Information wants to be free
Sending this single email costs us $206 to send to you. Not just you, all 9,707 subscribers. Running a business in Australia today is expensive. Sarah and I...
Jack-in-an-email
One of your colleagues wrote to me recently about the quandary that presents itself when you happen to be a parent and a marriage celebrant. I spoke to her...
tf when they don't leave a review
Last month I asked for your feedback, so this month it's a massive thanks to each of you that wrote in with a big thanks and "all is well". A few of you...
The listening tour
For eight years this month(!?!?), Sarah and I (hi, Josh here) have been writing you email updates, recording podcasts for you, answering your questions,...
We're all just old babies
Taking my four- and six-year-old daughters to ballet on the weekend, I realised that you and I, and everyone, we're all just grown-up babies figuring out how...
Sorry for being blunt, I used to be homeless and now I'm just human
Started in Malta airport and finished in Napoli airport, this is your monthly Celebrant Institute email, and although it’s an all new email I’m re-hashing...
A Michelin star AI-flavoured snack
I’m writing this from a café table in Rome and I’ve just finished a cappuccino that would make my local barista cry if she knew how good she was doing on a...
I forgot to tell you something!
The deal with this email is that it goes out on the first day of the month, every month. And we only email you in-between if it's important. And sitting here...
Read an email, you will
Kicking off my European wedding tour with family while sharing insights on modern celebrant strategies!
It's a new world to be found in
Welcome to the first day of the month, this is your April 1st monthly Celebrant Institute letter. No fools here! Caretaker mode at the AGD and MLCS means...
All ears
One of my favourite things about having moved to Tasmania just over a year ago is how I can just gaze outside at night and see our solar system, or even...
Wake up babe, new privacy laws and Instagram changes have dropped
As a lifelong Queenslander, I was unfamiliar with the idea of seasons until last year. We don't really have any in Queensland, just versions of Summer. Like...
70,920 Reasons We Love You
A lot has changed in the last year, for example a year ago I lived in a high-rise apartment block on Palm Beach and now we're on two acres in Tasmania's Huon...
Sizzling Summer Land
Welcome to the silly season edition of the Celebrant Institute mailout read by you and 10,134 of your colleagues in celebrancy around Australia and the...
The madness surrounding AI and separate meetings
I started writing this email in the Hobart Qantas lounge and finished in a Doncaster hotel lobby two days later, so I hope this jam-packed November edition...
My mistress is a microphone
There are only a few people in the world who can confide in 10,000 celebrants reading an email that they’re spending a bit too much time with a long plastic...
The problem is meatbags
Trying our hardest to annoy less videographers
Except when you don't because, sometimes, you won't
I called our wise friend and oracle, Sarah Aird, yesterday, moaning about how I was all out of encouragement for this month's letter to the celebrant...
Happy remote witnessing, to those who celebrate
There seems to be a long-held tradition of me (hi, it's Josh) writing this monthly letter from weird and wonderful places around the world, and June's...
✅ NOIM Remote Witnessing has been made law
Permanent remote NOIM witnessing is now law under the Attorney-General's Portfolio Miscellaneous Measures Bill 2023. Attend upcoming webinars for training and Instagram myth-busting.
