THE WEDDING PLANNING COURSE
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Course Description
The Wedding Planning Course teaches you step by step wedding planning so that you can know how to plan a beautiful wedding even if the bride is on a tight budget.
This self paced course gives you the knowledge and tools to become a successful wedding planner regardless of whether you are planning your own wedding or you want to begin a wedding planning career or you want to entrench yourself more firmly as a professional wedding planner.
Topics covered in this course include:
1. The Key Events of any Wedding Planning Timeline
Understanding the key factors in any wedding timeline will enable you to plan weddings with a full year’s notice or with just a month’s notice without missing any important detail.
2. The Categories of Costs in any Wedding Plan
Our wedding planning checklist will help you understand the key cost categories of all weddings so that you can successfully plan weddings of all sizes from large social events to small intimate gatherings.
3. How to Fit a Wedding into any Budget
Knowing how to fit a wedding into any budget will make you a more successful wedding planner as you will be able to cater to brides in different social groups as well as be able to adjust your wedding plans when the bride and groom encounter unexpected financial hitches.
4. Numerous links to free resources
Knowing where to get free wedding resources such as software, wedding music and templates on the web will help you plan wonderful weddings.
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THE WEDDING PLANNING TIMELINE
This wedding planning timeline does not give you the time in months because some people have 12 months to plan a wedding, others 12 weeks while others just 12 days.
This wedding planning guide is therefore to help you organize the activities you need to look into as you plan any wedding regardless of how much time you have to help the bride and groom prepare for their big day.
a) Collect The Money
Knowing how much the bride and groom (B & G) have decided to spend on their wedding and honeymoon is important because it helps you set up a budget as well as begin locating wedding service providers within their price range.
In addition, it also helps you set your fee since most wedding planners earn at least 10% of the total wedding budget. Therefore once you know how much they are willing to spend on the wedding, you can then agree on how much you will be paid and when you will be paid. For instance you can ask for an upfront deposit and then agree on when the balance will be paid.
To help the B & G collect the money for their wedding, you can:
1. Advice them to pool their wedding savings into a separate account from their daily expenses
2. Ask them if they want to politely solicit additional funds from their parents and other well wishers.
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b) Choose The Guests
Knowing how many guests the B & G want to invite to their wedding is another important number that will help you plan the wedding well. Therefore, find out how many people they are willing to accommodate.
In addition, remind them that financial contributors to their wedding may also want to invite some of their own guests and so they have to take those numbers into consideration. Examples include parents who are footing some of the wedding costs who may want and should be entitled to invite some of their own friends to the wedding.