Wedding planners please answer. If you can relate, please answer?
sunnydayz asked:
I am currently thinking about becoming a wedding coordinator and special events planner. I go to school now and I am majoring in Fashion Merchandising, but I’ve been thinking about attending Sheffield school to get special training in wedding and event planning while I took a semester off of regular school. I was wondering if anyone has ever gotten training from an online school that specializes in this field. A school such as Sheffield, or Penn Foster. Do you think it is worth while? Is it better for me to just finish my bachelors and try to get an apprenticeship with someone?
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4 Responses to “Wedding planners please answer. If you can relate, please answer?”
Speaking as a person who dropped out of a 4 year university to get a culinary arts degree, and 7 years later has gone back to get her Bachelors: Get your Bachelor’s degree first. It’s worth more than anything else you can do with four years of your life.
I love my culinary degree, but if I went back and did it all again, I’d get my BA first and then go to culinary school. I might have stuck with cooking as a profession if I had done that. Now I just do wedding cakes on the side.
Once I get my BA, I’ll do whatever I want to with it and my culinary degree.
Good luck no matter what you do!!
I did my bridal consultant training with Penn Foster. It was really good because you are automatically linked to different clubs and associations for wedding planners. So i’d def recommend that school
i completed a online training course from Educational Direct, and if you do it that way, it is hard to enter the feild. I got to go to a few networking dinners, and got offered a job, but I lived in a different town at the time, and could not afford to move. Its a great career if you like dealing with people and are a creative person, but its hard to get a job in that feild unless you know someone. I finally gave up on it, and went to Social Work.
Definitely get your bachelors first. You don’t need a specialized degree in Events in order to succeed in the industry. It’s all about networking and getting your foot in the door. Getting your bachelors will allow you to play a wider field and at the same time give you the freedom to start breaking into the industry.
Try to look for internships or any opportunity to start building your resume in the industry. Even if it’s just doing clerical work at first. By the time you get your bachelors, you’ll have these experiences on your resume and can move up to a planner position if you find the opportunity. DEFINITELY start getting your foot in the door now, it’s a tough industry and good opportunities are hard to come by, but if you start doing things now on the side while you’re getting your bachelors, by the time you’re done, you’ll be ready and prepared (with things to show on your resume!) to land something good.