CSUEB offers innovative wedding planner certificate

• January 13, 2011 5:38am

Reporter Chris Metinko of the Oakland Tribune recently profiled Cal State East Bay’s innovative wedding planner certificate. Read article.

The CSUEB program is the only one of its kind offered at an accredited university and hospitality management professionals consider the certificate to be a benchmark for all other wedding consulting training programs.

25-year hospitality industry veteran Joyce Scardina Becker leads the program and owns the event-planning firm Events of Distinction in San Francisco. Becker has planned more than 500 weddings.

"This is definitely an industry that's growing," said Scardina Becker. "Even in a recession, people still want to celebrate. People still get married. In a way, the hospitality industry can be somewhat recession proof."

For more information about the program, call 510-885-4921 or visit the program Web site.

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