{"id":1441,"date":"2012-07-29T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2012-07-12T14:56:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T14:56:17","slug":"planning-a-family-reunion-the-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/planning-a-family-reunion-the-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning a Family Reunion- the Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received a mailbag question from a visitor to Family Reunion Helper.&#160; They asked,&#160; <em>\u201cHow do we plan a family reunion? Please give me specifics? Dates, locations, committees. How do we finance a family reunion?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/PEN-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"PEN 4\" border=\"0\" alt=\"PEN 4\" src=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/PEN-4_thumb.png\" width=\"244\" height=\"23\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have a lot of respect for someone who is building a family reunion from scratch.&#160; I did it 25 years ago and although reunions can be a ton of work they are so worth it.<\/p>\n<p>Family Reunion Helper has addressed all the questions asked above in previous blogs so I though it might be a good idea to put all those blogs together to be easily accessed if someone is planning a reunion for the first time.&#160; Just click on the link below each heading to read more \u201cback to the basics\u201d about planning a family reunion.<\/p>\n<h2>Three Keys to a Successful Family Reunion<\/h2>\n<p>  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/3_keys_to_a_successful_family_reunion.php\">http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/3_keys_to_a_successful_family_reunion.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/media\/images\/misc\/3-keys\/key.jpg\" \/>    <\/p>\n<h2>Family Reunion Checklist and Timeline<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/reunion_checklist.php\">http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/reunion_checklist.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/media\/images\/misc\/checklist\/date.jpg\" width=\"167\" height=\"127\" \/>    <\/p>\n<h2>Family Reunion Committees<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/committees.php\">http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/committees.php<\/a>    <\/p>\n<h2>How to Pay for Your Reunion<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/planning-to-pay-for-your-family-reunion\/\">http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/planning-to-pay-for-your-family-reunion\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" src=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/media\/images\/misc\/committees\/coins.jpg\" width=\"137\" height=\"182\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Family Reunion Locations<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/location-location-whats-your-favorite-family-reunion-location\/\" href=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/location-location-whats-your-favorite-family-reunion-location\/\">http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/location-location-whats-your-favorite-family-reunion-location\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/image4.png\" src=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/image4.png\" width=\"355\" height=\"235\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Family Reunion Themes<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/family-reunion-theme-ideas\/\" href=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/family-reunion-theme-ideas\/\">http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/family-reunion-theme-ideas\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"clip_image002\" border=\"0\" alt=\"clip_image002\" src=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/clip_image002_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"184\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aunt MO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently received a mailbag question from a visitor to Family Reunion Helper.&#160; They asked,&#160; \u201cHow do we plan a family reunion? Please give me specifics? Dates, locations, committees. How do we finance a family reunion?\u201d I have a lot &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/planning-a-family-reunion-the-basics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,5,43],"tags":[494,495,496,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442,"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/familyreunionhelper.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}