What Nobody Tells You About Working With Bereaved Families as a Celebrant
Working with bereaved families as a celebrant There’s a version of funeral celebrancy that looks elegant from the outside. You arrive, you speak beautifully, you hold the room, you leave. The family thanks you. You drive home feeling that you’ve done...
Life Celebrations: Honouring Love in Every Goodbye
When we think of saying goodbye to a loved one, it’s natural to focus on loss and sorrow. However, there’s a growing movement towards life celebrations rather than solely mourning death and Celebrants are at the heart of this change. Life celebrations offer a more...
Direct Cremation hurts!
Under British law, when someone dies, you are obliged to dispose of their body in an appropriate manner. You are not required to have a funeral or ceremony. The ceremonial part of the process is there to offer comfort and hope to the people left behind. They are for the benefit of the grieving, not the dead.
6 key marketing tips for Funeral Celebrants
Marketing is an essential element of establishing and growing any business. It’s challenging when You are the key product and therefore your marketing can feel like showing-off. Add to this, the fact you’re doing a job that involves talking about death,...
Planning a life celebration
The Funeral Director and Celebrant or Minister will be your support team and expect you to ask them for help. They deal with the situation you are worrying about regularly. If they don’t have the answer themselves, they will know who to ask. We tend to be ‘brave’ and ‘cope’ with more than we need to when we are dealing with grief.