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Do your friends ask for your help organizing their weddings?

Do you find yourself taking the lead when it comes to organizing a hen night?

Is your wedding still being talked about by your family and friends?

If you just answered a resounding Yes! to these questions you should become a professional wedding planner.

Brides and grooms want a day to remember

Weddings are no longer the simple affairs they were in the past. They have become lavish events geared to celebrate the couple’s union.

Brides enjoy nothing more than the chance to plan and enjoy their fairytale wedding and spend the day being Cinderella.

Grooms who traditionally took a back seat when it came to wedding planning have now started seeing it as an opportunity to be the gracious host.

Is it any wonder then that weddings have taken on a larger than life dimension and require considerable time, effort and money to organize?

Here comes the wedding planner

With an average wedding costing approximately £20,000, planning a wedding now requires the professional expertise of a wedding planner. Brides and grooms are far too busy earning the money to be able to actually organize such a mega event. Hence the need for a professional wedding planner.

However, not any old event planner will do. No bride or groom is going to hand over the planning of the most important day of their life to just anybody.

Weddings are an emotional event that must be dealt with sensitively.

In addition to all the arrangements, meetings, schedules and finances to handle, there are also ruffled feathers to smooth.

The wedding planner is thus more than just a hired hand, they liaise between the bride and groom’s families. They must balance the flaring temper of the bride’s father with the unreasonable demands of the groom’s mother as well as the sensitive emotions of the bride’s mother.

If that wasn’t confusing enough, the wedding planner is often called upon to act as judge and jury on debates raging within the family itself, and has to guide them on the proper wedding etiquette.

Wedding planning requires training and expertise. Just because you spent a year planning your own wedding does not make you qualified to become a wedding planner!

So what does it take to become a wedding planner you ask? Sign up for a professional wedding planning course to begin with, and get a certified qualification!

What makes a successful wedding planner?

Several factors contribute to your success as a wedding planner.

  • Creativity is the basis of a good wedding planner. You must be able to come up with solutions for different scenarios. Budget weddings, theme weddings, managing last-minute hiccups, dealing with wedding day disasters and more recently organizing same-gender marriages - all require creative trouble shooting.
  • You also need to be organized and have an eye for details. For example, managing a gala event requires the ability to juggle many contractors and get things organized quickly and efficiently.
  • The ability to network well and build relationships with wedding service providers also helps.

But the single most important factor in determining your success as a wedding planner is confidence.

It's the confidence that you have in your abilities as a wedding planner will determine how successful you become. And the only way to gain confidence in yourself is through knowledge.

Signing up for an accredited course like the one provided by The Institute of Professional Wedding Planners gives you the knowledge you need to go about planning a wedding in a systematic manner.

It will train you to approach nervous and excited young brides with confidence. Knowing that you have learned the art of wedding planning puts you at ease and makes you more able to handle any situation that may develop or arise.

Of course you could choose to learn by trial and error, but you risk losing your reputation as a wedding planner through bad publicity. So instead of jeopardizing your career, why not assure its triumph by getting accredited as a professional wedding coordinator!

It's a glamorous job

Remember Jennifer Lopez in ‘The Wedding Planner’? How would you like to be the glamorous Wedding Planner who gets to have all the fun of organizing a wedding and being paid to do it all? Picture this:

A young couple, madly in love, signs you up as their Wedding Planner. You get to dress up and visit all the fancy hotels and wedding venues, and taste the gourmet food provided by wedding caterers. Plus you'll get to check in to the latest boutiques shopping for the bride’s wedding trousseau and even have a blast at the bridal shower and hen parties!

Picture yourself being able to put down large sums of money and sign contracts with various wedding vendors, being ‘in’ with the best fashion boutiques in town and always knowing exactly what’s hot and what’s not!

All your years of following the latest wedding and fashion trends are finally going to be appreciated. Every scrapbook that you made as a young child is finally going to get its due.

And at the end of the day, when you finally put your feet up, it will be with the satisfaction of knowing that you have made two people and their families very happy.

How not to become a wedding planner

You'll help brides like this plan for their big day

As you already know, wedding planning is a big money industry. Now would you expect anyone to simply say, “Hey, I know I’d be a good dentist, so I’m now going to open my practice. Why don’t you come let me have a go at your teeth?” Would you consider visiting this self-proclaimed dentist? No!

So why would you expect that someone about to spend lots of money on planning a wedding would ever hire a wedding planner with no training? No, they wouldn't.

They will look for someone who has the knowledge, skills, abilities and training. Which is why you need to be formally trained in this field.

And it's unlikely that you'll become a wedding planner by assisting another planner.

For one thing, most wedding planners work alone. They only take on as much work as they can handle, and have little or no need for assistants.

Also, why would anyone train potential competitors? The good news is that this keeps a lot of people out of the industry, and gives you a better chance to succeed.

The only way to become a wedding planner is to set up your own business from scratch. And that’s where we come in.

The best way to become a wedding planner is by doing the Diploma course from the Institute of Professional Wedding Planners.

The course content

The Wedding Planning course has been designed by professionals and experts from the Wedding Planning industry itself. Hence, you get an insider’s viewpoint of what a Wedding Planner needs to do.

The course teaches you about various aspects of Wedding Planning like organizing a religious ceremony and a civil ceremony, choosing the reception venue, and organizing a wedding abroad. Plus we look at organizing the catering, decorations, music, entertainment, photographer, celebrating hen and stag parties and even choosing the wedding rings.

Spread over 18 modules, each module deals with a different topic in depth. We use easy to understand language, the examples provided are real-world and the information is something that every Wedding Planner needs!

You learn how to set up and run your own Wedding Planning business. We teach you how to prepare for a meeting with the client, how to manage and make a budget, how to set up and market your business and most importantly – the financials of being a wedding planner!

We cover behind-the-scenes issues like what the role of each individual in the Wedding Party is. It is vital for a Wedding Planner to know who should be doing what to manage the people involved in the event! After all a large part of Wedding Planning is people management.

Thus, in one single, comprehensive pack, the Wedding Planning course provides you with information that would take decades to accumulate.

Who signs up for the course?

People from all walks of life sign up for the Wedding Planning course.

  • People who already have some experience in planning a wedding, possibly their own.

  • People who are methodical, and have an eye for detail.

  • People who want to run their own business, in a glamorous, exciting field.


We look forward to helping you succeed.

With best wishes

Rana Das
Course Director

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