Professional Wedding Planning & Consulting
Diploma WED16
Hospitality, Tourism &Events
Learning Method: Correspondence with online support

This course has been developed against industry requirements. It is packed with practical real-life wedding planning and event management activities. In addition, you can access the online activities in the eLearning Centre to further practise and test your knowledge and skills. And you can talk with other students from all over the country in the Student Forum.

Materials: Your course includes College folder and student case, unless you are undertaking your course online, all modules (tutorials and assignment projects), textbooks, learning tools, tutor feedback and marking, College support, progressive Transcripts of Study, Graduate Awards and final Academic Transcripts, access to the eCampus, eNews, Student ID Pass, and access to educational discounts.

Would you like to plan your own wedding?
Would you like to plan your friends’ weddings?
Would you like to become a freelance wedding planning consultant?

Let’s face it, weddings are wonderful and nothing can rival spending your days planning someone’s most joyous and memorable moment.

This is what the Professional Wedding Planning & Consulting Course is all about.

Many people set out to start their own business but one of the most important factors with business is to do your homework!
You may have worked for 12 months in a hotel as an event manager or you may have worked for 12 years, either way if you want to set up your own wedding planning agency you are going to need to know more about weddings than just wedding gowns and hairstyles.

Bride to Be magazine says its online poll of more than 1,000 couples found the average cost of tying the knot was $49,000 - an increase of 25 per cent in the past three years.

The magazine's Cost of Love report, investigating the financial repercussions of romance, found couples are turning away from the traditional, splashing out to make their big day more personal.

"There's no recession in bridal town," Bride to Be acting editor Jacqui Mooney said. "It's about quality not quantity with couples lavishing more money on fewer guests."

Couples are spending an average $10,476 on their receptions, inviting 97 guests at $108 per head, the magazine's poll found. Less than a third choose to tie the knot in a church, with more than half opting for outdoor civil ceremonies "in a setting that's significant to them as a couple".

"Couples are older now at the age of first marriage, they're more sophisticated and well travelled so they're really taking control of their day," Ms Mooney said.

The survey also found that average spending on the wedding dress was up from $1,900 in 2006 to $2,220.
The cost of a bride's engagement ring was up 15 per cent, with the average costing $5,116.
The price of the wedding band was up 25 per cent for the bride, costing an average of $1,507, and up 28 per cent for groom at $1,096.
The average spending on a wedding cake is $387.

—Source www.abc.net.au

As you can imagine ... the wedding business is huge —and growing by the year.

Managing your own wedding planning business can be incredibly exciting, rewarding and a lot of fun, but if you don’t know the fundamentals of operating a business then you are possibly setting out on a rocky path. Every person is different and the pathway to achieving success is different for each, but there are a few significant things that every person must have. These include:

• an understanding of the requirements of running a wedding planning business
• knowledge of the financial aspects of setting up a wedding planning business
• clear objectives and a plan for building the business
• a knowledge of the critical elements needed for operating in the wedding industry

If you have a passion for weddings, this is the course which will empower you to do what you love in your own business as a professional wedding planner, just as it has already done for so many others.