绿帽换妻

• January 13, 2011 5:38am

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

The 绿帽换妻 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 .

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