If you would happily spend all week on someone else's wedding, this is where that becomes a job. You learn planning, venues, vendors, the client and the day itself, then how to run it as a business.
Two topics go straight at this: planning your wedding business and operating it. You learn how the work is priced, sold and run, not only how a wedding is put together.
Venues, planners and stylists all need people who can hold a day together. You learn to manage vendors, locations and the programme, and the career centre helps with your CV.
It is online and self paced, with no exams and no fixed class times. You get six months of access, so a busy stretch at work does not cost you the course.
Wedding work sits with planners, venues, vendors and stylists, and plenty of it is self employed. The work is easy to picture: walking a couple through the plan, holding the vendors to time, and keeping the day on track.
Working alongside a planner on real weddings. The planning and programme topics are the daily job.
Looking after the couple from first meeting to the day. Managing the wedding client is a topic of its own.
The link between a venue and everyone using it. Managing locations is covered directly here.
Booking and holding the suppliers to time. Managing services in support of a wedding goes straight at this.
Running the ceremony itself, where the programme and the timings decide how the day feels.
Setting a room up and packing it down. The course follows the day through to the venue being cleared.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience.
Ten topics, from the first planning meeting through to running your own wedding business.
Here is what stands out in this course.
Planning your wedding business and operating a wedding business are the last two topics. Most of this work is self employed, so that part matters.
Managing the programme and managing the wedding day are separate topics, right through to packing the venue up correctly at the end.
Three topics cover managing people, managing the services around a wedding, and managing the client. That is where the job is won or lost.
You look at how different cultures approach weddings, how religion can factor in, and the legal requirements in the New Zealand wedding sector.
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Awarded when you finish the course, ready to go on your CV.
The programme is reviewed and endorsed by the Institute of Hospitality, an international body for professional development.
You earn Continuing Professional Development credits on completion, so the study counts on your record.
Send an enquiry and a course advisor gets back to you with the course guide and straight answers on whether it fits.
Start anytime. Pay on a flexible weekly plan, or pay upfront in one payment.
Work through the ten topics online, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours.
Complete the course and receive your Certificate of Achievement, with CPD credits on your record.
None. It opens with an introduction to weddings and builds from there, so you can come to it cold.
From $29 a week on a flexible payment plan, with no deposit and no credit check. You can also pay upfront in one payment. Enquire for the full options.
Around 100 hours at your own pace, with 6 months of access. There are no fixed class times, so it fits around work and family.
That is what the last two topics are for. Planning your wedding business and operating a wedding business cover how the work is set up, priced and run once the couples start calling.
It gives you what the assistant and coordinator roles run on: planning, vendors, venues, the client and the day itself. It is not a national qualification, and a lot of this industry hires on what you have worked on. What you walk away with is the full process and a certificate to put in front of them.
There are none, ever. You are assessed on what you understand, with tutor support behind you.
It is accredited by ICOES and the CPD Standards Office, which is accreditation for professional development. It is not NZQA accredited, so it is not a national qualification. That is a different thing. For wedding and event work, what counts is whether you can run the day, and that is what this covers.
Yes. There is a 10-day money back guarantee. If it is not right, you get your money back.
This course is delivered by The Career Academy, an online course provider in New Zealand.
The college has been running for over 15 years and works with more than 25,000 students a year. Courses are online and self paced, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours. Career coaching opens as soon as you enrol, including CV help and a LinkedIn profile review.
Picture the moment the doors open, the whole room turns, and every single thing they are looking at is something you booked.