General Celebrants
Many celebrants who are currently awaiting appointment as marriage celebrants and who cannot perform marriage ceremonies are practising as general celebrants in the community. Authorised marriage celebrants also frequently offer general celebrant services and since they are extra-legal, may also be conducted on an ad hoc basis by untrained people.
General celebrants perform a range of different extra-legal ceremonies including naming (namegiving) ceremonies; funerals; renewal of wedding vows; anniversaries; significant birthday celebrations; commitment ceremonies for same-sex couples who are forbidden to marry under Australian law, or heterosexual couples who cannot marry for personal, financial, religious or legal reasons; memorials and or scattering of ashes ceremonies; boat-naming ceremonies; dedication of new home or office ceremonies; graduation ceremonies; naturalisation (citizenship) ceremonies; Becoming a Teenager (adolescence) and other ceremonies.
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