Dealing with challenging clients as a celebrant

by DinahJL | Aug 20, 2026 | Celebrant Skills

What To Do When a Client Is Challenging: A Celebrant’s Guide We don’t talk about this enough. There’s a lot of content out there about creating beautiful ceremonies, building your business, and finding your voice as a celebrant. But the part where a client...

Celebrant Pricing

by DinahJL | Aug 14, 2026 | Business Skills for Celebrants

How to Stop Undercharging as a Celebrant Let me describe someone I have coached more than once. They came into celebrancy from a career in teaching, or nursing, or social work. They trained because they wanted to do meaningful work, to be genuinely useful to people at...

How I Responded to the Wedding Law Consultation

by DinahJL | Aug 11, 2026 | Inclusion & Diversity

and Why I Think You Should Too Over the past few weeks I’ve been working through my response to “Tying the Knot: Reforming Weddings Law in England and Wales”. It’s the government’s consultation on the biggest change to wedding law in...

From Marketing Career to Wedding Celebrant: Diana’s Story

by DinahJL | Aug 10, 2026 | Our Graduates

I loved catching up with Diana for this interview. After thirty years building a successful career in marketing, she made a bold career change, and it’s been wonderful to watch her put those decades of experience to such good use in her new practice as a...

Writing a Funeral Tribute That Sounds Like the Person – Not Like a Eulogy

by DinahJL | Aug 2, 2026 | Celebrant Skills, Uncategorised

The craft of writing a funeral tribute is something most celebrants develop through trial, error, and the slow accumulation of ceremonies over time. Nobody tells you the specific techniques. Training covers structure, length, gathering information. But the deeper...