With weddings becoming larger, costlier, and more complex every day, more couples are turning to professional wedding planners for help.

That's where you come in: As a wedding consultant, you not only help the lucky couple create a budget and stick to it, but you also aid them in selecting a location, caterer, florist, music, cake, and more.

Wedding consulting makes an ideal homebased or part-time business, you don't need an office, and startup costs are extremely low. You don't even need any costly special equipment.

All you need is our wedding consultant guide. It tells you everything you need to know about the business end of wedding planning. If you're well-organized, detail-oriented, and have good community contacts, this could be the business for you.

Chapter 1

Once upon a time on a perfect summer day, guests in colorful wedding finery filled an old cathedral. The fragrance of dew-kissed blossoms wafted through the air as soft organ music played. A radiant bride walked up the aisle on the arm of her father to meet the handsome groom waiting at the altar…

Fairy tales like this do come true. Now more than ever, wedding consultants are making them happen. In the last decade, the need for professional wedding consultants has grown exponentially. Today, women are often simply too busy juggling the demands of their professional and personal lives to oversee the details necessary to create the wedding of their dreams. This has created an enormous opportunity for anyone considering becoming a wedding consultant.