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Gaining experience in the Wedding Planning career area?
Can anyone tell me how I can find internships or even work for nothing in order to gain real-world experience as a wedding planner? I will be finishing up Penn Foster Online's bridal consulting certificate program in about a month. The program is more about the tactics of a wedding...costs, budgets, how ceremonies work etc. I can't just go find a job planning with no real life experience. I'm in the chicago area (about 50 miles) southwest) I'm also working on a degree in marketting at the local community college so maybe that will help?
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- I think you would target Churches that marry people. Ask them to give out your name and that it's free, internships, bridal consulting certificate program. Send out letters like resumes to the church offices.
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