Celebrant Business Starter Kit V1 — Service Agreement, Privacy Policy, NOIM Guide & Recordkeeping Tracker

You became a celebrant for the ceremonies. But you didn't expect the paperwork to be the hard part.

Most new celebrants figure out the legal and business side the hard way — a service agreement cobbled together after a cancellation dispute, a NOIM error caught too late, a registration renewal that snuck up out of nowhere.

This kit exists so you don't have to learn any of that the hard way.

It's built by a celebrant who also happens to be a governance and compliance professional — which means the templates aren't just "nice," they're built the way a lawyer or auditor would build them: clear obligations, sensible defaults, and no vague language that falls apart the moment something goes wrong.

What's included

📄 Client Service Agreement (Word template) Fees, deposits, cancellation and rescheduling tiers, legal requirements, liability, and a ready-to-sign structure — sorted before your first booking, not scrambled together after a dispute.

🔒 Privacy Policy (Word template) Covers exactly what a celebrant collects and why — NOIM identity documents, ceremony details, retention obligations — without generic filler that doesn't match what you actually do.

⚠️ NOIM Error & Correction Guide (Word/PDF) The mistakes that trip up almost every new celebrant — missing middle names, birthplace mismatches, witness eligibility — plus the actual correction process straight from the Marriage Act, including a genuinely confusing gotcha about the official form's outdated wording that catches even experienced celebrants out.

📊 Registration & Recordkeeping Tracker (Excel) A working spreadsheet — not just a checklist — that auto-flags your registration renewal date, tracks your Form 15 certificate log against the 6-year retention requirement, and monitors the 14-day BDM lodgement deadline after every ceremony.

🗺️ First 12 Months Roadmap (PDF) A phase-by-phase guide to your first year, from day-one foundations through to building a steady second-year booking calendar.

Why $27 right now

This is a founding price for early customers — genuinely lower than what the kit is worth, in exchange for being one of the first to use it. As the kit gets more reviews and refinement, the price moves up. If you're reading this now, you're getting in at the best price it'll ever be.

A quick note on what this isn't

This kit is general guidance built from the Attorney-General's Department's official Guidelines and current NOIM form — not a substitute for legal advice, and not a replacement for checking ag.gov.au when something matters. It's the head start, not the final word.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this only for new celebrants? It's built with new celebrants in mind, but the Service Agreement, Privacy Policy, and Tracker are just as useful if you've been practising a while and never got around to formalising your paperwork.

Do I need to know Word/Excel well to use these? No — the templates are ready to fill in with bracketed fields showing exactly what to replace, and the tracker just needs your dates and details entered into the highlighted cells.

Is this legal advice? No. It's a practical starting point built from the official Guidelines, but every celebrant's situation is different — we'd recommend a solicitor review your Service Agreement and Privacy Policy once you've customised them, particularly if your practice grows or changes.

Will the price go up? Yes — $27 is a limited founding price for early customers. It moves to $47 and then $67 as the kit gets more runway.