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Qualifications in
celebrancy
- Graduate of the International College of
Celebrancy
- Advanced
Diploma of General
Celebrancy (with High Distinction)
- Advanced Diploma of Marriage Celebrancy
(with High Distinction)
- Advanced Diploma of Funeral Celebrancy
(with High Distinction)
- Certificate IV in Marriage Celebrancy
Other
qualifications
I hold a number of
academic qualifications which have provided me with
transferable knowledge and skills applicable to celebrancy:
- Bachelor of Arts, majoring in English
Literature and
Psychology
- Diploma
in Education
- Higher
Diploma in Library Science (With Distinction)
- Graduate
Diploma in Advanced Librarianship
- Graduate Certificate in Public Sector
Management
These qualifications and
many
years of experience in librarianship, education and management have
equipped me
with highly developed
skills in
- formal public speaking
- interviewing
clients to establish their needs
- providing
service and information to clients which meets their needs and timelines
- research,
analysis and synthesis of information
- writing (author of approximately 100
published works)
- creativity
- attention to detail
- high level computer skills that enable me
to produce documents with professional layout and content
- high level of comfort and facility with
online communication
- working with others to assist them to
meet their own needs and achieve their goals

Presentation
I am well-spoken with good
voice projection.
I will seek
information from you about the dress-code for your occasion together
with your chosen colour scheme so that I can ensure that my outfit will
coordinate but will not compete. My dress style is elegant and
understated.

'No
uncomfortable surprises' policy
My policy and commitment is that you will have no uncomfortable
surprises in relation
to your ceremony. Everything, including the final text of your
ceremony,
will be agreed and signed off beforehand.
My 'no uncomfortable surprises' policy includes no surprises for the
participants.
While I'm happy to perform ceremonies that are a surprise for your
guests or others, I believe it is unfair to spring such a surprise on a
participant.

Personalisation
- I will use a number of mechanisms,
including indepth interviews and questionnaires, to ensure that I
understand your needs, values and wishes for your ceremony.
- I will work in close conjunction with you
to facilitate development of a unique ceremony. While this is more work
for me I feel it works much better for you and for your guests than the
more common "mix-and-match" methodology where you are given a number of
ceremonies to pick and choose bits from. I will do as much of the work
in writing your ceremony as you wish me to.
- A full rehearsal
is part of the
package for Couture Commitment ceremonies. A rehearsal
is a dry run of the ceremony and should
include all participants. A rehearsal will take much longer than the
actual ceremony, so many celebrants do not include a rehearsal and some
even actively advise against one. There are many reasons for holding a
rehearsal on site (or if that's not possible, in a space that has been
mapped out to replicate the site), these include:
- It helps everyone involved know what is
expected of them and allows a walk through of the mechanical details,
enabling all the various logistics to be worked out and understood by
everyone and allowing everyone to concentrate more fully on the special
moments during the ceremony
- It allows timing to be checked
- It allows everyone's pacing to be
synchronised
- It is the final check of the sequence
of your ceremony ensuring that it really does flow the way it is meant
to.
- It ensures that all the readers have a
chance to practice their readings and check their pacing,
interpretation and voice projection
- It gives an opportunity to have an
"emotional" dry run of the ceremony. As well as physically walking you
through the ceremony, I build into the rehearsal processes that help
you experience your actual ceremony to its fullest.

Privacy
- Any
information provided to me is provided in confidence.
- Information is
stored in a secure location, is accessed only by me, and is kept
no longer than is needed for the purposes of your ceremony, at
which
time
it is destroyed by shredding.
- I do not pass
on, or otherwise use, any information provided as part of arrangements
for your ceremony for any purpose .
- I may request
your permission to provide your contact details to others considering
me as a celebrant, but I will not provide such details unless I have
your permission in writing.

Contact
Me
For
further information, to arrange an obligation-free consultation, or to
book a ceremony in Brisbane, Ipswich or surrounds:
Jennifer
Cram
Civil Marriage, Naming & General Celebrant
P
O Box 20
INDOOROOPILLY QLD 4068
Australia
Phone:
+61 7 3378 3005
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ABN
54 113 250 110 |