Making Moments

The Business and Craft of Planning Weddings, Corporate Events, and Celebrations

DataField.Dev

A complete course in wedding and event planning

41 chapters · 9 parts · one wedding planned end to end

For the people who want the job that nobody teaches — the one where you spend a year building something that has to work perfectly, once, in front of everyone the client loves.

Level: Beginner to professional. No prior events experience assumed.

What you'll build: A complete production book for a real wedding — consultation notes, a vision document, a tracked $42,000 budget, redlined contracts, an insurance file, a floor plan, a design concept, a menu, a bar plan, a lighting plot, a ceremony structure, a 200-line master timeline, a minute-by-minute run sheet, a rain plan, and a post-event report.

What you'll be able to do: Sit across from two nervous people, find out what they actually want, tell them what it costs, assemble forty vendors who have never met, write the document that makes them all move as one, and then stand at the back of the room and watch it happen without anyone noticing you at all.

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Free to read, share, adapt, teach from, and print. Corrections and contributions welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Every couple, vendor, venue, and event in this book is a composite created for teaching and is labeled as such. Prices are illustrative ranges, not quotes. Legal, insurance, and alcohol-service content is educational and is not professional advice. See the Preface.

2026