Planning A Family Reunion

When we, my wife and I decided to help put together a family reunion we could not believe how much work was involved and what little help we received from the rest of the family. We figured it would be fairly easy since we both worked from home, we thought since we had more time on our hands that we could make things fall in place with a little effort. Boy, were we so surprised!

First of all finding the location that everyone could afford was the first major task. We knew everyone was at different stages therefore it had to be affordable. The ages raged from the older generation whom were living on fixed income. As long as the hotel would be decent, they would be satisfied. To many middle age professionals whom were now putting there kids in college. The younger generation who were mostly college students with no money of their own, so we check into the prices of plenty hotels. We had to check into bus rentals, activities, and catering services to make this family reunion a great success.

First off we demanded everyone to put half the money up front, but we didn't know how many people we had attending. You know there are always the last family to pay the money, so we kept that in mind also. There wasn't anyone trying to make any real commitments, everyone wanted to know the exact prices. The problem arises when we couldn't give the exact prices unless we knew how people were going altogether.

My wife and I decided to estimate approx. 50 people joining us on our family reunion. Once we estimated the amount of people we found that the price would be $350 per person. We were praying that there would be 50 people our we would have took a major lost with the money. We had to put the money down in order to reserve all the rooms. Sure enough out prayers were answers we had gotten 75 people to sign on, which meant we had some money left over, and with the extra money we donated it to a family member who needed some work done on the house after they had retired and were living on a fixed income.