The confidence to plan a wedding from first meeting to final send-off. You'll know how to lead consultations, build timelines, manage budgets, coordinate vendors, and handle wedding-day logistics with calm authority. Every core skill is taught with real-world application, so you're not figuring it out on a live event.
Wedding Planner Certification
BECOME A CERTIFIED WEDDING PLANNER in 12 WEEKS.
The AAWP Certification is a professional training program led by Brooke Voris, an Elite Wedding Concierge with over two decades of experience planning luxury weddings.
Live InstructionHands-On CurriculumA Credential Recognized for Over 25 Years
Enroll in the AAWP CertificationCohort-based enrollment. Limited seats per session.
Not ready to enroll? Watch the free training first. Most students do.
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Beyond Certification
A real career in weddings starts with the right training.
You've been researching how to become a wedding planner. You've watched the reels, read the blogs, maybe planned your own wedding and thought, I could actually do this.
You probably can, but wanting this career and knowing how to begin well are not the same thing.
Too many programs are built to sell access, not build readiness: pre-recorded lessons, chapter quizzes, and a certificate handed over whether you truly learned the material or not. No live instruction. No real feedback. No mentorship.
Because when a couple hires you to plan their wedding, they are not asking whether you passed a quiz. They are trusting you with one of the most meaningful days of their lives.
That kind of trust requires more than self-paced videos and a certificate.
It requires real training, real mentorship, and real preparation before the responsibility is yours.
Imagine Starting Your Career Like This:
01.
Walking into your first client meeting knowing exactly what to say.
You've practiced the consultation. You've been coached on it. You know how to listen for what couples actually need and present your services with confidence.
02.
Having every tool, template, and system ready before you book your first wedding.
Contracts that protect you. Pricing that reflects real scope. A CRM already set up. You don't scramble to figure it out. You launch with it.
03.
Earning a credential that means something because you proved you were ready.
Not a certificate you clicked through. A professional certification earned through 12 weeks of live training, a group cohort, and real-world application.
“I don't think any other program out there would have prepared me like this one. 'Comprehensive' is an understatement. AAWP doesn't just teach you about wedding planning. It turns you into a wedding planner.”
Introducing
Fly With The Peacocks
A 12-Week AAWP Certification Program
The AAWP Certification is the professional training program for aspiring wedding planners who want to build a real career on a real foundation. Founded by Deb McCoy and recognized across the wedding industry for over 25 years, the AAWP credential is now led by Brooke Voris, an Elite Wedding Concierge with over two decades of experience in luxury and destination weddings.
In 12 weeks of live, mentored training, you'll walk the full planning journey from first client meeting to wedding day execution, then build the business to support it. Real pricing. Real contracts. Real systems. A credential you earn through demonstrated competency, not a quiz you click through.
Enroll in the AAWP CertificationCohort-based enrollment. Limited seats per session.
AFTER 12 WEEKS, YOU'LL HAVE the Skills, Structure, and Standard TO LAUNCH WITH CONFIDENCE
A wedding planning business built on more than talent alone. You'll learn how to structure your pricing, create your packages, set up contracts, handle licensing, market your services, and build client systems that support long-term growth. Not just how to plan weddings. How to run a business that lasts.
Professional tools you can use from day one. You'll leave with customizable planning templates, client materials, business forms, polished packets, and a downloadable certified logo. These are not filler resources. They're practical tools shaped by real client work and real wedding-day demands.
Guidance from a planner who still works at the highest level. Brooke Voris is not teaching from the sidelines. She actively plans weddings, manages vendor relationships, and helps couples navigate high-stakes decisions every season. You're learning from someone who still sets the standard in the industry.
WHAT'S INSIDE
New modules are released weekly inside your private student portal. You'll move through three phases over 12 weeks: industry foundations, wedding execution, and business launch.
Each week, you'll get:
- Self-paced training modules released every Sunday, so you learn on your schedule
- Live cohort sessions every Thursday with your fellow students
- Live Q&A with Brooke every Thursday, where you bring questions and get real-time coaching
Plus...
- Monthly vendor calls connecting you to the professional network that drives real wedding businesses
- Lifetime access to all course materials, so you can revisit anything as your business grows
- One year of access to Brooke's CRM platform
- And for top graduates, a potential pathway to join the BVW team
COURSE BREAKDOWN
Phase 1: Lay of the Land
Weeks 1-3
- Week 1: Orientation and the Industry Landscape
- How the wedding industry works, who the players are, where the money flows, and where the opportunity gaps are. Brooke reverse-engineers a completed wedding day so you see the end before you learn the beginning.
- Week 2: The Client Relationship
- How couples find planners, what they're looking for, and the psychology of the relationship from first inquiry to post-wedding. Communication, trust-building, and the emotional arc every couple goes through.
- Week 3: Budget and Priority
- The decision framework that drives everything. How to help couples find their real number, guide the priority conversation, and build a custom budget allocation at any price point.
Phase 2: The Planning Journey
Weeks 4-8
Each week mirrors the order things actually happen in the real planning process.
- Week 4: Venue, Catering, and Big-Ticket Decisions
- Venue evaluation, catering, outdoor events, contract review, and what couples miss because they're distracted by how pretty the venue is.
- Week 5: Photography, Videography, and Entertainment
- Investment conversations, vetting, coordination logistics, and building the photo/video timeline.
- Week 6: Floral, Decor, and Design
- Translating a couple's vision into something a vendor can execute. The gap between Instagram and real budgets.
- Week 7: The Details
- Attire, bakery, stationery, transportation, adjacent events, and the reverse calendar that keeps it all on track.
- Week 8: The Master Timeline
- Building the minute-by-minute wedding day timeline and coordinating every vendor into one unified plan.
Phase 3: Execution, Relationships, and Growth
Weeks 9-12
You can plan the wedding. Now learn to run the day, handle the humans, build the business, and launch.
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- Week 9: Wedding Day Execution
- Everything from first arrival through last vendor load-out. Crisis management, protecting the couple's experience, and the post-wedding debrief.
- Week 10: The Human Side
- Difficult conversations, vendor relationships, boundaries, and professional ethics. The week that separates trained professionals from people who watched a course.
- Week 11: Building Your Business
- Entity formation, insurance, pricing, packages, contracts, and your first real consultation with ten weeks of knowledge behind it.
- Week 12: Marketing and Your First 90 Days
- Website essentials, social media strategy, SEO, portfolio building, networking, and a concrete week-by-week launch plan.
Free Training
See Brooke Teach Before You Enroll
Watch the free training where Brooke breaks down what separates wedding planning professionals from hobbyists, and what the right foundation actually looks like.
Watch the Free Training“Thanks to everything I learned in this program, I won't have to wing it. I have the confidence to apply real principles and real knowledge to my career as a bridal consultant. I feel incredibly blessed to have found you. You're my inspiration as I build this new career.”
Meet Your Instructor
For more than two decades, Brooke Voris has been one of the wedding industry's most respected and influential professionals.
Brooke is the only certified AAWP trainer in the world who is also a working Elite Wedding Concierge, actively planning weddings while training the next generation of professionals.
She's spent over twenty years as a working wedding planner, building Brooke Voris Weddings into one of the Philadelphia region's most respected luxury and destination wedding practices. Through Fly With The Peacocks, she serves as Certification Director for the AAWP Certification.
She leads the AAWP Certification because she watched too many talented people enter this industry unprepared. They took on clients before they were ready. They underpriced their work. They made avoidable mistakes that cost them money, reputation, and confidence. The training programs that were supposed to help were often little more than pre-recorded slideshows with a certificate at the end. Brooke decided that wasn't good enough.
The AAWP Certification was founded by Deb McCoy and has been a recognized credential in the wedding industry for over 25 years. Brooke is now the steward of that legacy. She refined the curriculum for 2026, rebuilding it around live mentorship, real-world application, and the actual demands of today's wedding planner.
When she's not teaching or planning, she hosts the Cheers to You! podcast and leads the VIPeacocks professional community through Fly With The Peacocks.
What Our Graduates Are Saying
“15 jobs and counting, my busiest year yet! Day Of Coordination has really picked up too. Thank you so much. I mean every word I write. You are Awesome.”
“I have never seen such detail. All subjects, in all areas of wedding planning, are thoroughly covered.”
“You offer such wonderful support. I chose AAWP because it is run by people who are actually in the business.”
“The course leaves me wowed. It's obvious you've been in this business a very long time, and it shows in how comprehensive and thoughtful the material is.”
“This is the real thing. I've been a grad for about four months and I already have four clients.”
“When I started reading the material, it was hard to put it down. The course is awesome, very well written, and incredibly informative.”
“I know that I'll be able to be a really competent wedding planner when I graduate. I can't wait to get my certificate.”
How it Works
Enroll.
Choose your investment option and secure your seat in the next cohort. You get immediate access to your student portal and onboarding materials.
Train.
12 weeks of live, mentored training with recorded lessons, exercises, group cohort Q and A with Brooke, and guest experts.
Launch.
Graduate with tools, a credential, a 90-day plan, a full year of support, and lifetime course access.
THIS PROGRAM IS for you IF...
- You're an aspiring wedding planner who wants real training from a working professional, not a self-paced video course with a participation certificate.
- You're a career changer with professional standards who wants to enter this industry prepared, not scrambling.
- You're already planning weddings but you know there are gaps in your knowledge, your systems, or your credibility, and you want to fix them with structure and a recognized credential.
- You're someone who takes this seriously as a career, not a hobby, and you're willing to invest in doing it right from the start.
- You want mentorship from someone who still does the work, not advice from someone who retired from the industry and recorded a course about it.
- You're ready to stop researching and start building.
Still deciding? Take the 3-minute Wedding Planner Readiness Assessment →
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Free Assessment
Not Sure If You're Ready?
Take the free 3-minute readiness assessment. It evaluates where you stand across the five areas that matter most before your first client and shows you exactly what the certification is designed to build.
Take the Readiness AssessmentEverything Inside the AAWP Certification
| What You Get | Value |
|---|---|
| 12 weeks of live training with Brooke. Through real-world scenarios and role-play, you practice every stage of planning a wedding, from the first client meeting to the wedding day, with 600+ pages of material and recorded lessons, ending in your AAWP Certification from the American Academy of Wedding Professionals™ | $17,400 |
| One year of access to the VIPeacocks community for ongoing support | $1,200 |
| Expert planning templates you can use with your very first client | $1,000 |
| Expert mentorship and personalized feedback from Brooke | Priceless |
| A graduation wedding-day simulation, plus your badge and certificate to share online | Bragging rights |
| Total Value | $19,600 |
First Flight bonuses, in addition to the $19,600 value:
- A private 1:1 session with Brooke.
- Business Development Guidance: a live 60-minute group class each month for the first six months after you graduate, covering pricing, packages, contracts, booking your first clients, and marketing. Every class is recorded.
Holiday Bonus, for a limited time: the VIP Feather, your ticket to one Peacock Immersion within two years of graduation. Travel and accommodations are not included.
Want to see what you're investing in before you enroll?
Watch the free training where Brooke walks through what this certification actually prepares you to do.
Watch the Free TrainingHERE'S MY PROMISE to you.
If you show up, do the work, move through the modules, come to the sessions, and take this seriously, I will not let you leave this program feeling alone, confused, or unprepared.
And if you get to the end and still don't feel ready to step into this work with confidence, reach out. We'll figure out where the gap is, and we'll close it together.
Because that's how I believe this should work.
People who are willing to show up and do the work should not fall through the cracks. Not here. Not with me.
— Brooke
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need experience in the wedding industry to enroll?
No. The program is designed for aspiring planners at any starting point, including career changers. Brooke builds from the ground up.
What if I've already been planning weddings?
You'll fill the gaps, formalize your systems, and add a recognized professional credential. Several students have come in with experience and said the program gave them the structure they were missing.
How much time does the program require each week?
5-8 hours. That includes the recorded lesson (released Sundays), workbook exercises, and the live Thursday session with Brooke.
Is the AAWP Certification recognized?
Yes. The AAWP has been a recognized credential in the wedding industry for over 25 years, founded by Deb McCoy. Brooke now leads the certification through Fly With The Peacocks.
What if I miss a live session?
All sessions are recorded. But the live component is where Brooke goes deepest: Q&A, coaching, real stories. Attendance matters.
Is there a payment plan?
Yes. You can pay in full for $5,997 or choose 3 monthly payments of $2,199. You can choose your payment option at checkout.
How is this different from other certifications?
Most are self-paced video libraries with quizzes and a completion certificate. The AAWP is 12 weeks of live training with a working planner, guest experts, real-world application, and a graduation assessment. You earn this credential.
Have a Question About Whether This Is Right for You?
Brooke reads and responds to every inquiry personally.
Let's Build a Beautiful Career Together
Enroll in the AAWP CertificationCohort-based enrollment. Limited seats per session.
Cheers to YOU!