Have you been researching wedding and/or funeral celebrant training?
Are you confused by the many training companies and who is the right one for you?
What questions do you have about celebrant training?
Do you have work, personal or family commitments to consider?
Would you like to learn from your own home or go on a residential celebrant course?
Is it acceptable for you to learn with the same course materials as every other trainee celebrant?
Will you be able to learn on a fast course if you require this?
Are payment options an important consideration for you?
What are your expectations and needs of your celebrant training?
If you could choose what you learn, would this be a deciding factor for you?

These questions should be considered when researching celebrant training.

Train to be a Celebrant

Celebrancy has become a popular job for many people; to meet this demand celebrant training companies seem to be appearing everywhere with new ones listed as paid for adverts on Google and on social media ads. Quite a few companies to choose from, all offering wedding and funeral celebrant training. Which one is the right one for you, for your celebrant training?

The main thing to consider isn’t the prices of the courses, but the training content that is being sold to you. Will the training offered enable you to start earning money in your desired area of celebrancy (wedding or funeral) or the style of celebrancy (modern, alternative or specialised) you have decided to offer. This should be the conclusive factor when embarking on your celebrant training, not the fees of each course.

Will they give you marketing information and advice on how to start your new business? Is this important to you?

Your Celebrant Training

How you learn to be a celebrant could determine how successful a celebrant you could become. Celebrant training companies have limited variations of course content; most student celebrants are taught and will learn from the same materials regardless of what style of celebrant they hope to become. Why is this? (We can’t answer this as every student celebrant learns on an individual and personalised basis determined by what kind of celebrant style they want to offer).

Traditional Weddings and Funerals

Before the existence of wedding celebrants, weddings were either religious ceremonies held in a church or a place of worship or civil (no religion) held in a registration office or an establishment licensed by law to hold legal marriages on the premises, carried out by council appointed registrars.

Funerals were held in churches, religious places of worship and ‘chapels’ at a crematorium. Called a ‘service’ the ceremony was religious with little personality of the person who had died. Why is it called a funeral service, have you ever thought about it?

These were the traditional ways to get married or to have a funeral. ‘Traditional’ is a word associated with a theme or style of weddings and funerals; what does it mean? Traditional means long established, habitual, commonly observed, conventional and expected by society. Traditional is an expected following or custom passed down from generation to generation.

Along came wedding and funeral celebrants, an alternative to traditional. Trained to create personalised ceremonies celebrating a relationship, and life centred ceremonies of goodbye. However, celebrant training was (and still is for many), based on the wording and actions used in traditional wedding and funeral ‘services’. Many still use the word ‘service’ for a celebration of life ceremony. Why is this?

Perhaps it is because traditional is what celebrant training is based on for many companies. No us, Choice Celebrant Trainers discourage the use of outdated traditional wording. How will it change if we (that’s a collective ‘we’ meaning many people, not just us as a company) do not change things?

How important is tradition to people who are arranging a wedding or a funeral ceremony? What is their understanding of the word ‘traditional’ in relation to their ceremony?

Do many people still choose a full traditional wedding or funeral ceremony?

Modern Celebrant Training

Until you read this, were you aware traditional is still influential in most celebrant training courses? If you are considering becoming a celebrant, do you want to be taught how to write personalised wedding ceremonies and funeral ‘services’ using outdated traditional titles and sections, or would you prefer to ignore tradition to learn how to create individualised ceremonies.

Should traditional wording be relevant for celebrants of the present and of the future? If celebrants are an alternative to what is traditional, why are traditional words and phrases taught to student celebrants and used by celebrants? The past if a place to visit, the present and the future are where we reside and where we will be.

Research Your Celebrant Training

Before you part with any money, research your celebrant training options. Don’t be influenced by the experience of others as you are an individual with specific requirements which could differ from others, especially if you aren’t interested in becoming a celebrant who offers ‘traditional’ ceremonies.

Choice Celebrant Training is the first wedding and celebrant training company (perhaps the only one too), who offers completely individualised celebrant training. Individualised training with us means every student celebrant learns to create the styles of ceremonies they choose to learn, not what our Celebrant Trainers decide upon as many other companies may do.

Your celebrant training when you train with us is unique to you. We start you off on your celebrant journey, on the path you choose to follow. You will learn all the required information for wedding and funeral celebrancy, directed at your choices of learning. Your celebrant training if you choose us as your Celebrant Trainers will be unique to you. We explain about tradition, we do not teach it. It isn’t everyone’s tradition, so it isn’t embracing diversity and we here at Choice Celebrant Training are big on diversity. Your celebrant training if you choose us to train you individual content decided by you.

Earning Money as a Celebrant

Your celebrant training should provide information on how to market your services as a celebrant. Outdated generalisations which have worked for some, may not be lucrative for others. Incorrect press articles reporting high earnings for celebrants as stated by some training companies are misleading.

‘You get out what you put in’ is a favoured phrase here at Choice Celebrant Training. If you are prepared to put time and effort into your marketing to enable your business to be found, you can make a living as a celebrant. How much money you earn depends on how busy you are. Newly trained funeral celebrants can find it difficult to make connections with funeral directors. How to overcome this is explained during your celebrant training.

Keeping up to date with trends and gaining additional knowledge through CPD (continuing professional development) training courses is something all working celebrants should consider. This could also include information which wasn’t made available to you during your celebrant training.

If you would like further information on celebrant training, or on our Celebrant Refresh Course, please contact us.