For those who didn’t know, I have been a funeral celebrant for 6 years, which is actually longer than I’ve been a registered marriage celebrant. To be honest, I...
You know exactly what a funeral will be like when they giveaway a coaster and not an order of service. That’s exactly what happened today for Shaune Flanagan, a...
Again, I want to stress, I’m a celebrant and in no way am trying to be an ‘expert’, I’m simply intrigued by the customs and traditions in funerals and...
Let me get one thing straight, I’m not the expert on funerals, there are certainly more qualified people than I am to speak on the subject of funerals, but...
#Funeral Blues – What’s Pre arranging? So what IS pre-arranging? As a funeral celebrant, I get it, I truly understand the difficulty is planning a funeral for someone you...
You know I hear it mentioned a lot AFTER I’ve performed a service and even prior to a funeral service that I’ll perform for a family…’I’m struggling to cope’...
Saying goodbye to someone is hard enough, but when that someone is just 18, it’s even harder and worse still, he truly was ‘The Larrikin Everybody Loved’. This larrikin...
So on Sunday, I officiated at the annual Fathers Day Memorial Service for families that have lost any male/father figure in their family over the past twelve months. It...
Possibly one of the most pleasing parts of being a celebrant is doing funerals on a daily basis. People often say ‘you do funerals, that must be terrible?’ Actually,...