thinking of training to be a funeral celebrant

[hangsangwitch]

I have been giving this a lot of thought. I have unfortunately been bereaved many times and have arranged 5 funerals, writing and reading the eulogy at all of them. I think I understand what makes a good funeral, and I think I have the skills to be good at this. The courses are expensive and looking at the number of local celebrants to me, seems to maybe be a saturated market?

Does anyone have any experience of this?

I don't have any experience, but DH knows a couple of humanist celebrants and has said in the past that they have to turn down a lot of people who want their services. So our area seems to be short of adequate supply let alone at saturation.

I wondered about this too. Got about as far as you, I think. The next stage for me may have been ringing round the local funeral places to get a feel for how they access celebrants, and if they ever struggle to do so. If they don't, it seems like, for me, it would be a lot of money (for the course) for no return.