Fresher event planner resume example
Aravind Menon · Event Coordinator · Kochi, Kerala. A sample person — replace every detail with your own.
Professional summary
Event management graduate with a six-month internship at a corporate events agency and weekend experience on wedding set-ups. Comfortable with venue recces, AV checklists, delegate registration desks and vendor follow-ups. Seeking an event coordinator role with a firm handling conferences, dealer meets and product launches across Kerala and south India.
Skills
- Venue recce
- Run-sheet preparation
- Vendor follow-ups
- Delegate registration
- AV checklists
- Budget tracking in Excel
- Canva for signage
- Guest hospitality
Experience
- Supported on-ground teams at 11 corporate events, including two dealer meets of 400 delegates and a pharma product launch.
- Prepared minute-by-minute run-sheets and AV cue lists that the producer used during rehearsals and live stage transitions.
- Managed the registration desk for a two-day conference, issuing badges and kits to 350 attendees within the first hour.
- Tracked quotes from six vendors for staging, lighting and catering in a shared Excel sheet, flagging costs above the approved budget.
- Assisted with décor set-up and teardown at 15 weddings and receptions ranging from 150 to 800 guests.
- Coordinated guest arrival, seating charts and buffet timing with banquet staff under the lead planner’s direction.
- Handled last-minute supplier calls for flowers, generators and transport, keeping the lead planner free for family requests.
Education
Certifications and registrations
- Basic First Aid and CPR, certified training course
- Fire Safety Awareness for Public Venues, short course
Projects
- College cultural fest — led logistics for a three-day fest with 2,500 visitors, 40 volunteers and 12 stalls, finishing within budget
Languages
English · Malayalam · Hindi · Tamil
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Experienced event planner resume example
Ritika Shekhawat · Senior Wedding Planner · Jaipur, Rajasthan. A sample person — replace every detail with your own.
Professional summary
Wedding planner with seven years of experience planning destination and palace weddings across Rajasthan, from intimate ceremonies of 80 guests to three-day celebrations of 900. Leads décor concepts, guest travel, room blocks and vendor contracts, and manages budgets from ₹20 lakh to ₹1.5 crore while keeping families informed through a single weekly update.
Skills
- Destination weddings
- Décor concept design
- Vendor negotiation
- Guest room blocks
- Budget management
- Multi-day itineraries
- Team leadership
- Client consultations
- Contingency planning
Experience
- Planned and delivered 46 destination weddings in Jaipur, Udaipur and Jodhpur, with guest lists averaging 350 across three days.
- Negotiated annual rate cards with decorators, caterers and tent suppliers, trimming average vendor spend by about 12 percent per wedding.
- Built a room-block and airport-transfer tracker that cut guest travel complaints sharply during peak winter season.
- Lead a 14-member on-ground team, assigning ritual captains, hospitality desks and a backup plan for outdoor events hit by rain.
- Coordinated mehendi, sangeet and reception functions for 60 weddings, owning run-sheets from baraat timing to pheras.
- Managed client budgets up to ₹45 lakh, sharing itemised cost sheets after each vendor payment milestone.
- Introduced a vendor briefing call two days before each event, reducing on-day setup delays across the season.
- Ran banquet set-ups for weddings, conferences and private dinners, handling up to four events on a single weekend.
- Worked with the chef and service captains on menu tastings, seating layouts and service timing for 600-guest receptions.
- Maintained event function sheets and handover notes so night-shift banquet teams could reset halls for morning conferences.
Education
Certifications and registrations
- FoSTaC Basic Food Safety Supervisor, FSSAI
- Advanced Floral Design Workshop, professional course
Projects
- Palace wedding for 900 guests — managed 22 vendors across three venues, with every function starting within 15 minutes of schedule
- Zero-waste wedding pilot — replaced plastic décor and packaged water, diverting most event waste from landfill
Languages
English · Hindi · Rajasthani
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Why these resumes work
- Aravind’s registration desk line — 350 attendees badged within the first hour — shows a fresher can prove speed and calm under pressure with one measurable moment from an internship.
- Ritika names the cities, guest averages and budget bands she handles, which lets a studio owner judge instantly whether she can manage palace weddings at their scale.
- Both resumes separate event types clearly: corporate dealer meets and conferences for Aravind, destination weddings for Ritika, so neither reads like a generic hospitality profile.
- The vendor lines carry the most weight: rate-card negotiation with a cost saving and a pre-event briefing call show judgement, not just attendance at events.
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