Thursday, August 05th, 2010 | Author: admin
How much to event coordinators/wedding apprentices make for an income? I am interested in pursuing this career, but would like some facts before I go applying.
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Thursday, 5. August 2010
Very little. Of course it depends on where you live and who you are apprenticing under. But the wedding coordinator at my church made very little. I believe it was about $100 a wedding. My sister’s wedding planner charged about 550 a wedding of which she paid the photographer, the minister and the site fee came out of that so she made maybe $200.
A higher end wedding planner usually charges a percentage of the whole wedding. So if it’s a $50,000 wedding, the wedding planner might charge 5,000. As an apprentice, the company and the planner take the majority share and the best you could hope for would be 1,000 from each wedding. More than likely you’d never get more than one wedding a weekend.
My photographer said she averaged one wedding a month due to the average of May-July with the low months of Dec-Feb. Like I said, it would depend on how expensive the weddings at your particular place are and how expensive the average in your area would be–much much less in most areas as compared to California and NYC but as far as what’s necessary to live in those areas they are probably making less.
So as an apprentice you’d need a Mon-Fri job as well. My estimate would be about 12,000 a year if you are doing 30K minimum weddings. Often the apprentice would get less as they would do the low budget weddings. An apprentice really wouldn’t make very much at all b/c you aren’t the chief planner and the company would take at least 50% of the earnings.