Nancy Tucker, CWS was selected by Doris Nixon (America's "Number One" Wedding Expert) to administer and grade the assignments.
Nancy started her own business in 1997 where she created a wedding coordinators online community. In 2005, she was named president
of Weddings Beautiful, USA. Her peers throughout the wedding industry have recognized her enthusiasm, passion, and knowledge for
giving expert advice. She serves as an expert on the web site, Top Wedding Questions, where wedding questions are answered on a daily
basis. Nancy is often quoted in magazine articles, and she was recently selected to coordinate a wedding produced for TV by Dr.
Phil's son, Jay McGraw.
Nancy's goal for Weddings Beautiful is to continue its mark of excellence as the authority in the wedding industry. Her review and
personal attention of each assignment makes it the ultimate learning experience for the student's success.
Who Wrote The Lessons?
Doris M. Nixon, Registered Bridal Consultant, is the author of the
eighteen assignment Certified Wedding
Specialist course for Weddings
Beautiful Worldwide, and the
Registered Bridal Consultant and
Certified Registry Consultant courses for associates
working in a gift registry store.
Doris is the author of One
Perfect Day and The Groom’s
Corner, guidebooks for brides and grooms. She has
been the featured speaker on bridal registry at every major
tabletop market in America and served as monthly contributing
editor on the bridal business for Gifts
and Decorative Accessories Magazine for over 21 years.
She has traveled
the world, having been in 55 – 60 countries, and almost every
state.
Doris is
passionate about the bridal/wedding business and is unequaled in
the industry for her knowledge and experience.
Our Weddings Beautiful Worldwide Training Course has eighteen
assignments to educate you on being a wedding coordinator and also
having your own business as a wedding coordinator. Each assignment
has a questionnaire that is returned to Weddings
Beautiful Worldwide, graded and returned to you with a
note and/or corrections. It is a correspondence course so you can
do it at your own pace and schedule. After you complete the
course, you receive a certificate stating you are a Certified
Wedding Specialist.
The topics in the course follow:
TIME:
Time is our most precious possession. This assignment helps you
develop time consciousness.
DEVELOPING YOUR BUSINESS PLAN: All business begins with a plan. In
addition to advice about getting started, there are detailed
questionnaires for your wedding planning library and how to price
and market your service.
YOUR BUSINESS FORMS AND CONTRACTS: Includes the forms you
need to work with vendors and brides as well as sample contracts
and brochures.
WEDDING INVITATIONS: This assignment prepares you to answer a
bride's questions concerning wording and social correctness and to
sell invitations if you choose to do so.
MENTAL POWER: The distance between the benefits of achievement
and the level of mediocrity is entirely one of decision.
DEVELOPING WEDDING EXPERTISE: Covers vendors and weddings in
general.
DIRECTING PROTESTANT AND MILITARY WEDDINGS: Includes charts and
timetables for the wedding rehearsal and day of the wedding, plus
instructions for all attendants.
DIRECTING CATHOLIC AND JEWISH WEDDINGS: Since both are quite
different from a Protestant wedding, included is what you need to
know to direct a wedding of these faiths.
DIRECTING AFRICAN-AMERICAN, HISPANIC AND ORTHODOX WEDDINGS: As
people go back more and more to their "roots," wedding
coordinators need to know some of the things to suggest for all
types of weddings.
RECEPTIONS:
Where? What kind? Food? Flowers? Decorating? All are covered in
this chapter.
ALL ABOUT ETHNIC TRADITIONS AND THE HISTORY OF WEDDING TRADITIONS:
Essential to know if you are serious about your business.
PHILOSOPHY OF SUCCESS: Whatever the mind can conceive and believe,
the mind can achieve. Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill reveals
many of the secrets of the universe.
WEDDING FASHIONS: This chapter includes the five basic
principles of fashion, plus illustrations, and a glossary of
bridal gown and tuxedo details.
TABLETOP AND THE BRIDAL REGISTRY: A brief introduction to the
three elements of table settings dinnerware, stemware and
flatware, plus a glossary of terms and illustrations for setting a
table correctly.
TALK LESS, SAY MORE: Skill in communication is a must if
your business is to grow. Learn the art of speaking effectively.
DEVELOPING MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES AND SKILLS: Learn the six basic
techniques for managerial skills in business.
THE ULTIMATE YOU - PERSONAL PUBLIC RELATIONS: Weddings are
a people related business. This chapter helps you take an inward
look and assess your strengths and weaknesses as you learn more
about what makes you and others tick.
FINAL EXAM
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Nancy Tucker, CWS was selected by Doris Nixon (America's "Number One" Wedding Expert) to administer and grade the assignments.
Nancy started her own business in 1997 where she created a wedding coordinators online community. In 2005, she was named president
of Weddings Beautiful, USA. Her peers throughout the wedding industry have recognized her enthusiasm, passion, and knowledge for
giving expert advice. She serves as an expert on the web site, Top Wedding Questions, where wedding questions are answered on a daily
basis. Nancy is often quoted in magazine articles, and she was recently selected to coordinate a wedding produced for TV by Dr.
Phil's son, Jay McGraw.
Doris M. Nixon, Registered Bridal Consultant, is the author of the
eighteen assignment Certified Wedding
Specialist course for Weddings
Beautiful Worldwide, and the
Registered Bridal Consultant and
Certified Registry Consultant courses for associates
working in a gift registry store.
