At the recent meeting with the AGD Office's Marriage Law and Celebrants Section team we agreed to send this survey out to all members and encourage you to get involved:

Hi Celebrant Institute paid members!

Six years ago this month, after having produced the Celebrant Talk Show for six months already, Sarah and I started talking about the idea that we - and you, especially the 13 of you still here from day one - know as The Celebrant Institute.

After six years we're still as passionate about the project as ever, and this month we launched three things:

I was on a group mentoring call with a group of American wedding officiants last week and they asked me questions about how I "get" the wedding bookings I get. It's one thing I find really hard to mentor celebrants…

It always seemed silly to me when I'd see TV or radio adverts proclaiming that the boss was away so the staff were doing crazy deals. But here we are and my Celebrant Institute co-founder, Sarah Aird, is on a…

Welcome to your January 2023 edition of the monthly Celebrant Institute email. This month Sarah and I are focusing on the year ahead, introducing some themes for the year, and rounding out the post with a few good links for…

A big December hello from freezing cold Hobart this morning as your intrepid monthly newsletter editor has braved four countries, five time zones, and a large range of coffees over the past two weeks to bring you good news today.

Some of you may have heard a radio report yesterday about the MarCel marriage celebrants portal being hacked.

We've detailed what we currently know on the website at:
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As any further information comes to hand we'll update that article.

Hola, increíbles celebrantes de bodas! Hello, awesome wedding celebrants!

Josh here chiming in from El Pescadero. Three weeks ago my family and I left Australia for Mexico and we re loving it! I promise not to spend the whole email…

Hi celebrant family! Josh here from the Celebrant Institute again! Sarah and I have been helping so many of you, it's heartwarming to get all of your questions and emails each month.

It's also interesting, exciting, saddening, weird, and wonderful…

Free. It's one of the most powerful words in the English language. It's no "yes" or "no" but it has the power to reach into your brain and change things. Isn't it such an amazing gift to be able to…

I'm in Far North Queensland this week for two elopements driving over the Mowbray River south of Port Douglas I spotted this ol' mate, and I thought you might all appreciate a top-down view of one of the locals. …

Hey there, legendary celebrant!

I've recently jumped off a call with the Attorney-General's office and they are celebrating the fact that "over 20%" of us have completed our OPD this year.

It's halfway through the year.

Almost 80% of the…

I wonder how many of you have made decisions like I have in the last 26 months. I clicked eject and took a role with a real estate agency because I was worried that the pandemic was going to ruin…

13 days!

For me, I've got 13 days until I'm back to pre-2020 levels of work. 13 days until I stop talking about rescheduled weddings and elopements and we can start talking about something new. I hope your calendar is…

Hi celebrant legends, it's Josh again!

My goal every month is to write you an email on the first day of each month, last month things got out of hand and mum - Sarah - had to step in and…

Hi folks!

It's your March Celebrant Institute update, coming to you a little later than the first of the month, but I have no doubt you're all as busy as we are, so you'll forgive us!

It feels a bit…

When your entire job is based around calendar dates you seem to grow an affinity towards cool dates. So I'm sure it's no surprise to any of you, my many thousands celebrant friends, that we are but twenty days away…

Happy New Year, celebrant fam! There is some important celebrancy news in this month's email that we're proud to share. Before that however, how are you?

Somehow I thought that by January 2023 we'd be out of the mud the…

A wee little reminder for the large cohort of celebrants that haven't completed their ongoing professional development for this year, that we have seven days and seven workshops of ongoing professional development left to go this year!

All times are…

Hi celebrant legends, it's your mate Josh from the Celebrant Institute for another 'first day of the month' chat. I've got a crazy idea to share, but before that ... have we mentioned OPD yet this year?

I feel…