This is the million dollar question! We get it and we understand how important it is to get an idea of your earning potential before starting out as a celebrant. The difficulty in answering this question is twofold. Firstly, it depends on how you plan on working as a celebrant. Is it going to be your main gig? Are you the breadwinner in your family? Or is it something that you plan to have as a part-time job that complements your full time job?
Then there is also the fact that celebrant prices vary from country to country, and even from area to area. And with celebrants having the opportunity to set their own fees and prices, it does make it even more difficult to say exactly how much a celebrant can charge and earn. There is also the fact that different celebrants cater to different markets, which can determine very different prices.
As a guide to get started with, celebrants in the UK typically earn between £180-240 for a funeral and £500-1800 for a wedding. In the USA, celebrants and officiants can charge anywhere from 400-1200 dollars or more, for a wedding ceremony.
Some celebrants also offer additional services to their clients too like, Master of Ceremonies, ceremony and pre-dinner co-ordinator, script-writing only services, coordinated rehearsals, end-of-life planning for funeral celebrants etc. These can be offered at an additional cost to ceremony services.
We recommend looking at celebrants in your area to get a feel for what they charge and then also considering what kind of income you would like or need to earn as a celebrant.
Our wedding celebrant training has been thoughtfully designed in two parts. We have the main online wedding course which is available to our trainees via their personal training account. This means that once a trainee is approved to join our course, they get access to their training account where they can get stuck into the course immediately. Or whenever they have the next opportunity to! And that’s one of the great advantages of our online celebrant training, trainees can start whenever they like and can work their way through the course at their own pace. You don’t have to wait for a next available course start date or for a course group to have filled enough places to go ahead. You simply start when you’re ready.
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