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Life-Cycle Celebrants make a personal commitment to adhere to the Celebrant Institute & Foundation's Code of Ethics and Professionalism, in all of our work with our clients. Life-Cycle Celebrants agree to: |
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~ Serve each client with respect, sensitivity, and professionalism, and to provide all services in a timely manner.
~ Offer every client a personalized ceremony that includes their story as revealed to the Celebrant through interview and questionnaires.
~ Ensure that clients have complete choice of and final say over their ceremonies, and that the Celebrant’s personal beliefs are immaterial to this process. To encourage clients in choosing and/or approving a ceremony that is satisfying to them.
~ Respectfully provide a ceremony that is as accurate as possible in all respects, including the pronunciation of the names of people, places, and things.
~ Perform the ceremony in a professional, prepared, and appropriate manner.
~ Provide a service that recognizes the unique personalities of the client, being sensitive to their needs, wishes, values, philosophical and spiritual beliefs, and cultural backgrounds.
~ Not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, or sexual orientation.
~ Comply and keep current with all laws regarding the performance of marriage in every country, state, province, or municipality in which the Celebrant practices, including obtaining the necessary legal authority to solemnize marriages and appropriately filing client marriage documentation as required by law.
~ Support the goals and the mission of CF&I and the Association by setting and maintaining a professional standard of service to the public that will bring credit and recognition to CF&I, the Association, and its individual members.
~ Offer every client a personalized ceremony that includes their story as revealed to the Celebrant through interview and questionnaires.
~ Ensure that clients have complete choice of and final say over their ceremonies, and that the Celebrant’s personal beliefs are immaterial to this process. To encourage clients in choosing and/or approving a ceremony that is satisfying to them.
~ Respectfully provide a ceremony that is as accurate as possible in all respects, including the pronunciation of the names of people, places, and things.
~ Perform the ceremony in a professional, prepared, and appropriate manner.
~ Provide a service that recognizes the unique personalities of the client, being sensitive to their needs, wishes, values, philosophical and spiritual beliefs, and cultural backgrounds.
~ Not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, or sexual orientation.
~ Comply and keep current with all laws regarding the performance of marriage in every country, state, province, or municipality in which the Celebrant practices, including obtaining the necessary legal authority to solemnize marriages and appropriately filing client marriage documentation as required by law.
~ Support the goals and the mission of CF&I and the Association by setting and maintaining a professional standard of service to the public that will bring credit and recognition to CF&I, the Association, and its individual members.