You might be planning other people's days already. Here you take weddings and events apart. Then you learn to price and sell the service.
Corporate events and weddings run to different rules. Both are here.
Wedding work is managing people on the biggest day they have booked.
Pricing, structure and marketing sit in the last stretch.
Wedding and event work starts at coordinator level. Many planners build a small business instead of taking a job.
Carry one couple from booking to last dance.
Match the space to the day being planned.
Look, dressing and table design.
Kit, deliveries and running order.
Bridge the venue team and the client.
Your own service, your own pricing.
Build the pipeline of enquiries.
Brand activations and public events.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every employer is different. Some roles ask for experience or further study.
Events, then weddings, then the business that carries both.
Three things worth knowing.
Developed by experienced event managers and wedding planners.
Guidance from coaches as your own service takes shape.
The professional body has endorsed the programme.
Issued by the college once you finish
Yours once the modules are done.
The professional body has endorsed this course.
ICOES and the CPD Standards Office stand behind the pathway.
Weddings, corporate work, or both.
An advisor walks you through the three parts.
Upfront, or weekly, fortnightly or monthly.
Log in and open the first module.
None needed. It is built for people starting from scratch.
Building that network is part of the course. You start with none.
None, ever. You work through the modules at your pace.
This one adds wedding planning and the full business build.
Working event managers and wedding planners, with business coaches.
It is not. Not accredited by QQI, and not a national qualification.
Yes. It is online and open to students across Ireland.
The Career Academy has run online courses for over fifteen years. It says it helps more than 25,000 students a year.
The college is a Xero Partner and an IAB Accredited Training Provider. It is also an AAT Approved Training Provider.
Picture the couple thanking you before the speeches start.