Session 1: Introduction to Worlds of Wedding - 1

Good morning good morning ma'am and welcome to the twws today is our first day first session in a beautiful weather so at least in Mumbai so it's a beautiful rainy day and we are here to welcome you with wholehearted open uh mind your your mind should be now totally towards what is going on Screen right yeah yeah so it is sometimes it is difficult to concentrate when you have online classes but here I promise you it will not be difficult at all because the sessions are going to be so Lively and so engaging that you

all will be glued to each and every session that is being uh done on this screen uh so uh what about you you all are ready yeah ma'am to begin ma' yes ma'am yeah so I understand I understand That uh you all you all have a big dream now and uh with to fulfill that dream you all have joined twws we understand it very well uh but the dream should not remain just just imagination we have to convert it into your vision and then bring it into reality in a very organized systematic way right now

you all are not new to the weddings now too much is spoken about Weddings Indian weddings pet Indian weddings and therefore everybody is around weddings and all of you have a big dream to become the great wedding planner and together we have to convert it into your vision and we have to make it possible for all of you to achieve that Vision in a very very organized way so our course is designed in such a way that we go step by step because we have a mixed group some of you are uh Graduates some of

maybe one or two are undergraduates some of you are already wedding planners some of you are Architects engineers and so we have all sorts of uh students in this particular bch it is going to be one of the best bch for us we understand it uh when we go through the profile of the students here and now when we will have interaction with you we will try to understand you more so you all are going to become the Contributor in the wedding industry and that is our objective our objective if you have seen it carefully

creating contributors so you all are going to be contribut contributing towards the wedding industry not only Indian wedding industry but we want you to become international players in a time to come so that is with uh with that you we are going to start today's first session and uh uh all of you will get to know us and we will get to know you all So then later on we understand whom you are we are talking to and you understand whom you are listening to so there are certain rules of the institution that everyone that

the people in charge will explain to you and the overall picture will be given by Marisha madam so Marisha madam are you there yes abely yes so let us begin hi everyone before Marisha maam takes over we I would quickly like to share few rules which we follow at the Wedding school and we would uh appreciate if you also follow the same which is um you definitely need to be more responsible if you're given any projects or anything you know any uh resarch given to you or even you know we have this thing which is

uh we ask our students to uh introduce our faculty so you know be responsible research about it when you get to know you know what is the session tomorrow go study about the subject as well as about the faculty and Their company so that you know who you are interacting with so that you can put across the similar question questions so that is very important that you conduct uh yourself very responsible uh in each manner at the school uh and you all need to be punal which I think most of uh you have done today

please continue doing the same for throughout the session and uh uh we honestly uh this is the first session so we might uh uh admit the late comers but later after 11 we do that so Please make sure you're uh there before time and uh you need to have the diary I hope you all have received the diary uh a few who would have not received would get it soon yeah so keep diary your uh water bottle with you throughout so that you're not you know struggling to put uh write down the notes here and

there then uh whenever you know we are giving you any instructions from The Institute as well as uh from faculty please take it seriously and follow those other than That uh as I already mentioned research on the faculty is very important please do that attendance is very important please uh don't think that we will give you uh the recordings until unless there is a emergency which we know beforehand but we don't give the recordings so make sure you attend it hello hello good morning sorry for that dist then uh assign we will be giving You

assignments uh weekly make sure you submit on time we will also mention the time and the date so all the assignments will only be accepted before that time any assignments which come after that won't be accepted and please take your assignments very seriously because each assignment is marked as well so it every assignment will be taking uh having their own marks and other than that one basic rule which is the behavior with the faculty uh you know you can Definitely ask questions to them but make sure uh it is asked in a right way and

uh not too many as well okay we all good we all excited yes ma'am that's a great start you provide the video link after this class because if we need to uh anything refer P I'll take that can you remove Spotlight from Musha ma'am yes okay we'll take those questions in a bit let me please say hello to everyone I've been waiting for My turn Usha maam got started and then sweee got her turn and I wanted mine so I'm going to fight for my right and I want to say a big hello and a

very very very warm welcome to everyone uh let me start off in my standard patent style this is Marisha parik the CEO of the wedding School welcoming all of you so let's applaud for each other welcome to the twws family you know if I could jump I would have jumped right now because I'm that excited I think from Last night uh we've been feeling that buzz we have a separate WhatsApp Group which is of the twws team and we've literally been waiting uh I think since the insta live that I did last evening I was

just waiting and as the time kept going last night I think we all were just waiting and we get a chance to interact with all of you uh I want to start off by saying uh uh welcome to the world of weddings welcome to Madness uh welcome to loads of emotions and welcome to a lot L of hard work so I welcome you to the world of uh weddings where you are going to realize what you have understood of weddings is probably 5% for some of you who are already in the industry it's probably 50%

but I can promise you it's not Beyond a 60% for anyone in the classroom right now because the world itself is so unknown and it is just growing it is just is changing it is Evolving minute by minute I think um I'm excited that our class is starting on such a superlative High tone for the Indian wedding industry globally thanks to the Amani family and I couldn't have thanked them enough for making our choice seem so correct in front of our families because they just made us understand the power that Indian weddings carry globally now

I don't think um we'll have to introduce um weddings as as our Pure Real sentiment weddings as as a festival as we Indians look at it to anyone across the globe because of that one Mega wedding that has taken place so our course starting today it's beautifully timed and uh I think I think the wave is just going right and it's going in the right direction and I think we are all going to be in a very huge win-win situation thanks to all of that so once again warm welcome to all of you like uh

sweetie has explained some rules and Because she has to maintain discipline so she maintained her discipline also and like a strict teacher she introduced you to the rules of the game and she is very strict so as you will get to know each of us you will realize okay I am fun when my mood is right and if I'm not in a good mood then I'm I'm I'm worse than anyone you could have met then you're just hoping not to meet someone so that's all of us are Different people but I think um the one

thing common amongst our team at twws is very very clearly the fact that we love teaching we love giving we love to endlessly help you guys whilst we are in session and ALS also equally off session so I think that is one common link that is the one that's connecting all of us in this family I'm going to take this moment to introduce uh the team to you so that you are getting into a family you must know The family members right sh right when it's an arranged marriage or even if it's a love marriage

the first thing that if it's a love marriage the bride and groom will do is introduce the family to each other and it's but natural that you will talk great things about the family members you know but eventually you get to know all sides of a human being okay nobody is perfect um and and what can be seen as a quality of a human being by one could Probably be a not so pleasant thing according to someone else so that's just human behavior so we are going to get to know all of you but before

that I want you to know us so I'm going to start with uh Usha ma'am um she's the person who has actually initiated this whole plan of starting the wedding school with my partner hon KH whom you all are going to meet in next session he's apparently always uh been scoring as as the as the best uh faculty um I think third time in A row and I feel very jealous because I given so much time to all of you but then he scores better than me always so uh Usha maam and him and Sir

decided that there was a need to do something for education in the space of weddings particularly uh can we uh sweetie keep putting everyone on mute yeah so this came as a thought to her because she was already a professor so she was teaching ing at Ban's College which is in Mumbai she was the head of the Commerce Department and she's also done her PhD in advertising and she brought up three uh daughters and which is also a full-time job in all of this she joined swaha uh back in 2011 when we started this company

and she became uh the backbone of of the organization in this journey while she was working with us she real realized that the industry is far more disorganized than one can imagine and the awareness of the client is Increasing as we kept doing more weddings she was noticing that this is something that needs attention so we had only event management institutes all wedding planners would take students from there then we would train them because they would understand events but they would not understand weddings and it was so difficult to make people understand this that both

are different things guys weddings requires a lot of you giving in Emotionally I'm going to interrupt my own self and tell you sweee mentioned about you having a diary right this is the time to have that diary open because when we teach at twws every single point can be a learning for you so don't get so engross in listening to me or any faculty that you miss out on noting things down which you would love to read back okay I I got a message from one of my students uh who who carries a diary even

today it's been Four years that she has done this course and she still carries the diary and she just flips through those pages when she's traveling to read what she had written and she can still resonate with those small so-called simple sentences but those are the ones that will help you start tuning your mind slowly slowly slowly and start thinking and behaving like a wedding professional that's the first base Point recording of a session is not as important as you getting into The skin of things is important how will you get into the skin of

things when the doctor tells you eat an almond eat two almonds in a day you know eat an apple in a day what do they doing they're trying to make you do something every day you got to repeat that that means that you're getting into the skin of things so when we train you as a part of the wedding school one is the curriculum guys the second is this learning and this observation of ours cumulatively What you see on the screen these poor people are 40 years into weddings alone prior to that we were doing

events somebody was an academician for 30 years like Usha ma'am I was an artist for or 12 years before this that all keeping aside only weddings has more than 40 years on your screen right now now you are having the advantage because you have enrolled with us to get that experience of 40 into your system in four to six months so that is what this Class is about this class is not just about Hospitality gifting this class is about you getting into the skin of things so that in four to 6 months when you start

interacting with Prof professionals you will start talking our language you will start behaving like us you will start thinking like the person who has already been in this space so absorb it by noting it down every small thing okay coming back so in 2018 Usha maam and heon I think 2017 we decided Let's start a school and obviously it's not going to be just like huh CH we know the subjects so let's get going we took a year to develop the base curriculum to understand what are the offerings to help ourselves understand how we want

to teach this effectively so that the students benefit and our larger interest I'll be very honest before the students was creating contributors for the Indian wedding industry we felt that the demanding Client is only becoming more aware which means we need better talent in this industry we need sharper people and we need to sharpen them and that's how we thought Let's help this industry get more professional players whether they start their own or they join a company they should be professionally trained so that the industry level goes up the client values people who study things

right we all know it why does a person do an MBA right because the client Values that the company values it and that's how we started building this Co Brick by Brick literally and every year we are excited to improve on what we did last year update on what we did the previous year so that we are changing with The Changing Times and the students and the faculty is always sounding relevant at that time sweetie sweetie is a wedding planner professionally and uh she has been with this brand uh called swaha for 10 years And

prior to that she was a student of Ni am and she started her journey into events by training over there and she was based in Surat while she studied in Mumbai she went back to Surat and then she wanted to come back to Mumbai City and we found each other and she is the person who will be looking after which faculty takes what session she is looking after your assignments that's why she was so touchy about it and she Cleared assignment time because that is something that she looks into very intricately along with Usha ma'am

her role with you will be that of somebody who understands weddings and the space of Decor beautifully uh she's the one who has designed the design Decor curriculum along with him and KH and she is available but you have to just ping her prior if you are reaching out to her through the week for any doubts uh you Will be encouraged guys to stay in touch with us we conduct the classes weekend on weekend but we are there for you from now until you decide to leave the world so that is our relation with all

our previous students and that is how we continue even with all of you we are are going to be there for you when you want us um so with regards to a deeper understanding on something uh that's the person that you will reach out to uh assignments will not be explained Again simple reason because when you will start doing weddings and start learning with us you will realize that the client never gives you a brief again once the client is talking to you he just goes on talking and what we do is we keep writing

as he's talking we're listening but we are 100% copying what he is saying because you cannot ask a client to repeat about what his wish list is you cannot cannot cannot hence we prepare you from now subconsciously To be that alert aware to be able to break an assignment brief given to you the assignment brief is given in writing it will be explained in brief words and you cannot call any of us to understand that assignment again because we want you to improve on your skill of correct interpretation of a brief the reason you will

get in touch with her will be for something say some clarity on some point that was explained In the class and you may not have understood it or there is anything else which is bothering you then you reach out to her if there is anything personally disturbing any of you you can reach out to any of us whomever you're comfortable with cuz you cannot make a bride happy if you are not happy yeah so your internal happiness is extremely important in this line of work and we four are there depending on whom you're more comfortable

with happy to help you In whatever be your crisis and of course introducing dipika who actually needs no introduction because technically you all know her more than you know any of us uh but her story is the most inspiring story for me uh she was our student in the first batch of the wedding school and that is how long her Association has been with all of us guys the first batch first few batches actually we ran through a classroom in Mumbai uh and in 2020 we took our format instantly we took it out of this

into a box and we changed the game for so many great players who are working in the wedding industry today thanks to this format that we adapted to before anyone could imagine so we were all struck by lockdown in March and by April as an Institute we had taken the call that we are taking this online and we are going to allow the rest of India to learn with Us and we are going to bring the best faculty from across India to teach our students so dipika started with the classroom setup teaching um she went

on to do her internship with swaha she also went on to do some family weddings because she was already she belongs to the quintessential greatest Spenders in Indian weddings which is the marwari community and her family itself has so many uh occasions to to celebrate that she was up in her game already working In different capacities for family functions she did some work professionally as well then she got married and she planned her own wedding and I remember her sending pictures to me of the setup of the photo boots of what she's planning to wear

and how she made her husband also match the attire that was quite something um then she had she was blessed uh they both were blessed with a lovely baby who is growing healthy happy happy and I think Um seeing Usha ma as a great inspiration who decide to join uh swaha after she retired from her job she didn't stop working I have always felt very very very strongly for those who are extremely talented especially women who are compelled to leave the industry or take a sabatical because of the demanding timelines of of the wedding space

and that's always a question and concern with every person and more than the person the person's partner and his Family late nights oh you'll be traveling so much oh who will bring up the child so no matter how ambitious and qualified we are in the corporate world itself this is the same situation so weddings is not an exception a concern for a woman's career is by default a rule Ru of concern in Indian Society I don't think I have the capacity to uh you know become a rebel and fight for it I believe in positively

finding a way out and that is how I Reached out to Deepika because I knew that here is someone with tremendous potential she is a mom which means she can multitask because that quality just comes into you seeps into you the minute you give birth to a child and we decided to be able to give her that Liberty of working from the comfort of her home and being able to do something that is going to change the way she looks at herself and uplift the brand called The Wedding school and because she's been a student

She knows the value of that education and that is how our relationship took a whole new turn and twws connected us and twws still keeps us connected um me uh it's very awkward to introduce myself my bio and profile is available on Google so please check me out but I I think I would like to Define myself as uh someone who is totally totally totally committed towards bringing out the best in a human being in terms of what they deliver in their Workspace I think I cannot detach myself from that and sometimes I get overc

consumed but it's just me as a person and personality I can't take that away um I am I am here in multiple capacities uh I'm here definitely to guide each of you directly and indirectly in your career paths which we will talk about much later in the journey I don't want want you to worry about your career right now I want you to worry about the learning right now That should be your only greed and only concern 35 faculty members 25 faculty members 35 sessions 25 sessions maximum juice out that is my greed and that

is my role to keep you up in your game by improving doing the game of what the faculty teaches you so how we work in the wedding school is that the course subject of each session is Der designed and derived by Usha Ma and sweetie and us at the wedding school and then we rope in a faculty who best suits That subject we take their inputs and value ads and the presentation through which you are taught each subject is purely designed by us and enhanced by The Faculty this was my way of making sure that

we don't make the mistake which a lot of institutes make across India and I have thought at most of the institutes I've Tau weddings and events at most of the institutes and what I noticed was that they would make a call To me ask me to be a faculty and then they would tell me I would say what is the subject where's a presentation they would say you please teach them because you are an expert at the subject matter and that used to baffle me and I used to feel so that it's like an unfair

game you can't be paying me a fee as a student in order to hear my experiences how would my experience help you my experience can help you to 20% it can excite you to 80% but we thought at twws let the experience be 20% and let the teaching be 80% definitely a faculty's experience and their stories are important so that you know what to do in a situation but the technical terms the base knowledge of how professionals talk in a workspace that is something that we insist and we train you in through that faculty but

it is all compiled by us so that becomes my important role to be a part of the game So that we are always relevant and of course um the last phase is very exciting when we give you all the internships if you taken the hybrid course where Usha Ma and me will be doing counseling along with dipika we will speak to you oneon-one we will help you understand by then we will understand you that what is right for you what kind of a company you should be working for if you're doing your own how can

you grow that business how can you Pick better so we are the ones who get into that scheme of things so that when you'll move out from here for November December into the wedding season you are all prepped up and you feel like so that is the team and that is exactly how we will get into our scope now it's time for you to tell me who you are and what is your ultimate goal so I'm going to um request each of you turn by turn I'll obviously be taking your names uh you'll be expected

to unmute Yourself and talk about yourself very briefly probably in a minute because I think that's all you have patience for in this insta world right um You Will Tell Us your name uh your age the city that you're from and what is your ultimate goal for which you have enrolled for this right it will help us make our notes uh so that we are you know it's more like the doctor now sitting and writing you know so this is this is that Part of the game it will help us break the ice amongst each

of you because you all will end up uh working together on assignments eventually you will also end up working together on floor you'll be surprised how many of our students end up working in the same company how many of our ex students higher students from us and uh then eventually you get added to something called a WhatsApp Group which is the twws tribe where you have the previous bat students it's an Alumini and everyone's chatting and helping each other with things so it's a crazy world of our own that uh we live in in through

this wedding school so I want to know what's on your mind I want to know what have you joined us for I want to know you better so I'm going to request each of you to keep your introductions brief but or not so brief that I don't understand you so let's get started um we've kept this as much as possible in alphabetical Order kindly excuse us if one name is up down um I'm going to start with requesting alpes if you're already with us who's taken the DD live course and is from nasik now I'll

P please unmute and tell us a little more so that your batchmates can know you better hello ma'am hey uh I'm basically from nasik event company with the name Raga events and I have to uh enhance my company and that's why I join the Twws I think we spoke in one of the counseling sessions did we yes ma'am yeah yeah I I just realized I just realized great okay I think uh alpes i' want to thank you for trusting us to begin with uh because you're already in this industry uh so a lot of times

and this happens that you know when when a person is already in the space they don't seem to understand the importance of upgrading and educating further but I'm so glad you took this decision and I'm very sure you're not going to regret it you're going to love every bit of it yes thank you thank you very much thanks ales I want to say hi to Anamika who's taken up the wedding planning course the hybrid course and she's from goah hati hello ma'am hello everyone uh my name is Anamika Das I'm from guahati Assam uh I

have completed my MBA in HR and marketing last year and I'm currently working as an SDR at vented Circle it's a company in guati so I my Goal is to like I wanted to do planning since a long time but uh since I did MBA in h marketing so now I want to like really explore my passion and uh the goal is to First learn from the industry and then maybe in the later when I'm trained enough I open something of my own here in guati itself nice nice nice we have some great connection with

Goa hatti we have one of our brightest students from there and uh we have a lot of people from guahati who come to Mumbai and they study different things it's not just about wearings and they go back and the best part is that they go back so when you tell me you want to start something of your own in goti I feel more excited than anything else because you know if every city starts having great talent that is professionally learning something every city ends up developing and it pushes the clients to spend more what the

Ambani wedding has done is exactly that It has pushed the richy rich people to spend more and you're going to see that effect in all the weddings that will happen this wedding season so welcome Anamika and I am very sure that you will succeed in this plan of wanting to start your own eventually but your plan of wanting to work and learn things better for a few years is a great decision and I hope you will be a great contributor to the wending industry thank you so much ma'am I want to say hi to Uncle

From Mumbai who's taken up the wedding planning hybrid course uh hi everybody so um hi so um my background is basically uh I'm into education as well as event and uh I am head of the entertainment department at Mantra events and promotions yes and yeah and I also yeah so we are basically into corporate sector where I take the care of the entertainment part of the event And and I also teach I'm passionate about teaching so I've been an HD in di parel international school and during my yeah I teach economics and business oh so

I started my teaching during Co time because in covid we were doing nothing slack season for events so that was the thing yeah and yeah I mean uh so I was always passionate about events during my college days also I used to organize a lot of fashion shows and all and then Just thought about uh so Mr Modi inspired me a lot to go into the wedding thing because when he said that you know all big Indian fat wedding should be happening in India yeah so that was a thing where we decided that why not

enter into wedding you know so I just wanted to be a little more professional as you rightly said that wedding and corporate events are two separate things in corporate event there are no emotions it's only the numbers that Speak so yeah that's the reason why I thought that uh you know let's go a little more professional and understand the wedding industry better wow ancle I think I think you are you're a great inspiration for everyone else who's listening to you right now that after having done something professionally after being a teacher yourself you understand the

importance of learning something professionally always always you have to keep learning throughout Your life absolutely that is so true that is so true so welcome anle I'm really excited and I I look forward to connecting with you uh as we keep learning and and teaching each other interesting things about each other's lives okay I'm going to say hi to Anushka Soni from chattis gar who's taken up the design Decor hybrid course hello ma'am hello everybody uh uh it's first of all it's great to meet you Marisha ma uh I I am From ambikapur chattis gar

ambikapur is the city chtis K State I am 23 years old I have completed my bachelor from MIT MIT Pune in event management and then I did my MFA in interior design uh so now now I have come back to events and and it was my passion to go into weddings when I was doing my bachelor's itself and then I found uh twws so I'm very excited about this I'm excited too and the fact that you've done interior designing I think is going To be a great Advantage uh which I'm sure you are aware of

yes yes ma'am I did that because I wanted because uh uh that time just lockdown happened so I had to do something for my creative side so I decided to do it was it was a distance learning I did I still did my interior for my creative side only because I had in mind that I wanted to go into wedding only oh my God so you're one of those superbly obsessed people yes your Bri yes ma oh God I'm so glad anishka that you chose to study with us and thank you for for giving us

this chance and I'm I'm going to I'm going to help everyone understand why I was saying that if she's done interior designing it becomes an advantage because in the first few batches of the wedding school we had a lot of students who had uh who were Architects and interior designers and they would enroll for the class we had a Lot of Engineers as well who would enroll but somehow 50% of them were not able to sustain the family pressure that comes engineering they would study but they were not able to pursue this career but the

Architects and interior designers were always able to pursue this and a few years back we started getting a demand for those who have done uh studied architect and those who studied interior designing and we were trying to Understand why is this coming as a requirement so the the industry writes into US throughout the year it's not just during the season time they keep writing to us they keep calling me those who know me personally or they will keep reaching out to the team that we have a requirement we have a requirement so we are somewhere

facilitating it around the year uh purely because like I said we love it and we realize that the demand is increasing for those who understand Designing and the demand for yeah can you give me someone who has studied AutoCAD somebody who is an interior designer somebody who has got an architect background and we started seeing uh you know the WhatsApp uh sorry the insta stories of companies who would write to us and also have it on theirs looking to hire you know and that was a requirement and that's when we decided that one is that

you have already studied interior designing architect but What about the rest of us who are creatively in client who want to do the designing work in the decor space who may not have the bandwidth to start off with the entire inventory building for a decorator tadas which a lot of you might find alien right now I will keep explaining you these terms whatever I talk you don't understand you got to keep writing it guys because it's all getting covered either either by me or the faculty who Specializes in that area so this became a thing

where we understood that what if somebody is doing their uh BBA what if somebody's done an MBA what if somebody is an engineer what if somebody's a dentist what do they do do they need to go and study architect or do they need to do a shorttime interior designing course so that they can enter this industry and work in the design Decor Department of a Decor company or a planning company we said no let's find The Midway and that's how we took again a year to develop that course called design Decor where we are able

to teach you enough of the software for you to be there up in the game to be able to enter the office of somebody who is only into designing or is already a tent house or a Decor company and is looking at a young Talent who can come with fresh ideas but understands the software so that is how this course came in so why I say Anushka you are having an advantage Is because she's already studied interior designing so when she will attend the software class probably it will be a little easier for her she

might need a little lesser practice than the rest of us and I want to tell you all when we teach you softwares in your design decord course I'm only going to literally beg you I will not insist because across the screen I'm going to beg you to practice that software every day minimum 60 Minutes to As many hours depending if you're working you're a mother you're a student I don't know what what would stop you from doing it for more than one hour but treat it like an exercise treat it like you go to sleep

every day right and this is how I give a common example when somebody comes uh you know doesn't call me back I just ask them one question did you have your lunch and the answer is mostly yes did you go to the washroom the answer is mostly yes and I say if You could do these two things then you could have called me so treat yourself with that seriousness intensity and practice this software that you will learn a little later into the course so that Anushka because she studied right so I think anishka it's a

great great combination and the demand for a talent like you is so high in in our industry and I'm going to wait to see if your plans of being in chattis Gar remain in chattis gar or then do you take a flight and and jump over to a Delhi or a or or a cata or Amad or of Bombay or even Bangalore where the demand for designers is just skyrocketing right now so welcome again miss Sony thank you ma'am okay I'm going to say hi to dsha dsha kahal from bangaluru who's doing the design Decor

course hbd hello good uh good morning yeah we Yes hi I'm so sorry I can't put my video on today because there are days after work so since you know on events you know you have to work on Saturday Sundays cuz clients are available then but yeah so so basically I'm from Bangalore um I did decom honors in finance and strategic finance and then I think second year into my finance I realized I hated it so I started doing events all around so I started with the Christmas party and Then I went into sports management

for a while and then I got into events of uh I mean weddings so I work at a wedding venue where we have an in-house planner so I've been working there and I realized it's getting a little too repetitive where we you know take ideas of Pinterest and we make presentations I thought we have to get into something more creative and I pitch that I would be learning designing and I'd come and bring in new ideas so uh yeah so this is Why I signed up for the course I want to learn something more professional

and I think it's a great way to upskill yeah so that's exactly why I'm here great and and you're still on with the job you're still managing the yes I I still do uh I mean I still work there and I think I'm actually in between uh shifting jobs because this place isn't like really it really it isn't really up for change so I'm not okay with that so I've actually interviewed for another one and um Hopefully I might get in there and they actually do uh only design and Decor they don't do anything else

W so the the reason I'm even trying for the job is saying that you know I'm doing a course on this so I will be equipped by with it for just six months give me a time of six month I'll be done so excellent excellent I love the clarity you got dsha you you seem to be a person who knows exactly what you want and how you want to get there so sometimes it it Becomes a huge Advantage um especially in the space of design Decor I feel a wedding planner's inherent quality of being moldable

works for them because we have to be very open to suggest s of every uncle and auntie besides the bridegroom and the papa and the mommy who are spending money so we can't have very strong opinion on things while we we know in our head what is good for them we have to be able to sound so adaptable for them to firstly take us I Have seen this at most of my pictures guys when I go to meet a client for the first time I'm probably at a level where we don't pitch the idea some

companies do pitch with the idea to get a wedding like in corporate shows you have to in weddings sometimes you have to do that but we don't do that but what I do is give them the right Vibe and connect because they want somebody who is confident and sounds more like she knows more than us but at the same time looks Like the one who will adapt and gel well with the family but the design Decor requirement of a personality is very different there they want someone more assertive somebody who is going to be a

little a damond because it tends to work because mostly those who are in the designed deos space are dealing with the brides and today's Young Brides mentality is very different she's super confident and she doesn't like the Hani Naji person She likes oh let's do it this way oh I know this is going to work for you she likes that assertive nature and she likes people who are maybe different from her but have a Clarity of thought on what they want to do so if you're not that kind of person doesn't mean you don't get

into design deor it's just my my idea of sharing this with you is just for you to know what's going on in the market like I kept saying every bit of knowledge that we give you here is only Going to help you understand mindset to know what works with a client why a client in spite of me doing the most precise work why the client didn't give me repeat business it is this the three days of the wedding guys is not the decision making the decision is made based on the six months that you service

the client for the nine months that the client is talking you and knows you and that cumulative becomes the referral that you get in this line so dsha Welcome to the class and I'm always excited to meet people from bangaluru because that is becoming a I'll tell you it's becoming a world of its own so when we go to these conventions we meet a lot of people and I find a lot of similarities in the business style okay client's expectation but bangaluru seems to have their own uh little you know world going on with the

clients being so distinct in in their requirements with the money being there but the spending Not being as big as Hyderabad yet yet but they are learning and because of thanks to some beautiful hotels that have come up including golfshire I think uh the opportunities have increased in that City to a great extent so dsha good luck and and I know you're going to rock it thank you I'm going to say hi to gel gel from Mumbai uh she's taken up DD live hello ma'am hello everyone hello again Mad so everyone gel has studied with

the wedding school and she has done her wedding planning course with us I think this was three years back Gina yes it was batch seven batch seven see my God this is like I can't remember numbers but I love stories please introduce yourself because I know you but let everyone know you yeah so myself Gina CH I'm from mbai currently I'm running my own business with my husband we have our own company Uh in the name of Shang EV and jna as in my own company for specialized in weddings only and that two has been

started after completing my twws I have successfully completed three big projects after that in that company and my purpose of joining this Decor and design course is so I learned t wedding planning in twws but my more interest was towards Decor and design and luckily after completing twws I came to know that they are going to come up with the New course so just to learn the decor because see nowadays there is Pinterest there is Instagram where people just copy the design and do the stuff decoration and everything but to implement your own designs it's

little bit difficult so for that we need to learn the softwares we need to learn the you know the space how to Decor the space that is the main thing so to learn all those things I have come up again and I'm hoping to Learn it properly because Marisha know me very well what I'm going through but yes I'll do it I definitely sure about that and hoping for the best no don't hope Baba this time it is do or die no no none of us are going to die for our work but this time

definitely what G is referring to is being able to multitask like I was saying you know being being a mother is definitely uh something that can pose as a challenge and you know it Is what it is it can't change the way we all are as human beings uh but what we can do is try to be positive and take strength from a class that is looking this powerful um there is 42 of us uh who have decided to learn in spite of being in this space we've decided to learn because we believe in education

and I don't think gel you can find more power uh than what this you know group of uh players is going to bring to you so welcome back and this time with a Bang now your kid is also grown up so Gina got pregnant while she was studying by the way guys Madam had to go in a post so welcome back and and and let's get going I'm going to say hi to um uh kusali from Mumbai who's taken up the wedding planning course and is our hybrid student hi kusali hi Marisha ma'am hi everyone

I am so excited to join this course um I met you on the convocation And that was the day when I actually got convinced to join the twws uh um for um me I was a flight attendant for six years so I come from a hospitality industry and I know that how much weddings are going to the on the path of hospitality now yeah um me and my fiance have got a resort in Goa so we are expanding and uh we are thinking of getting cooperate events and weddings in that and since like I was

a kid I was into big at weddings a lot so I took it As an opportunity and thought why not I can plan weddings right so I told my fiance that give me four five months I will be the one who will be conducting all the weddings in our new property yeah so it was like um a dream come true from somewhere that yes I have this opportunity to you know go into the wedding planning and conduct the Flawless weddings in future wow so I'm excited to meet you all Also let's plan maybe after the

events and abely yeah Thank you so much Kali you now now currently you are in Goa as as you are attending the class yes I no no no I am in Mumbai I travel to Goa every three or four times a month I am right now taking care of social media and operations of the resort so we are expanding and taking care of that also and doing the course also and yeah maybe by the end of this year I will be you know planning my own wedding so I that excited please do take help from

from From all of us because I would be petrified if you as the bride is also like you know okay you you've got your uh you know walkie on and you're like okay my track and then you walk I don't want that for you K yeah oh God but last night we were out with some friends we were so as planners you all all will get invited to a lot of these networking events where you meet hoteliers and they host these dinners and Hees only to network and create Awareness for their brand and we were

uh a bunch of uh very experienced planners who were talking about some things that that Brides have got anal about which is when she's about to enter for her uh Bridal walk at different functions her eyes are constantly prying left and right you know man and they are busy talking to the planner about what's happening rather than talking to that man whom she's supposed to walk down with but that's Just the Bride of today you know so we have to enjoy that space with them and we have to let them read so kosali I'm very

happy if you if you decide to tie the not this year but I'm more excited about the career that is there out there for you and your fiance and this whole idea of getting into planning weddings and managing Hospitality with the resort I think is a crazy combination and business yeah I think now I have got a Team also I can you can man yes great to have you with us and and and from the time we met at the convocation to now being in the class together I'm I'm actually excited that you trusted us

thank you yes thank you so much for having me Mom thank you I'm going to say hi to Kushi who is again from chattis Gad yes I'm going to request for clarity of it's part of chattis GAD who's going to be doing uh her design Decor course a hybrid course With us Kushi I can't hear you Kushi you on mute by any chance I think mam Kushi is not Kushi is not there she has got her exam today okay so she'll be coming tomorrow great okay so we will please remind me that I have to

speak to her I'm going to now take a short break uh we all can just quickly uh warm ourselves up and cool ourselves down and we reconnect in I think 10 minutes from Now e [Music] ordinated with their outfits everything was in sync so like the entry and the they they were dancing all of their outfits in fact not only the family I felt like the dist guest also was amazingly coordinated R ma'am Rich of culture and Union of Two Souls rituals somebody's CAU their attention on rituals okay Ruta hello ma'am uh I love the

emotions Happiness and rituals and their outfits coordinating with de I'm going to read out some who dropped messages on the chat box the rich Vibe uh in the first video I like the golden Decor uh outfits everything matching everything going in syn sometimes the contrast working sometimes the same Shades also work color theme ma'am the color theme color the color themes yes the color themes coordination bnie brinda is writing more Openness than before no COI and shy bride and groom don't we see that now don't we see that I think I think the Bollywood actresses

are also responsible for for making us feel feel more confident about you know walking up the aisle without being that sh Dulan that those days are gone so if somebody does it then they are they are termed as oh you're being so filmy right the more real you are the more you actually get the attention like I can see over here But you know what's beautiful guys each of you notice different things first yeah somebody instantly reacted to the decor somebody to the outfit somebody to the ganga arti somebody to the bride's confidence and really

that is what today's wedding clients and guests are all about and that is why we sit together and we study together because everyone is looking at something different you May be obsessed with their car but maybe the family is obsessed with what is going on for the couple entry you may be obsessed with getting ran Singh to perform but maybe the client is only interested in right because we together will start warming up to different things and start realizing what I am seeing right now you know as your virtual background itself take that into consideration

to someone the purple Design will catch the attention to someone it's the design the AI design and the backdrop to someone it's the logo to someone it's the name to some of us the name is not getting notice that is how the clients and the guests are today it was really simple there was no one questioning a planner or the host why did it change because the number of destination weddings started increasing year on year and that led to These same clients being guests at other weddings and they started traveling which they do today also

the richest people of India dedicate their time from November to March 50 to 60% attending weddings and 30 to 40% in their own business because they are all well off their companies don't run by them reporting to office at 10:30 so they TR travel they go to different destinations they see the work of different designers and planners and They come back to their planner saying that's the pressure on all of us which many of us are not able to take but if you prepare yourself for the pressure you will be more comfortable in the month

of November when you will be out there that pressure comes from them that pressure doesn't come to you from your boss it doesn't come to you yourself inculcating it comes from the client because the client is attending 30 40 Weddings in that period whilst you may be a part of only 10 weddings in terms of execution a planning team cannot take up more than that unless you're doing any and every wedding unless up Decor come planner which is there with a lot of cities including places like nask where the decorators only to AB or ar

don't look down upon those markets because they are more Comfortable being termed as a decorator client call be in so many cities if you're going to introduce yourself as a wedding planner I have met someone just day before yesterday why should I go beyond Mumbai a client from Mumbai he's walked into my office and he is saying AA I've made my whole pitch the bride is all impressed she has been following my personal and professional account and she knows whom she's talking to but the daddy says Basically huh and he was pushing his daughter to

believe that plan conversation had I pitched myself as a person who is doing decor then he would have said planner right arrang so that disparity of thought process between the father and the bride still exists if it exists in Bombay outside of the five six metros of India It is going to exist even more that is just the way it is so for that the way you notice different things now I want you to look back at those videos okay and notice things that you didn't notice the first time because that is probably what your

bride or the bride's father or the groom or groom's uncle is looking for that is what you need to get into so take it as an assignment which will not come to you on the group but start Watching vedding videos on YouTu YouTube not insta watch insta no harm any kind of viewing is not damaging but YouTube only because it allows you the longer format simple it allows you to watch something Beyond 2 minutes it encourages you it's not about allowing it encourages you to watch something Beyond 2 minutes that is where you play pause

play pause look at things start warming up beyond that out outfit you look at what's happening Behind Beyond what's happening Beyond you look at how the grandmother reacted to something and also become more and more aware guys that the bride has also understood that the camera is on her she wants this video to resemble that of some Bollywood actor and thus she's giving that expression it's not that she's feeling that emotion yeah that is something which is under key Cover it is a great act and I appreciate why because just the way we are updating

ourselves the bride is also in that Journey six months doing her own research she's going for that beauty spa treatment XYZ she's going into diet and she's never fitting into that langa again but that she'll only realize after one year but is watching these videos and it is subconsciously affecting her style and you'll notice this when you will work With someone uh and those of you who are already running your businesses uh those of you who will notice habits common words lingos style of talking this rubs off my clients actually compliment us that whether I

talk to you or I talk to your colleague the tone the style of talking how much is spoken is just the same that you are like you know you've created robots in the office why do you do that only to give that professional Vibe to someone and subconsciously your team learns from you so all those of you who are running your own businesses and are with us right now understand this up automatically your team wants to get there and those of you who are looking at joining a company understand this better your boss will at

automatically depend that much more on you I have seen employees get offers to become Partners in companies in less than two years because That is how young and that is how dependent this industry is on good talent you have to be up in your game because you don't know when that offer is coming to you you will be surprised this is not an industry where you climb the ladder slowly gradually this is an instant gratification line you get instant emotions out of a bride and groom you get instant responses from your bosses and that's how

the game is there it's crazy and it moves at a f Space so your bride giving you that right moment on a video is actually something that she is able to do because she has upped her game and she has realized said if I want my wedding to go viral I've had so many brides who come to us say I this bride has gone viral this entry has gone viral you know I want to do something like this why she wants to go viral she will pay a wedding Sutra to get featured there and you

should know this and you should be able To guide so many brides ask us do you have somebody who can do the pr do you have somebody who can manage my page for three months these are realities of today and I want you to prepare yourself for this reality I want you to know which are the wedding portals take this as your next assignment it's on you guys that's why when a lot of people say oh it's only weekend class I'll be able to do it I want you to understand Give this every day you

eat every day so consume weddings every day it will change and it will help you mature and you will just love this check out the different wedding portals that exist and I want you to check out portals that are not just India based because your bride is checking outside of India so you can't be limiting yourself with that we have a couple of our students in fact I think uh yash's moved Back to Kenya and we have somebody joining us from Canada somebody from uh us you have Brides of different nationalities that's going to be

a huge Advantage you also have the Indian Dy bride but with the uh nationality approach and Sensibility of your land and coincident she might decide to get married in India so it's a scary crazy world that we are all in so open up your minds to not just portals of you can start with that but Check out the wedding portals across you will find who is doing some good work in table Decor table Decor table settings is such a big deal in Europe and and the west and today the Indian ride in India wants to

do that for her weddings she's ready to pay separately to someone for that I'll give you another interesting example food earlier it was a wedding planner's role okay it was the hotel's role Hotel gives You the menu and you do the selection this item that item once a wedding planner came in then the client was like I'm paying so much that is how the wedding planner got sucked in and unfortunately in India we don't have the courage to keep charging them for different things right then we don't know how to blur those lines so planners

started giving their recommendations because they've been a part of so many weddings so many Discussions so automatically you start learning things now it's come to a point where the caterer has established himself as the expert who doesn't want the inputs of a planner mind you because they have an approach you do your work let me do mine don't tell the client what to eat and what I want to sell I will do it myself and then comes in a specialist called a food curator that is Now trending since 2 years and it is only going

to get up up up and above that person could be a chef or could be somebody who understands food very well could be a former wedding planner could be a hotelier different profiles but today has decided to specialize in doing what just planning the menu and the presentation of the food liening Between um the Hotel chef and the outside caterer so planners not everyone can afford to spend from their side and thus that didn't exist then there are some planners who decide to invest make a client realize the value that that person is adding because

that person's only job is Kana Kana Kana Kana and that's how in the second wedding that same client will say curator curator they don't understand curator But they understand that you need somebody like this just like you have a stylist right a stylist doesn't make the langa but a stylist will take you to 10 designers who make beautiful langas that is how this industry is becoming more specialized and you need a food curator you have to see bandwidth is he going to say mad there's a chance so don't upset Because I'm telling you about something

you are right now taking this information only to help you become aware of what is going on in this industry I'm sure deika has mentioned this and to everyone in the counseling sessions I had clearly mentioned it that I'm here to help you save those two years that you would have spent had you entered the industry by joining a job directly I'm here to help you with that I'm helping you to get that information So that you save that time you are sounding right and you are sounding as aware as your client already is right

so keep watching these videos and keep learning from them whilst we are teaching you the technicalities of things you have to watch this for your own well-being and to understand that everyone is finding something different and is getting attracted to something different and as a planner you have to be aware of all this as a design Decor Person you need to start thinking of not working in isolation I've seen so many Decor companies not be able to design the wedding they are forced to work with external designers why because if you work with say people

like rituraj Karam with abinav bhagat with Amika they like to work in tandem with everything they want to know what the bride is wearing they want to know what has just happened before the bride has Walked into that particular space they want to know what is the dress code given to the guests so you may be doing design Decor course doesn't mean that you don't know what's happening on the menu front doesn't mean you should not be bothered about what is happening with the planner and where are the guests with the planner just before entering

your space you should be aware time what time is the function and thus I suggest colors thus I suggest a layout where is it is equally important so a lot of our sessions guys through these 35 sessions will be common sessions because we believe that a planner should be as aware of what's happening on the decor front as much as a Decor person a designer should be aware of what a planner is doing only then will you be able to work in tandom and you go on field otherwise you'll get so obsessed with your work

that you will think you Are greatness and that's not the case yeah it's not the bride who is beautiful it's a person who did the makeup the hair the beauty spa lady who kept treating her for three months before that day the person who got her the outfit who raped the sari who gave the jewelry who gave that Footwear there is seven eight of them who have made that person look that way and thus it's 253 agencies who come together to make that wedding look like That and that video to look like that that's why

I'm always upset with photo video teams when they take the credit they get the maximum credit but the maximum work is done by people who are not in that space right had that mup not look like that the photo video team was not getting content but those are the ups and downs keeping that aside you just be aware not to take any of our sessions lightly thinking I don't want to do this part in The wedding I want to do that part I don't want you to take it lightly because your client already knows this

part which you are not interested in so at least be aware then after 6 months you decide I want to specialize in this I want to start my gifting business or I want to join a photo video team I want to do social media management I want to join a hotel so many wedding planners who've done this course have also joined hotels that's a great opportunity hotels Have started developing something called A Wedding team that team actually does workshops we as twws have conducted workshops so that they become more sensitive towards a bride and groom

and how to approach them and not do a sales in a regular way how to service their requirement dude God pu today no Hotel struggles on that at least the main chain because they also introspect on their work they also sit With their team to study they also have people like twws teaching them to maintain checklist after every project and improve on that checklist so all of you are running your businesses I have run my business with great Precision by the second year because first two years I went crazy understanding that my checklist is weak

so you have to be critical about your own work otherwise you will not be able to get up there I used to keep Doing that to myself I used to force my team who was was working in different departments to keep telling me what is it that they ran short on and that's how I made my checklist the other day on the wedding Sutra group one of the wedding planners uh mentioned can I please uh have somebody share a checklist for a wedding and I got so upset and hurt I said if you can't work

hard for that checklist then you should not be here so I just wrote to her politely this is the link for the wedding school please enroll for the course for the checklist and every single professional Planner on that group actually message me in personal thank you thank you because that is the gold mine I'm not giving that to you also guys sorry you will never value it it's not like it it is uh it is a gold mine but you will not value if you get it you will value it if session by session you

will keep making That for yourself and that will be the treasure although it's out there you can type and you can find a checklist but that checklist you will never be able to follow because you didn't make it so it's crazy but you got to own your space guys I'm going to say hi let's say hi to a few more students uh so this this today and tomorrow we are going to have some of us will not be able to introduce ourselves today so uh please uh come as Beautifully dressed as you all are right

now because I love what I'm seeing so you will get your on tomorrow I'm going to say hi to mahek sha from Mumbai who is doing the course on design Decor live hi hello okay so I've just started like my own uh Decor U business but it's like a little like a small one like not that great I just do homes and like small healthy events and all and I'm also Working with an like I'm I I have NGO where I go and we have these events like four big events in AIO where we have

like because I'm a j so we have like a Mand and all so we actually Decor that and also it's this was like a thing where I wanted to like you know get more into this so that I can also suggest right now I was just assisting where I can also suggest them and I can be a part of it and you know like so yeah so that's why I've joined this whole course And I'm also planning to uh have my business grow so yeah wow nice but I think the most exciting part is that

because you belong to a community that believes in celebrations and of great scale uh this this investment as I call this course is a sheer investment this investment is going to definitely get you the results sooner than you would expect and I'm I'm very sure beyond the NGO work you will end up getting a lot of work with Everyone who part of your community great I'm I'm so happy me I I I feel um Mumbai is not up there yet in the game of Designing as much as cities like Hyderabad and Delhi are in terms

of Designing sets uh designing look and mood board um a lot of it has to do with some realities which all of you need to understand which is some hotels have panels so panel panel is basically few vendors who are signed up with the hotel and Only that vendor is permitted to work so as as a person who's booking that property I am allowed to only select one of those that is called being on panel planners are never on panel because planning is too personal it's too personal and you need to have that Comfort some

hotels they try in between and uh clients refuse to book the place because of that so thankfully that went out Decor in Mumbai is based on panel and lot of cities have That but Mumbai is very particular on it so it has does and of course the backtack bookings has never allowed designing to flourish the way it flourishes in many other cities thankfully because some amazing people of Mumbai are doing brilliant work in terms of Designing whether it's uh Puja Doshi of illusive Dreams or it is janii because they are doing some brilliant work clients

have started realizing that we need to have somebody to do this part And then B you may take the person on panel so you have to make yourself feel that important and the only way to do is by doing your work right in that knowledge which the client listens to in the meeting say confidence that this person can do and fill that bridge that Gap fill that vacuum and then that bomb CLI gives you the destination bedding pel stress and you grow from small business to medium to large scale so it's a journey it's a

Journey Mumbai anyways has too much competition Panela so it is always a challenging space to be in Mumbai challenging so so good luck me I'm sure you're going to have a good time and uh I'm sure you're going to be able to put this to immediate use and effect in Mumbai I'm gonna say hi Tok you so much thanks M I'm gonna say hi to mahima Jen uh again from Mumbai who's doing the wedding planning hybrid Course hello good afternoon ma'am good afternoon everyone uh so I think I attended your counseling session one and a

half year back while I was working in Pune I couldn't join at that time and now when I finally started my business I really wanted to get you know learn in depth uh talking about my background I have been in this industry for the past 6 years and uh yeah so but the one thing that I really I'm really Passionate about events especially weddings it has always been my for and uh the one thing that I miss uh is the detailing not lot of people concentrate on the detailing I wanted to talk about the video

all as well uh like after the after I saw the video I really like how L Baka Raja was displayed in the jam nagar function because that displays that they are from Bombay that depicts their story so not everyone concentrates so much about you know bringing out what Your client really wants even when even with my previous company experience I found like just people wanted to do follow Instagram Trends and Pinterest boards so I really want to bring out the best essence you know from the client understand them properly and there are lot of goals

actually uh I'm into sustainability so it brings me that guilt also that I'm into an industry which generates a lot of waste and uh and we like a lot of people like me Students because I came from an engineering background one year of engineering then I shifted here so there were no proper adequate resources now I finally found one and I'm really you know excited to start this journey and educate people wow MMA welcome to to the class sustainability I'm feeling the pressure and guilt myself as you speak about it yes we are into criminal

waste um and we are not doing enough there are some People in smaller Pockets who are doing things I've seen a lot of brides in the last few years talk about it and want to do something about it but you'll be surprised when we've tried to service clients who want uh environment friendly wedding and want to be sustainable conscious the cost of that project seems to go higher that's when Daddy Mommy come in and say because we have also dreamt of your wedding in a certain way so I have seen Us go this close and

a week prior I've seen people snap out and feel like no no no no no I can't do it so it is something that is definitely catching attention I think it's not a day that's too far away when this will happen um I also work on a project called The Gourmet Fest where uh we we bring Caterers together and this event happens in Delhi uh those who are from North even anywhere around if you want to attend the event it's a great event Where there's a convention where only food is discussed shad and service and

that's where this topic was discussed even last year it takes a lot but Caterers are now being pushed to offer lesser in a menu because no human being can consume that miles of food that is put on display it is only for the eyes you know is a big issue say person can only eat that much so these are very long Journeys in imagine if all Caterers decide to offer only 15 items instead of 300 items when and how and everyone supporting it and a client being aware of it so it's a long journey but

if you guys will not think about it we will never get there it's like me if I had not thought about the school we wouldn't be sitting here teaching all things systematically so I'm so glad mahima that you brought this up and it becomes all of us as indiv individuals our Responsibility as the New Gen entering an association or an organization to keep that as a conscious and not just talk about it but know how to achieve that whether it's in Decor or it's in food in Team food itself I have seen so much go

waste so it is both these things together that will help us you as an individual working towards it and us collectively creating that importance to make that difference just like one of our friends Mentioned that he heard Modi speak about we in India and he thought that probably this is what it is so to be able to have that impact on someone and so many people have been impacted that by that one line that Mr Modi made where in India that changed the game and it has affected negatively to international hotels you'll be surprised that

people stopped their queries and shifted their weddings into India maybe they were scared of the Prime Minister yes but it has its impa so you try to become that person who can make that difference and I'm so glad mahima we have someone like you in the class and thank you welcome welcome thank you and thanks to you big thanks to you because 5 years back when I was you know looking for a proper course I couldn't find one and even a lot of my friends or relatives who ask me for their kids that is there

A proper course in India and like in the in those two three years I used to always say no unfortun unfortunately there are not but I'm really glad now there are courses there is a proper structure for students to study I'm really grateful to you for starting the wedding school thank you maima that's so encouraging I cannot tell you it's exhausting but it's very encouraging to get that pat on the back thank you Mima okay I'm going to say hi to purvi Agarwal from Hyderabad who is going to study design Decor live with us hi

purvi ah hi okay just a correction I'm doing wedding planning course and not the design Decor oh I'm sorry I'm sorry apologies but you from Hyderabad yeah I am from Hyderabad thank God we got one part right sorry but the confusion is okay because I to was in a lot of confusion before enrolling to which course I want to to I have been going Forth and back that design Decor I signed up for design Decor then I was like no wedding planning and then again design now I'm stuck to wedding planning for sure and yes

I'm from Hyderabad uh last year I graduated I did my bachelor's in psychology I've seen the wedding school since like two years when I was back in uni but I was not sure if I want to do it I was like do I really want to do it do I just want to continue with Psychology I am going to continue with psychology but I realized I can also do wedding wedding planning with that it's nothing like I cannot do so I finally enrolled for it and I'm really glad to be here and in the time

being I really want to have my own company of it right now I'm working as an event coordinator for an event company where we usually do all sort of events but I mainly want to focus on wedding plan so in future that is what I want to own One of that yeah that is nice nice good Ki I'm glad and I'm I'm glad you you have decided for wedding planning now I suddenly recollect us having a COR call to discuss this and uh I think wedding planning as a course guys will help you overall that

is for sure it also helps you uh get the opportunity to open your own space anywhere in this world because the teacher ing over here is pretty Universal it's something that can be implemented and Indian weddings are more Demanding than any other community or nationality wedding across the globe so if you've studied and cracked the most demanding client for you to then service somebody from the west or from Europe is relatively easier because they are extremely grateful for the smallest of things done right whereas Indian clients are extremely critical for everything done right as well

so it is killer but I do feel it's like T pasana You can do anything anywhere that is something I have totally realized because I have serviced NRI clients I have service uh Brides from different nationalities and I can tell you this and we work with so many dmc's you know uh destination management companies there is a separate topic don't worry we'll teach you about this so but write it down D and C so we end up liening with a lot of them in different countries and they come back with Stories okay of families from

India versus them servicing families from different nationalities um and they come back with the same feedback that if you can do an Indian wedding you can do any wedding so for me this is not going waste and uh psychology on the right she'll get upset even if you figure how she is don't let her know that yeah two separate professions for sure we'll keep them separate absolutely and you are in Hyderabad so I'm very excited I I think Hyderabad after Delhi is the place and uh we've had good talent from there and we have some

great companies doing fantastic work over there and around so Hyderabad is is a go to place if any of you decide to even want to go to another city to do your internship uh it would be a brilliant idea to consider Hyderabad as well if and when that opportunity arises and you want to just explore and Experiment uh so welcome again purvi you and I'm going to say a hi to radika I hope my information about you is correct radika namali from Hyderabad doing design Decor hybrid course with DWS hi ma'am hi everyone hi hope

uh I very lucky to having this session and this group right hi ma'am I'm radika from Hyderabad I am 34 years of old uh so um how to start I don't know because I got too long Gap after Marriage um um really don't know what to talk because actually uh I did my PG diploma in business management I have worked nearly six to seven years in HR and admin in Hyderabad and as well in Dubai also wow uh so later I got two kids uh so again I want to start myself again I want to

uh second Innings like I want to start so my husband has observed in me that I'm so creative and I'm so passionate about things around me I want to do something About decoration and I'll give suggestions to him so he observed me and he s Ed me to join in this twws initially I got a little fear that I can do uh big question mark so later he encouraged me uh I can do best actually we have production company ma'am U that's why I have joined in this ma'am I want to prove myself um I

want bit creative so that I can grow my family business even that I want to uh prove myself I want to mark myself as um Something different from others I want to be financially independent in some ways yeah yeah and I think it's it's a great move radika welcome firstly and and please correct yourself you're not 34 years old you're 34 years young I want you to feel that because there are people who are much much older to you in our industry radika so consider yourself one of the younger ones trust me when you will

will meet people you will be surprised but I'm so Happy that your husband uh suggested that you study I really really appreciate that thank you so much M I feel actually uh I want to do MBA uh in my colleges but due to some issues I'm unable to continue it after marriage kids lactation these all make me some inferior uh I want to talk something about somebody I'm feel literally I'm nervous in that I was inculate inculcated in my like uh I can't do best before I was when I I I was working Like an

HR and admit I was so strong woman uh I have something different confident in me but on later on this a family house chores and literally making my mind like I like housewife but I don't want to be like that I want I have in I have in my heart that something I have to do uh something different I want to do I want to Mark myself something different so abolutely so I came from that and even my husband has encouraged me and Cooperated me in this uh so I came I uh I hope your

mentors and uh your people will make me learn like a something different absolutely absolutely you're already getting support on the chat box kashish and Pur have sent you their regard s and and uh they believe that we are all going to get this right together don't worry I know radika what you're talking about and trust me I feel that pain so many times through the week when I keep meeting amazing talented women Who were working decided to take that as a backseat to give priority to something else and then they had to ReDiscover themselves so

we are with you thank you for taking the step and lots of respect in regard to your husband for supporting you and not say allowing you but supporting you I have a very supportive husband and I can I can totally vouch how much mentally that gives you the strength to not feel apologetic about being so ambitious and and um out there So don't worry we're going to do a nice makeover also for you we are going to make sure that radika you get spoken about in in the best way and people people actually you will

surprise people and you will surprise yourself okay question absolutely see there's there's so much of love coming to you mahima naab Balu everyone Yoo let's do this yeah okay guys um I'm I'm I'm taking uh you back to some more studies from what we do at this course I've opened the Wrong sheet give me a second oh this is so amazing every time we get to interact with each other this is what our life is about stories and some more stories um we are evolving in our style of working no doubt um the bride is

as well what is the one thing that is the most um significant but yet changing constantly is the trend uh through this course whilst we are studying the methods The Faculty will teach you processes and Methods uh the right way to make a call to a guest but parall what needs to go on in your lives through the week is focusing on what's happening around the world not just focusing on India focusing on rituals but also equally focusing on what can be adapted from different cultures you know we spoke about the Prime Minister talking about

wed in India I'm sure a lot of you have seen that video I'd urge you if you haven't Then see it because he spoke of something very interesting and there are two or three uh events at which he has mentioned about wed in India in one of those videos he has mentioned why can't we have an Asami wedding happening in in uh Chennai and somebody with uh you know South Indian sensibilities getting married across another city he has spoken of something that is so interesting and when you guys are constantly going to be under the

Pressure of the client and your bosses and in some cases you are the boss or your team how differently are you able to think I'll tell you you have the biggest content in your own land India India actually can make you feel if you are a traveler if you have been able to travel across countries I have been able to travel I think more than 40 50 countries on multiple occasions so I I I don't know you know how many different Cultures I've got exposure to and I can tell you this confidently that India itself

is actually a mixture of many countries countries we call it states but we are so different amongst our states whether it's the food whether it's the clothing of course the language also the mindset so for you it becomes absolutely interesting to get into this space of exploring different rituals as you are studying the systems and Processes we all know how to use Excel sheets guys okay if we don't don't worry we have a class on that also you're covered well tension okay Excel PowerPoint canva will help you learn how to use these things but again

please try to get into making that Excel today typing every day it's like piano Rose practice then only you'll get it right your speed of typing is very Important that you work on it from today till November so that you're able to up the game for those who are not used to using Excel you are not late but if you don't do it today then you're late simple so everything that happens from the 20th of July in your life thanks to the wedding School keep this as your Mantra up Nikia no problem it's like our

friend from Mantra up no problem and I will still be ahead of Many others who are still thinking so don't waste that time no problem problem no problem very important Rose the daily activity is the game changer for all of us and I want us to promise this to each other right the bride St case will keep changing how will you stay relevant systems process will impress the guests they observe how much in Panic is the wedding team they observe boss they talk about it it's insane you are going to feel like a celebrity you

cannot walk out with a boyfriend and not get noticed that is the life of a planner you will be noticed so if you're in the wedding space you're learning this systems you also want to stay relevant that means you keep checking new things every day and don't get addicted to watching insta res and don't Then come back telling me Oh I watch so much content on Insta on weddings that is not the learning that is a trailer that is shusa what you need to do is like you are doing YouTube videos studying pausing watching observing

observe observe observe simp similarly you have different states different cultures try to have your own diary uh notes in the diary which we have given you make those Notes make an Excel make a presentation enjoy this process don't do this all today do everything little by little by little and develop your strength whilst you are studying different cultures you will start developing newer ideas so when when mahima says I want to do different things I don't want to do what I see or when mahek is talking like that way when so many of us are

thinking alike imagine if all 42 of us decide to Ideate you will have that many more ideas right but if we all will end up watching the same insta content you're only going to think like that so stop watching and overdose consume it you know one table spoon egg go d tce a day not a good idea so don't overindulge but explore things you can't go to every country right you can't okay responsibili studies but you have the advantage of that being on your screen Do you need to travel to every country to know about

every country no you just need to give that 30 minutes in a day to just explore see some pictures understand understand what they eat how do people live their life take up one place at a time one country at a time go to aeran see what is it why is everyone talking about Baku okay are there flights from here to Baku okay oh so I could actually be recommending Baku but what is so special in Baku all you have To do is type five interesting things to do in Baku and you will start getting their

feed as you know the algorithm it sucks but it works for us you start looking for destinations and you will get those prompts so try to change your feed on your insta by searching for those kind of things and you will automatically be doing that you will start searching for artists and you will start getting singer bands all the time to Mazo you're lucky we didn't have That option now so you all are very lucky so make the most of it because when earlier the bride was very cautious then she became this aspiration bride I

want this I want that then she became obsessed with wanting to Trend and now she is very clear that she has to be the highlight that's the Bride of this year you spoke about the bride not being COI somebody mentioned that haven't we seen the latest and the biggest and the most expensive Bride of the world radika Being asked to give a speech I don't know how many of you understand the word teleprompter do we understand what's a teleprompter okay I'll explain this to you some of us would I'm sure so T promter is a

screen that gives you the feed of what you're supposed to speak literally it's a prompter so sometimes it's in the form of a plasma which is what if you go back go back to the videos that you all Were watching in the last one week up whenman was singing and because his video has recently got viral I'm giving you his example you saw sha goel to udit Naran to everyone sang on that stage there was something that looked like a TV on a floor which was on the stage that's called plasma which gave them the

lyrics the cues because they were singing songs that they had sung 20 years back right so they are not obviously in that band with to be able To remember every lyric that was prompting them and with so many musicians playing into your years you feeling the pressure of performing for the most expensive audience of the world net worth of all of them put together made that the most expensive night that pressure you can see on their face also I have written to my friend who had done the sound there why is everyone looking so tensed

and then I realize they can also be nervous Performers after 20 30 years of doing shows so plasma was the prompter sometimes you will see in a lot of politician speeches world leaders there's something which looks like an transparent screen which is on both sides and they are looking like this and speaking because to you in the live audience you can see the transparent frame but in the video you can't catch the frame and that is where you see that the Cues are mentioned then you have a third kind of prompto which which is the

very obvious one which is put right across where the audience also sometimes turns and sees a be next Kar performance which is extremely embarrassing but then some people just want it and they get it and the most classy for me is the one which is literally kept in front of you but it is slightly at lower than your eye level When you are at a Podium it just becomes a little more convenient but you can also be spontaneous and look around and talk so you can also search on different types of prompts my friends and

know this but it is important for you to know that radika Anand these guys have not been able to magically beautifully learn those lines by heart they were prompted they of course prepared I'm sure they had somebody who Taught them voice modulation so we by the way teach all voice modulation in in our sessions you will be taught how to make presentations how to speak in a meeting how to do role plays where some of you is a client and someone is a student and someone is an intern and someone is the boss so we

help you with all of that only to be able to make yourself sound so interesting that nobody should realize because that's the average time We spend with a client in one meeting and the minute one Chacha who has come late comes in they will tell you AR sir like so you have to get used to talking so those of you who are not used to talking too much please start boring everyone in your family extend it to 30 minutes because Cent you can't look tired so I'm a professional anchor because before I became a planner

so Obviously I'm thinking I'm very used to talking and I know my modulation I know my pauses I know how to maintain eye contact definitely it was a big Advantage no doubt I knew how to carry myself no doubt it became a huge advantage and I'm sorry a lot of us feel that oh you know what my work will speak for itself no it doesn't you also have to speak your personality the way you walk the way you talk the way you do your Hair the way you will sit in my class Dipa first batch

because it was physical we've taken them all for hair styling we've got their hair styled with my hair stylist to help them understand what a makeover is now I can't come to your cities or buy your ticket to come to me so please go and get this done because it's important clients notice all this branded bag gets notice in Delhi but I'll not encourage you to buy that bag but I can at least tell you invest in Yourself to look a certain way to do it right so I remember my first year there was a

meeting I was uh talking to a bihari marari based in Surat so that's like a deadly combination and he's like this pan eting gentleman and four hours into the meeting I was like and I started stretching my body he like chai M then I was like giving looks to my partner because I still had that hangover that I'm an artist per hour I get paid what is going On so I started giving him looks like you know like like you know like let's go we have to drive back I'm thinking I want to reach home

so I was very raw and he caught me he said so I was like no no so I'm absolutely here and I could cover up for myself and he made sure that at meeting last 12 hours because he was testing me am I going to keep smiling like this you know take one take two take 99 are you going To perform the same and I passed the test and I did three four weddings in their family only because I realized that esap you cannot be saying that I'm done with my job you you have to

learn to give them their time you can be professional I'm not saying that any of them are unreasonable but it's their personal money now if they are spending their money they're not spending a company money it's their money then they Want to sit in the meeting themselves they want you to give your time so understand the difference when we say I'm doing events versus when I'm doing weddings this is the difference I'm talking about in corporate events you are talking to the marketing manager okay or the events person the procurement division some much long the

agent the the division that decides how much gets spent you're talking to a person who is not investing in the Company he's getting paid by that company versus a wedding you're talking to somebody who's giving you his personal wealth and telling you buet spend to make this my son's most special day my daughter's most special today his personal wealth is involved his personal status today is involved what you are seeing is a latest example but Amman is not the only one who spends Amman is the only one who could Spend so much and create a

wave out of it we have too many families in India who spend and they are spending it for status they want to make a statement so they want to hire a person who knows the job how to make a statement so social media is important to them and how you service we have one of our students who mentioned about Hospitality yes that is increasing now there are companies who are only doing Hospitality they are not doing the planning job the planner is outsourcing that job to a person that was my job it was my job

to make those calls to the guests I have made calls in the first few years we didn't have so many team members and I wanted to understand what every person goes through so I made those calls keeping my self-respect aside and I made those calls because why self-respect because I was already 12 14 years into the Industry I Was An established anchor I was used to getting calls but I decided to call to level down to break that notion in my head that I'm a Diva to become that person with them to understand what is

the guest expecting out of me and I started writing scripts for my callers so that my calls sound correct irrespective of my caller the tone and the communication is the same and that is how systems get developed and that is why we started This school that you don't go through the same mistakes that somebody went through even today so many wedding planning companies don't get the calling right because they leave it to the caller they just say information how many guests are coming but I want you to believe that you have signed up for this

course to know what is to be spoken how your tone should change how your language should change what things you cannot be Seen and all of that then becomes that Perfection that the client is chasing today he's only seeking Perfection Precision a professional way of doing that job why he started calling his business guest list used to be 20 people okay less than 10% today the guest list is 40% business associates 60% family because this is the time when he shows and makes a statement he gains the confidence of his International Associates of his National

Associates K This is my power so that is wedding guys it's a beautiful transformation phase that you all are getting into an industry and this demand for you is never going to reduce you will end up getting the corporate work that also I can promise you we have done a lot of work for our clients who then tell us okay we plan holidays for them some planners have planned honeymoons also to it's crazy it's Exciting bus these four months and six months to get you there that you don't worry so stop worrying about oh you

all have told me this subject when is that session don't worry even if it's not in the curriculum I'll make sure you learn it if I see something new in these few months but are you doing your weekly job are you investing one hour every day I want you to make that promise to yourself I'm going to do that that is going to add up To the transformation which I want to make with you so that you are two steps ahead of your boss and all you bosses you all better be four steps ahead after

this course H and start training all your team members so that they do a better job okay um we are going to conclude today's session and continue this obviously this is just my one part and we have to meet some of our other students who didn't get a chance to Introduce themselves and more about what when how we continue on this tomorrow and uh thank you very much and I'm very excited uh with with with all those whom we met so far I'm sure you are too thank you thank you naab Balu I I think

um I think uh this is like the happiest time I can't even explain to you all what I'm feeling from inside and before I start crying youall all please leave but we'll take a group Picture before you leave so every everyone can just have their videos on and some of you who are not able to use that virtual and it's coming on your face you can remove the the background uh background that we gave you uh most of you I'm able to see clearly just one or two I'm not able to uh and uh sweetie

Let's uh remove me from Spotlight and let's take a picture please I would like to request the students who have not switched on their cameras if You could do that and smile did we get it did we get it are we done swe thank you good too much but you know I can't fit everybody in the one Gallery so I had to like switch here and there so oh should we pae again Madam I'm ready oh no we are good we good great so let's all keep smiling enjoying this and it's just the beginning of

lots and lots of learning and togetherness happiness uh lots of love enjoy Saturday And uh I am going to see you tomorrow morning morning bye thank you thank you ma'am bye thank you bye thank you bye thank you everyone for the encouragement on the chat you don't know what it means to us totally thank you Son thank you thank you kashes thank you Ma thanks thanks thanks radika everyone See you tomorrow by