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Two Writing Masterclasses for Wedding Celebrants

1. Improve your writing skills
2. Advanced writing skills

NOCN Endorsed

These two courses are perfect for professional celebrants who want to write better ceremonies.

These online courses via Teams have been endorsed by awarding body NOCN and a certificate reflecting this is included in the course fee.

For any practicing wedding celebrant who wants to enhance their ceremony writing skills. These courses are open to you. You can take one, or two or both!

Course 1 – Improve your writing skills

Enhance your ceremonies with expert ideas! This practical and intensive session includes:

  • Creative ceremony writing
  • Writing with themes
  • Drafting and editing
  • Flow and throughline
  • Word choices
  • Practical interactive exercises
  • … and much more

Course 2 – Advanced writing skills

Go deeper and discover the potential of a ‘brave’ ceremony!

  • Story structure
  • Advanced themes
  • Using props
  • Telling the couples’ story creatively
  • Delivery and staging linked to thematic writing
  • Interactive exercises
  • … and much more!

Course Tutor: Marcus Armstrong – The Storyteller Celebrant

Marcus is a qualified Couples, Naming and Funeral Celebrant with a background as a professional actor and screenwriter and holds a Master’s degree in writing. He currently teaches Master’s Level Creative Writing at Falmouth University and is excited to share ideas, tips and tricks on how you can write a braver ceremony. He has appeared in Hello Magazine and on Channel 4’s Married at First Sight with his Celebrant work.

Course dates:

Course 1 – Improve your writing skills:

Wednesday 18th February

Course 2 – Advanced writing skills:

Thursday 5th March

Time: 6 – 8 pm

Course fees: £60 + vat (£72) including NOCN awarding body certificate per course

To book: Call Civil Ceremonies Ltd on 01480 276080 or email ku.oc.seinomereclivic@arabrab for a booking form.

Find out more about training to become a celebrant today.

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        IT Skills you will need both during your training and working as a celebrant

        Do you have the following skills:

        1. Ability in creating, naming, using, saving and retrieving files and folders.
        2. Familiarity with using your version of Word (or similar software).
        3. Understanding of toolbars and icons.
        4. Ability to copy and paste sections of text.
        5. An understanding of ‘track changes’ and how to use this function.
        6. Ability to bold, underline and italicise text.
        7. Be able to change font type, size and colour.
        8. Ability to centre text in the middle of a page and right and left justify it.
        9. Be able to alter line spacing in a document and insert a page break.
        10. Be able to use the undo and redo functions.
        11. Understand how the tab key works.
        12. Ability to use headers and footers, bullet points and numbering
        13. Understanding of the difference between ‘Save’ and ‘Save As’.

        If you said ‘yes’ to all of the above then you have good basic skills.

        If you have answered ‘no’ to any of the above then you will need to improve your basic skills before starting the course. This can be done in a few hours by using one or more of the free online tutorials available on the internet.