Professionals freezing together…
October 17, 2009 by Nancy · Leave a Comment
Yup, that’s NT Celebrants Marika, Nancy, Bilawara and Yvonne, all snuggled up during the annual Australian Federation of Civil Celebrants conference, which was held in July in Adelaide. I just thought it was a very different photo of us from the website, one where we look all rugged up and freezing to death! Love you Adelaide, but you truly don’t understand about warm weather in July!
The four of us above, NT Celebrants, met during our initial training as celebrants some years back now, and have remained good friends ever since. We have formed a ‘collective’ of professional women, ones very supportive of each other, while still running our own separate celebrancy businesses. We meet regularly – to develop new resources for our clients, to back each other up where necessary, with resources such as a sound system, and to critique each other’s performance as well. In order to maintain a quality level of performance, sometimes you will see one of us standing at the back of a ceremony, just quietly watching each other, and making helpful comments after the ceremony. THAT is how seriously we take our professionalism.
But in the meantime, this post is about friends – and how valuable good friends are. We see it every day in the cermonies that we assist people with – the good friends and family who join together to create memorable, brilliant occasions. Where would we be without friends.
Whatever you have in hand, here’s a toast to good friends and friendships!