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Jobless marriage celebrant finds future career with redundant embalmer

Nicole Mathewson Reporter from Otago News

A Central Otago wedding celebrant whose business dried up during the Covid-19 outbreak has teamed up with a funeral director who lost her job during lockdown to forge a new future.

“I realised I did have to step out of the wedding industry and step into the next logical area of celebrancy, which is funerals.”

Through Zoom training and business connections, fate led Logan to Cromwell-based funeral director and embalmer Leigh-Anne Fox who was made redundant during the national level 4 lockdown.

Read more here.

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