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Event and Wedding Planning Certificate

Almost $100 billion is spent each year planning meetings, conferences, trade shows, and special events sponsored by corporations, businesses, non-profits, and other organizations. Our new Event and Wedding Certificate Program has been designed for both independent contractors and those involved in their company's event planning.  Weddings are big business today and could be yours too. More than $72 billion is spent each year on weddings in the United States, fueling an industry that is expanding daily to include wedding consultants.  Train with Midlands Technical College in a specialty certificate program that will give you what it takes to become a successful wedding consultant - in your own business enterprise as an independent contractor or as the expert in a specialty store or service

 

If you are responsible for planning meetings for your business whether it be health care, non-profit, a governmental agency, public corporation or a privately held business, this three session certificate program will give you new skills to work more effectively and more efficiently. You will:
 

• Expand your knowledge of event planning;

• Gain specific instruction about event planning;

• Become a more effective negotiator with meeting vendors;

• Expand your knowledge of wedding planning and all pre-wedding events

• Gain specific instruction about each event

• Become a more effective negotiator with meeting vendors

• Gain professional skills to present yourself as an expert

• Earn your Event and Wedding Planning Certificate as well as receive Continuing Education Units (CEUs)!

 

Enroll in this three course certificate program to gain professional expertise combined with the hands on experience of working an event from the planning stages to the actual culmination! It's practical education combined with on-the-job training. Instructor: Susan Benesh, certified by the Washington School of Protocol.