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By Kineta Knight Booker - Celebrants Aotearoa Communications Manager

National Celebrants Day is coming! And we want to include as many of our members in this celebration as possible!

We'd love for you to record a 10-second clip, telling us your top moment as a celebrant from the past year.

As you'll see in my video example: "Kia ora, I'm Kineta from Kaiapoi, and one of my highlights was an elopement, by helicopter, at the top of the Port Hills."

How easy that was!

Please email your video to me at comms@celebrantsaotearoa.co.nz by Thursday 13th November.

How to make an easy video

While I was filming that video to members, I also filmed myself making that video. Here are my tips:

- tripods make videos so much easier to make

- know exactly what you want to say - please keep it to less than 10 seconds

- once you hit record - pause, give yourself some time to compose yourself and take a breath (it makes it easier to edit later if you give yourself a little bit of breathing space at the beginning and the end of the video)

- for National Celebrants Day, please film the video in portrait (vertical) 

- and you can click here for these video-making tips 

I can't wait to hear from you all!