The Startup Stephanie Certification
Startup Stephanie: Your Step-by-Step Wedding Planner Certification
Turn your love of weddings into a booked, profitable business — from “where do I even start?” to confident and certified. Created by award-winning planner and educator Jen Taylor.
Enroll in Startup Stephanie [ Add price & payment options here ]Jen Taylor · 20+ years in the industry · Founder, Taylor’d Events Group
Sound familiar?
You weren’t born knowing contracts, pricing, and timelines.
If you love weddings but freeze at the business side, you’re not behind — you just haven’t been taught. Most new wedding planners cobble it together from blog posts and guesswork. There’s a better way.
The Solution
Meet Startup Stephanie
Startup Stephanie is the complete wedding planner certification Jen wishes she’d had on day one. Ten focused lessons walk you through building your business, planning like a pro, executing the wedding day, and growing — each paired with a video, hands-on activities, and done-for-you templates. Finish the final project and earn your certification.
The Curriculum
What’s inside the Startup Stephanie certification
Ten lessons, in the exact order a new wedding planner needs them.
Introduction to the Wedding Industry & Business Startup
Defining Your Role & Finding Ideal Clients
Contracts, Pricing & Business Operations
Marketing, Sales & Onboarding Clients
Project Management in Wedding Planning
Wedding Traditions, Cultural & Destination Weddings
Wedding Day Timeline & Execution
Wedding Week Preparation & Rehearsal Coordination
Wedding Day Emergencies & Problem-Solving
Post-Wedding Follow-Up & Business Growth
Everything You Get
More than a course — a complete toolkit
10 Video Lessons
Self-paced, taught by Jen, in the order you actually need them.
The Startup Stephanie Workbook
Your printable companion guide for every lesson and activity.
Done-For-You Templates
Ideal-client avatar, contracts, pricing, questionnaires, timelines, vendor & rehearsal checklists, emergency kit, and more.
A Final Project
Put it all together and prove you can run a wedding start to finish.
Your Certification
Graduate as a certified Startup Stephanie wedding planner.
The Community
Get your questions answered inside the Wedding Planner Educator group.
Meet Your Instructor
Jen Taylor
Award-Winning Wedding Planner & Educator · Founder, Taylor’d Events Group
Jen has spent more than 20 years in the wedding industry — and built the kind of business most new planners are dreaming about. As founder of the award-winning Taylor’d Events Group, she’s planned and coordinated countless weddings, built and led a team, and learned firsthand exactly what it takes to run a wedding business that’s both profitable and sustainable.
A Certified Director of Operations, national speaker, and host of the Design Your Wedding Business podcast, Jen now teaches the systems, pricing, and confidence she wishes she’d had on day one.
Graduate certified.
Complete the lessons and your final project to earn your Startup Stephanie Wedding Planner Certification — proof you’re ready to take on real couples with confidence.
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Start building your business
The Startup Stephanie Certification
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- 10 video lessons + the full workbook
- Every done-for-you template
- Final project + certification
- Wedding Planner Educator community
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Your wedding business starts here.
Stop guessing. Get the step-by-step playbook, the templates, and the certification — all in one place.
Enroll in Startup Stephanie