Are there courses I can take to learn wedding planning?
There are courses you can take to be a wedding planner such as those run by the UK Alliance of Wedding Planners. The UKAWP courses are two-day courses. The first day (which you can do separately) is an introduction to wedding planning; so it tells you how to set up a business, what you need to do legally, and what the options are. It then tells you how to become a wedding planner, what you need to do to be a wedding planner, and the different approaches you can take as well as sales and marketing, and finance, and things like that. Day two is a practical course so you would do practice consultations with a tutor which you then follow up with a report which gets marked. So you get feedback so that when you do do a real consultation with a client as a wedding planner, you feel confidant in how you're approaching it.