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Karla Welch, celebrity stylist, teaches you how to identify and own your personal style whether you’re discovering your signature look or refining your capsule wardrobe.

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Looking down on wedding checklist on table

Mindy introduces one of the most challenging parts of planning a wedding: choosing who gets to come! She provides clarity and reassurance with her ABC process for crafting a guest list, then she offers insight into how to deal with plus-ones and what to consider for a kid-friendly wedding. Check out the link PDF for a Guest List Spreadsheet template.

Crafting Your Guest List

Every wedding starts with two things: a story and a budget to tell it. In this lesson, Mindy offers foundational tips and best practices for creating a comprehensive wedding budget.

Choosing Your Budget

Mindy shares tried-and-true tips for saving money on your wedding, highlighting the best situations to trim or concede on your ideals. She also breaks down how to avoid hidden costs and fees that may pop up along the way as you plan. Even on a budget, your wedding can be special. When you're ready, download and print the linked budget spreadsheet template and begin filling it out with your partner. You can also use this template as a guide to create your own budget in Excel, Google Sheets, or another spreadsheet application.

10 Ways to Cut Costs

Determine wedding-day priorities by creating a budget and narrowing your guest list. Mindy shares her ABC process so you can decide who gets an invite. You’ll also examine how to cut costs and track your budget.

Determine wedding-day priorities by creating a budget and narrowing your guest list.

Create a Budget and Guest List

Planning a wedding is like conducting an orchestra. In this lesson, Mindy discusses the roles involved in a traditional wedding ceremony, and provides the tools you need to choose an officiant with whom you can collaborate.

Assigning Your Wedding Party Roles

According to Mindy, your vows are the validation of why you’re getting married. But you don’t have to be a wordsmith to speak from the heart. In this lesson, she provides guidance for personalizing your vows so that nothing is left unsaid.

Writing Your Vows

Think of the rehearsal as the precursor to the big day. Mindy teaches you how to conduct a seamless rehearsal, and shares the important information you need to relay to the wedding party before you walk down the aisle.

Rehearsing for the Big Day

Now that you’ve created your own ceremony diagram, take a look at how others have set up theirs. Share the thoughts and ideas that have inspired you.

Feedback: Ceremony Diagrams

Now that you know what you’ll need for an effective rehearsal, it’s time to map out the exact positioning of your ceremony. Using the provided samples as reference, create your own ceremony diagram and upload it to the community page. Please share your diagram as a .jpg or .png image file. The file size limit is 10 MB.

Share Your Ceremony Diagram

The moment that matters most? The moment you say, “I do.” In this section, Mindy covers each part of a typical ceremony and helps you to reimagine your own. You’ll map out your ceremony diagram, prepare your rehearsal, and begin to work on vows.

Mindy covers each part of a traditional ceremony and helps you make it your own.

Plan Your Ceremony

Mindy helps you narrow down your venue options with the ultimate pro/con comparison. She breaks down what to consider when picking an ideal spot and provides more questions to ask along the way. Once you’ve determined your date and venue, it’s time to  start your customized to-do list! Feel free to download an app like WeddingHappy to get you started.

Narrowing Down Venue Options

Mindy explains how your venue can seriously impact your wedding date. She breaks down on-site versus off-site venues, as well as one-stop versus two-stop weddings. Then she provides questions to ask on venue tours.

Finding Your Venue

Finding your wedding venue is one of the biggest pieces of the planning puzzle. Mindy explains how to decide among your options and what to look for in the process. You will craft questions to ask while you’re touring different wedding venues.

Prepare to visit your venue options with questions that will help you make the best choice.

Choose Your Venue

Mindy welcomes you to her session—outlining what you need to know to start planning your dream wedding. She gives an overview of her illustrious career, as well as insight into her event-planning philosophy. Then she shares the ultimate outcome of the session: your comprehensive, ready-to-execute wedding binder.

Session Overview

Take a look at what your fellow wedding planners have listed as their top three priorities. Share what their ideas have sparked for you.

Feedback: Top 3 Priorities

Mindy deep dives into her approach for creating a wedding binder, providing ideas on how to make it uniquely yours—just like your big day. Then she helps you determine your top priorities for your wedding day. Doing so ensures that you and your partner begin the planning process on the same page.

Starting Your Wedding Binder

It’s time for your first assignment: Decide on your top three priorities for a dream wedding and share them with the sessions community.

Share Your Top 3 Priorities

Mindy shares her philosophy for wedding planning and describes how she became a world-renowned celebrity event planner. She introduces the intention of the session: to build a comprehensive, ready-to-execute binder that maps out the logistics of your wedding day.

Mindy introduces herself and the goal of the session: to build a ready-to-execute wedding binder.

Introduction

When it comes to music, what’s your priority? Will you hire a DJ or a live band? Mindy offers insight into how to curate the perfect soundtrack for your ceremony and reception.

Hiring Bands and Entertainment

How you look reflects how you feel on your big day. In this lesson, Mindy helps you navigate the best way to find a makeup artist, hair stylist, inspiration for your wedding look, and strategies for scheduling a strong trial run.

Gathering Your Glam Team

You’re already on your way to planning your own wedding—but you still may want to enlist the help of a professional! Mindy breaks down the different types of planners available for pre- and day-of planning, and provides questions you can leverage to evaluate potential vendors effectively.

Exploring Wedding Planners

Mindy gives an overview of who, what, and how to hire for your big day.

Picking Your Vendors

You’ll want to capture every magical moment from your wedding on camera. Mindy goes over your options for hiring photographers and videographers, providing insight into how to interview them, judge their style, and review their portfolio.

Picking Photographers and Videographers

Creating a dream wedding starts with a dream team. Mindy shares an overview of who, what, and how to hire for your big day—including glam pros, photographers, and entertainment. You will be given strategic questions to ask potential vendors during interviews.

Mindy shares an overview of who, what, and how to hire vendors for your big day.

Hire Your Team

Not only are wedding invitations a vital source of information, they’re also a memorable keepsake. Mindy walks you through the best practices and timelines surrounding printing, ordering, and sending your invitations.

Ordering and Sending Your Wedding Invitations

Use Mindy’s expertise to choose your invitations. You can use these resources to select the design and format for your announcement.

Select Your Wedding Invitations

For many couples, the invitation is a personal message to friends and family. In this lesson, Mindy goes over different styles and standards for wedding invites and encourages you to start designing your own. Once you’ve considered Mindy’s tips, you’ll begin to write your own invitation.

Writing Your Invitations

Mindy shows you how to apply her ABC guest list process to communicate valuable information on save the dates and wedding websites. She’ll go over the specific content, timeline, and wording you can reference. Then you’ll set up your website and start filling in the details.

Creating Save the Dates and Building Your Wedding Website

Using the resources mentioned in Mindy’s previous lesson, start setting up your wedding website and choose your save the dates. You can continue building on the ones you have if you’ve already begun the process.

Select Your Save the Dates and Set Up Your Website

Any correspondence you send will be your guests’ first impression of your wedding—so make it great. Mindy discusses how to make your save the dates, invitations, and website as beautiful and informative as possible. You’ll begin the process with all the info you need.

Mindy reveals how to make your save the dates, invitations, and website elegant and informative.

Send Invitations

Stay ahead of all the dress code questions. In this lesson, Mindy provides the necessary considerations for establishing what you, your party, and your guests will wear, depending on the season, weather, and preferred level of  formality.

Decoding the Dress Code

Selecting your wedding attire is one of the biggest (and most fun) decisions you will make. Her tips and tricks will ensure that you feel comfortable and special at your event.

Selecting Wedding Dresses and Suits

In this lesson, Mindy lays out all the options when it comes to choosing your wedding party attire. Make use of Mindy’s dress code checklist to confirm that all of your plans for the wedding attire are in good shape—and that your outfits will be ready on time. 

Selecting Wedding Party Attire

Next up is another big step: deciding on a dress code and planning your own fantastic attire! In this section, Mindy details all of your options and helps you decide which route to take. Then, you’ll use an attire checklist to keep all the snazzy details in order.

What will you wear? How fancy will your dress code be? Mindy helps you decide on the details.

Choose Your Attire

For many guests, cocktail hour is their favorite hour. Mindy walks you through the basic foundation for any full cocktail hour—hors d’oeuvres, liquor options, theme, and the benefits of an open, closed, or soft bar.

Hosting Your Wedding Cocktail Hour

You’re going out of your way to make things special—and food is no exception. This lesson covers Mindy’s tips for choosing a balanced, crowd-pleasing menu. She runs you through the different courses and budget-friendly options for both plated and buffet-style menus.

Curating Your Reception Menu

If all this talk of mixology has you inspired, come up with a signature cocktail you’d like to serve at your wedding. Then share your recipe on the community page.

Share Your Signature Cocktail

Treat your guests to your dream wedding cake. Mindy shows you how to find a cake maker, get the most out of tastings, and leverage faux cake tricks. She also offers ideas for alternative options. Then you’ll finalize your wedding menu by completing a questionnaire.

Deciding on Dessert

Mindy promises to never leave your guests unsatisfied. In this section, she’ll provide tried-and-true insight into bar basics, reception meals, cake, and alternative desserts. Then you’ll use a questionnaire to set up your entire menu.

Mindy provides tried-and-true insight into bar basics, reception meals, and desserts.

Pick Your Menu

When it comes to making your wedding shine, it’s all in the details. From napkins to linens, Mindy goes over everything you need to consider—including color, texture, and style—when creating your table settings.

Incorporating Linens and Texture

In this final demonstration, Mindy highlights a glamorous style that doesn’t require a bounty of bouquets: the rustic DIY table. Her money-saving tips include creating your own table decor. Once you’re familiar with all three types of table decor, take the questionnaire to determine your style.

Styling Your Table: Rustic DIY

Flowers and candles can enhance the romantic vibrations of any space. Mindy gives tactical advice on finding inspiration and choosing floral arrangements that won’t break the bank. She also highlights factors to consider such as season, sensory overload, and your overall priorities.

Designing Your Floral and Candle Motif

In this lesson, Mindy helps you imagine your table design by showcasing a standard style: the classic white and green table. She explains how each element informs the overall aesthetic, and encourages you to start thinking about your own ideal table design.

Styling Your Table: Classic White and Green

Mindy takes you through another design demonstration: the bright, bold, and beautiful table. She explains how to get the most color on your table without breaking the bank.

Styling Your Table: Bright, Bold, and Beautiful

Color lets you reflect your personality, inspire energy, and set the stage for a memorable day. Mindy helps you choose complementary and compatible color palettes—including your main and accent colors. From florals to ribbons, you’ll learn how to apply them throughout your wedding motif.

Developing Your Color Palette

Can’t stop thinking about all the colors of the rainbow? Now’s the time to develop your color palette and inspire others by sharing your choices with the community.

Share Your Color Palette

Get inspired! Take a moment to see what colors your wedding-planning peers have chosen for their respective weddings. Then comment on what you like about what they’ve done and share any new ideas they may have sparked for you.

Feedback: Your Community’s Color Palettes

Mindy shares the fun of styling your wedding. With three incredible table demos, she presents color, decor, and texture options for a variety of budgets. A focused questionnaire will help you choose a color palette and table decor for your big day.

Mindy shares the fun of styling your wedding with three table demos for a variety of budgets.

Design Your Day

Every event will have unexpected surprises. Mindy provides a concise list of items you will want to have on hand to deal with any last-minute issues that might arise.

Prepare Your Wedding Day Emergency Kit

Mindy shows you how to get the most out of your wedding binder by personalizing it—and shares some parting words, wishing you the best in your future. Make sure you haven’t missed downloading any PDFs for your Wedding Binder. In the Guides you'll find a complete list of all PDF downloads from the session for you to cross reference, including the final PDF, the "Post-Wedding Checklist."

Personalize Your Binder

In this final section, Mindy celebrates all you’ve accomplished in her session, encourages you to enjoy the rest of the process, and provides some final instructions.

Your Wedding Day

In this final section, Mindy reiterates the importance of keeping a personalized wedding binder to ensure all of your hard work stays organized. After you add the final touches, there’s nothing left to do but celebrate!

Mindy reiterates the importance of a wedding binder to make sure your hard work stays organized.

Your Wedding Binder

Finally, it’s time to map out every element of your big day. Start by drawing your reception floor plan and developing your seating chart. Then upload both plans to the community page and see how other couples are bringing their dream weddings to life. Please share your plans as .jpg or .png image files. The file size limit is 10 MB.

Share Your Floor Plan and Seating Chart

Seating your guests can be a challenge—you want to keep everyone happy and the energy flowing. Mindy makes it easy with tips on planning your seating chart, choosing tables, and leaning on venues and rental companies for expertise.

Drafting Your Wedding Floor Plan

Now that you’ve determined all the lovely details of your dream wedding, it’s time to record them into your schedule and floor plan. In this section, Mindy guides you in creating a seating chart and itinerary.

In this section, Mindy guides you in creating a seating chart and itinerary.

Draft Your Floor Plan

Prioritize Your Plans

Pick Your People

Prepare to Party

For this session, you’ll need only a pen and paper or a computer.

Bring your dream wedding to life with celebrity event planner Mindy Weiss. The session will include creating a personalized logistics binder with your budget, venue, menu, apparel, decor, and more.

Mindy Weiss started out creating custom invitations—ultimately becoming a highly coveted wedding planner. After nearly 30 years and three bestselling books, she has mastered her craft. Her warmth and creativity have earned her clients such as Justin and Hailey Bieber, Nina and Russell Westbrook, Paris Hilton, and the Kardashians.

Long dinner table with orange hanging flowers

Instructor wearing polka dot dress in front of event table

Event table with black and white tablecloth and orange napkins

Mindy Weiss

Create your own wedding plan with

Design & Style

In this section, you’ll continue to create realistic facial features with your brushstrokes. Devon demonstrates how to fill in the lips, nose, and ears, and encourages you to do the same with your portrait.

Introduction to Painting Facial Features

Devon shows how to blend and paint the nose.

Painting the Nose

Devon shows how to paint realistic ears that look like those of your subject.

Painting the Ears

Share your thoughts now that everyone’s portraits are complete with facial features. Describe any successes or challenges you had, and comment on two of your peers’ photos.

Feedback: Painting Facial Features

Gather the materials you’ll need to paint the lips, nose, and ears on your portrait. The optional links will direct you to an Amazon product page that is not affiliated with MasterClass. Look through the “See Similar Items” section on Amazon if the product is not readily available, or buy locally.

Gather Your Supplies for Painting the Lips, Nose, and Ears

Devon shows how to paint realistic lips with depth and dimension before you try your hand at it.

Painting the Lips

It’s time to use all the techniques you’ve learned so far to bring the entirety of the face to your realistic oil portrait. Paint the lips, nose, and ears onto your portrait, and upload a photo of it to the community forum so your fellow artists can see your progress. Please share your photo as a .jpg or .png image file. The file size limit is 10 MB.

Share Your Progress on the Facial Features

As the face of your portrait comes to life, you’ll continue to bring dimension to your painting with realistic facial details. Devon will show you how to add depth while regulating tone.

Lips, Nose, and Ears

For this session, you’ll need a variety of oil painting and drawing supplies, as well as gesso-primed panels and an easel.

Learn to create an astounding oil portrait. Whether you’re experienced or new to painting, refine your drawing, color-mixing, and varnishing techniques with TikTok sensation Devon Rodriguez.

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