A detailed course enabling you to jointly study event management and wedding planning.
A useful combination to enhance your skills and services you offer.
Set up a new business in wedding planning and/or event management.
Or expand your existing skills in this area.
An exciting certificate for anyone interested in working in event management and wedding planning.
Lesson Structure - Wedding Planning individual module
There are 9 lessons in this course:
- Introduction
- Nature and scope of Wedding Planning
- Skills a Wedding Photographer needs
- Getting Started in the Industry
- Types of Ceremonies
- Traditional Christian Weddings; parts of a service, participants and their roles
- Muslim Ceremony; Nikah
- Jewish Wedding
- Buddhist Weddings
- Pagan Weddings
- Legalities in different countries; including Australia, UK and USA
- Inter Country Weddings
- Planning
- Setting the date
- Suggested Plans
- Themed Weddings
- Renewal of Vows
- Inviting Children
- Managing People
- Wedding Planners Role
- Managing the Mother of the Groom
- Managing the Mother of the Bride
- Chief Bridesmaid or Maid of Honour
- Best Man
- Conflict situations associated with Weddings
- Dealing with Advice from too many people
- How to deal with a Bridezilla
- Psychological stress on the Bride
- Cancellations
- Conflict Handling Techniques
- Anger
- Expressing Anger
- Strategies for Anger Management
- Managing Locations
- Factors to consider with choosing a Venue
- Locations on a Budget
- Table Plans
- Developing a Check list for Wedding Photos
- The Photo Shoot
- Managing the Programme
- Transport Arrangements
- At the Reception
- The Receiving Line
- The Reception
- After the Meal
- Cutting the Cake
- The Party
- Leaving the Reception
- Customs
- Other Issues
- Coordinating service providers and sub contractors: Photography, Video, Flowers, Clothing, The Beautician, Printers, etc.
- The Wedding Cake
- Stationary; Save the date announcements, Wedding Invitations
- Buying the Wedding Dress
- Flowers
- Wedding Photography
- Videos
- Gift Registry
- Thank You Notes
- Beautician and Hairdressers
- Managing the Client
- Interviewing a Client
- Establishing a Contract
- Cancelations
- Setting a Budget
- Managing a Budget
- Managing the Wedding Day
- Guidelines
- Planning for Contingencies.
- Calling off a Wedding
- Operating a Wedding Business
- Marketing and Publicity
- Networking
- Developing and promoting a web site
- Advertising
- What Fee to Charge
- Bookkeeping and Financial Management
- Planning
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.
Again this course can be studied as an individual module.
Note that each module in the Qualification - Certificate in Wedding Planning and Event Management is a short course in its own right, and may be studied separately.
Themed Weddings
There are many different kinds of weddings to choose from, but not everyone wants a wedding with tradition or ritual. Some prefer to have their own ideas. They may wish to have a ceremony where they write their own vows, devise the ceremony etc. There may also be a legal requirement to “officially” marry. For example, in the UK they may also be required to marry at a registry office to be legally married. There may be various themes, such as –
· rock and roll
· matrix
· hip hop
· commitment ceremony
· Middle-earth
· Fairy and elf
· Star Trek
· Cinderella
And so on and so on….
If you have the time, do an internet search for “unusual weddings” or similar and see the many different ideas people have.
A good example if the Mediaeval Wedding. The idea of romantic maidens, knights in shining armour appeals to many people. There is a certain appeal to Guinevere and Sir Lancelot. The bride would traditionally wear burgundy or hunter green rather than white, and fabrics such as velvet and lace, with hair won loose or braided with flowers or ivy as a headpiece. For this type of wedding, the church or location would usually appear “gothic” – made of stone, stained glass etc, or the bride and groom may prefer an outdoor site. There are also mediaeval and renaissance locations where weddings can be held. The mediaeval wedding ceremony is usually a lengthy one, that considers aspects of early Christian liturgy. Some of the wording may be changed to suit more modern tastes.
Sample Notes from the Event Management course -
WHAT IS EVENT MANAGEMENT
Event management is the process of making an event happen, from planning to the staging of the event to the conclusion of the process.
Event managers need to have a firm understanding of the event planned and the reasons for holding it: the What, Where, Why and Who?
What type of event is to be held and what is the budget?
Where is it to be held?
Why is the event being held?
Who is the event being held for, who are the supporters, and who is to be involved?
A well-managed event will meet the needs of its patrons. Private clients who use event managers to plan and implement their event will often have pre-set ideas on how the event should be run and may have very high expectations. They pay the Event Manager to ensure that all their ideas will work and the event lives up to their expectations. They may also expect the organiser to come up with a range of innovative and interesting ideas. This requires skills beyond those of an organisational and management nature.
An example may be a birthday party for a very wealthy client. The client may expect the Event Manager to show an extraordinary depth of imagination i.e. in the decorations used, the layout of the room, the menu planning and so on. The wealthy client may want the ‘party to beat all parties’. Second best may not be good enough.
It is wise for the event manager, irrelevant of the size and nature of the event, to use the approach: ‘That’s good enough’ is not good enough. Aim for excellence. Developing an excellent reputation is the best way to ensure ongoing work.
Event management also includes planning and organizing the supply of equipment, materials and services well ahead of time. Careful planning enables the use of alternative resources should any of these resources prove be to be difficult to obtain.
Publicising the event is also important, and will encourage attendance. Even a visually pleasing pamphlet or leaflet to promote the event will go a long way to encourage people to attend. Publicising should begin well in advance of the event, as that will give people the opportunity to attend by planning their lives around the event. Creating publicity well ahead of time will allow:
a. Marketing to be effective with a good ‘lead in time’
b. Advertising to be booked well in advance i.e. advertisers sell space many months before publication.
c. People travelling from other cities or regions to organise their commitments and plan for accommodation, transport or any other needs with ample time.
Learning Facilities
ACS follows the old fashioned idea that “the student comes first”. Our staff are told to treat every student as an individual and respond promptly to their enquiries; and the facilities we have developed and continue to develop, are all focused on that goal. Facilities include:
- Offices in two time zones (UK and Australia) –which means an international team of academics are responding to students 5 days a week and 16 hours a day.
- An online student room with unique resources that are only available to students studying our courses, including online library.
- Bookshop offering quality downloadable e books
- A data base of 20 million words of unique information written by our staff over 3 decades that can be drawn upon if needed by academics for use in supporting our students.
- Systems that ensure assignments are tracked, marked and returned to students, fast -commonly within a round 1 week & rarely more than 2 weeks (note: many other colleges take longer).
- The school is active in social networking and encourages students to connect with us and each other.
- No automated handling of student phone enquiries. When you call you get a real person; or leave a message and a real person will call you back within a day, but more commonly within an hour or two.
- No additional charges for extra tutor support over the phone or email.
- Free careers advice for graduates –It is our policy to provide support and advice to our students even after they graduate. If a graduate needs help with getting a CV together, or advice on setting up a business or looking for work; they only need ask.
- The quality of academic staff is higher than many other colleges.
How our Courses Differ
- Courses are continually improved –we invite feedback from all graduates and change courses immediately the need is detected.
- Courses are relevant to the whole world –we try hard to teach make the learning transferable to any region or country because the world is increasingly a global economy
- Courses written by our staff, teach different skills to standard courses; giving a unique mix of skills and knowledge to provide a career advantage. Do you want an accredited certificate and the same skills as 100 other job applicants; or one of our courses with skills that no other applicants have?
- Certificates and diplomas are longer. They teach you more, and our qualifications have built a reputation amongst academics and industry as being a very high standard for this reason.
- We are focused on helping you learn in a way that improves your capacity to understand your discipline, apply knowledge, and continue learning and developing your capabilities beyond your course.
These things cannot be always said of other colleges.
Career Opportunities
Study alone can never guarantee career success; but a good education is an important starting point.
Success in a career depends upon many things. A course like this is an excellent starting point because it provides a foundation for continued learning, and the means of understanding and dealing with issues you encounter in the workplace.
When you have completed an ACS course, you will have not only learnt about the subject, but you will have been prompted to start networking with experts in the discipline and shown how to approach problems that confront you in this field.
This and every other industry in today’s world is developing in unforeseen ways; and while that is unsettling for anyone who wants to be guaranteed a particular job at the end of a particular course; for others, this rapidly changing career environment is offering new and exciting opportunities almost every month.
If you want to do the best that you can in this industry, you need to recognise that the opportunities that confront you at the end of a course, are probably different to anything that has even been thought of when you commence a course.
BOOKS
Visit our School bookshop at www.acsebook.com
- Downloadable ebooks that can be read on ipads, PC’s, Laptops, or readers like a Kindle.
- Titles are written by our principal and staff.
- Anyone can purchase books –ACS students are offered a student discount
