Category: Community News
Does membership include insurance?
One of the questions we get asked regularly at the Celebrant Institute is: “Does your membership...
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Submissions requested on new Happily Ever (before and) After brochure text
The Attorney-General’s Department is redrafting the ‘Happily Ever (before and) After’ brochure –...
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20 Years of Celebrancy Population Stats
The story of marriage celebrancy in Australia over the past two decades is not just a tale of...
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Add a Celebrant Institute Badge to Your Website
Show you’re a professional celebrant with the new Celebrant Institute website badge. Boost SEO, build trust, and stand out with this simple but powerful addition to your site.
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AI webinars on productivity and search
Artificial intelligence workshops for wedding professionals and celebrants by the Celebrant Institute
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Josh on the Wed.co podcast
This week, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Steve and Joel on the Wed.Co Podcast,...
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A decade of Aird and Withers
Over a decade ago (a decade and two months actually) everyone’s favourite celebrant-shaped...
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2024’s Ongoing Professional Development topics are now available
Our friends in Canberra emailed all Aussie celebrants with the good news that our OPD – our...
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The right (and new) form to use when you have an interpreter at a wedding
The Attorney-General’s Department’s Marriage Law and Celebrants Section announces a...
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MLCS & celebrant associations/networks meeting 6 December 2023
As of June 12 2024 remote witnessing of Notice of Intended Marriage forms is now law and you can...
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Why the World Looks to Australia for Wedding Industry Inspiration: 50 years of Celebrancy
To celebrate fifty years of the Marriage Celebrants program in Australia, Josh Withers looks at how the movement has moved the entire industry forward.
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It’s time to update and modernise the Marriage Act of 1961
As of June 12 2024 remote witnessing of Notice of Intended Marriage forms is now law and you can...
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Cyberattack on AGD’s MarCel portal
The Attorney-General’s department MarCel database has been accessed by hackers. Find out how it was accessed and what we know about the data leak.
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Marriage statistics 2021
I was about to give myself a long lunch break when my daily statistics release email came through...
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Remote witnessing of NOIMS – help make it permanent!
Let’s make remote witnessing of NOIMs permanent! We need your help to change marriage law.
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Not-as-ongoing professional development
For the most recent information regarding ongoing professional development and OPD for Australian...
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It’s time to change the one month notice period to one week
To my fellow celebrants, I have a proposal regarding the one month notice period, and I’d like to run it up your flagpole, so to speak, and then take it to the Australian parliament: that the one month notice period required by the Marriage Act, be reduce to one week.
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Facebook’s a bit salty at us
After posting a guide on making sure you and your business is prepared if and when the Facebook ban hammer falls on you, the Facebook ban hammer fell on us.
Read MoreWe have changed membership systems
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...
Read MoreLook out for a zero dollar invoice for the annual celebrant charge
The Attorney-General’s department has let us know that they are starting to send out those $0 annual celebrant charge invoices today. Make sure you pay that $0 quickly otherwise you’ll be in $0 debt, and the interest on that will be expensive.
Read MoreAnnual fee waived!
No annual fee for celebrants for 2020-2021!
Read MoreMLCS & celebrant associations/networks meeting 5 May 2020
I attended the meeting between the Marriage Law & Celebrant Section of the Attorney-General’s Department and celebrant associations and networks last Tuesday. It’s taken me much longer to write a report for you...
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Check out an 11 year old celebrant survey
11 years ago (in 2009), celebrant directory website Celebrante, conducted a survey of about 1400...
Read MoreCOVID-19 and critical issues for marriages in Victoria – UPDATED
BDM Victoria has shut down their offices and their call centre until further notice. This raises two critical marriage issues that they have not clarified. This evening I’ve sent the following email to my local State member, Michael O’Brien, who is the Leader of the Opposition in Victoria. I’ll keep you posted…
Read MoreCOVID-19 and marriage practicalities – UPDATED
How do we actually manage marriage ceremonies while respecting social distancing rules?
Read MoreCommunicating with couples about COVID-19
Do you know the Greek myth of King Sisyphus? As retribution for tricking the gods, he was punished to an eternity of pushing a large boulder up a steep hill only to have it roll back down just as he reached the top. With...
Read MoreCoronavirus income support for self-employed marriage celebrants
This blog post does not serve as legal or financial advice. We’re all just reading the Economic Response to the Coronavirus, fact sheet on Income Support for Individuals, on a Monday morning, the 24th of March at 9:50am, so take...
Read More2018 marriage and divorce statistics, 5.5% increase
The annual release of marriage and divorce statistics by the Australian Bureau of Statistics occurs every year around 27 November. Right on time, the statistics for the full calendar year 2018 were released today at 11.30am. If you’re interested you can find all the information on the ABS website.
Read MoreWhy we deliver the best Cert IV in Celebrancy Australia
If you’re aspiring to be a celebrant in the near future, Sarah and I deliver the Certificate IV in Celebrancy through this very Institute. We’re lucky enough to have experienced, and to continue to experience the full breadth of celebrancy training, students contact us every day with questions their trainers and colleges are answering incorrectly or weirdly.
Read MoreMLCS & celebrant associations/networks meeting 28 October 2019
I attended my first meeting with the other celebrant association/networks and staff from the Marriage Law and Celebrants Section (MLCS) of the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department (AGD) on Monday 28 October 2019. Here’s a summary of what was discussed!
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We’ve got a seat at the AGD’s table
Twice a year the Marriage Law and Celebrants Section (MLCS) of the Attorney General’s...
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How to update your Bose S1 speaker’s software
You can update the software on your Bose S1 speaker, and it comes with new features like using your speakers with the Bose Connect app, whilst also making the speakers operate with greater stability.
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