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Do you enjoy weddings? Then planning them might be of interest. A wedding coordinator assists brides in planning everything from their wedding music to the grooms toast. A professional wedding planner can work with a bride or bridegroom's budget and can do amazing things to realize their dream of a perfect wedding day. Planners can also provide advice for:

  • Acquiring attire
  • Invitations
  • Decorations
  • Music
  • Food
  • Anything else he or she is asked to manage for the couple
For example, coordinators plan a lot of weddings hence they are experts in advising on:
  • Wedding receptions
  • Aspects such as time of day ( early morning to evening)
  • The best restaurants, country clubs, or halls in which to hold the reception


Wedding reception activities
  • Receiving line
  • Speeches
  • First dance
  • Bouquet toss
  • Cake cutting
These activities are all seriously planned to avoid last minute problems like booked facilities and unavailable priests on the wedding day. Coordinators also communicate with reservations to ensure all special bedrooms, banquet table or hall requests are available. The coordinator will connect with the head chef to verify all special requests can be done and within the budget of the client.

Another function for the coordinator is to establish working relationships with suppliers. The planner is trained to know all of the elements necessary. Many wedding planners own their own company and most times have a staff. Coordinators working for bridal shops, catering facilities or department stores may be called bridal consultants. Many wedding consultants are self-employed. They are often vendors of supplies and services that are sold to clients or suggested to the bride and groom. Wedding consultants seek out possible customers by reading the announcements of engagements in newspapers. They contact the engaged couple and offer their services.

They may also work at a church and consult with church members on their weddings. Wedding consultants in this area give advice on:
  • Outfits for the bride and her attendants
  • Colors
  • Fabrics
  • They help choose suits for the groom and other male members of the wedding party
  • They also help the bride select her wardrobe for the honeymoon
  • Sometimes they help with fittings for these clothes
  • Wedding consultants may help prepare a budget for the wedding
  • Assist the bride and groom as they pick out silver, china, glassware, linens, and other items for their new home
  • Consultants often keep a gift registry for the couple's choices and purchases. The registry helps people choose a gift that the couple will like and that someone else has not already purchased
Wedding consultants also help plan for the wedding itself. For this they need to know about the
  • Customs of different religious or ethnic groups.
  • Etiquette, or proper manners, for the wedding
Other needful services are required from the wedding coordinator:
  • Choose, order, address, and mail the invitations
  • Suggest and order flower arrangements and other decorations
  • Hire musicians, photographers, caterers, and bakers
  • Organize the transportation for the wedding party and make travel and lodging arrangements for the bride and groom or for guests
  • Often they help the members of the wedding party with what they are wearing
  • Wedding consultants may also attend rehearsals and the wedding itself
Sometimes coordinators send information about the wedding to newspapers. Wedding coordinators help plan weddings with families. The wedding planners are responsible for promoting, selling, and managing all wedding and private function business. They try to maximize revenue at every opportunity and coordinate the highest level of customer care at all times for any particular ceremony and reception.

Working Conditions

"Wedding consultants work condition revolves around pleasant, well-decorated stores, shops, or offices. They spend much of the working day outside the store or office, checking on decorations, shopping for clients, other duties. They often need a driver's license. Wedding consultants usually work about forty hours per week, and their hours are often irregular, with spring and summer as the busy seasons. They typically work on twenty to forty weddings a year. Wedding consultants need to be flexible, because many clients tend to meet only in the evenings or on weekends. They also need to work well under deadlines and should be able to coordinate several activities at the same time. Wedding consultants deal directly with a lot of people, including clients and workers in other fields, such as printers and bakers. Therefore, they must have a pleasant, courteous manner with good selling abilities.

Education and Training Requirements

Currently, there are no specific educational requirements to become a wedding consultant. However, interested individuals can begin to prepare for the field by taking high school courses in family and consumer science, art, speech and drama, English, psychology, sociology, and business subjects. A college education in liberal arts can also be useful. Correspondence schools offer courses in bridal and gift consulting. Associations offer comprehensive training for aspiring wedding consultants as well. Many learn by working with experienced consultants. After a few years of experience, someone can be considered a fully qualified wedding consultant. However, there are courses one can take to become a certified bridal consultant. Correspondence schools offer courses in bridal and gift consulting. Many get on the job training by working for an already established wedding planner or an experienced consultant.

Required Skills and Training Education

Excellent sales and customer service experience as well as a detail-oriented with strong planning and organizational skills, problem-solving and negotiation skills are important criteria for all wedding planers. One must be independent and possess strong teamwork. Exceeding expectations by having great initiative and interest in working with people to excel at follow-through, exceptional verbal and written communication expertise and previous wedding experiences are a complimentary skill when a person is looking for jobs in this field.

Resources: Bureau of Labor and Statistics: 2006

There are also firms that have consultants on staff to plan weddings and these firms often advertise for Wedding Coordinators. Coordinators can work with wedding chapels to produce weddings. There are many job openings in Las Vegas Nevada. It's a lovely opportunity to plan many "come true" wedding events of a lifetime. Viva Las Vegas!
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