In addition to the planning and business units, in this course, we are going to teach you all aspects of design. When we talk about design we are talking about the look and feel of a wedding or event also known as aesthetics. Producing an aesthetically pleasing wedding or event that truly impresses seen-it-all guests or attendees can be a daunting task. Adding to the pressure, today’s event designers are expected to incorporate food and beverage, technology, and branding and find innovative ways to play with color, create unique focal points, use lighting to make a space feel more intimate, and select floral designs that don’t max out the budget. Do you have the creative edge? Or, at a minimum, can you intelligently “talk the talk” with creative vendors in order to convey your vision? This one-of-a-kind practical learning experience has been carefully structured to provide students at ALL levels with the full training, knowledge, and essential skills required to plan, design and produce stylish unforgettable special events and weddings for a high-end clientele. 

This course covers the key principles of modern event and luxury-wedding design including how to create a design concept that achieves the client’s goals, meets their budget, and can be executed in the venue with the time allotted. Implement a wide range of elements into your next design concept, such as floral, furniture, lighting, branded accents, entertainment, technology, and others. Identify opportunities for creating custom fabrication pieces that can be unique focal points for guests, which helps to set you apart from others. By the end of this wedding & event course, you will be able to evaluate a venue’s challenges and assets that will be incorporated into a design concept, and how to ensure you can execute your vision within the time and space available. 

Learning Outcomes

1. After our training, you will. Learn insider tips and how to kick start and run a profitable luxury wedding and event planning business
2. Understand the key principles of modern event design, and how to create a design concept that achieves the client’s goals, meets their budget, and can be executed in the venue with the time allotted.
3. Learn how to implement a wide range of elements into your design concept, including flowers, furniture, lighting, custom flooring, branded accents, entertainment, technology, and others.
4. Learn secrets of transformative designs and Identify opportunities for creating custom fabrication pieces that can be unique focal points for guests, which helps to set you apart from others for example ceiling treatments, unforgettable tables capes, backdrops and wedding arbors
5. Learn how to evaluate a venue’s challenges and assets to be incorporated into a design concept, and how to ensure you can execute your vision within the time and space available.
6. Learn How to price your design ideas for profit.
7. How to use CAD software to create winning design proposals.
8. Understand how to create an event that achieves specific objectives for the host/client.
9. Able to Set Goals –to keep you focused on the success of your business.
10. Know with rock-solid confidence that you can market your business to attract your ideal client ready to work with you. 
11. Have a steady stream of clients ready to pay what you are worth. 
12. Book more clients with a well-put-together business that attracts your ideal client with a stunning website and spot-on branding. 
13. Start each day feeling confident knowing how to run your business with business tools that help you effectively schedule your events, consults, and everything in between. 
14. Price your services with confidence so you get paid what you’re worth. 
15. Be able to Create business contracts to protect yourself and your brand if problems arise. 
16. Know-How to legalize your business in preparation for tax time. 
17. Understand the professional sales process from inquiry to signing the contract. You will have behind-the-scenes access to a consultation call so you’ll know what to say the first time you get on the phone with a new client or a couple 
18. Know with rock-solid confidence the complete step-by-step planning process. (So you can oversee successful event planning, production, and coordination) 
19. Master Designing is a planning process that incorporates budgeting, project management, communication, and evaluation tools (Avoid those seemingly innocent mistakes that almost all newbie planners fall victim to) 
20. Have an understanding of the various event elements (food and beverage, design, entertainment, site selection, etc.) and how to cost-effectively employ them. (Event stakeholders)

This course is ideal for anyone with a love of Weddings and special events. As you will learn about both Planning & Design, it will help you to be able to gain employment or launch a business where you are called upon to do any of the tasks associated with Weddings; from planning through to design. This is our most comprehensive course because it combines four courses in one, Wedding Planning, special event /business event planning, Wedding Styling and finally, Wedding Business and Marketing.

The Wedding Marketplace Business Academy is a private training Institution. The qualifications offered are both nationally and internationally recognized within the Wedding industry. Even though there are no formal qualifications required to be a Wedding and Event Planner, studying with an industry-recognized institution like Samantha’s wedding marketplace business academy (WMBA), will not only equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to succeed, you can now demonstrate competitive distinction, that you have the knowledge, training, experience, judgment, and ability to plan and manage a successful event giving your future clients confidence that they are hiring a professional