The Military Wedding
Vanessa L. Baldwin is the President and Senior Consultant of Elegant Beginnings, a wedding consulting and planning service in Northern Virginia.Ms. Baldwin is a graduate of University of Maryland BaltimoreCounty and Howard University School of Social Work, Washington, DC.After professional experience as a social caseworker and a social science analyst, Ms. Baldwin was commissioned as an officer in the United States Air Force. Ms. Baldwin retired from the Air Force in 1998.The Association of Certified Wedding Consultants, Plano, Texas, certified Ms. Baldwin as a wedding consultant in 1997. Then, she established Elegant Beginnings, providing a full range of wedding planning services in the Metropolitan DC and Northern Virginia areas. Ms. Baldwin specializes in, but is not limited to, military weddings.In 2004, Ms. Baldwin developed the Wedding Coordinator Certificate Program to train wedding planning professionals. Ms. Baldwin began teaching the first series of courses at the Northern Virginia Community College, Woodbridge Campus in the Fall of 2004.Ms. Baldwin resides in Woodbridge, Virginia.