Format & Requirements
Designed to offer you as much flexibility as you need, the course is based entirely on distance learning so that you can fit your studies around your own individual and personal lifestyle. Spread over 30 Units, each topic is both examined in depth and clearly explained in lay-mans terms. Should you find that you require assistance from your Tutor at any stage, he or she is always available to answer your questions and deal with your enquiries. The course is delivered to you electronically in Adobe .pdf format. This format provides us with the unique ability to update, develop, revise and refine the course on a regular basis. It also enables us to provide students with a lifetime of free, unlimited upgrades since there is no need for extremely costly reprints after each update (note that there have been 4 major upgrades since April 08!). For your convenience and swift processing your work is expected to be completed electronically and submitted for review as attachments via email.
Course Length
The course is designed to be completed within 6 months but we do appreciate each student’s requirements differ. Approximately 20% of students choose to take up to a year and 10% of students take up to 18 months. Most students hold down permanent jobs and study in their free time.
Requirements
The aims and objectives of the course are to introduce persons with little or no experience to the role of wedding planning and provide them with the required knowledge, understanding, skills and insight to help them to succeed in this role. No previous experience required other than a healthy interest in the wedding industry.
The type of people who sign up for the course…
- People who are methodical, creative and possess an eye for detail
- People who are ready to run their own business
- People who have planned their own weddings and now wish to build a career within the wedding industry
- Professionals such as venue managers wishing to offer a in-house planning service
- In-house Event Coordination staff looking to develop their own knowledge, skills and services
- Wedding services such as florists who wish to offer additional aspects to their service.
- Brides wanting a detailed insight into how to plan their own stress-free wedding
Why do we offer courses and train our competitors?
Other than the fact it’s a natural progression for established businesses in any industry to offer training courses, it’s also down to the basic principles of supply and demand! In the years before we designed our first course back in 2007, we were inundated with enquiries from people wanting to know the best and/or easiest route into wedding planning. Most had no experience so we simply advised them to undertake a course that was run by a competitor at the time (if the truth be known, we thought they were mad teaching potential competitors how to plan weddings!).
However, we soon realised that there were lots of people determined to break into the industry. And if these people wanted to do a wedding planning course, it made good business sense to design and sell a course of our own.