The Wedding Planning Institute - Become a Wedding Planner

Career Track - Professional Wedding Planning (pay per topic). Tuition ranges from $25.00 - $199.00
Earn your Wedding Planning Certification on your time-line (and budget). All chapters are online and are required to complete your certification designation.

Select a course, pay your tuition, and get started right away. It is reccommended to take the course chapters in order, however, it is not a requirement.

Certification Syllabus:- This comprehensive course has been streamlined into online and classroom videos to enhance the learning experience and help our students to move through the course more quickly.

Wedding Industry Overview: Tuition: $25.00
Includes: Wedding history
The Engagement Process
Wedding Etiquette
Current industry statistics both local to you and nationally
The Engagement Process as it leads to the wedding day

Project Management for the Wedding Planner: Tuition: $125.00
Includes:
Project Management
Your role as a Wedding Planner
Setting expectations
Budget Management
Project Management
Wedding Etiquette
Planning
Coordinating and Directing

Business Structure and Marketing: Tuition: $125.00
Includes:
Writing a Business Plan
Fee for services
Pricing and Packages
Proposals and RFP's
Project Plan Budgeting
Market place evaluation
Small business start-up cost
Business Location set-up
Home Office
SOHO Solutions
Office Set-up
Expanding your business offerings and adding additional revenue streams

Tools of the Trade: Tuition: $145.00
Includes:
Documentation
Training materials
Design boards
Fabric boards
Manuals
Design Project
Templates
-Pricing Packages, Contracts,
-Client hand-outs
-Ceremony Structure, Customs, Traditions

Vendor Selection: Tuition: $60.00
Includes:
Vendor Interviews
Vendor contracts
Vendor partnerships and negotiation
Vendor marketing
Vendor booking

Contracts: Tuition: $95.00
Includes:
Contract Law
Creating Your Contracts
Contract Templates
Bridal Client Contracts
Vendor partnership
Traditional Wedding Planner contracts and packages

How to work with a prospective bride: Tuition: $125.00
Includes:
Profiling New Clients
Making the sale
Educating the bridal client
-bridal registry
-setting expectations
-wedding day vision vs. reality
Traditional vs. non-traditional wedding ceremonies
wedding party delegation

Ethnic Wedding Customs & Traditions Worldwide: Tuition: $25.00
Includes:
15 International cultures, wedding traditions for ceremonies and receptions.

The Wedding Gown: Tuition: $35.00
Includes:
-Gown styles
-Veil styles
-Body Types do's & don'ts
Top 50 wedding dress designers

Ceremony & Reception Music: Tuition: $25.00
Includes:
How to write a musical score
Popular Wedding Ceremony Music Selections
-Processional
-Recessional

Signature Weddings: Tuition: $95.00
Includes:
Rehearsal Procedures
D4 Analysis
Wedding Design
A6 Production - The Wedding Event Experience
Industry terms
-Traditional
-Trendy

Business marketing practices: Tuition: $35.00
Includes:
Industry associations
Networking
Bridal Shows
-Research
-Tradeshow Checklist
-Booking the bride
-How to work a booth
-Post show activities

Online Marketing strategies: Tuition: $35.00
Includes:
Designing Your Website
Marketing Your Website

Public Relations: Tuition: $125.00
Includes:
-Becoming an expert in your field in your local market
-Writing a Press Release
-Writing Your Bio
-Blogging -Negotiating promotions

Organization: Tuition: $25.00
Includes:
-Destination Weddings
-CRM (Client Relations Management)
-Industry Software

Philanthropy: $25.00
Includes:
Giving back to your community
Charities
Philanthropy

Final Exam/Certification: $279.00