Learn how to plan and manage a wedding event, as a commercial enterprise.

The wedding planner will have a range of tasks from hiring the band, talking to the photographer, finding a caterer, getting low prices for things and above all be VERY well organised.

The wedding planner needs to be able to stay calm when everyone around is not.

Don't worry if you don't know all of the above NOW, that's why you are doing the course.

There are 10 lessons in this module as follows:

1. Introduction: Covers the nature, scope, personal attributes, opportunities and options available when planning a wedding. Looks at different types of weddings, understanding ceremonies (different religions, celebrants etc), legalities and receptions.

2. Planning: Choosing locations, dates, services, reception centres, rings, the church or venue, catering and flowers. Also covers themed weddings and destination weddings.

3. Managing People: Handling different personalities and the role of different members of the wedding party.

4. Managing Locations: The Hen / Stag Party, Budget Locations, The Table Plan and Photography.

5. Managing the Programme: Arrivals, Departures, Ceremonies, Speeches, Entertainment, Eating, Drinking, Dancing etc.

6. Managing Services: The wedding cake, Buying the wedding dress, Flowers, Stationery, Gifts etc.

7. Managing the Client: Interviewing a Client, Facilitating a Plan, Budgeting, Establishing a Contract; Management Techniques, Flow Charts, Check Lists, Schedules.

8. Managing the Wedding Day: Planning for Contingencies, Wedding planners survival kit, What to do if the wedding is called off.

9. Planning a Wedding Business: Naming your business, dreaming up the plan, designing a web page. Advertising, PR and Costing Structures.

10. Operating a Wedding Business: Finance, Contracts, Bookkeeping, etc.

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

• Describe the nature and scope of wedding planning and the wedding industry.
• Present a client with options and facilitate key decision making for a wedding.
• Explain how to handle different personalities and the roles of different members of the bridal party.
• Select and manage the use of appropriate locations for and associated with a wedding
• Develop a programme or schedule of activities and events associated with a wedding.
• Manage those events within the time constraints of the established schedule.
• Effectively control events on the day of a wedding.
• Improve your ability to communicate with, and assist the people who have employed you to manage a wedding; to achieve a desired outcome.
• Prepare to manage a wedding day, planning for all foreseeable and significant contingencies.
• Establish and run a viable wedding planning service