Top Tips for Celebrants – 3
19 January 2025
(In these blogs, although I use the word celebrant, the information I share applies to anyone who’s presenting a ceremony of any kind.) Your Sunday-Best voice. Just about everybody has one. There’s nothing wrong with that as long as it just means you’re being a bit more careful than usual when you speak that way. […]
Read more →Top Tips for Celebrants – 2
14 January 2025
(In these blogs, although I use the word celebrant, the information I share applies to anyone who’s presenting a ceremony of any kind.) Well, fancy meeting you here! If you haven’t looked at Top Tips for Celebrants – 1, there’s a link at the end of this. I’m trying to give these tips a semblance […]
Read more →Top Tips For Celebrants -1
12 January 2025
(In these blogs, although I use the word celebrant, the information I share applies to anyone who’s presenting a ceremony of any kind.) I’d thought about writing a blog called something like Ten Top Tips for Celebrants; but a lot of tips aren’t worth sharing unless there’s an explanation to go with them. And that […]
Read more →My Evolution as a Voice Coach
10 April 2024
Looking back at when I started working with celebrants and trainee celebrants, it seems like aeons ago; and, in comparison to now, I was like a one-cell amoeba floating around in a primordial celebrant soup. Recently I put up a blog about how it’s possible to have your eyes opened to new methods and thoughts […]
Read more →For The Love Of Mic
12 March 2024
I’ve been using microphones professionally in different contexts since my mid-twenties, and it’s safe to say that I love them. That love goes hand in hand with my passion of anything to do with voice – speaking and singing. I’ll write more about voice from time to time, but this one’s about the use of […]
Read more →An Identity Crisis? Not Really
4 February 2024
Am I a voice and communication teacher? A celebrant-presentation tutor? Maybe a vocal coach? (I’d love to work with someone called Meg – then I could say I’m a Meghan Trainer!) * A mixture of those titles would do, but there’s another ingredient in the celebrant mix: your personality! Voice, communication and personality are inextricably […]
Read more →Show and Tell
29 January 2024
I expect the words ‘show and tell’ might take you back to your schooldays. We’d be asked to take something from home to the classroom, and tell the class about it – why we chose it, where we got it from… why someone else may be interested in it. It’s usually associated with younger kids, […]
Read more →Why the L? Why the L not!
2 January 2024
I’ve been doing this voice-training thing for an L of a long time, but I’m proud to say that I haven’t thrown my L plates away. I’m always open to learning new skills and ideas, and I’m delighted when I do. I can think of several things that I’ve acquired or worked out for myself […]
Read more →It’s the Little Things
14 December 2023
There are some mighty big things you need to be on top of when you’re a celebrant. Here are four, straight off! How you interact with your clients; your creativity so that you can fashion a brilliant ceremony; and your presentation skills. I know what you’re thinking – but I’d divide presentation into your voice […]
Read more →Your Sunday-Best Voice
9 December 2023
Quite a few years ago our younger daughter had a sleepover organised with a friend in town. I was the designated driver. (Not that sort! She was only 10!) We live in a country area, and car cleaning has never been a priority – but that day, ours looked like something out of the Beverly […]
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