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Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 00:02
Hello, folks, and a very warm welcome once again to the Supplier Spotlight podcast. My name is Liam Ball, your magical waddy host, also known as the Gentleman Magician. Now, as you know, this podcast exists to shine a light on the very best people in the wedding industry, suppliers who really help couples to create meaningful, memorable, and beautiful wedding days. Now, if you are enjoying these conversations, please do follow, like, subscribe, and share them with people who are getting married. It really helps couple to understand what’s possible on their wedding days and how to really get a grip of the wedding planning process. Now, today’s guest is a wedding celebrant. It’s the kind of person who’s responsible for shaping the heart of the wedding day, from telling a couple story. To setting the tone, guiding emotion, and creating a wedding ceremony that feels personal, professional, engaging, and entirely about the couple. This is the kind of celebrant who has a profound impact on how a wedding is remembered. He’s known for creating ceremonies that are warm, thoughtful, and genuinely reflective. of the couples he works with. So it is an absolute pleasure to welcome to the Supplier Spotlight podcast a celebrant Paul Maxin. Hello, Paul. How are you?
Paul Maxin – Wedding Celebrant • 01:22
I’m very well, thank you. Thank you for that wonderful introduction.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 01:25
I’m the welcome. You’re very welcome. It’s an absolute pleasure. It’s I I I I found myself saying this at the beginning of every podcast, it’s a real pleasure to kind of go on people’s websites and look at their socials and find out a bit about them so that I can really give a great flavor at the top of the podcast about what people expect. And I mean, obviously, having met you a couple of times as well, I know that every everything is true. So it’s fabulous. So I’ll tell you what, I like to start here. Let’s always start at the beginning. How did you find your way into being a celebrant and specifically a wedding celebrant?
Paul Maxin – Wedding Celebrant • 02:00
Yeah, it’s well Funnily enough, I I didn’t come out of education a million years ago and think, well, I grew up, I want to be a celebrant. I was very fortunate career-wise. I had a career in talent and talent acquisition for a long time. Yes, internationally and globally working for some very large organizations, PricewaterhousePoopers and Unileader being sort of two mainstays. And then in twenty sixteen, I went out on my own and did strategic talent consulting for organizations that were typically going through some form of Big transformation. I did that in the UK and also in Europe as well. So career-wise, it had quite an international flavor to it. And then Drum roll COVID happened. Wow, yeah, started to change a little bit. I Actually, at the beginning of COVID in the first lockdown, did a little bit of work for NHS England in my old capacity. But as things started to open up just a little bit, I found that most of my clients Or a number of my clients had retired and they decided to move on. And then what happened was that the people where they were replaced with other people Then they had their own networks. And so my work started to tail off. I’ve been really fortunate in my career up to that point, but I wasn’t ready to be put out to pasture just yet. But I thought, well, it’s come to a third age. What can I do? And communication wise, I thought I was pretty reasonable at that. I always used to say and still say, we have two eyes, two ears and one mouth, and it’s quite a good idea to use them in proportion. Yes. So I thought, what can I do with that’s communication wise? And also, I really love different types of people and put uh and being with different types of people and communicating outwardly. And I think that that might have been something within my DNA anyway. parents were both in showbiz. My mother was an actress a long time ago, and my dad was in T V. He again, for a certain generation, he was the director and choreographer for a for a a comedic couple called Morecambe and Wise, who were very big on the and and seventies. So that’s another thing. I’ve got lots of stories I could tell about But that’s for another time and maybe for another podcast. But, you know, it’s kind of in my DNA. So I kind of thought, well, what can I do? My my The start off on this, actually I’ve re reflected a few years prior to that, I’d been to the m having mentioned my dad. He and I went to his younger brother, my uncle’s funeral, about ten years ago. And that funeral was officiated by a celebrant. And that celebrant was kind of almost pre-booked. By my uncle, because he’d been several years prior to that, had been to a funeral where this guy was officiating. It was so personal and wonderful and unique. That he said, when my time comes, then I want that guy if he’s relatable. And he was. And it had the same effects on my dad. And my dad died three years later at the ripe old age of 95, having lived a long, uh, illustrious life or lives. And we had the s I had the same guy. And it was almost like a family thing. He remembered my uncle and remembered the connection. And so on. And it was he officiated a very beautiful and personal ceremony for my dad. Also, Prior to COVID and a little bit afterwards, when people were coming out, my wife and I, or sometimes my wife, our now adult daughter and I, were Invited to weddings that were typically of children of friends of ours, or one of them was a child of friends of ours. And Each of them they were about six in a row were all officiated by different celebrates. And I just kept on thinking, this is A wonderful privilege to be able to get to know a couple. It’s quite different from a sort of a registrar-led wedding or indeed a you know And they were so personal, I just thought this is a really lovely thing to be able to do. So I then did a little bit of research. Tons of how to become a celebrant. And I wanted to do it. For me, it’s a vocation now. I’m a full-time celebrant, but it’s a vocation. And I love it. But I wanted to do it properly. How do you become one? And there are a number of very credible organizations that that that have courses enable you to do it. I I picked one called the International College for Professional Celebrants because Not only did it take a year, but also involved some residential time in the Yorkshire Dales, which was beautiful in my case over the summer. But after a year, I also came out with an NOCN Level three qualification in UK Civil Celebrancy as well. And for me it it it was important to have some kind of creditation for that as well, so I could call myself a professional independent Sidal celebrant. And as you kind of go you know, I I had done weddings and and funerals before getting that NOC and qualific Sure, but having it and studying to achieve it is absolutely something that I thought was and remains worthwhile. But I love it. To get to know people at the most mem and make memories for them at the most memorable times of their lives is such a such a privilege. Yeah.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 08:43
You know, I mean that’s how it how it happens. Yeah. And I I think there are so many couples out there who often know they just know amongst themselves that they want to celebrate But they maybe sometimes don’t always know why. So how would you describe your role and what it is that you actually bring? To a wedding.
Paul Maxin – Wedding Celebrant • 09:05
Yeah, I mean, one of the things to think about, I mean, I will come to that. I mean, my role is to really get to know the couple. to work with them to create a bespoke, beautiful ceremony that reflects their love story in every way. So in England and Wales, so the way I kind of do it is kind of compare and contrast the difference between a celebrant and a registrar. In England and Wales, at the moment, you need a registrar to legally marry anywhere. So that’s kind of sorted. The fundamental difference then is the ceremony. So there are restrictions with a or some restrictions with the registrar led Ceremony that are legal. So set wording and format. Often you might not meet that registrar until the day before or on the day itself. And don’t get me wrong, they’re lovely, but they are quite formal and standardized. Whereas a celebrant, whether it’s me or another professional celebrant, will Really get to know the couple and through that be able to through getting to know them to write a bespoke script with their story at the center. But they can have whatever they want in it, be that readings, rituals, music. There are no restrictions at all. And actually they can have the ceremony. It can be at a registered licensed venue, but it can be anywhere. It can be in a forest. On a beach by the sea, in the sea. And there you know, there are no restrictions at all. So it’s it’s Getting to know their story and personalizing a unique ceremony is the difference. And that’s what I and other professional independents celebrate. So there are some it’s an opportunity once you get to know the couple’s story through that story, then with them, you can actually then work on what readings they might want to have that That are a good reflection of their story. You can help them with their vows and rituals, etc. Just to give one example of that. Last summer I o officiated the wedding of a of a couple. It was Mixed Heritage wedding. The um The bride is Sikh, the groom is English white, non-denominational. But it was able to bring in elements of the Sikh faith into the ceremony. But it also, as a couple, part of their story is that they are obsessive lovers of J. R. R. Tolkien in general. and Lord of the Rings in particular. So we were able to bring in a a poem about marriage written by Tolkien. But then they went a little bit deeper and they read their when they read their vows to each other, they were in the style of Lord of the Rings, so they were living with hobbity kind of people around them. And both their family and guests, it was really meaningful because they knew so much about their love for Lord of the Rings and the fact that they’d gone to New Zealand to visit the film set and so on and so forth. But but it it was part of their it is part of their story and to enable it to come into to their vows is a is a lovely kind of way to reflect on that.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 13:02
Could that’s just not the kind of thing that you’re ever going to get from a from a registrar, though, is it? Well, you can’t Can’t do that.
Paul Maxin – Wedding Celebrant • 13:09
The vows, you’re restricted in terms of what vows you can say.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 13:12
Yeah. I mean, the way that I’ve always seen the difference, and I think only realistically from I’m going to say a semi-educated point of view, is that When you have a registrar for a wedding, sure it’s going to be a legal moment, and that’s when the contract of wedding is signed and the marriage license, all that kind of things. but also is that is that the that the moment of that isn’t personal. It’s the same as every other registrar-led wedding that ever happened in in England. Whereas, of course, if people kind of go off on their own and take care of that, you know, the morning before or the The day before, even you know, the whole year before. Somebody suggested a few weeks ago, why don’t you get married? Why don’t you nip to the registry office, have a legal ceremony, and then plan your wedding for a year on the same date? And you know, and it’s like it’s a great idea. But of course, what that means then is essentially is that at the moment of that, when everybody’s celebrating, of course, it’s not a legal thing, but at least it’s personal. And It’s almost like couples have then got to make that that compromise, haven’t they, from one to the other. Do we want it to be the legal moment it happens? Or do we want a service and a celebration which is entirely and uniquely us? And isn’t it such a shame that they can’t have both? Indeed, indeed it is.
Paul Maxin – Wedding Celebrant • 14:36
But I call it the Wedman. So a lot of the couples have a a two plus two legal marriage at a registry office. And that’s not necessarily the day that they celebrate their wedding anniversary. They celebrate the celebration. and the celebration of their wedding is the is the cere is centered around the uh the ceremony, wherever wherever that may be. Yes. Uh in front of their family, friends and And loved ones, you know, and if you if you want your dog to be the ring bearer, you can have your dog as a a ring bearer. I mean, interestingly, the the I mean, that’s the law at the moment. It it may change. There’s a a government review which kicked off in the last month or so, led by Baroness Levitt. which could lead to the sort of greatest reform of the wedding industry since the nineteenth century. And one of the things that they’re looking at in terms of modernizing the whole process is to is to potentially broaden legal marriage out to other officiants as well, which include either humanist celebrants or independent civil celebrants as well. Potentially. And Michael Stuart Morris, who is the head of the ICPC, the International College for Professional Celebrants, which is I’m a member of and trained with. Is actually at the you know representing celebrants very much in that consultation. And I was on a call with other with him and other ICPC members just last night. And he was saying that within the last week you know, he had a meeting with Baroness Levitt as well and was sort of making case. Now, these things take time, um, you know, so I’m you know, I I might sort of mention it, but if I’m at a you know either at a wedding fair or um you know um and and I’m speaking to couples that are getting married in twenty six or twenty seven, then that law isn’t going to be Not going to be there any time soon. You know, it might be towards the end of a Parliament, but but things are moving. But meantime, it’s I My focus in discussing that with couples is actually what do they want for their ceremony? And to help them visualize something that they want in the first question.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 17:10
Yeah. Well, that’s it. That’s the point, isn’t it? That’s what a wedding cerem sorry That’s what a wedding ceremony should be is something which is entirely unique and personable, and something which is uniquely that couple, because that’s going to be the most memorable and the most magical moment for them to share, isn’t it?
Paul Maxin – Wedding Celebrant • 17:32
That’s right. That’s right. One of my favorite rituals, and again, I like to, I mean, there are lots of rituals that can be had from, you know, the traditional ones. Sand blending and hand fasting, and they are beautiful, and I do them. But it’s also nice to be able to develop a unique Ritual that comes out of a a couple’s love story as well that’s related to that. One that springs to mind. is that last year I had the privilege of officiating a wedding ceremony of a couple that she’s American, he’s English. And they live in the States, but they had a very nice, lovely ceremony over in Suffolk here. And as I got to know them through their story, they met at work. And when they started seeing each other, it was a I think a little bit on the QT potentially, and we’ll meet the other side of town every Tuesday evening at a wine bar. And they would polish off a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon and then go their separate ways. And that came at the sort of start about how did you meet Kakadaka Dark And at the wedding ceremony, we devised a a ritual that was related to that. So after they read their personal vows to each other They took a lovely bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon, placed it in a very nice presentation box, put the vows that they’d read to each other in the box and sealed up the box. And then on their first wedding anniversary, they’ll open up the box, repeat the vows to each other, glug the wine, and you know, rinse and repeat. And you can do that on a beautiful moment.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 19:27
Yeah. I mean, and I think that’s the thing, isn’t it? I mean, that’s something which is just awesome and entirely unique. I mean, how would you caption the difference between a ceremony that’s nice and one that is then truly unique and memorable?
Paul Maxin – Wedding Celebrant • 19:52
One that is tr well, one that’s truly unique and A ceremony that is nice. I mean, it’s what the couples want, it can be short and sweet as well. But a ceremony that’s unique and memorable. has several things about it. Well, the couple’s story, told beautifully, is Yanique memorable because it’s their story. Of course, yeah. Um and um you know if you have a uh maybe a ritual like the one I just described uh is pretty unique and and memorable as well and it’s connected to their story. One that’s nice would uh well, and what’s unique and memorable is is is and it’s just such a pleasure is having the The feedback from the couple that’s had the wedding celebration, but also what makes it unique and memorable is when before you go, you know, is people coming up to you and saying That they’d never been to a wedding like that. They’d never seen a wedding ceremony like that. So they’ve told you that it’s unique and memorable in that way. And it really is such a a privilege and an honor. One that’s nice might be just to have the couple story, but and then you know, standardized vowels, or they’ll pick some vowels off the shelf if they don’t want the standardized vowels, but it’s not necessarily connected to them or their story. But it would still be lovely. That’s not to say that a a registrar-led ceremony isn’t lovely either for some that’s that’s that’s what they want. Because they want something that’s maybe more traditional and and does seem like other Sarin is as well. But that doesn’t mean it it doesn’t mean it’s not of value. It’s lovely. And But for me, having something that is unique and memorable, making a memory, a special memory of a a memorable day in somebody’s life is Is what gets me up in the morning, gives me a buzz during the day. Getting to know the couples and their stories is also really interesting. So and then you can One of the things that I used to do early on in my career is interview people. And in some ways, you start off by interviewing because they started with their story, but you just probe a little bit and ask some more open questions there, and you can tease out some fun. So again, a memorable ceremony is one that has in motion Sure. Warmth, absolutely. A few tears, but nice tears. And some really hearty laughter too.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 22:48
Yeah. A whole range of emotions. Whole range of emotions. Which, of course, is what a relationship is, isn’t it? And it’s about how you kind of manage that together. Which, I mean, I think I’m certainly getting a feel of the fact that one of the things that make the ceremony truly unique and memorable is all the important things to those people, the things that they want, the things that make them quirky, that make them interesting. I always say that everybody’s a geek about something, right? The thing is that make that make them the geek. That’s All of that together, of course, that’s that’s going to make something that’s utterly unique and can never be repeated again. So what would you say then are the moments that happen in a ceremony, because I imagine as much as you can take a ceremony and make it entirely unique there’s probably at least in some part there’s maybe a process and and there’s like, well, this will happen at some stage and that will happen. What would you say are the moments like that that come up that couples maybe underestimate or don’t realize is going to be as wonderful and as magical as it is until it happens.
Paul Maxin – Wedding Celebrant • 24:03
Well, I mean, there are the I mean, there are the standardized Moments. I mean, I’ll welcome everybody at the beginning of a of a ceremony. And But I’ll also ask people to be present in the ceremony. And often if there’s a photographer and or videographer, I’ll ask them to put their mobile devices on silent to be present in the ceremony and to refrain from taking photographs or any video during the course of the ceremonies is confessional. And again, if a bride or groom is coming down the aisle, I will ask Those that are able to stand, to stand and welcome the bride and the bridal party. As an aside from that, in same-sex weddings, for instance, uh then sometimes uh one of the couples might not want to walk down on their own in an aisle, but So in a situation like that, again, number of options. They can both come down an aisle together. Yeah. Or they can come from opposite ends and meet in the middle. Again, you can And again, all of that is just an example of there are different ways that you can do things that’s suitable to the To the couple. But they would be standards. And but again, even in coming I had one wedding that was outside in the family farm. and the groom arrives under the awning on the back of a quad bike driven by his best man. Brilliant. And at the end of the ceremony, I’ll come back to the little bit, but then he picks his bride up. Plong tear in the back of the four by four and then zoomed up the aisle and off and around the around the farm. So so again, even the s standard things. And she came, she asked whether she could come into Something by ACDC, and I said, You can have what you want so long as there’s not highway to hell.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 26:17
Fabulous, absolutely to the standard again.
Paul Maxin – Wedding Celebrant • 26:22
Again, what is pretty standard in a wedding ceremony is an exchange of rings. So that’s standard. But again, you can be They can be flexible in terms of what words they want to say to each other, whether they say them themselves or whether they repeat after me. And again, standard is at some point in the ceremony there will be vows. Sometimes they’re blended with the ring exchange and sometimes they’re separate. But they will be promises that the couple make to each other.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 26:58
And a key component which is Pretty much always find that’s one of my favorite parts of a of any ceremony, right? Is when that couple are standing there and there’s like 200 people watching, they’re all listening. And suddenly they look at each other, they’re straight in the eyes, they look at each other and they start, you know, kind of delivering their vows and their promises, even if they’ve been written, you know, and I’ve seen it where people have made them up on the spot. or where they’ve written them and they’ve they’ve memorized them or where they’ve kind of got them and and they’re reading them. But I’ve seen, I think, even the most kind of stoic Wedding couples who are like, Yeah, this is all great. And they get there, and then suddenly they start reading, and then you see the eyes glossing up. Yeah, that’s right. Yeah, it’s it’s just and I think when you get to that moment like that where it’s raw powerful emotion And of course, you know, that’s all the that that’s that’s ultimately the the kind of the the focus, isn’t it, of of what of what a wedding ceremony should be.
Paul Maxin – Wedding Celebrant • 28:02
That’s right, the promises they will make to each other. Yeah. Amazing. And you know, and it’s you know through I I I overthought it a bit when I was uh setting up. So you can see on this that uh above my name, Paul Max and Celebrant is that mine’s branded squiggly lines. Oh, yeah. Actually, it’s a you know, it’s not in my head, it wasn’t a random thought. I didn’t sort of say but it’s it’s it’s about life not being linear and relationships not being linear as well. So that That’s where it came from. But it I have to otherwise it looks like a random swiggly line. But I just thought I’d mention it in the context that we’re talking about as well. Regardless of what’s happening in their lives, they’ve made promises to each other. And those promises are meaningful.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 28:52
That’s right. Life is never a straight line though, is it? And you know, it does doesn’t matter how doesn’t matter how much you plan, there’s always going to be a curveball.
Paul Maxin – Wedding Celebrant • 29:00
That’s right. Yeah, I find that one of my favorite lines from John Lennon: life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plants.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 29:08
Yeah, so true. So true. That’s dead on. So let’s look at the process then. I mean, you know, a couple, they, they, they some some one person asked another person, go, sh should we get married? And they go, yeah, that sounds like a good idea. Um at what point would you say during the the the the wedding planning process that people should s seriously start thinking and considering about their their ceremony and if they decide that they’re going to have a celebrant about how that’s going to be, at what point do they need to start thinking about that to make it useful and meaningful?
Paul Maxin – Wedding Celebrant • 29:47
I mean, they don’t have to start thinking about it immediately. I mean, it the typical and it does vary, but the typical sort of lead time from from engagement to wedding ceremony is around about eighteen months, sometimes a year. Yep, occasionally considerably less. and occasionally considerably more. But I always say at the beginning, just words of advice, I would say, is plan the day you want. not what others think that you should have for you. Make a list of what’s most important to you and honour best priorities. Enjoy the moment, that moment of engagement and also delegating tests so that you can maintain your own well being and health. And at some point in time, you know, if stop they will then start thinking about their ceremony. I don’t say the first thing that you should do after you’ve got engaged is to is to get a a celebrant, but it’s actually to start thinking about what type of ceremony they they want and what season Plan the day that suits you, not what others want for you, in order to more authentic. And then generally Most of the main inquiries I get is usually not always, but usually once the day has been set. And by that time they’ve usually got the venue. Yeah. So I would typically come along after the venue. And sometimes I’m fortunate enough now to be Recommended to a couple by vineyards. And then, oh, so there are other ways and means of marketing myself too. Yeah. That That’s kind of the outset, really, is to plan the day that you want. So it it’s a long-winded answer to your question: is the celebrant isn’t the first person on the mind Not list of whips because lots of couples don’t actually know what celebrants are.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 32:10
Of course, yeah.
Paul Maxin – Wedding Celebrant • 32:11
I’ve had been to a wedding officiated by a celebrant.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 32:14
Yeah. It amazes me actually of how many wedding services are out there that people don’t even realize exist. Until they start planning a wedding. And then you’re suddenly in the situation where you’ve got choice paralysis, right? Because it’s like, wow, I thought that I was going to book a venue or photographer a cake a dress and turn up and have and hire a DJ, right? And then suddenly it’s like, hang on, there’s about five thousand other moving parts, right? And I think people just don’t just don’t even realize that there are services out there like a celebrant as opposed to, you know, going to a registry office or having a registrar or going to a church. That there are so many other options.
Paul Maxin – Wedding Celebrant • 32:56
That’s so true. The best examples around that. Attending a wedding show or a wedding fair with lots of other great suppliers and vendors At the outset, I find myself actually explaining what a celebrant is probably to about 50% of the couples that walk past my stamp. But that’s okay. I’ll do what I do. But that’s If you’re a cake maker, you don’t have to explain that these are cakes. Yeah, that’s right. And if you’re uh you know, if it’s bridalwear, you don’t have to explain that this is a dress and this is yeah, you know, this is a groom’s suit or whatever. But you often I’d say at least fifty percent of the times when I say but but but also There are many, many to your point about sometimes couples come in, they’ve just just not let’s say they’ve got engaged over Christmas and there’s a wedding fest in January and you know They haven’t given a great deal of thoughts at that point of time. And they kind of go into wedding fairs and then they kind of get hit like a rabbit in the headlights with limey, there’s so much out there. What are you gonna do? Um and you know, it’s th th they go around, you just see them slurping around and just their their their their heads are filling with Um whereas sometimes you also get couples at wedding fairs that have that that that know exactly what they want, they’ve done the planning and um they’ve gone to the wedding fair just to see some specific vendors. And maybe the couples that have won round with the like the rabbit in the headlights have got them gone to wedding fair six or nine months later with a better idea of what it is that they want. And then they may find that there.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 34:52
I think there’s definitely people who get engaged and go to their first wedding fair and they walk in and they kind of walk out going I didn’t realize it was going to be this much work. I mean, and you know, I certainly know there are people who’ve done that and then I’ve sat down and gone, do we really want to do this? Because this is just going to be like an absolutely mammoth task. But of course, it’s about having the right suppliers and the right people on board. To take each piece of that and make it their own so that when they put it together again, what they end up with is a ceremony and a celebration and a wedding day which nobody else could have had. Yeah. Amazing. So so this is this is this is one of my favorite final questions to ask somebody. Accepting the advice, you should definitely go and book Paul Maxin if you want a celebrary for your wedding. What advice would you give to people who are out there in the wild, they’ve got engaged? and they’re wanting a salibrant-led wedding, what should they be looking for, thinking about, and what kind of questions should they be asking?
Paul Maxin – Wedding Celebrant • 36:07
So uh I go about to plan the day you you you want for yourself. It should be asking um If they want something that is personal to them, then it’s likely to be that their love story, their own story, is going to be at the heart of it. So say what you want to say. Don’t be backward in coming forward. But if it’s your story. beautifully told, with personal vows and rituals, then choose a celebrant lead ceremony. And if you want warmth, empathy, fun, laughter, and joy then please do bear me in mind. There are other brilliant celebrants too, but most of my work is in East Anglia. But I do travel further afield as well.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 37:03
Fantastic. Absolutely brilliant. Listen, Paul, it’s been a real joy chatting to you today, and it’s been both insightful and educational. hopefully some of these reforms that they’re thinking about I think we’ve talked about this once or twice before will kind of start to come into place because I think it’s really going to open the wedding industry up, isn’t it, to see Ted Wooders.
Paul Maxin – Wedding Celebrant • 37:22
Absolutely. I mean, it potentially at the the consultation in the government’s documentation said it could inject over five hundred million pounds per year into the Wellington results of some of the changes that are being proposed. Not just with regard to celebrance, but other changes as well. Of course, yeah. We’ll see what happens. Go for it. I’ve enjoyed it too. Thank you for inviting me on, Liam. It’s been a pleasure, as always, to have a conversation with you.
Liam Ball – Your Magical Wedding Host – The Gentleman Magician • 37:52
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