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Recycling is great for the environment, but not for the emotions. Whatever they call it, most celebrants will offer you a recycled ceremony, or a ceremony composed of numerous recycled individual components and they will expect you to do all the work of putting your ceremony together from a resource book of choices of prewritten components generally culled from other sources. So your ceremony will not only be uneven in style, it will infringe copyright and thus be breaking the law.

What makes me different from the rest, the many celebrants who will all offer you "personalised" ceremony though recycled ceremony?

I am a young-at-heart celebrant with a fresh and original way of looking at ceremonies and total commitment to ensuring that your ceremony is you-specific and a fresh way of looking at ceremonies. I respect tradition but I ensure that it has meaning for the present, is truly modern. I also have the maturity and life-experience to sensitively guide you through a meaningful process in developing your ceremony and dealing with the many conflicting demands such a special occasion can create. And, because I have had a great deal of experience with oral cultures  I have a deep understanding just how much power words have. So I am committed to ensuring that you have a ceremony that truly communicates your feelings and your intentions in words that feel right to you. This can only be achieved by a celebrant willing to put in the many many hours it takes to fully understand your needs and vision for your ceremony and to personally write for you a ceremony that is an expression of your style, your hopes, your dreams, and your commitment.

Extraordinary ceremonies have a vision behind them. They reflect you through every element. The key ingredient is knowing how to masterfully orchestrate the elements that make up the vision, without losing sight of the vision. That's my role as an experienced, creative, inspired listener.  To ensure that your memories are beautiful,  I work with you to create an extraordinary and very personal ceremony, a ceremony which, through the words and the choreography that includes a variety of highly effective vignettes, creates indelible memories in the hearts and minds of everyone present, produces opportunities for exceptional photographs and video footage, and gets everyone into a jubilant mood for the celebration that follows.  I impose nothing other than the legal requirements applicable to weddings and commitment ceremonies.

After the ceremony, I will leave you with a quality certificate and a beautifully presented copy of the text of your ceremony.

Your guarantee of a very special ceremony when you choose me as your celebrant:

• I am authorised by the Commonwealth of Australia to solemnise marriages anywhere in Australia and am bound by the Code of Practice applicable to all registered marriage celebrants.

• I have extensive experience of developing, creating and performing one-of-a-kind weddings, namings, commitments, renewal of vows and other ceremonies.
  

• I have formal qualifications in the choreography, creation and management of ceremonies and in ceremonial public speaking, and have other academic qualifications and skills relevant to civil celebrancy.

• I custom-create all ceremonies and bend over backwards to make that your ceremony is unique and authentic to you, and that you are happy with it. This moves beyond mere choice (which implies selection from ceremonies and resources pre-selected by the celebrant) to working to your specifications.

• In addition to training and experience, I have built up a large celebrancy-specific reference library to assist me in meeting your specific requirements.

• I provide you with access to a wide range of helpful information and resources to help you in working with me to create a unique ceremony.

• I am very mindful of copyright issues. My ceremonies are original and not "knocked off" from other people's websites or books.

• Where the circumstances of the ceremony warrant it, I use a high-quality 75 watt wireless PA system or a compact 20 watt wireless PA system at no extra charge. Having your ceremony outside is not a problem because my PA systems are battery-operated.

• Positive Feedback from hundreds of previous clients.

• I am a member of

• I am a Certified Practicing Celebrant (one of only 6 in Australia)
  

Please feel free to contact me to check my availability for your chosen date,  for an relaxed obligation-free consultation, or to seek further information. I'll be delighted to talk to you on the phone, via email or in person.

 Jennifer Cram CMC CPC
Authorised and Accredited Marriage, Naming and General Celebrant
Certified Practising Celebrant
BA, DipEd, HDLS, GradDipAdvLib, GradCertPSM, AdvDipGC, AdvDipMC,
Cert IV in Marriage Celebrancy, AALIA, AIMM, AFCC, MPCA

ABN 54 113 250 110