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How to Plan Your Family Reunion
Activities, Memories and Final Thoughts- With large family reunions, activities designed to break the ice are very helpful. Games such as guess the baby picture or other ice breakers are fun. Name tags can be very helpful, too. When your group hits the road for activities, such as heading to an amusement park, giving everyone the same tee-shirt is both fun and a good way to keep the connections going during the outing.
- For a reunion that extends more than a day, it's useful to have planned activities. Your group can visit a historical site, head to the beach for a clambake, play at a picnic in the park, or even go bowling!
- Think about keepsakes for after the event. Will you assemble a scrapbook of pictures from the reunion for everyone? Are you planning a family heritage cookbook? Any of these activities will require a coordinator who will manage the photo-taking and/or gathering of information for the scrapbook or cookbook.
Final Thoughts
- The more elaborate your reunion in terms of the number of participants, the length of the gathering and the distance traveled, the more time you should allot to planning this event. It may take you over a year to plan your family's first reunion.
- Reunions may be one-time gatherings or held at regular intervals depending on the finances, distance and interest of your group.
- In subsequent years it will be easier to plan if you find a format that works for your group and simply duplicate it annually.
- Once the plans have been made, it's time to send out the official invitations and get deposits for any accomodations that need to be booked in advance.
- One last word - CAMERAS!
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