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Elite Wedding Planner Academy
Learn wedding planning from people who actually plan weddings.
A certification programme by Elite Wedding Planner — the same team that has planned 220+ destination weddings across India and abroad. Two formats: a weekend crash course or a 60-day professional programme with real wedding shadowing.
- 3-month
- Certification
- Real weddings
- Live shadowing
- Founder-taught
- Sujay · Ruchita · Aloha
- 220+
- Weddings behind it
Industry Scope
The Indian wedding industry is worth ₹5.5 lakh crore and growing at 35% year-on-year.
₹5.5L CrIndustry size
35%Annual growth
10K+Planners needed by 2028
₹6–25LPlanner salary (LPA)
Destination weddings alone are a fast-growing segment. Families are spending more, travelling further, and hiring planners who can handle multi-day celebrations across venues, vendors, and guest logistics. The demand for trained, professional wedding planners is outpacing supply — and the gap is widening every season.
Who Is This For
Four paths. One programme.
Career-changers, fresh graduates, freelancers and entrepreneurs train on the same real systems we use to deliver luxury weddings — then step onto live wedding weeks to apply them.
Career Changers
You are in a different field — marketing, hospitality, events, operations — and you want to move into wedding planning with a structured foundation instead of figuring it out as you go.
Recent Graduates
You have a degree in hospitality, event management, or design and want to enter the industry with hands-on training from a company that has actually executed large-scale weddings.
Existing Planners
You already plan small events or handle parts of weddings (decor, coordination, photography) and want to move into full-scale destination wedding planning with systems and SOPs.
Entrepreneurs
You want to start your own wedding planning company and need the systems, vendor contacts, pricing models, and operational knowledge to launch without making expensive mistakes.
Career Paths
Where this can take you.
This is not a hobby course. It is designed for people who want to build a career — whether inside a company or on their own.
Start your own planning company
Use our systems, templates, and vendor network as your foundation. Several of our alumni now run independent planning businesses in Mumbai, Delhi, and Goa.
Join a luxury planning firm
Elite and other top-tier planning companies actively recruit from our programme. The 60-day track includes priority placement in our hiring pipeline.
Specialise in destination weddings
Goa, Udaipur, Jaipur, international — destination weddings are the highest-margin segment. Learn the logistics, venue networks, and guest management specific to destination events.
Become a wedding designer
If your strength is visual — decor, florals, styling — you can build a career as a specialised wedding designer. Our design and briefing module gives you the vocabulary and process to work with high-budget clients.
Pricing
Two formats. Pick what fits.
Click a card to select. Both include our curriculum, templates, and alumni network.
Upcoming Batches
Three batches. One starts soon.
August 2026
Starts 8 August 2026
September 2026
Starts 5 September 2026
October 2026
Starts 3 October 2026
Curriculum
What you will actually learn.
No generic theory. Every module is built from real weddings — the same systems our senior planners use on ₹50L+ destination celebrations.
01
The Wedding Industry Landscape
Understand the ₹5.5 lakh crore Indian wedding industry. Who the players are, how money flows, where the opportunities sit, and what couples and families actually value when they hire a planner.
02
Venue Strategy and Site Inspection
How to evaluate a venue for a real wedding — not for Instagram. Room blocks, ceremony flow, backup spaces, sound curfews, guest movement, and the questions most planners forget to ask until it is too late.
03
Budgeting and Financial Planning
Real wedding budgets: how to build them, present them, and track them. Flat fee vs commission models. How to handle budget changes mid-planning without losing the client's trust.
04
Vendor Ecosystem and Negotiation
Decorators, photographers, choreographers, mehendi artists, DJs, anchors, caterers, production crews. How to source them, vet them, brief them, and negotiate rates that work for everyone.
05
Design and Decor Briefing
Translating a couple's Pinterest board into a coherent design brief that a decorator can actually execute. Colour theory, space planning, lighting fundamentals, and how to say no to ideas that will not work in the venue.
06
Guest Hospitality and RSVP Management
The part of wedding planning that most couples notice most. Airport pickups, rooming lists, dietary requirements, WhatsApp communication, countdown messages, and how to make 300 guests feel individually looked after.
07
On-the-Day Execution
Function flow, timeline management, production coordination, and crisis handling. What to do when the rain starts 20 minutes before the varmala, the photographer's car breaks down, or the caterer runs out of an ingredient at 10pm.
08
Building Your Wedding Planning Business
How to price your services, find your first clients, build a portfolio without fabricated work, structure contracts, manage cash flow, and decide whether to specialise or stay general.
— 60-Day Programme Exclusives —
09
60-Day ExclusiveReal Wedding Shadowing (2 Weeks On-Site)
Spend two weeks embedded with a senior Elite planner at a real destination wedding. You will attend client meetings, vendor walkthroughs, setup days, function coordination, and the post-wedding wrap-up. This is the part of the course that no online programme can replicate.
10
60-Day ExclusivePortfolio Certification Project
Plan a full wedding — hypothetical but realistic — from brief to final timeline. Present it to a panel of Elite planners who will critique it the way they critique real wedding plans. Pass this and you graduate with a portfolio piece you can show to future employers or clients.
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