EDA’s Wedding Planner Course

Wedding Planning Course

With EDA, you can enter a wedding planning career with confidence!
Upon completion of EDA’s Wedding Planning course, you will have established and ready to use:

• A portfolio to present to employers and  prospective clients
• A vendor network and contact list of  event vendors in your area
• A  professional letter of recommendation from your instructor
• Certified Wedding Planner (CWP)  credentials which you may use following your  name, including a jpeg file of the EDA logo and the rights to display it on your business cards, marketing materials,  website, email signature, and  correspondence
• A Certificate of Course Completion with EDA Seal and  any Award Seals earned,  suitable for framing

Qualifying Certified Wedding Planner Course students will also receive jpegs of their Award  Seals to display on their business marketing materials.

What the Wedding Planning Course Includes:

As an EDA student, you’ll experience an  engaging course with hands-on assignments that will challenge you and spark  your creativity. You will be drawing event space layouts, designing inspiration boards, and analyzing case studies for real-world wedding planning training so that you can  implement and practice what you learn from the course.  You will receive:

• EDA Textbook with 10 Modules of  instruction, assignments, and quizzes
• Expandable Accordion File for organizing  vendor information
• Event Design  Academy Tote Bag
• A  CD-ROM containing the templates and documents you need to do your job as a Certified Wedding Planner,  including quote form, photography release, wedding planning packages, and more.

Looking For A Wedding Planning Intership, Part Two

For the wedding planner who is just starting off, hands-on experience to add to one’s portfolio can be hard to come by.  So make your own internship.  Following the advice in Part One of this article is smart, but if you are starving to get an actual wedding
under your belt, go pro bono.  If you have a friend or family member with a wedding coming up — jackpot, obviously.  Not everyone knows someone who’s getting married soon though — in this case, post a local free ad offering a free day-of wedding planning package at no charge, so long as the recipient provides you with the rights to use some of their professional wedding photos (clear this with the photographer as well), a written letter of recommendation, and a positive review on WeddingWire.com.  Treat this couple the same as a paying client, which includes having all parties sign a contract with an indemnity clause.

Welcome to Our World

We would like to introduce a new planIt to the galaxy (well, the blogosphere).  It’s a world where current and aspiring wedding and event planners develop their event planning careers and engage in ongoing education through a community of peers who share ideas and foster each other’s career ambitions.

Planners PlanIt posts will cover an array of event planning topics such as tips and secrets from the pros, event planning career building strategies, advice for starting your own event or wedding planning company, photos to inspire your own event designs, as well as interviews with event planners and industry professionals.

Make the PlanIt a better place:  post your (respectful) comments and post them
often!