Baby how r u?
I’m good… my love… I watched some youtube videos about marriage celebrants… 😅
Ooh… and…?
I think… it suits me…
It does?
Yeah… I even talked to Mum about it…
What does she think?
She’s surprisingly supportive.
Really?!
Yes. She said, that’s really good because you can keep doing it when you’re in your 50s and 60s… it’s comforting to her if I choose to do it and just stick with it.
Ahhh… I see… 👀
I had a quick look at one school’s website…
There are schools for this?! 😅
Yes love… it’s another certificate course… at least the one I looked at was fully online. So I can still do my current job…
How long will it take?
I don’t know?! I haven’t looked into it that much.
I’m not enrolling today, that’s for sure.
It’s tempting to enroll now, because I’m on annual leave, right? Of course I feel like I have so much energy to dive into yet another online course?!
But I am heeding the astrologers’ warnings… I will observe… I will keep learning about it before I enrol… and that was only one school, I haven’t even compared all my options.
I am aware that in the past I probably just hyperfocused on a whim and then enrolled and got stuck with those courses. Even if I realised it wasn’t right for me I still stuck it through.
This time… I want to be a lot more considered and intentional with it… there’s no rush, right? Some people might decide in their 50s to be a celebrant and do the course, right?
Mmmmm… I’m just thinking, if you do become one… will I see you in other people’s wedding videos on the internet?!
Lol… I don’t know how popular sharing wedding videos publicly are these days…
It’s still very popular?!
Oh… 😅
Well… I guess? But it’s just a job…
Just another gig… 😏
Lol… what really tugged at me was one video where they said sometimes they help the couple find nice love poems or even write their vows…
AHHHHHH! 👀💕 NOW I GET IT.
This suits you… 😏💕 I agree this suits you… you’re gonna be like an encyclopaedia… “HERE’S ALL THE LOVE POEMS YOU CAN CHOOSE FROM!”
Lol… 😅😅😅
Yeah… I do think that…
It’s right up your alley!
Lol well it depends right? And I’m sure it’ll have its ups and downs…?
No job is smooth. It’s still work.
Exactly? So… yeah…
Think about it some more…
Maybe if I am retired you can offer me into the wedding package as their wedding singer…
LOLOLOL… 😅 YEAH RIGHT! IT’S NOT LIKE THEY HAVE $10 MILLION TO HIRE FERNANDO AS A WEDDING SINGER!!! 💒🎤🎶
Oooh, you think that should be my rate?!
Of course?! You’re Fernando!!!
But I’ll be retired Fernando…
Don’t retire like that? You could be Fernando NOW and make $10 million per wedding!!
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA… 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Why not?! There’s heaps of rich billionaires kids who are getting married all the time!
ROFLMAO!!! LEMME JUST GO TELL THE BROS. “I QUIT!!! I’M EXCLUSIVELY DOING RICH PEOPLE’S WEDDINGS!!!”
You’d be surprised how much money you’ll make…
LOLOLOLOL… 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Anyway babe… you know, I was really surprised that Mum was suddenly so supportive.
Yeah? What else did she say?
She said “Your brother’s celebrant cost $750!!! We were so surprised!!! Just for speaking a few lines?!?!!”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
And you know what babe? That was pre-pandemic prices! If you go look it up the rates are even higher these days!!!
Lolololol… now I see why my mother-in-law supports this! 👀
Right?!?!?! Sigh…
It’s a public speaking job… it’s not for everyone…
Ooohh… you’re gonna be goooOOoOOOoOd… 👀
(Giggles) 🤭💕
But it’s not my intention.
The celebrant isn’t the main focus of the stage. They are the facilitator.
That’s why it does suit you!
Mmmm…
Funerals would be really different…
Mmmmmmm…
I really have to meditate on it…
What if you just don’t advertise funerals. You can say no, right? You don’t have to do funerals until you feel ready…?
Yeah… … … I don’t think I can do funerals until I get back into a more regular yoga routine… or some kind of meditation practice… even if just once a week…
(Nodding)… I get that…
Seems so much easier to celebrate things in life like weddings and babies…
Of course.
Mmmm…
Are you scared of funerals?
No… not scared…
But I’ve never attended a funeral where I held it together… 🥴
All my memories of funerals I’ve attended so far I’ve cried… a lot… 😭
(Chuckles)… 😅
I think it’ll be different when it’s other people’s… they’ll be clients, not people you know personally.
Yeah true… I still have to sit with it for a bit…
Yeah… 🫠💕
I don’t think I will be ready for facilitating funerals until I can listen to Taylor Swift’s “Bigger Than The Whole Sky” without crying.
Wahhhhh… that’s gonna be your training?!
I think so…? I need to sit with it some more…
(Nodding)… (hugs hugs)… 🤗🤗🤗😘😘😘😘❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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