Jo Crofts - Marriage Celebrant

05/12/2022

So I’ve been playing secret squirrel for the last few months helping out with a friends elopement.
It’s almost killed me to keep quiet but this beautiful friend deserves so much happiness in her life.
Congratulations Debra and Iain ♥️♥️♥️

📸 Kate Drennan Photography

03/12/2022

Last chance before the madness that is Christmas to get your heart on and support Chloe May 💜

08/11/2022

A heart for Chloe 💜💜💜

After my recent post I have had so many people ask to buy the hearts that I make. The intention was never to sell them but to give them away as an act of kindness.
BUT I think I can still deliver kindness (with your help) and here’s the plan…. 🤔

My friend has a beautiful daughter by the name of Chloe May. Chloe was born with Rett Syndrome which will continue to shape her whole life (I’ll let you google what Rett Syndrome is) 💔

So I’m making hearts for Chloe. 💜
ALL the money raised will go to Chloe’s family as they have just been approved access to CBD oil. Unfortunately the current cost is $300 per week!!! 🤑

I will sell sets of 6 hearts for $50. For that you will get 2 embellished hearts (design will vary), 3 plain ones, and a special Chloe heart 💜

Then you can spread the kindness and we can all help beautiful Chloe May.

Comment below or message me if you want some 💜 in your life.

23/10/2022

In my spare time I make little pocket hearts. Made of felt and hand stitched I give them away to my grieving families or to anyone else that needs a little touch of kindness in their pocket.
Check out the original idea at 1000hearts.com.au or if you need a heart of kindness yourself just let me know.
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍

04/09/2022

If we could just create another day between Saturday and Sunday please it would be most appreciated 🤷🏻‍♀️

09/08/2022

A day in the life of a gravedigger. ⚰️🪦
Could this be your 9-5?

Barry Dawson started grave digging in Melbourne as a young man in the 1980s. Now 61, he'll soon mark more than four decades of cemetery service.

07/08/2022

What’s your intention? ♥️

31/07/2022

Happy Yorkshire Day. 🏞

English by birth 🇬🇧
Australian by choice 🇦🇺
Yorkshire by the grace of God ♥️

29/07/2022

Happy Friendship Day - to friendships old and new and those yet to be made. ♥️♥️♥️

20/07/2022

This ⬇️♥️
‘You aren’t a ten dollar bill in last winter’s coat pocket….
How do you find you? 🤷🏻‍♀️

19/07/2022

In a dark storage room beneath Canberra's Norwood Park Crematorium sits row after row of plastic boxes — each with a silent story to tell.

Every box contains cremated human remains — someone's sister, someone's grandparent, someone's child — and for a myriad of reasons, all of them are unclaimed.

Crematorium manager Stephen Beer estimates there are between 600 and 800 boxes of ashes in the storeroom, some dating as far back as the 1970s when the crematorium began operating.

"Some people just don't want to have them again," Mr Beer says.

"Some families have all passed on and there's no representative to actually pick up the ashes."

Or, Mr Beer says, sometimes people just find it too difficult to claim the ashes of their loved ones.

Full story ABC News.

17/07/2022

So Bennifer got married! 💜
Just after midnight in a Las Vegas drive through wedding chapel!
Keeping it real? Or just on an impulse? 🤷🏻‍♀️

16/07/2022

You will be whole again, but you will never be the same ♥️

“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.”
Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler.

Christian Schloe

03/12/2021

So I use Spotify almost every single day to listen to the music choices of my clients for their different life occasions. 🎶♥️
Not surprisingly then that Spotify has summed up my year in review as meloncholly and mellow… 🤔
What songs made your list this year?

21/11/2021

7 years ago I conducted my first wedding at Bather’s Beach in Fremantle. ♥️

What a journey it has been.

Thank you to all the couples who have entrusted me with their special day. I have loved every single one of you.

If I married you it would be lovely to see a photo from your wedding so please feel free to post in the comments.

Oh, and happy anniversary Fleur and Hayden. ♥️

18/11/2021

Today is day 4 of World Celebrants Week.

In my role as a funeral celebrant, I have had the privilege of creating, writing and officiating funerals, celebrations of life, memorials and interment of ashes.

No two ceremonies are alike, just like the people they honour. Most are celebrations of life in line with the families wishes.

I have officiated these farewell ceremonies in crematoriums, funeral homes, hotels, golf clubs, private and public gardens, and the beach.

Did you know that you have a choice when it comes to where you can hold a funeral ceremony? You are not limited to a church or crematorium. Some of the most beautiful services have been held in someone’s home.

I’m often asked how I keep it together at a funeral. Why don’t I cry? Honestly, sometimes I do. When I least expect it….but I am honoured to be asked to lead a loved ones farewell.

In World Celebrant Week I want to share my stories, my experiences and my passion for what I do.

If you need a celebrant - you know where to find me. ♥️♥️♥️

09/11/2021

It’s been a difficult 18 months for many of us, especially for those who have lost loved ones and can’t be there to say goodbye.
This week I officiated at a funeral of a lady whose entire family were interstate. 💔
We live-streamed the funeral and after the service I offered to take the flower spray and place it on the grave of the lady’s husband and daughter. 🌹
It’s the small things that matter the most. ♥️♥️♥️