |
In computer programming there’s a method of program called Object Oriented Programming, which recognises that some parts of the program are reused a lot. The programmers write the code once, then reuse it every time they need it.
Read More006 Social Media Challenge: Nutella Day
by Josh Withers | Oct 10, 2020 | Social Media Content Challenge | 0 |
Who would ever think that there would be a need for an [International Day for Nutella] to raise awareness of the delicious nutty goodness? Sara Rosso did.
Read More004 Social Media Challenge: Reuse and recycle
by Josh Withers | Oct 2, 2020 | Social Media Content Challenge | 0 |
I’m willing to bet that you have received a question about what you do before today, and you’ve hit reply with a really good answer.
Read More003 Social Media Challenge: Carrot Cake
by Josh Withers | Sep 29, 2020 | Social Media Content Challenge | 1 |
Today’s challenge is to find something boring (like a carrot) yet necessary (like vegetables are for your diet) in your business
Read More002 Social Media Challenge: Introduce Yourself
by Josh Withers | Sep 25, 2020 | Social Media Content Challenge | 0 |
Every month you should re-introduce yourself to your social media audience. I think you’d be surprised how many don’t really know you for the real “you”, and those that do, could probably do with a brand re-alignment.
Read More001 Social Media Challenge: Lemonade
by Josh Withers | Sep 21, 2020 | Social Media Content Challenge | 3 |
Making lemonade out of lemons is a popular story, obviously backed by Big Lemonade, but it...
Read MoreIt’s ok to be you
by Secret Members Only Podcast | Aug 21, 2020 | Secret members podcast | 0 |
Josh here, and I’m looking for a celebrant. I’m guessing it’s not you, because the celebrant needs to be able to get to Orlando in January to cover for me, because it looks like I won’t be able to get there.
Read MoreWe don’t publish all your questions or all the answers
by Secret Members Only Podcast | Aug 12, 2020 | Secret members podcast | 0 |
A few people have mentioned they’re not sending in questions because they don’t want the question or answer published.
Read MoreRegarding compassionate grounds for weddings in Melbourne
by Secret Members Only Podcast | Aug 10, 2020 | Secret members podcast | 0 |
An update for Melbourne celebrants on compassionate grounds for weddings over the next five weeks.
Read MoreThe Stage 4 restrictions in Victoria and what they mean for weddings
by Secret Members Only Podcast | Aug 4, 2020 | Secret members podcast | 2 |
A brief update from Sarah on the Stage 4 restrictions in Victoria and what they mean for marriages – at this stage…
Read MorePreparing for the aftertime
by The Celebrant Talk Show | Aug 1, 2020 | COVID-19, Free Podcast | 1 |
In today’s Celebrant Talk Show podcast episode recorded Saturday August 1, 2020, we talk about how branded face masks should in no way be a thing, giving terrible advice to couples about COVID-19 lockdowns, preparing for...
Read MoreMy entire client journey, end to end
by Sarah Aird | Jul 27, 2020 | COVID-19, The Business of Celebrancy | 3 |
I was looking for a post where I’d mapped out my entire client journey in response to a member’s question, and realised I’ve never actually done it! I’ve talked about my ceremony creation process a couple...
Read MoreHow to make a wedding expo work for you
by Josh Withers | Jul 19, 2020 | Marketing and Social Media | 2 |
10 ways to make wedding fairs, wedding directories, wedding blogs, wedding magazines, expos, and virtual wedding fairs, work for you.
Read MoreNew South Wales’ Uppercase Requirement
by Josh Withers | Jun 25, 2020 | The Business of Celebrancy | 3 |
If you’ve been lucky enough to create a marriage ceremony recently, and it was in New South...
Read More
Celebrant Talk Show
- Be the CEO your wedding celebrant business needs you to be
- Was the tinsel an acknowlegement?
- Tasmania (BDM) gets the internet
- The one in a hotel room with a lawyer
- Preparing for the aftertime
- I think I've already mentioned this on the podcast
- Luna's debut on the podcast
- A terrible time to buy a business
- Karen would like to talk to the Coronavirus manager
- I'm a CEO now!
Your account
Sign inMost Recent
-
We’re hiring celebrant trainers for 2021Jan 15, 2021 | Community News
-
-
-
-
Community