Bergen Offers New Wedding/ Event Planning Certificate
By Mel Fabrikant Wednesday, January 07, 2009, 02:05 PM EST
Through Bergen Community College’s Division of Continuing Education, Corporate and Public Sector Training, the College will offer a highly-requested new certificate program: “Wedding and Event Planning” at its main campus, 400 Paramus Road, Paramus. The program features a sequence of four courses (three 10-hour courses with four two-and-a-half-hour sessions and one, final, 15-hour course with six two-and-a-half-hour sessions): “Wedding Planning and Consulting;” “Wedding Planning and Consulting Part II;” “The Business Side of Wedding Planning and Consulting;” and “Having the Event Run as Smooth as Silk.”
Students who successfully complete all four courses will earn a certificate; courses may be taken individually as well. The first three courses are $195 and the final course is $250. All courses will convene Monday and Wednesday evenings from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. A complete schedule is listed below.
All courses will be led by an esteemed wedding planner. She will cover budgets, reception venues, negotiating contracts with vendors and all the components of organizing a successful wedding (engagement party, bar/bat mitzvah or other celebration).
Course Schedule:
Feb. 2 – Feb. 11: Wedding Planning and Consulting
Feb. 18 – March 2: Wedding Planning and Consulting Part II
March 4 – March 23 (no class March 16 and 18): The Business Side of Wedding Planning and Consulting
March 30 – April 20 (no class April 8): Having the Event Run as Smooth as Silk
To register, please call Ria Bloss at (201) 447-7466 or the Division at (201) 447-7488.
Additional information and a list of the spring 2009 course offerings are available on the Bergen Web site at www.bergen.edu/continuinged
The Division of Continuing Education, Corporate and Public Sector Training, located in the Technology Education Center at the College, offers a wide range of professional development courses, certificate programs, personal enrichment classes and specialized training to business and industry. For more information, please call (201) 447-7488.
Bergen Community College is a public two-year coeducational college, enrolling more than 15,000 students in Associate in Arts, Associate in Science, and Associate in Applied Science degree programs and certificate programs. More than 10,000 students are enrolled in non-credit, professional courses through the Division of Continuing Education, the Institute for Learning in Retirement, the Philip J. Ciarco Jr. Learning Center, located at 355 Main Street, Hackensack, and Bergen at the Meadowlands, located at 1280 Wall Street West, Lyndhurst. Information about the College is available at www.bergen.edu or by phoning the Welcome Center at (201) 447-7200.
Students who successfully complete all four courses will earn a certificate; courses may be taken individually as well. The first three courses are $195 and the final course is $250. All courses will convene Monday and Wednesday evenings from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. A complete schedule is listed below.
All courses will be led by an esteemed wedding planner. She will cover budgets, reception venues, negotiating contracts with vendors and all the components of organizing a successful wedding (engagement party, bar/bat mitzvah or other celebration).
Course Schedule:
Feb. 2 – Feb. 11: Wedding Planning and Consulting
Feb. 18 – March 2: Wedding Planning and Consulting Part II
March 4 – March 23 (no class March 16 and 18): The Business Side of Wedding Planning and Consulting
March 30 – April 20 (no class April 8): Having the Event Run as Smooth as Silk
To register, please call Ria Bloss at (201) 447-7466 or the Division at (201) 447-7488.
Additional information and a list of the spring 2009 course offerings are available on the Bergen Web site at www.bergen.edu/continuinged
The Division of Continuing Education, Corporate and Public Sector Training, located in the Technology Education Center at the College, offers a wide range of professional development courses, certificate programs, personal enrichment classes and specialized training to business and industry. For more information, please call (201) 447-7488.
Bergen Community College is a public two-year coeducational college, enrolling more than 15,000 students in Associate in Arts, Associate in Science, and Associate in Applied Science degree programs and certificate programs. More than 10,000 students are enrolled in non-credit, professional courses through the Division of Continuing Education, the Institute for Learning in Retirement, the Philip J. Ciarco Jr. Learning Center, located at 355 Main Street, Hackensack, and Bergen at the Meadowlands, located at 1280 Wall Street West, Lyndhurst. Information about the College is available at www.bergen.edu or by phoning the Welcome Center at (201) 447-7200.
