LAST WEEK OF SMASHWORDS SUMMER/WINTER SALE!
Celebrant, Vlady Peters, Redcliffe, Qld.
Sunday, July 25, 2021
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Marketing Yourself as a Celebrant
Separating Yourself from other Celebrants
1. Have you studied public speaking, taken drama classes or singing lessons? All these are some of the talents which other celebrants won’t have.
2. Have you studied law, or languages or done volunteer work? These are some other talents which can differentiate you from other celebrants.
3. If English is your second language,
you might be just what your compatriots are looking for. Not only will you be
able to conduct a ceremony in a language which all of their guests will
understand, you might offer to be a translator for other officiants who are
associated with couples using your language.
4. Celebrants who are parents or grandparents might have a natural affinity for ceremonies dealing with children.
5. Officiants who themselves have enjoyed long, happy partnerships might look to attract couples celebrating their renewal of wedding vows in as part of their wedding anniversary celebration.
7. If you’re young and exuberant, the younger clients might love your energy.
8. If you’re an older, more sedate person, clients might enjoy your unflappability.
9. As a retiree, your accessibility might be a real plus for the client who is tired of talking to the answering machines of celebrants who are in full time employment and never home.
When thinking of advertising yourself as a celebrant, keep in mind what the client is after. This will include:
1. What will the client receive from you that he won’t receive from other celebrants?
2. What are some problems associated with the particular event that you have the answer for, and for which other celebrants don’t?
3. How can they tell that your fee is based on value for money and not just a figure that you’ve pulled out of a hat?
4. Why are your fees so much lower or higher than those of other celebrants?
Other things, which will go towards the image you want to project, are the physical attributes that the client will experience when he contacts you. This will be:
1. How you sound answering you phone. Are you friendly and interested in what the client has to say? Do you come across as a helpful and caring person? Do you inspire confidence by understanding what your responsibilities as an officiant are?
2. What your recorded message on your answering machine suggests. Is the message clear and concise giving options to the client as to how he can contact you in the future without wasting his time ringing over and over again? Are you prompt in returning the call?
3. The quality and professionalism of any printed information you send out to the potential client. Do you work towards making your printed material memorable by using a particular theme or logo for your letter heads, business cards and leaflets or brochures? How about colour-coordinating every bit of paper you sent out, including the paper clip you use to keep the pages together?
4. Delivering on your promise. Are you careful about promising to do things for clients in a certain time only if you know you can do it, so that they’re not waiting for information brochures or kit for weeks, instead of the day or two you told them?
5. The way your office – home or otherwise – looks from the street, front door, and inside. Are the surrounds neat and tidy and your entrance inviting? Are any pets kept away from the gate so that your client doesn’t have to fight his way to your door? Does your interview room smell fresh and look inviting with fresh flowers or other indication of a welcoming attitude?
6. If you use a door bell do you answer it promptly instead of having your client kicking his heels on the doorstep wondering whether he’s come to the right place?
7. How friendly you are in all your communication by phone, printed material and in person. Do you try to make all your communication personal as well as presentable and professional?
8. How organized you sound, look and act. Whether on the phone or at the interview, do you make sure that you have everything at hand that you need?
9. Your standard of dress. Are you aware
of your client’s expectations as to how you should dress? Have you taken the
trouble to see how other celebrants dress and handle themselves? How do you
want to be perceived by your clients in terms of how you dress?
Extract from How to be a Profitable Celebrant
Sunday, July 11, 2021
Honeymoon Planner
One of the many books discounted at the Smashwords Book Sale 1st July to 31st. The ultimate Honeymoon Planner. Check it out Wedding Plus Honeymoon
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Celebration!
The 13th annual July Summer/Winter Sale has kicked off and running through from July 1 to July 31.
Thousands of great
ebooks are on sale at deep discounts ranging from 25% off, 50% off, 75% off to
FREE!
You can help celebrate and support these authors by mentioning the promotion to your friends on social media and if you find a bunch of great books on sale, let others know. They might want to take advantage of this opportunity as well.
Don’t forget to check back throughout the month because hundreds of new titles will be added to the promotion each day.
If you're looking for books to add to your Resources. check out the following discounted ebooks to help you celebrate the milestones in your life.
1. Celebrating Love's Special Moments
2. Wedding Words: Perfect Words for Your Wedding Ceremony
3. How to be a Profitable Celebrant: Practical Tips on Running a Profitable Celebrancy Business
4. You can be a Successful Officiant
6. 1,000 Answers to Your Wedding Questions
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Quiet or even Boring Honeymoon?
Although in the midst of planning, wedding couples can hardly believe that a honeymoon could ever become boring, even the rich and famous, with all the choices they have, have found a honeymoon too quiet.
It started off with an unexpectedly quiet wedding as guests simply declined the invitation to attend the wedding of King Edward V111 and Wallis Warfield Simpson. Only very few friends decided to join them in their celebration.
The honeymoon was even quieter.
After an obligatory tour of Venice and Milan, the couple settled for three months in the Carinthian Mountains, in Austria. As the new duchess had a fear of flying – after seeing two air accidents when she was first married to Earl Winfield Spencer – any travel the couple undertook had to be either by land or sea.
Their honeymoon home was Castle Wasserloenburg, a fifteenth century castle in Austria, reportedly inhabited by the restless spirit of the ‘Bluebeard Duchess’. Like the original male Black Beard, the Bluebeard Duchess married often. And just as often her husbands didn't last long.
The King and Mrs. Simpson had asked for a quiet time to themselves, and received it with a vengeance. They spent much of their time walking or hiking as the area is noted for its wonderful scenery. It could be that the quiet outdoor life was not to the complete liking of the new wife, as she spent quite a few hours of the day writing letters to friends, and even her ex husband!
Extract from 'Honeymoon! A Sizzle or a Fizzle
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Sunday, May 30, 2021
Bundaberg Show 2021
And the winner is Shirley Pitts of Bundaberg. Congratulations, Shirley. You've done it again! We're all proud of you.
Saturday, May 29, 2021
26 Ways to say 'I love You'
1…Always and ever let us be true to the promises we’ve made on this our wedding day.
2…Because you are
the love of my life, I want to face our future with you by my side.
3…Cherishing the
moment when you first entered my life, I promise to love you for all the days
of my life.
4…Daily I thank my
good fortune for having you in my life.
5…Each day I spend
with you, makes me love you ever more.
6…From the bottom of
my heart I pledge my faithfulness and love for you for the rest of my life.
7…Give me your hand
as I give you mine in perfect faith in our love for each other.
8…Holding your hand
in mine, I pledge to be you lover, companion and friend for the rest of my
life.
9…I loved you from
the first moment I met you, and I will love you till the end of time.
10..Just as we need
air and water, so do I need your love to make me feel truly alive.
11..Knowing that you
love me, I promise to be your faithful and loving wife/husband for the rest of
my life.
12..Laugh with me,
cry with me, and always remain my love.
13..May each day
only bring us closer together united in our love.
14..Near to you or
far away from you my love will never alter.
15..On the day you
entered my life, you made my world complete.
16..Promise me your
life-long love, just as I promise you mine.
17..Quietly and
softly you entered my life and changed it for ever.
18..Remember always
that whatever changes may enter our lives, my love for you will remain as it is today.
19..Since the moment
I first saw you, I knew I had found what I’d been missing.
20..Times may
change, but my love for you will remain the same for as long as we both shall
live.
21..Until I met you,
I have never known what it is to love.
22..Vowing to you my
everlasting love, I take you to be my partner through life.
23..Wherever our
journey leads us, I will be there beside you.
24..Xylophones and
cymbals beat a joyful march the day you entered my life.
25..You make me happier in ways I could have never imagined possible.
26..Zeal for your
love is an ever growing and consuming passion which will live for ever; and
ends never.
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