Who will be your celebrant is the single most important decision you will make when planning and organising your ceremony. The choice you make will affect the outcome of your ceremony more than any other decision. Your Celebant can either help you realise your dream of the perfect occasion, or destroy it.
If the celebrant you choose
Of course, that is not to say that your celebrant should not challenge your ideas at times. By doing so, he/she will be opening up new possibilities that you may not have thought of.
So what do you need to do to avoid making the wrong choice?
Basically you need to understand that you are shopping for a service, so you need to check out the celebrant in the same way you would check out any other type of service-provider.
Especially, you need to ensure that the celebrant you choose is someone you can trust, someone you feel comfortable with. When the time for your ceremony arrives you should feel confident about what is about to transpire and nurtured by the process by which the celebrant assisted you to arrive at this point.
I suggest you draw up a short list based on your research about the celebrants in your area. Gather information from others who have seen the person at work, or have had them as their celebrant as well as from the celebrant's own promotional material, advertisements, brochures, websites, and so on. If you know any related service providers (photographers, caterers, venue operators) who will have an opportunity to work with and observe the celebrant, talk to them as well.
From this list draw up a short list of celebrants and then contact each one on the list and ask the following questions (and any others that are important to you). Make careful notes so you can compare - this is a recruitment process, so recruitment process methods work well.
Whatever the type of ceremony, making memories is a very important aspect. What you pay and the value for money the celebrant delivers can decide what sort of memories you end up with.
Have a wonderful ceremony ...
Jennifer Cram is a sought after accredited civil celebrant who performs Commitment, Namings and other ceremonies in the Brisbane Ipswich area. For more information http://www.jennifercram.com and http://baby-naming.blogspot.com
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