Marriage Celebrant Course

Looking for a career as a professional celebrant with the skills to perform marriage ceremonies?

Plan, Conduct and Review a Marriage Ceremony is the mandatory course within the Certificate IV in Marriage Celebrancy and is designed for beginners wanting to become authorised marriage celebrants with the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Marriage Celebrant Unit.

In Australia, celebrants are appointed by the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department. Please familiarise yourself with their selection criteria and requirements at http://www.ag.gov.au/celebrants as successful completion of Plan, Conduct and Review a Marriage Ceremony does not guarantee appointment as a civil celebrant.

Trainers for this course are professional celebrants with extensive experience both as trainers and celebrants. A comprehensive resource folder which includes all relevant documentation, legislation and sample certificates has been developed by Box Hill Institute.

The training is intensive and requires homework to be done between training sessions. You will also be required to develop a resource folder containing wedding and relationship information relating to the area in which you intend to practise.

Box Hill Institute offers both daytime and evening courses.

The course cost is $800, which includes your training manual, a copy of the Marriage Act & Regulations as well as extensive wedding ceremonies and poemssamples and other resources useful for your business setup.

Course Outline

Day 1

• Marriage Act
• Marriage amendments
• Relationship education
• History of celebrant program
• Other important legislation

Day 2

• Notice of intention to marry
• Code of Practice
• Communication with clients
• Role-play client interviews
• Other service providers

Day 3

Designing the ceremony including:

• Ceremony introduction
• Celebrant authority
• The asking
• Vows
• Symbol of unity
• Declaration of Marriage
• Poetry and music

Day 4

Business skills including:

• Administration and management
• Finance
• Setting fees
• Marketing
• Role-playing the ceremony (facilitator)
• Whole-class wedding ceremony role-play
• Orderly progression of ceremony
• Other ceremonies performed by celebrants

Day 5

• Reviewing a ceremony
• Attorney-General’s reforms
• Role-playing a whole-class ceremony
• Ceremony styles
• Assessment begins

Day 6

Assessment

Course Outline for the Evening Course

This will be discussed in the first class.

Enrolment

You can enrol in the evening course online.

Contact

For further information about our courses or to enrol please contact us:

Centre for Health and Community Services
Box Hill Institute
Private Bag 2014
Box Hill
Vic 3128

Ph: (03) 9286 9142