Editing Ceremony (section)

==Qualities of a celebrant==
Lionel Murphy also knew that the superficial, the unaware, were not the right persons to bring this about. The [[Celebrant (Australia)|civil celebrant]] needs to have a rich skill-set and knowledge base. Murphy is on the record as asserting that the civil celebrant needed to have a "feel" for ceremony and be professional, knowledgeable, educated, creative, imaginative, inspired, well presented, idealistic, and well practised.

The civil celebrant should be a person inspired to improve lives at a deep and lasting level. For this reason they must be carefully chosen. The ideal is that they be educated in the humanities and trained to expertly co-create, creatively write and perform ceremonies.<ref name=ceremonies/>{{rp|16ff}}