Who will plan and attend the family reunion?
Prior to assembling a guest list and deciding whether to include immediate or extended family, select people who will become part of the reunion planning committee. Taking a divide and conquer approach to your family reunion ensures that the event will reflect both the needs and wants of the attendees while preventing any one single person from becoming overwhelmed by responsibilities. The next step your planning committee should take is to decide the focus of your reunion. Determine whether you will plan your reunion around a milestone occasion such as Aunt Mary’s 80th birthday celebration or if you would prefer to focus on reuniting with the direct descendants of grandparents John and Helen Smith. For a larger scale family reunion, your committee may want to enlist the help of a professional to support all or a portion of the decisions to be made. Gabrielle Stone of the Boston based Stone Event Planning emphasizes the importance of having a point person who will be your family’s cont
