10 Tips for a Classic

                                              Reunion

It's Springtime! Every reunion should be a metaphor for this season. No matter what the time of year, class or anniversary that is being celebrated, reunion planners should make sure that reunions are fresh, bright and cheery. In fact, a few more adjectives come to mind including: exciting, different and upbeat. Therefore, in following this design, I can't help but spring forth with a few new tips. Ideas, to be sure, that will help make your reunion the event not to be missed!

1. Include Springtime Pictures on all Invitations and Announcements. This is the first impression that potential attendees will see. Plant the image of Spring on your cover letter to exude the fresh, bright and cheery ambiance you want to impart.
2. Springtime Theme Postcards and Website Reminders: Send postcard reminders as you approach the event that include three spring colors and use these colors throughout the planning process. It will create the setting at a very early stage and can be carried on throughout the planning process.
3. Hire a musician that can play upbeat springy classic songs. While most reunion planners tell DJs to play songs of a particular era, nothing says you can't plan to have to an hour of songs that focus on the upbeat theme. Request song suggestions from invitees in all announcements.
4. Carry the springtime color theme throughout the event. Make the background colors on your nametags, programs, registration packets and awards in springtime shades of pink, green and yellow.
5. Plan a Champagne Brunch. For the Sunday event after the Saturday dinner/dance, offer a champagne brunch that celebrates the Springtime theme. Since Spring offers new beginnings, here is the invitation suggestion for your following-day event. Let's celebrate Spring by renewing old friendships and beginning new ones&Join us for a sunny-Sunday Champagne Brunch.
6. Offer Awards and Prizes that can be enjoyed in the Spring.See if you can get donations from local or reasonably close establishments that would follow your theme and be enjoyed outdoors and in the sun, such as:
   1. A round of golf at a fancy golf course.
   2. A brunch at a restaurant with tables on the lake or beach.
   3. A professional tour at a museum that focuses on garden displays or outdoor sculptures.
   4. Hayrides
   5. Donated Picnic baskets
   6. Tickets to a baseball game
7. Have colorful jellybeans or candies wrapped inside cellophane as souvenirs displayed at each table setting.
8. Drape colorful springtime table runners over white tablecloths on the dinner tables.
9. When the reunion is over and you are sending out follow-up letters and thank you notes, be sure to include the springtime theme in the correspondence.
10. It doesn't matter when the reunion occurs during the year. You can still have the Springtime inspiration. That means be creative and open-minded. Don't dwell on the same old standard reunion schemes. Your reunion should be full of the promise of beginning new friendships, establishing new relationships and reinvigorating lives.

Now isn't that the real purpose of reunions?

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