The Celebrant Talk Show

Recorded on April 21 in the year of COVID-19, live on Facebook and here in the podcast. Talked about how OPD has moved to webinar, how business is in the era of the coronavirus, do we need business cards any more, and what to do if you're now doing a small wedding instead of a big wedding. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/celebrant/message

As everyone else in the world is doing, this episode we're talking about the coronavirus, aka COVID-19. How is it affecting the wedding industry? How is it affecting us specifically? Get in touch if you want to tell us how you're feeling: hello@celebrant.fm --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/celebrant/message

Thank you again for listening! This episode we chat about: • Sarah's exciting news • Privacy implications of hiring a virtual assistant • That old chestnut: thoughts about charging for travel and how to do it As always we welcome your thoughts and feedback at hello@celebrant.fm!. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/celebrant/message

It's our first episode for 2020, and in this one we chat about: • the Celebrant Institute's new partnership with Pod Legal • the pros and cons of leveraging the bushfire crisis (or any other charitable cause) for business purposes • what happens when a party changes their name before the marriage but after the NOIM has been lodged • a reminder that celebrants are not the police or the immigration department or anything other than celebrants As always, let us know if there's anything you'd...

It's a month until Christmas and here we are again with another episode of your favourite podcast! This episode Josh and Sarah chat about the latest newsletter from MLCS, our thoughts about OPD into the future, our obligations in an online environment, not stressing too much about the smaller details of the marriage paperwork, and how to bring the magic to every single ceremony. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/celebrant/message

Once again, thank you for listening to The Celebrant Talk Show! This episode we chat about our inclusion at meetings with MLCS and celebrant associations, a cap on celebrant numbers, the survey re OPD and new celebrant applications, the new rules around celebrant obligations in an online environment, and children at weddings. As always, we'd love to hear your thoughts at hello@celebrant.fm! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/celebrant/message

This episode is pretty wide ranging, as I guess most of our chats are - we talk about the Celebrant Institute's first year and all the awesome stuff we're doing, reactions to Glenn Mackay's appearance on our last episode, and the Coalition of Celebrant Associations losing its peak body status. Let us know any thoughts or ideas for future episodes! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/celebrant/message

Today on the podcast we're super lucky to be joined by Glenn Mackay, who is an award-winning wedding MC and DJ in SE Queensland. He's seen hundreds of wedding ceremonies while he's been playing the ceremony music, and we're delighted to have him talk to us about his thoughts about what celebrants can do better. Remember: this is only Glenn's opinion! We're not suggesting anyone has to do anything Glenn says. But it's always good to be open to new ideas and new ways of thinking, so we hope...

Hello everybody! Thanks for joining us for another episode of The Celebrant Talk Show! This time Josh and Sarah chat about the annual registration fee (pay yours now!), the review of the marriage forms, the epic funeral course Sarah went on (www.silvercelebrants.com.au), and the new fact sheet about celebrants' obligations in an online environment, plus an exciting announcement! As always, shoot us an email at hello@celebrant.fm if you have any questions or topics you'd like us to discuss in...

Hi everyone and thanks for tuning in once more! This episode we chat about: • funeral training and why Sarah continues to attend it, even with her level of experience • funeral photography: • https://thefuneralphotographer.com.au/ • https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-07/meet-john-slaytor-sydney-funeral-photographer/9113246 • outcomes from the May meeting between the Marriage Law and Celebrant Section and representatives of celebrant associations • the disaster that is the Victorian BDM...

A special guest, Vickie Musni, on the podcast this week to talk about the upcoming Celebrant Institute conferencewhere she's talking plus hosting a workshop on how personalities work themselves into your business. Get your tickets to the conference and Vickie's workshop at the conference web page. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/celebrant/message

In this episode we discuss being a full-time celebrant, off the back of the results of the annual CoCA celebrant survey and a subsequent article on the ABC website plus we talk all things Celebrant Institute conference! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/celebrant/message

Hello again everyone! Today Josh and Sarah are actually recording this from the same room! Amazing and awesome. We had a bunch of topics we planned to talk about, but instead it appears we ended up talking about the importance and difficulty of language for almost an hour. Hopefully you'll find something interesting in there! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/celebrant/message

Hello everyone, and thanks for bearing with us since December! As always, we love being in your ears, and here we are again :) This episode we chat about: • Sarah's Cert IV training and how it works • Marriage Celebrants Matters Autumn newsletter • VIC BDM RIO • The Frustrated State: www.amazon.com.au/Frustrated-State-terrible-deterring-Australia-ebook/dp/B07HP98RQ3 • How to go full-time as a celebrant --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/celebrant/message

Thanks for having us in your ears again! This episode we catch up on what's been going on in both our lives over the past three months, we follow up on a few issues from the last episode, and we chat about what's to come in 2019! Topics covered include: • Josh's baby and new house! • Sarah's new training job! (talentedtraining.com.au/) • paying your celebrant registration fee • marriage statistics (www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/3310.0) • Dubsado, Tave and Xero --- Send in a voice...

Hello again and thanks for tuning into The Celebrant Talk Show! This episode we chat about: - wedding planners - receiving identity documents electronically - Celebrant software: which package is better? - the importance of paying your registration fee as soon as you receive the invoice - what happens when a party isn't consenting? Let us know any thoughts! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/celebrant/message

We chat about the importance of exchanging value and not simply expecting things for free, we give a rundown of what we've written about for the Celebrant Institute over the past month, and we talk a bit about Vic BDM's new online system (spoiler alert, it's coming "soon"). 00:04.14 Consolidating photos, systems and using Dropbox. 00:11:45 Expecting something for nothing, and why its not OK. Value those that assist you with their intellectual property, and how. 00:32:35 The Celebrant...

We recorded this episode on 6 July 2018, before Sarah had a chance to read the fact sheet from the AGD about the change in the one month's notice period, so we don't discuss that in the episode. Sarah will write more about that change soon; suffice to say she's fighting it because she believes it's a mis-interpretation of the Acts Interpretation Act. In this episode we launch The Celebrant Institute: what it is, why we're doing it, and why we hope you'll support us! As always, please check...

Thanks so much for having us in your ears again! This episode covers the following: • Sarah's experience performing Eurydice Dixon's funeral • IGTV • Paperwork only, legals only, registry style wedding and the legalities surrounding them • Copyright for marriage celebrants. Check out the great information on COCA's website: http://www.coalitionofcelebrantassociations.org.au/for-celebrants/82-celebrant-copyright/33-copyright-licence-for-celebrants • Exhibiting at wedding expos: styling,...

We know, we know, it's been a long time since we were both in your ears together. We're sorry and we'll try to do better! We know you missed us, so we spent most of the episode talking about some major changes in the legalities of how we do our work: - changes to the gender and sex questions on the NOIM through an updated Compulsory OPD booklet - the new Marriage Regulations 2017 - the new Draft Guidelines on the Marriage Act Hopefully we won't bore you too much with this boring but...