Our Weddings Beautiful Worldwide Training Course has eighteen assignments to educate you on being a wedding coordinator and also having your own business as a wedding coordinator. Each assignment has a questionnaire that is returned to Weddings Beautiful Worldwide, graded and returned to you with a note and/or corrections. It is a correspondence course so you can do it at your own pace and schedule. After you complete the course, you receive a certificate stating you are a Certified Wedding Specialist.
The topics in the course follow:
TIME: Time is our most precious possession. This assignment helps you develop time consciousness.
DEVELOPING YOUR BUSINESS PLAN: All business begins with a plan. In addition to advice about getting started, there are detailed questionnaires for your wedding planning library and how to price and market your service.
YOUR BUSINESS FORMS AND CONTRACTS: Includes the forms you need to work with vendors and brides as well as sample contracts and brochures.
WEDDING INVITATIONS: This assignment prepares you to answer a bride's questions concerning wording and social correctness and to sell invitations if you choose to do so.
MENTAL POWER: The distance between the benefits of achievement and the level of mediocrity is entirely one of decision.
DEVELOPING WEDDING EXPERTISE: Covers vendors and weddings in general.
DIRECTING PROTESTANT AND MILITARY WEDDINGS: Includes charts and timetables for the wedding rehearsal and day of the wedding, plus instructions for all attendants.
DIRECTING CATHOLIC AND JEWISH WEDDINGS: Since both are quite different from a Protestant wedding, included is what you need to know to direct a wedding of these faiths.
DIRECTING AFRICAN-AMERICAN, HISPANIC AND ORTHODOX WEDDINGS: As people go back more and more to their "roots," wedding coordinators need to know some of the things to suggest for all types of weddings.
RECEPTIONS: Where? What kind? Food? Flowers? Decorating? All are covered in this chapter.
ALL ABOUT ETHNIC TRADITIONS AND THE HISTORY OF WEDDING TRADITIONS: Essential to know if you are serious about your business.
PHILOSOPHY OF SUCCESS: Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill reveals many of the secrets of the universe.
WEDDING FASHIONS: This chapter includes the five basic principles of fashion, plus illustrations, and a glossary of bridal gown and tuxedo details.
TABLETOP AND THE BRIDAL REGISTRY: A brief introduction to the three elements of table settings dinnerware, stemware and flatware, plus a glossary of terms and illustrations for setting a table correctly.
TALK LESS, SAY MORE: Skill in communication is a must if your business is to grow. Learn the art of speaking effectively.
DEVELOPING MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES AND SKILLS: Learn the six basic techniques for managerial skills in business.
THE ULTIMATE YOU - PERSONAL PUBLIC RELATIONS: Weddings are a people related business. This chapter helps you take an inward look and assess your strengths and weaknesses as you learn more about what makes you and others tick.
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