Why this shelf is locked
Two days of live training over Zoom, and certification issued by the Certified Celebrants Association. Wedding officiants are often the person a family calls when someone dies — this is how you are ready for it.
Wayne and Rosanne teach it and Wayne and Rosanne stand behind the certificate. Two names on the door, thirty years and seven thousand life celebrations behind both.
Group one
What you reach for when writing a service. Six documents, each one a page you can read on any device you carry to a funeral home.
A working index of funeral readings — which suits which family, and how long each runs read aloud.
Open →An index rather than a text, with the length of each passage noted.
Open →What to ask a family, in the order that works.
Open →The words funeral professionals use, in plain language — and what each one means beyond its definition.
Open →A full order of service in the traditional style, written out — with every name, date and pronoun left as an open field, and the committal set out separately.
Open →The music families ask for, what it does to a service, and the three things to check before the day.
Open →Group two
Where to look when you need to check something.
The titles a celebrant returns to.
Download the PDF →Where the material comes from.
Download the PDF →The external sources worth keeping.
Download the PDF →Regulation as it stands in Canada. Rules differ by province, and sometimes by municipality — check yours.
Download the PDF →Group three
The difference between a service a family tolerates and one they remember.
The phrases to avoid, and the four questions to ask yourself first.
Open →A method rather than a list.
Download the PDF →What the trade knows and does not say out loud.
Download the PDF →How to arrive, how to carry yourself, what to wear.
Download the PDF →What changes when the service is held at home.
Download the PDF →Group four
The ground you are working on, and why this work matters now.
What a celebrant is, and what the role is not.
Open →Who you are actually serving, and what they believe.
Download the PDF →Why families are turning elsewhere for the moments that matter.
Download the PDF →Group five
Where the work came from, and the ground it stands on now.
Open to everyone
These two are deliberately not locked. Anyone considering certification should be able to read what they would be agreeing to before they agree to it. Both are published by the Certified Celebrants Association.
Two libraries
The celebrant library comes with certification through the Certified Celebrants Association, and is held for as long as your certification is in good standing.
The wider Academy library — the field guides, the wedding and new life material, the three books — comes with Crossroads membership. Certified Celebrants pay 25% less on it, for as long as they hold certification.
Work faster
Short, practical walk-throughs of the software we actually use to run a practice — so your time goes on the people you serve, not on figuring out tools. The same ten are on every shelf; the tools do not care which ceremony you are leading.
Ceremony covers, social graphics and branded video — without a designer.
Open →A second read before a family or couple gets one, in email, posts and drafts.
Open →Research readings, traditions and wording fast — with sources you can check.
Open →Save your enquiry replies and follow-ups so you answer in seconds.
Open →See when your quote has been opened, and know when to follow up.
Open →A professional signature with your links on every email you send.
Open →A business page families and couples can find, review and message you through.
Open →Every login in one vault, so you stop resetting passwords in busy season.
Open →The sites you use daily, one click from a new tab.
Open →Run consultations and reviews with people who are not local to you.
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