Wedding Planner and Starting your own Business Course

Course Structure

The Level 3 in Wedding Planner and Starting your own Business course is divided into twelve comprehensive modules:

Wedding Planner Level 3

Unit 1: The Role of the Wedding Planner

• Communication
• Organisation skills
• People management
• Professional image
• Contributing to outstanding service
• Competence
• Team work
• Rapport

Unit 2: The Wedding Planning Process

• Using IT for effective planning
• Date of the wedding
• Venues
• Civil/Church ceremony
• Evening reception
• The wedding process from start to finish

Unit 3: Budgeting

• Drawing up a wedding budget with clients
• Wedding contingency budgets
• Communication between you and your client
• Altering plans

Unit 4: Overseas Weddings

• The process for organising a wedding overseas
• Hotel/venue wedding co-ordinator
• Invitations and accommodation
• Legal requirements for an overseas wedding
• Potential problems

Unit 5: Different Types of Weddings

• Religious weddings
• Church of England weddings
• The Catholic Church
• Civil ceremonies and civil partnerships
• Wedding etiquette
• The Marriage Act 1994
• Types of locations for the wedding to be held
• Themed weddings

Unit 6: Starting A Wedding Planning Business

• Documentation
• Data Protection Act 1988
• Accurate, legible and up to date information
• Marketing your business
• Website
• Wedding Fairs
• Financial information
• TAX/VAT

Starting Your Own Business Level 3

Unit 1: Preparing to Start Your Business

• Why start your own business?
• Character and motivation
• Before you start: managing yourself and planning
• Market research
• Sales and profits
• Competitors
• Financial planning
• Suppliers
• Employing people
• Stock and asset management

Unit 2: Defining Your Business

• Deciding on the form of your business (sole trader, partnership, limited company)
• How to decide what is best for you
• Setting goals for yourself

Unit 3: Marketing

• Your product or service
• Value for money
• Competition
• Segmenting your market
• Pricing

Unit 4: Customers

• Identifying your potential customers
• Promoting your business
• Before sale
• After sale

Unit 5: Finance

• Understanding your business finances
• Working with figures
• Break-event point
• Fixed and current assets
• Cash flow
• Sources of finance
• Managing your money

Unit 6: Your Business Plan

• Why do you need a business plan?
• The format and structure of your business plan
• Yourself, your people. your values, your mission
• Your business model
• Your market
• Your competition
• Development
• Profit forecast
• Risks

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