The Reunion Planner : The Step-By-Step Guide Designed to Make Your Reunion a Social and Financial Success!

The "Reunion Planner, How to Make Your Reunion a Social and Financial Success," is now in its 4th Edition. Since 1992, this guidebook has been helping non-professional planners create reunions that are successful and memorable. While high school reunions are the focus, the book contains many ideas, resources, and tips for college, family, and military reunions as well. Since the previous edition, social media has become a major factor in getting the word out about reunions. With its instantaneous capabilities, social media has become a very useful tool in announcing reunions, finding people, stimulating attendance, and keeping the ambiance going by posting pictures and inspiring reminiscing after the event. This new edition allows for efficient references to various websites for advertising your reunion, creating interactive connections with your group, finding people, selecting appropriate venues, and in exploring ideas for displays and mementos. Organized by time frames preceding the event, it walks the reader through everything from one year before the reunion, through its fruition, and the aftermath. This new edition also includes examples of invitations, room displays, mementos, name tags, centerpieces, and activities. Having a newly updated companion software program that can be purchased along with the book, included are tips on how to incorporate its features into your reunion plan. Besides the organizational details, the book helps lessen the anxiety of the inevitable hesitations of taking associated with planning such an event or even attending reunions. Not only will readers have all the tools necessary to pull off a successful reunion, they will be able to convince everyone that such landmark events are not to be missed. "The Reunion Planner" will not only show you how to succeed in having a profitable event, but it will also ensure that your reunion will exceed expectations and maintain cherished memories until the next one takes place. What Other Folks Are Saying The Bottom Line: Anyone planning a reunion should get their hands on "The Reunion Planner (3rd Edition)" as soon as possible; it will save you enormous amounts of time and effort and ensure a successful event. A wonderful resource, enthusiastically recommended for all library collections and individuals with reunions in mind. Libraries need two copies-one for reference and one to circulate. Cheryl La Guardia, "The Library Journal" ""Click Your Way to a Family Reunion"" Before the Gathering. Buy inexpensive software, easy-to-install computer programs, such as Family Reunion Organizer and Reunion Planner include address books and mailing list templates, budget worksheet, comprehensive checklists and other features to help organize every aspect of the reunion." "Martha Stewart Living" "I honestly believe that anyone who tries to plan a very successful reunion without your book is crazy. It has everything you need." Julie Rickels, Southern High School Stronghurst, Illinois