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A Career In Weddings

Join the glamorous & always exciting wedding industry, planning weddings on a professional basis. Receive your training conveniently & affordably through this extensive, fully comprehensive step-by-step home study course developed by The International Institute of Weddings - an organization dedicated to the highest standards and levels of professionalism in the wedding industry.

For the individual with a genuine love of weddings and a desire to carve out a career in the glamorous, romantic, and always invigorating wedding industry, The International Institute of Weddings offers an in-depth home study course designed to lead the student, step by step, through the process of establishing and operating a successful wedding consulting & coordination service.

Presented in an easy to follow format, the course manual allows one to learn at their own pace and is designed to provide the student with the extensive knowledge and tools needed to begin successful operations as a professional wedding consultant, quickly and efficiently.

Developed and administered under the direction of Linda Kevich, a ten year veteran of the wedding industry, founder of the Institute, and editor of the popular wedding planning web site SuperWeddings.com, the course reveals the strategies, concepts, and trade secrets of highly experienced and successful professional wedding consultants and experts.

The course provides thorough guidance pertaining not only to establishing a wedding consulting service, but in doing so economically and affordably, so that even the individual on a limited budget can successfully enter this field and enjoy the satisfaction and personal rewards which come with success in the field of wedding consulting.

Among the twenty promotional methods the course teaches, which are specific to this precise form of business, are numerous methods of highly effective free promotion strategies which the student can draw upon in establishing and operating the new business.

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The wedding industry offers a uniquely enjoyable atmosphere in which the potential exists to earn a very rewarding income. The area of consulting/coordinating, specifically, can be a particularly exciting field to become involved in, provided the consultant is guided by the the appropriate knowledge and training.

The wedding consulting business is highly suitable to the home-based operation, however, if desired, it may also be operated from an office or studio location.

The services of wedding consultants are also frequently used in the planning of other social events such as anniversaries, engagement parties, graduation celebrations and other similar functions, creating the potential for the student to tap into these other markets as well, thereby expanding the overall potential for their business, if desired.

Due to the thorough, in-depth nature of the course material, and the level of personalized attention every student receives through hands-on interaction with an instructor via email*, even an individual with no prior experience in the wedding industry, and no experience with owning a business, will be equipped to achieve substantial success as a professional wedding coordinator.

Alternatively, for individuals who currently operate bridal boutiques, wedding stores, floral services, catering companies, reception venues, or other forms of services within the wedding industry, this course will prove invaluable in enabling one to expand the current level of services offered to the bride, thereby increasing revenues as a result.

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Photo Copyright by German Silva, Los Angeles, California gsilvaphoto.comThere has been a great deal of interest about this course from individuals who already have some level of involvement in the wedding industry, and from wedding business owners who now want to learn how to successfully branch out into the field of consulting to add to their existing businesses. If this is the category you fit into, you too will find immeasurable value in this highly affordable course.

You will quickly learn how to successfully add full-service wedding consulting to your current business. Learn easy, inexpensive methods, specific to the field of wedding coordination, to attract customers and build a fabulous reputation and clientele for your service within your local market.

Join the glamorous & always exciting wedding industry, planning weddings on a professional basis. Receive your training conveniently & affordably through this extensive, fully comprehensive step-by-step homestudy course developed by The International Institute of Weddings.

 

Affordable Study

The International Institute of Weddings offers a highly affordable home study course which provides detailed, specific, and extremely thorough instruction on how to perform successfully as a wedding consultant, and how to successfully start and run a home based wedding consulting service. All of the course material is presented in an easy to follow, fully comprehensive and in-depth course manual consisting of well over 300 pages packed with insider knowledge, trade secrets, business strategies, tested and proven marketing and promotional techniques, methods, pricing formulas, contracts, agreements, sample client consultation forms, and everything you need to successfull launch your career and business - quickly, effectively, and profitably.

The course is designed so that you can study at your own pace, in your free time. It reveals and explains in detail highly effective strategies to enable you to begin business operations from your own home, generating income, in a relatively short span of time. The course manual provides in-depth coverage of every topic relevant to the successful start up and daily operation of a wedding consulting service, from understanding bridal psychology through to proven marketing & promotional methods and operating procedures for the homebased wedding coordinator, complete with proven and highly successful business concepts you can model your own business after.

Photo Copyright German Silva, Los AngelesIt guides you step by step through finding clients and establishing yourself within your local market, to the proper execution of the wedding planning process from a professional perspective.

In studying the 300 page course manual, the student will learn valuable strategies, methods, concepts, formulas, procedures, operations, processes, marketing and promotional approaches, industry information, and trade secrets which will very clearly guide them through the process of successful start-up and operation of the wedding consulting business.

The course manual also offers explicit information, guidance and advice which is highly specific to this profession on how to build strong client relationships, offer exceptional service, and meet a high level of standards in working with one's clientele - all of which are critically important factors in not only operating successfully, but in developing a strong reputation and name for yourself as a professional wedding consultant.

Start Your Career Soon, Full Time or Part Time

If the thought of becoming a professional wedding coordinator interests you, this course will provide you with the information and training you require to get started soon and to be in business with very low overhead and very low start-up expenses, all while enjoying the comfort and convenience of working from home. This form of business is suitable for either part time or full time operations.

After you've built up your reputation within your local market and have a thriving business, you may, if you desire, expand into an outside office or studio location. However, most professional wedding coordinators and consultants, in fact, prefer to continue operating from home because of the many advantages that offers. Such advantages include, but are not limited to, tax advantages, comfort and convenience, and of course, family benefits.

Weddings Are Big Business


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If you've recently been involved in planning, or paying for a wedding, you are likely well aware by now that WEDDINGS ARE BIG BUSINESS! Every year a whopping $45 billion dollars is spent by consumers on their weddings. The wedding industry is a healthy, thriving, prosperous market to enter for anyone who has a genuine love of weddings, great people skills (a must!), and who is looking to establish a business of their own.

Have you looked at the cost of planning a wedding in your area recently? Today's bride is spending more money than ever before in order to ensure that her wedding day - the single most important day of her life - is planned to perfection. The average wedding in 1999 came in at a cost of approximately $20,000 (US funds) and many couples spend far in excess of that amount. Wedding coordinators play an important role as professionals within the industry. Recent industry statistics show that more than 50% of all couples are now using the services of wedding consultants in preparing for their weddings. Wedding consulting is a rapidly growing field.

Why the increasing interest in the services of wedding consultants? Consultants can save the bride time, money, and considerable stress. A good consultant will be a wealth of information, ideas, and contacts for the bride-to-be, ensuring that her wedding day ends up being more wonderful than she had even envisioned it, and often times far more spectacular than it would have been had a consultant not been involved. As such, professional wedding consultants are compensated well for their knowledge, talent, time, and expertise.

Through the Wedding Consulting Course offered by the International Institute of Weddings, one can acquire the knowledge and training required to become a professional wedding consultant, quickly, conveniently, and extremely affordably.

Easy to Follow, Step by Step Instruction

The easy to follow course training manual makes learning the business of wedding coordination extremely straight forward. With three-hundred pages of instruction, the material is thorough and precise, and leaves no stone unturned. The manual itself offers some of the most extensive training available anywhere in the field of wedding consulting. The material is presented in such a way as to virtually draw a 'road map' for the student to follow in successfully establishing their business and functioning as a professional wedding consultant. But then add to that the hands-on interaction with an instructor which we provide, free of charge, to all students who purchase the course material*, and the level of training provided through this program is unsurpassed at this price point, or anywhere close to it.

Other programs offering the level of in-depth and intensive training found in this course typically come at a price of at least double or triple the cost of the program offered by the International Institute of Weddings.

With the guidance provided in this course, anyone with a genuine love of weddings, good people skills, and the desire to enter this business will have the tools and knowledge to achieve success in this profession. You'll be guided step by step through every aspect of planning and coordinating a wedding, consulting with the bride, and of course, establishing, operating, marketing, and promoting the business. We'll show you powerful, well tested and proven methods of attracting clients and getting them through your door. And if you ever have questions or areas which require further clarification, your instructor is just an email away.

This course gives you the skills and knowledge you need to begin a successful career consulting with brides and coordinating weddings in a business of your own in the very near future. Enjoy the comfort and convenience of working from home - we'll show you proven methods for doing it highly successfully and very affordably.

Weddings are big business and there are wonderful profit margins to be enjoyed in wedding coordination for professionals who are trained, responsible, and serious about what they do.

Simply follow each step laid out in the training manual, pay close attention to the specific feedback and advice offered to you by your personal instructor, and you'll soon be assisting couples in planning breathtakingly beautiful weddings that your clients will be thrilled with. Then prepare for your business to sky rocket through word of mouth referrals from satisfied customers -- very common in this business!

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