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plainjane0415
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My high school class has their 10 year reunion coming up. We are trying to come up with ideas on what to do and how to organize it. Does anyone have any tips on how they organized theirs if you have already had one? How did you keep it cost efficient?
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Re: High School Reunion
Well... our class officers have been throwing out suggestions to us..... one of them is coming back to town for a tailgate/potluck (UGH... NO) at one of our high school's football games and then barhopping afterwords. Now.... my high school was in small town in TN, barhopping there is not my idea of fun. Also, potluck.... we all know how bad of an idea that is for a high volume of people.
Mine was a few weeks ago and we didn't go. H and I graduated the same year from the same high school. We still live in the town we graduated in and see everyone on a regular basis that we care to see.
What I do know is this - our class was a bunch of slackers and our class officers didn't plan anything until a couple of months beforehand, when everyone started asking what the plan was. They ended up planning an informal bar crawl the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and gave out an itinerary of every bar they were going to so that you could join up any time. There was a formal dinner the Saturday after Thanksgiving and it was $50 a person. Out of my class of almost 400 people, I think only 50 people went (and that included SOs). I think it just ended up being too expensive for a lot of people, especially people who had children. H and I were not about to spend $100 on dinner, DJ and two hours of open bar to see people we didn't really care about, plus none of our high school friends went either.
My suggestion would be to keep it simple and cheap. If it had been $20 a person for food (like lots of apps, finger foods) and make it a cash bar, we may have gone.
I like this idea! I'll suggest it to the group.
I didn't go to my 10 year reunion but I know they got an affordable package from a hotel in the area.
My 20 year is coming up next year. They are still debating on what to do. Someone wanted do to a picnic for it. That got vetoed fast. But it was cheap and she thought that everyone can bring their family and have fun.
I'm the fuck out.
Good point. FI's high school reunion was a few years ago. We went to the same high school, so we are talking about the same area here. They rented a place, had catered food and cash bar for I believe $35 a person. But, they also had a great turnout. I think they had something like 200 people show up out of their 400+ graduating class. I don't know that my class would have that good of a turn out and everyone is really wanting to keep costs low. I guess all we can really do is check venues, food and drinks in the area. Come back with the price, and then start talking about possible dates. Then once we have an idea of how many would be able to come, then we could book the venue food etc, and then have a better idea for price/person?
I thought that was actually a nice gesture- I guess my HS class wasn't made up entirely of jerks.
Not sure how you can "ask" someone if they want to offer s/t like this though.
DH's 20th reunion was this summer. It was a BBQ in the park associated with the school. It was interesting.
Lots of good ideas here. I'll have to discuss with the group. I really like the poll on the facebook group idea. That would work well I think.