Family Reunion Fall Festivities

Alert! It's Autumn. Do you know where your family members are? The fall season is on. Autumn leaves are falling. The air is cooling and it's time to unpack the sweaters and jackets. One problem. Where is everybody? Sometimes during this season family members get more isolated than ever. More schoolwork, more overtime and when they all finally come home, they want more ME-time. Don't miss the best part of the fall season? Getting warm and toasty while cozying up with family over a warm pot of soup, stew, chili and good cheer.

So how do you bring the family together? First, set a family dinner date. Next, make use of an age-old method for bringing the family together no matter where they are in or outside the house. A wholesome cooking date! If you cook it, they will come! Yes, fill the home with the aroma of good wholesome cooking and warm homemade bread and top it off with warm baked dessert. The aroma of onions, tomatoes, fried potatoes, scallions, garlic, butter and seasoned meat and something sweet shouts 'come and get it!' before you can say 'dinners ready!"

But cooking doesn't have to be complicated. Easy crockpot recipes abound. Just chop it up in the morning and throw it in the pot. Before you leave for work turn it on low. By afternoon the home is toasty and filled with an inviting 'Lets Eat' aroma even the most introverted teen can't resist.

Time to take the crockpot out of the box and stock up on wholesome crockpot recipes to warm that belly and delight the palate. Start collecting family recipes for chili, sweet rolls, and hot apple cinnamon pie.

Even better why not plan a Fall Family Food Fest and make it a family reunion themed event. A good event organizer is essential so that nothing is overlooked. The Internet is teaming with event organizing checklists and templates. When putting together your menu plan make good use of a menu planner and family recipe compiler... Get great ideas here...

Find the Fall Food Fest family reunion planning theme complete with itinerary, menu planner, recipe compiler, event planning checklists, recommended activities and everything you need to plan this fantastic family festivity in Fimark's Family Reunion Planner. Download the eBook, order the Print Edition, or use the Web app. For more great info...

Another feature of the fall season is that November is Annual Family Reunion Planning Month. What plans are you making to observe this annual event? What will you do to get the word out? Get ideas here...

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Fall Fest Reunion Planning Reminders

The fall season is on it's way. Before the leaves start dropping and mom starts cooking that crockpot chili, sweet rolls, and hot apple cinnamon pie, it's time to start putting a dent in your Fall Fest reunion themed event. Get great ideas here...

And the best thing about a fall fest is the food and handmade crafts. Find the Fall Food Fest Reunion Planning Theme complete with itinerary, planning checklists, recommended activities and everything you need to plan this fantastic family festivity in Fimark's Family Reunion Planner eBook, or Print Edition.

1. Are your t-shirts orders in? Remind those who have not ordered using the online t-shirt ordering system.

2. Have you completed your reunion keepsake booklet?

3. Have your keepsake party favors been designed?

4. Have you completed payment for the booked park pavilion or reception facility?

5. Have you scheduled a follow-up meeting with the reunion committee or your delegated helpers? Make use of the department worksheets in Fimark's Family Reunion Planner eBook.

Reminder: November is Annual Family Reunion Planning Month. What plans are you making to observe this annual event? What will you do to get the word out?

Need help with planning organizing and managing your event. Make good use of Fimark's Family Reunion Planner web app and eBook. Get the printed copy. Makes a great family heirloom and keepsake. Get inspired...

June Family Reunion Reminders Checklist

And Handy Reunion Planning Checklists

Whether you're the family reunion planner, member of an event planning committee, the family genealogist or historian... The fact is you're running out of time, and you needed to wrap up this summer's family reunion event plans yesterday. Here are some vital, quick and easy reunion planning reminders you don't want to forget.

Important tasks you may need to complete before the event. 

Things you may need to complete those tasks. How To Speed Plan A July Family

Don't forget the family reunion keepsake memory booklet. One per household may suffice. Create a well-arranged memory book quick and easy using these suggestions and templates. How To Make A Keepsake Reunion Booklet

It's not too late to save hundreds using these event planning freebies and tips. Family Reunion Planning Freebies

Materials and supplies to remember days before your outdoor potluck family reunion picnic. 9 Last Minute Pot Luck Reunion Do Not Forgets

Happy family reunion planning!

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Why Rebuild And Maintain Your Family Reunion Website

"Friends will come and go, but family will always be there."

That said, it is wise to find a way to stay in touch. This article explains simple ways to instantly reconnect with family and keep the dialogue going.

Often family members become more distant because of the strain of the economy, taking on two or more jobs and coping the demands of day to day life leaves little time to connect with remote family members. Falling behind responding to letters,  phone messages, texts, and email can make connecting even more difficult. Before you know it months have passed by and you now must face the music at the next family reunion.  Is there a way to avoid this dilemma without having to increase phone calls? Yes. Build and maintain a family reunion website.

Imagine having a central place on the web that everyone knows about which features a discussion board and content devoted to the cause of family life.  Best of all there are a variety of ways to connect with family from one dedicated family reunion website.  Discussion board tied to social accounts, text apps and email help keep the group dialog going.  

Family historians and genealogists can post family history updates, add to family history photo gallery, and post news of ancestral findings such as DNA results, wills, estates, and heirlooms.  

Broadcasting videos and announcing upcoming or current event news is what family reunion websites are best used for.  Announce fundraisers and event ticket sales. You can blast announcements to email, via group text and more. But the absolute best feature is video uploads. What better place to display your video than on your own family's dedicated website. These intimate events are what the Internet is all about. 

But why, after the family reunion event is over, do most family reunion planners shut down their family reunion website? There could be a number of reasons. An expired credit card, cancellation of the email used to verify account ownership, forgetting the password, or just underestimating the value and power of a website dedicated to the entire clan.  To keep the family reunion website up and running consider sharing the cost with two or more other family members. A good incentive to pay is VIP privileges, rewards and freebies associated with the next reunion event.

Imagine being able to send out wedding and graduation party invitations with RSVP via the family website. Posting a gift wishlist for any occasion. Getting needed funds for college, medical bills and other family emergencies. Posting news clips featuring a family milestone. Posting family business ads. Sending a group greeting card just to say "I Love You All." No one will say "I haven't heard from you" ever again.

While it is true that once the big event has passed, website activity tends to decrease, that's no reason to close your family website account. Once the next reunion is planned activity will pick up. And if everyone pitches in to update the content the activity will remain fun and lively. That said, family reunion websites are perhaps the most effective ways to connect, update and empower the family without having to call, text or web conference individually.

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5 Reunion Fundraising Ideas

So your family reunion event is a few months away and your reunion money box shrinking. The trick to growing your funds is to use those few dollars to make more funds  How? Two words. Yard sale. 

Yard Sale Ideas

Start at home. Collect items you may have stored away that are good as new and likely to stir the interest of friends, family and neighbors. Ask local family members to donate yard sale items - proceeds toward the family reunion.

Family Auction And Lease

Need more funds? Consider having a family auction. Most family members have something to donate to that other family members would like to own or lease. The beauty of a lease auction is that you can always get the item back after a few months of possession.

Online Fund Raiser

One of the most time-effcient and cost-effective ways to raise funds is to promote a fundraiser to all family members via your google+ or facebook page. You can do this easily using your FRP Social Interface. Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Social features great fundraiser ideas which I will discuss later in this article.

Fund Raiser Web App

Another way to hold an online fundraiser is using a standalone application and pre-built webpage devoted to the fundraiser. The MyEvent folks have been online for over a decade and know how to prepare a fully functional fundraising web application for your next online fundraiser. Take a tour at Myevent.com

Rallying Support For The Fund Raising Event

Send out flyers, emails, text messages and invitations at least three weeks in advance that includes all items going up for sale. List items in categories to make desired items easy to find on your list. Have attendees share in organizing and managing some aspect of the event to ensure that they will be present to participate.

Remember, the objective of your fundraiser is to raise reunion funds, not to spend reunion funds. That said, make sure that all who attend bring a dish, drinks, and supplies to equalize the expense and prevent having to dip into the reunion account.

For more ideas to get your fundraiser off and running consult Fimark's award winning Family Reunion Planner Social web app. What, don't have FRP Social web app yet? 

For more information about the family reunion planning app click on the link found on this blog page or go to profiles. access Fimarks's Family Reunion Planning guide book.

April Reunion Planning Reminders

Time waits for no one. Don't wait for time,
plan for its arrival.

Fimark's Family Reunion Planner and Keepsake and Guidebook

Hello family reunion planners. Can you believe it? April is almost 1/3rd over. How far along are you with action items on your reunion planning checklist?

1. Have you completed your t-shirt orders? If your reunion is scheduled in July you'll want to have all the orders in by months end.

2. Begin printing flyers as post mail reminder of the upcoming event.

3. Now is a good time to start purchasing keepsake trinkets, and party favors.

4. Start working on your welcome letter to be issued at the event and placed in the keepsake family reunion memory booklet.

5. Will your program include skits and family talent entertainment? Now is the time to start scheduling practice sessions.

6. If you're planning recreational activities commence buying equipment and supplies.

7. Start making a reunion food checklist so you won't forget a thing. The following is a starter list. Add items as needed.

Reunion Food Checklist

__ Drinks
__ Water
__ Ice
__ Fruit
__ Cakes Cookies and Pies
__ Links, Burgers, (Other)

__ Buns, Bread, and Rolls
__ Salads (Leaf, Pasta, Fruit)
__ Leafy and Starchy Vegetables (Corn on a Cob, Fried Potatoes, etc.)
__ Dishes: Chili, Gumbo, jambalaya

__ Eco-friendly paper cups, plates and bowls (Stackable dishes make for easy packing)
__ Wrapped Cutlery Kit in White (Fork / Knife / Spoon / Napkin / Salt / Pepper) 
__ Serving utensils
__ Cutting knives
__ Spatulas
__ Cooking Forks
__ Cutting board
__ Corkscrew and bottle openers

Bring early bird items for those who often arrive before the event starting time.
Water, ice, charcoal, a salad, chips, sandwich and bun fixings, and condiments.

Get more checklists, essential planning tips and activity ideas from Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Keepsake and Guidebook. Use the keepsake section to start recording your family milestones, stories, history and family recipes. Start researching your family lineage using the genealogy forms and document family heirloom using the heirloom form. Begin a personal planning journal and keeping up with family reunion planning tasks with the step by step timeline checklist guide. Makes a great nightly read and is ideal for weekend family projects.

The keepsake reunion planning guidebook helps you organize a single family reunion event while maintaining a journal of the experience. There is also a follow-up notes section, event planning checklist, a step by step timeline planner and 4 separate theme planners. Along with each theme there are recommended games and activities. In addition, there is an itinerary template, survey letter and luncheon template as well as a dinner program.

Fimark's Family Reunion Planner is a book like no other. The original content of the family reunion planner has been used by thousands of reunion planners over the past 15 years. Over that time the compilation has been perfected and revised several times. Written with individual planners and reunion committees in mind, scores of community organizations and social groups have used it for their own event. The book is also having a special appeal to the travel and hospitality industry as a must have complimentary gift to assist guests in planning their most memorable family event. 

Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Guidebook for your device is available for order online at https://amzn.to/4dCXf1M

Download Family Reunion Planning Printable Worksheets and Templates

If you're like many of our family reunion planners, you like the option to print out event planning forms.  having paper copies are more easily accessible, ideal for distribution at event planning meetings and such and they can be notated highlighted and filed in your three-ring notebook.  


Looking for printouts to begin planning your family reunion? You'll find editable and printable reunion planning templates, forms, planning checklists and genealogy research documents for instant download and printout featured in Fimark's Family Reunion Planner web app.  

The worksheets are ideal for family reunion planning committees. Each sheet describes a committee department and provides instructions for fulfilling duties and tasks in each department. Get the following:

1. Family Reunion Keepsake Guidebook        
2. Welcome Letter Template                       
3. Family Reunion Survey Letter                            
4. Followup Letter Template                        
5. Registration Form Template                    
6. Itinerary Template                                    
7. Dinner Program Template                                      
8. Genealogy Worksheets Package            
9. Spectacular Events Planner                    
10. Six Themed Reunion Activity Worksheets.

The reunion planning web app also includes: 

Budget List  Expense Calculation, Timeline Planner, Committee Assignment Worksheets and Event Organizer as well as Contacts Data Organizer. 

Upon purchase, you receive the access link via email. Simply choose the "Workbook" option. This option contains a list of planning documents you can print out to begin planning, organizing and managing a most memorable reunion event.

Get family reunion planning templates, worksheets and sample letters from Fimark's Family Reunion Planner Guide and Keepsake.