Brisbane Marriage Celebrant
Jennifer Cram
When you engage a celebrant you are not just
choosing someone to perform a ceremony for you. Nor are you only paying
for an hour of a celebrant's time on the day. Your celebrant
needs to have all three of the qualities that are required to ensure
that your ceremony delights you, engages the guests, and that no
problems are caused for you either on the day or afterwards.
Ceremonial Skills
As an experienced and highly skilled celebrant I not only create every
ceremony especially for you, ensuring that it reflects who you are and
is conducted in a style that is authentic to you, I understand all the
little nuances that make a ceremony flow well, how easily your
photographs can be compromised, so I know how to structure and
choreograph the ceremony and have developed numerous ways to make the
ceremony unique and to ensure the photographs are fabulous.
Legal
Knowledge
With me as your celebrant you can be confident that your marriage will
be legal because I have an in-depth knowledge of the requirements of
the Marriage Act and other relevant laws, so I know what must be done,
why it must be done, and how it must be done, and I understand and care
about what the consequences for you will be of not doing it. Where your
circumstances are not straightforward I can provide you with advice and
a way forward to ensure that your marriage is legal and that other
types of ceremonies are conducted within the law. As a result I will be
alert for anything that might cause issues with the validity of your
marriage, create problems down the track with government departments
either in Australia or overseas, and I will
never give you advice that causes you to go to unnecessary trouble or
expense.
Life
Experience
I have the maturity, experience, knowledge and skills to sensitively
and creatively address sensitivities, relationship difiiculties with
family members, cultural requirements and issues, or just plain nerves
with empathy and delicacy, both in the creation and performance of your
ceremony.
Your
ceremony
My focus is on developing an extraordinary, inclusive, and unique
ceremony for you and in consultation with you. This is my full-time
business, not a hobby, so I
will be delighted to work with you to fully understand your wishes for
your ceremony and to spend considerable time to translate them into
reality - a ceremony that
delights, entertains, and engages your guests, keeps them talking for
months afterwards (in a good way) and exceeds your expectations.
Your ceremony will include exclusive contempory elements. Even if you
choose one of my Warm and Wonderful weddings (an alternative to the
Registry Office in terms of price and simplicity, but nothing like the
bland and standard ceremony the Registry Office provides), the ceremony
will be created for you and will be performed with warmth and
friendliness so that your guests are not only included, they are
entertained. My focus is you, your ceremony, your story. The kind of
magic that achieves this doesn't just happen. This is why I work very
hard to gather information about what you would like for every aspect
of the ceremony from you, together with the information that helps make
the ceremony totally unique.
Through extensive knowledge of ceremonies and celebrancy, thoughtful
and in-depth examination of every aspect of the traditional marriage
ceremony and of other types of ceremonies, a natural bent towards
creativity and pushing the envelope, and the wisdom that comes with
maturity and life-experience, together with my track record of 800
ceremonies, I can guarantee that your ceremony will not be a ho-hum
experience
incorporating outdated gender stereotypes, tired old rituals or
long-winded readings used as fillers, a blow-by-blow account of how you
met and the daily details of your relationship, or presumptious and
boring lectures. My aim is that no-one looks at their watch, and
everyone goes away saying "that was so them...." so I take a very
creative approach to fusing tradition with your personal style to
create a contemporary personal ceremony.
I firmly believe that your ceremony is an investment in your
relationship, with one another and with your family and friends presnt.
Most of all it is an investment in memories that will last for the rest
of your lives. But I am also aware that times are tough, so I offer a
range of ceremony styles at fees that reflect the amount of time that
each demands of my. I do, however, apply the same high level of skill
and dedication to every ceremony.
If you are planning a wedding (as opposed to just getting married
without any of the fancy stuff) what you spend on your celebrant
compared to what you are willing to pay for a stretch limo or an
expensive, is a matter of priorities.
One of my brides recently commented to me that a skilled and
expreienced celebrant, able to inject a bit of humour into the ceremony
without making it about the celebrant, able to weave the magic of the
couple's relationship through every word, and able to incorporate into
the ceremony unique touches that reflect the personalities and heritage
of the couple is a bargain at $1000 (way above my top fee), but a bad
celebrant is much too expensive qt $100. That's food for thought.
Give me a call to chat about what you expect from your celebrant and
how I can meet those expectations in a way that is not
run-of-the-mill. 07 3378 3005
What's the next step?
It
was everything
that we had hoped it
would be. We had nothing but positive feedback from all of our
guests
about your performance and the ceremony. By way of comparison and
completely without waspishness, the last wedding which we attended was
in October 2011, in Queensland, with a female celebrant, and we have to
say that in comparison we see that hers was basically bland as compared
with your performance. Yours was exceptional. We would not have
had it
done any other way nor with anybody else as celebrant. Thank you for
making it a very special and fulfilling day for us and our families and
friends. - Liz and Tony
From our very
first phone call to
Jennifer we found her
approach to be comfortable, calm and
competent, whilst being professional yet
personal. These thoughts were proved during our first face-to-face
meeting. Jennifer conducted the ceremony
in such manner
allowing our love to shine. Barely a dry eye in the house our guests
commented
it was the best, most meaningful, personalised civil ceremony they have
ever
attended. We would have absolutely no hesitation in
recommending
Jennifer. We provide this testimonial with our heartfelt thanks. Kind
regards and love Craig &
James
Jennifer Cram if I am still in brissy I am
definitely getting you to do the naming ceremony You are AMAZING
celebrant for those of my friends reading this and want someone amazing
this is the woman for you. - March
2013 Facebook comment from Casie, who married Nathan in 2012
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