Please Raise Your Glasses (confessions of a wedding day professional)
William Freeman
- Region:
- London
- Notice Period:
- Regular (more than one month's notice)
- Type:
- professional
- Fee:
- Paid: £85
- Category:
- Entertainment
- Updated:
- 12th March 2024
- Tagged:
- Weddings | Toastmasters | Celebrant | Humour
There are almost 400,000 weddings every year in the UK. The Covid pandemic caused disruption and delay but also brought new ways of doing things. And it certainly didn’t dampen demand.
Of the estimated nine billion pounds spent on these events, a small percentage will go to wedding day professionals such as celebrants and toastmasters.
Right now, a wedding celebrant in England cannot legally marry a couple so why do these people exist and what benefit are they?
The phrase ‘wedding toastmaster’, to some people, raises the spectre of a rather pompous and elderly individual, in a red tailcoat, strutting about making a few announcements. Who decided that the tailcoat should be red and how did such people come into being? Apart from making loud announcements what on earth, do they do?
All will be revealed in this fast paced and interactive lecture about my life as a ‘wedding day celebrant and toastmaster’.
You’ll peek behind the scenes and hear stories and confessions and you'll discover awkward and amusing situations some of which still give me shivers!
Views: 496 | Enquiries: 4About William Freeman
I am a retired management skills trainer and event speaker; my company developed and ran senior management programmes for large IT companies in UK.
Over the last ten years, or so, I have been a wedding toastmaster, MC and celebrant - and performed MC work at corporate functions.
On a less serious side (although I never took my career seriously), I’ve written one business book ‘The Two Minute Message’ which puts the ‘elevator pitch myth ( and truth) in a sensible perspective. Not exactly Jeffrey Archer levels of sales but dribbles here and there - and I’ve done may business workshops on this, and other topics.
I tell folks I’m a freelance cartoonist and having had one ‘toon in ‘Private Eye’ and twenty or so in ‘The Oldie’ over the years, I can put up a reasonable case to defend that claim. I’m a very average magician but it gives me fun ( as my wife often points out in a rather patronising manner).
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