ideas for family reunion?
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Community Events \nContact the local Convention and Visitors Bureau, as well as the local Chambers of Commerce for information regarding sightseeing tours and other activities.\n\nFamily Reunion Cruise\nRock climbing, golf, tennis, spas, swimming, movies, shows  and lots and lots of food!\n\nStory Telling \nTell stories thru peotry, music, recital and oral story telling and stand up comedy. Often the height of the reunion event that brings back the memories. \n\nFamily Reunion Photo Swap\nMembers bring new and old photos  indluding pictures with historic value and the great-greats at the old homestead  and even previous reunions. Photos should be labeled with name of owner.  \n\nFamily Reunion Olympics\nThe family reunion olympic games is a great opportunity to hold special events allowing teams members from each family to participate while drawing close to one another.  Sports events allow  different age groups to participate. Each team selects its name state/county and design their own banner.  It's a lot of fun.\n\nJigsaw Puzzle Race\nOther young adult activities that challenge the intellect and reflex are the family portrait jig-saw puzzle challenge. Using previous years family reunion photos create two card table sized jigsaw puzzles from the photos. Select several family members for each team to assemble the puzzles on their table. The puzzle could have a well known fact, slogan or metaphor unique to the family printed on it before cutting. The first team to assemble  the puzzle enough to guess the phrase wins. \n\nReunion “Survivor” Game  \nThis game draws from the Survivor TV show. It will capture the attention of everyone. The key is to survive (complete) a series of daring feats including a jump rope line, keeping up the hoola hoop for 2 minutes, Dodge ball with velcro vest and  velcro ball (20 hits),  Remember to keep it.\n\nThe "Amazing Race" \nThe race borrows from the popular Television show and is sure to be a big hit. Select several families to complete a 3 mile race with several stops along the way providing destination clues. Cover the race with your live web cam wired to a big screen TV for spectator coverage. Make the race a one hour event. The family that wins gets a gift certificate to a theme park or restuarant. \n\n"American Idol" \nThe Idol style game is basically a talent show featuring three categories of song, dance, and stand up comedy. Have a panel of three judges whose aim is to shower each contestant with praise and exagerated compliments but votes on cards. Each card is placed in a box.  The host adds up the vote tally to reveal the winner in each talent category. \n\nFor more ideas there's a family reunion activities idea list in the evaluation software provided by some of the sites below.
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Ooo, the fun of managing etiquette at "split family wedding" time. Points to you and your parents for keeping things civil, even friendly, up until now! Many people don't manage it.\n\nSo what can your mom give that won't upset that great situation?\n\nNothing sentimental, unless it involves both of them - for example, a beautiful frame for a photo of the new bride and groom, to be displayed prominently, with a note that says, "May you build many happy memories together." Ditto for a really nice photo album - especially if you already have photos of them together that you can put on the cover, or inside.\n\nUm, lamp, passing torch... you know them all better than I do, but see, it isn't up to your Mom to pass the torch to her successor... unless all three of them already have some sort of in joke to that effect, one you know they ALL find amusing, I'd pass on that.\n\nNext choice -- see what they've registered for and pick something from the list. Hard to get in trouble, unless they're registered at a lingerie shop. Hard to misinterpret a set of matching serving spoons or a vase, especially if they've chosen it for the registry.\n\nNext -- a set of goblets or glasses, etched with his first initial, and hers. Also something your mom and you could do at home (craft stores have kits - practice on glasses from a thrift store until you're ready to do the gift glasses - it's easy to do).\n\nGood luck!
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Taking the family to the lake & have a cook-out!
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Just send letters to your family informing them that you'll have a family reunion. State the place, time, contact numbers and whats the agenda. Tell them to confirm so that you'll know how many persons are coming to verify if you are making a reservation in a restaurant or other venue besides your home & so that you can adjust costing of your menu, etc.  Mention also in your agenda that your planning of electing officers for future meetings. Hope this will give you an idea what's to write on your letter with your family.  Good luck.
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if you have time (i dont know if ur doing anything later) you could try making them on powerpoint or sumthing...por maybe you can send their family and ecard on bluemountain.com
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I am not sure if this is the same thing as a "come and go" event, but we have a very large family and often hold what we call "open houses".  I advise a 2-3 hour time frame for the event.  Refreshments can be very simple, especially if you hold the shower during the afternoon hours of 2-5 or 1-4 since this is after lunch and before dinner.  Use small plates, 6 or 8 inch and provide finger foods - fresh veggies with dip, cut-up fresh fruit, small appetizers such as little quiche or little sausages wrapped around crescent roll dough.  Dessert can be sugar cookies made in hearts with the wedding date or bride and groom's names written on them.  Miniature cupcakes would be cute, too.  Provide something that will "unite" all the guests since they won't all be there at the same time.  Maybe provide a recipe card and a 3x5 card in each guest's invitation.  Have them bring a favorite recipe on the recipe card and some "advice" for the happy couple on the 3x5 card.  Have a pretty basket available to put the card in.  As each guest leaves, give them something small as a momento since you won't be able to do much in the way of games.  Perhaps a small votive candle or a little potpourri wrapped in tulle and ribbon that match the colors of the bride's colors.  After the party, as the bride-to-be unwraps each gift, take a digital or poloroid picture of her with the gift and send it in the thank-you card to the giver.  Make sure everyone has a name tag since the guest list is large.  Another option may be to consider a different venue for the party.  A church social hall, a school gym or cafeteria, a park with a gazebo, someone's back yard, may be possibilities to allow all guests to be there at the same time.  Also, if you have anyone nice enough to ask what they can do to help, be sure to accept their offer and see if they can either help set-up or clean-up or perhaps bring a veggie tray or make cookies.  This will help financially and will be less stress for you.
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Also try a card store - they have some lovely ones.  And here is a website that has poems about family.\n\nI hope this is helpful to you.  Best wishes.  I hope you and your family will be together again soon.
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We had a 3 days of events for our 10th reunion. The first night was a reception at the fancy hotel in town, with appetizers and a no-host bar. The fee was around $20. The next night was at the local salmon bake, where we had dinner for about $20. (I would have liked a more high-end event, and would have paid the higher price for it.) The last day was an all-family picnic, which was a free potluck, with some of the items purchased with class funds.\n\nOne of the best parts was our class book. We (the reunion committee) sent out blank pages for everyone to fill in, chronicling their changes since graduation. Some people did them in advance, and many did them during the events (side note: it is entertaining to see what people will write about themselves after a few beers). These pages were copied and made into booklets that were sent out to everyone who submitted a page.\n\nBe sure you start notifying classmates early – a 12-month save-the-date card would be good. Also consider a website to broadcast updated information; we used Geocities to create a free page, and it now shows up in web searches. For snail-mail, I uploaded a spreadsheet of names and addresses to NetPost at USPS.com and sent hundreds of postcards at the touch of a button. Be sure to note which postcards are returned to sender, and add a section on your website for "lost classmates", so that people can tell you what they know about people’s whereabouts.\n\nFinally, keep good records from this reunion so that the next reunion will be a breeze!
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Try mysapce.com... or wait for the reunion.
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find a common ground.  Family, weather, sports teams, the day...\n\njust make some humor and they'll open up...
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Watch cable at a friends house.\n\nBring snacks and they will invite you back!
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how about gift certificates or gift cards as individuals and perhaps a family portrait for the parents and grandparents
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Take lots of photographs, plan to speak regularly on th phone, plan to mail them things from the new country as surprises so they can find the "fun" side of your being gone, and remember, when you get back, it will be such a glorious reunion!\nPlan to write REAL letters with storie sof what you are seeing---think of yourself as 19th century Englishman\noff to a new place--India or Africa, all you write of will be new to them, newsy to the children, and they will invariably re-read the letters over and over again, \nfor this is what we did in WWII when my Dad was away.\nHe loved our letters and we his.\nThat special bond never diminished.\nYOU can make this a great experience for everyone!\nGood Luck!
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Let me start by saying that I'm REALLY old!  LOL  I went to my 20th high school reunion (missed the 10th b/c I was 8 mos. pregnant w/my first child.  I was very skeptical about going at first.  I ended up having one of the best times of my life!  I didn't get home until 9:00 a.m.!  We just kept going from place to place to place and eventually a group of us went out to breakfast together.  We just didn't want it to end.  The girls all looks fabulous, the guys looking older and balder!   Well, here's the kicker.  That was 10 years ago!  Our 30th is coming up this summer and I'm organizing a picnic for the day after so we can continue the fun.  I live in Virginia now, but the reunion is in Buffalo, NY.  It's a bit of a challenge trying to organize long distance, but it's been fun.
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Post what their ages are in your additional details and i'll be able to give better advice. BLESS YOU WOMAN. You are one brave soul! My children are 9 and 10 so I'll have to go with what I would want to do. BOWLING. Both sexes like it and you don't have to do much entertaining. Start making our a guest list now. The party is going to be in February but start organizing the details now. I'd make sure to buy canned pop. It's less of a mess and it will save you time. Ask your child what they want as far as cake and ice cream is concerned. Also, I always recruit a mother to help me out. It's usually my sister and my aunt.
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Offer your sympathies to the family and offer to do anything that they need. Then follow through since some people have a hard time asking for help. Making sandwiches, snacks, or a casserole is also nice.
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tell her how much you love her and promise to keep in touch. perhaps you could make a little scrapbook with pictures of the good times you guys had together