Course Title: Certified Wedding Planner
Hours required: 300
Price: $1,395
Length course offered: N/A
Instructor: Wedding Planning Institute [Bio]
Description:
This nationally recognized certified wedding planner-coordinator course teaches the student how to become a successful wedding planner and coordinator. This comprehensive program covers everything an aspiring wedding planner needs to know to get started in the business. Whether you plan on working part-time, planning only a few weddings a year, or a full-time career, this program will provide all the tools necessary to work as a professional wedding planner or start your wedding planning business.
This online certificate program is offered in partnership with major colleges, universities, and other accredited education providers. We offer internships for our graduates! We offer paid internships where the student works directly with a bride and uses her preferred vendors to work with the bride. The unpaid internship allows our graduates to learn more about what happens behind the scenes with a wedding planner or a vendor and gain more knowledge about the industry. Click here to view our internship link on our website.
Goals:
Upon successful completion of the Certified Wedding Planner program, students will:
• Understand the role of a professional wedding planner.
• Gain a basic understanding of the wedding industry.
• Create business contracts, pricing, packages and presentation tools.
• Identify the formula/method to structure and set-up a wedding planning business and operations.
• Be proficient in skills such as budget planning, vendor selection and wedding design.
• Be familiar with industry specific terminology, communication, telephone techniques, organization and project management.
• Have knowledge of vendor contracts and what to look for. • Be familiar with wedding design elements, fabrics and styles.
• Understand how to market as an expert in the industry to gain PR attention.
• Understand online marketing and how it applies to a wedding planners business.
• Have knowledge of different wedding traditions and cultures and how to implement a couple's ethnic background into the celebration.
• Have knowledge of traditional and non-traditional etiquette.
• Understand the Event Planning Process necessary to design and deliver a successful wedding/social event.
• Understand the Six Stages of Event Experience and ways to implement them.
• Be fully prepared to take on his/her first bridal client.
Grading System:
Confirmation of Completion awarded with passing score.
School Description:
Offered in connection with a college or university near you, our self-paced, online career courses are designed to launch you into your dream job.
Begin your course anytime. Textbooks are included, and you will have access to student support via phone, email, and chat 24 hours a day.
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Instructor Bio: Wedding Planning Institute
The Wedding Planning Institute was founded with the sole purpose of providing aspiring wedding planners with the best possible education. For over 10 years, the Institute has been dedicated to the highest standards, offering wedding planning certification, business fundamentals, continuing education classes and seminars.
WPI's career counselors work closely with students to understand their needs, and to design educational career paths that provide the experience, engagement and competency needed to achieve the student's objectives. Our core online instructors hold a Masters Degree in Education and have combined experience of over 150 years in the wedding industry from various specialties and backgrounds. The Wedding Planning Institute is available to students who are interested in receiving the industry's premier education in the business of planning weddings and social events.
WPI's program has been accepted by many Colleges and Universities around the United States as the appropriate curriculum and business training for wedding professionals. Graduates of The Wedding Planning Institute are the top performers in the industry, and we wouldn't have it any other way.
