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Combined (Event & Wedding) Certification

 

 

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PROGRAM OVERVIEW

 

Part 1: Wedding Planning Course Overview

 

How To Plan A Wedding

  • How to prepare timelines for the wedding party, vendors, and wedding planner

  • Checklists for the bride, groom, and wedding planner

  • Preparing a sample wedding budget

  • Answers to FAQs for use in consulting with vendors 

  • Interview questions for potential vendors

  • Month of service: How to plan and charge

  • Day of service preparation: rehearsal, ceremony, and reception planning

Wedding date selection

Ceremony vows

Site selection

Obtaining and working with wedding officials

Selection of ceremony music

Obtaining the marriage license

Ceremony rehearsal

Processional and recessional 

  • How to plan the wedding reception

Reception site and placement

Planning process from morning to evening

Reception site and placement

Reception decorations

Coordinating with venue staff

Reception speeches

Reception activities

  • How to select reputable vendors

  • Tips on working with vendors

  • Vendor contracts

  • Ceremony rituals and readings

  • Gift ideas

  • Sample wedding day itinerary for wedding party, planner, and vendors

  • Theme ideas

 

Wedding Industry And Overview

  • Wedding history and traditions

  • Today's wedding

  • The modern bride

  • Wedding seasons

  • Role of a wedding planner

  • Working with a bride

  • Financial traditions for the bride, groom, and family

  • Duties and responsibilities of attendees

  • Bride emergency kit

 

Starting Your Own Wedding Planning Business

  • How to start a wedding planning business

  • Assistance provided by wedding planners: Complete wedding planning services, partial wedding planning services, wedding month coordination, wedding day coordination

  • How to decide on a business name

  • Types of business organizations

  • Planning strategies

  • Types of insurance

  • Budgeting ideas and methods

  • Advice from wedding experts

  • Wedding business regulations

  • How to analyze and market your business

  • Effective networking solutions

  • Promoting your wedding planning business

  • Developing negotiation skills

  • Pricing your services

  • Where to find brides

  • Sample wedding planner contract

 

Part 2: Event Planning Course Overview

Starting Your Own Event Planning Business

  • Industry overview

  • Role of an event planner

  • How to start an event planning business

  • How to decide on a business name

  • Types of business organizations

  • Types of funding

  • Basic event planning techniques

  • How to stage the perfect production

  • Determining event location

  • Logistics of event planning

  • Sample scenarios

  • On-site preparation

  • Contingency planning

  • Sample event timelines

  • Event checklist

  • Planning strategies

  • Types of insurance

  • Budget planning ideas and methods

  • Cultural issues in event planning

  • Sample schedule sheets

  • Advice from expert planners

  • History and traditions of event planning

  • Modern event planning

  • Event business regulations

  • How to analyze and market your business

  • Vendor and event planner contracts

  • Effective networking solutions

  • Promoting your event planning business

  • Developing negotiation skills

  • Working with venues

  • Pricing your services

  • Where to find clients

How To Plan Any Event

  • Conferences

  • Fairs and festivals

  • Corporate luncheons

  • Charity fundraisers

  • Meetings

  • Holiday parties

  • Grand openings

  • Birthdays

  • Trade shows

  • Political events

  • Company socials

  • Family reunions

  • New product launches

  • Children's parties

 

Part 2: In-Class Workshop (optional)

 

Part 3: Real-World Training (optional)

 


 

 

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 Certification program that provides professional training classes for wedding planners, meeting planners, special event consultants, interior designers, and florists. We are the leading experts on weddings and special events - U.S. Event Guide

Certification program that provides professional training classes for wedding planners, meeting planners, special event consultants, interior designers, and florists. We are the leading experts on weddings and special events - U.S. Event Guide useventguide.com

 


Certification program that provides professional training classes for wedding planners, meeting planners, special event consultants, interior designers, and florists. We are the leading experts on weddings and special events - U.S. Event Guide