Certificate in Advanced Wedding Planning
Course Outline
This Advanced Wedding Planning course has been designed by industry professionals to equip future wedding planners with the skills they will need for a successful career in wedding planning. This practical course guides aspiring wedding planners through the steps to planning a wedding. It also offers guidance for developing a thriving business and schools individuals on industry norms.
All the elements of a wedding have been broken down into lessons, where students will be guided by a facilitator to give them the skills and the confidence needed to achieve success in this competitive industry.
Modules Covered in the Course
♥ Introduction to the world of wedding planning
♥ The South African Wedding Industry
♥ The role of the wedding planner versus that of a coordinator and a venue co-ordinator
♥ Wedding traditions of various cultures
♥ Style consultation and grooming
♥ How certain tradition originated
♥ Wedding etiquette
♥ Wedding trends
♥ The wedding ceremony
- Co-ordinating a wedding rehearsal
- The ceremony from a marriage officers perspective
- Different types of ceremonies
- Various elements involved in a wedding ceremony
♥ Meeting with your couples
- First meeting
- Planning Meetings
- Final Meetings
- Pulling the plans together
- Understanding the needs of your couple
- Dealing with difficult clients
♥ How to charge for your services
- Creating your own packages
- Important items to include
- Your terms and conditions
- Contracts
- Your fee structure and guidance
♥ Wedding products and services
- Various industry specialist will be coming into chat to you about the products and service within the wedding industry.
♥ Scheduling the wedding timeline
♥ Scheduling for a wedding planner
♥ Different types & styles of wedding
♥ The legal side of weddings
♥ Wedding budgets
♥ Preparation for managing the wedding day
♥ Dresses and Grooms Attire
- General retinue knowledge
- General fabrication knowledge
- General wedding attire etiquette for the whole retinue including the groom and his party
- Styles to suit body types and face shapes
- Colour co-ordination
♥ Wedding venues
- Ceremony Venues
- Reception venues
- Evaluating a venue
- Understanding the services that the venues offer
- Working with co-ordinators at venues
- Understanding the way venues operate
♥ Catering
- Dealing with caterers
- As a wedding planner what you need to understand
- Serving styles
- Venues and Catering
- Venue Catering vs Private Catering
- Dietary Requirements
- Quality of the food
- Briefing a Caterer
- Menu selections
♥ Wine Tasting
- Serving Wines
- Types of wine
- Pairing of food with the types of wine
- Wines more suited to weddings
- Corkage
- Temperatures of wines
- Brief history of South African Wine
- Tasting and assessing white and red wines
♥ Wedding cakes
♥ Hair & Make-up
♥ Basic flower arranging course
♥ Briefing a florist & d�cor supplier
♥ Basic Draping course
♥ Marketing yourself
- Facebook & Twitter workshop
- Social Media
- Branding
- Marketing
♥ Wedding stationary
♥ Photography
♥ Music & Entertainment & Lighting for Weddings
♥ Detailing and Dealing with service providers
♥ Building a portfolio
♥ Basic Business Management
Duration
5 months – Part Time (one evening a week)
This course is not offered on a Saturday as the facilitators are doing weddings on the weekend
6pm - 9pm
Support
The SA School of Weddings provides support to students who require assistance after the completion of the course. Students are able to bounce ideas around and seek guidance in years to come.
Certification
In order to receive a Certificate in Advanced Wedding Planning, the student will be required to successfully complete the assignments set out by The SA School of Weddings.
Students must also meet the qualifications, standards, ethics and ideals necessary to successfully and responsibly serve future clients as a professional wedding planner.
80% attendance is required and the pass mark of 60% must be obtained in order to successfully pass the Certificate in Advanced Wedding Planning.
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Course Outline
This Advanced Wedding Planning course has been designed by industry professionals to equip future wedding planners with the skills they will need for a successful career in wedding planning. This practical course guides aspiring wedding planners through the steps to planning a wedding. It also offers guidance for developing a thriving business and schools individuals on industry norms.
All the elements of a wedding have been broken down into lessons, where students will be guided by a facilitator to give them the skills and the confidence needed to achieve success in this competitive industry.
Modules Covered in the Course
♥ Introduction to the world of wedding planning
♥ The South African Wedding Industry
♥ The role of the wedding planner versus that of a coordinator and a venue co-ordinator
♥ Wedding traditions of various cultures
♥ Style consultation and grooming
♥ How certain tradition originated
♥ Wedding etiquette
♥ Wedding trends
♥ The wedding ceremony
- Co-ordinating a wedding rehearsal
- The ceremony from a marriage officers perspective
- Different types of ceremonies
- Various elements involved in a wedding ceremony
♥ Meeting with your couples
- First meeting
- Planning Meetings
- Final Meetings
- Pulling the plans together
- Understanding the needs of your couple
- Dealing with difficult clients
♥ How to charge for your services
- Creating your own packages
- Important items to include
- Your terms and conditions
- Contracts
- Your fee structure and guidance
♥ Wedding products and services
- Various industry specialist will be coming into chat to you about the products and service within the wedding industry.
♥ Scheduling the wedding timeline
♥ Scheduling for a wedding planner
♥ Different types & styles of wedding
♥ The legal side of weddings
♥ Wedding budgets
♥ Preparation for managing the wedding day
♥ Dresses and Grooms Attire
- General retinue knowledge
- General fabrication knowledge
- General wedding attire etiquette for the whole retinue including the groom and his party
- Styles to suit body types and face shapes
- Colour co-ordination
♥ Wedding venues
- Ceremony Venues
- Reception venues
- Evaluating a venue
- Understanding the services that the venues offer
- Working with co-ordinators at venues
- Understanding the way venues operate
♥ Catering
- Dealing with caterers
- As a wedding planner what you need to understand
- Serving styles
- Venues and Catering
- Venue Catering vs Private Catering
- Dietary Requirements
- Quality of the food
- Briefing a Caterer
- Menu selections
♥ Wine Tasting
- Serving Wines
- Types of wine
- Pairing of food with the types of wine
- Wines more suited to weddings
- Corkage
- Temperatures of wines
- Brief history of South African Wine
- Tasting and assessing white and red wines
♥ Wedding cakes
♥ Hair & Make-up
♥ Basic flower arranging course
♥ Briefing a florist & d�cor supplier
♥ Basic Draping course
♥ Marketing yourself
- Facebook & Twitter workshop
- Social Media
- Branding
- Marketing
♥ Wedding stationary
♥ Photography
♥ Music & Entertainment & Lighting for Weddings
♥ Detailing and Dealing with service providers
♥ Building a portfolio
♥ Basic Business Management
Duration
5 months – Part Time (one evening a week)
This course is not offered on a Saturday as the facilitators are doing weddings on the weekend
6pm - 9pm
Support
The SA School of Weddings provides support to students who require assistance after the completion of the course. Students are able to bounce ideas around and seek guidance in years to come.
Certification
In order to receive a Certificate in Advanced Wedding Planning, the student will be required to successfully complete the assignments set out by The SA School of Weddings.
Students must also meet the qualifications, standards, ethics and ideals necessary to successfully and responsibly serve future clients as a professional wedding planner.
80% attendance is required and the pass mark of 60% must be obtained in order to successfully pass the Certificate in Advanced Wedding Planning.
The SA School of Weddings is endorsed by Oakfields College who is provisionally registered by the Department of Education (Reg. No. 2007/FE077014) and accredited by the MAPPP-seta. MAPPP-seta is the SAQA registered ETQA (Education & Training Quality Assuring Body) for the Arts and Culture sector. Oakfields College has links with a number of educational institutions in addition to strong ties to industry.
