{"id":821,"date":"2024-04-11T21:50:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T21:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mastertheevent.com\/?p=821"},"modified":"2024-04-11T21:50:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T21:50:07","slug":"honor-someone-special-family-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mastertheevent.com\/honor-someone-special-family-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"Honor Someone Special at Your Family Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_65 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-661ce25557880\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-661ce25557880\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/mastertheevent.com\/honor-someone-special-family-reunion\/#Selecting_the_Honoree_for_Your_Family_Reunion\" title=\"Selecting the Honoree for Your Family Reunion\">Selecting the Honoree for Your Family Reunion<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/mastertheevent.com\/honor-someone-special-family-reunion\/#Recognizing_the_Honoree_at_Your_Family_Reunion\" title=\"Recognizing the Honoree at Your Family Reunion\">Recognizing the Honoree at Your Family Reunion<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n<p>As you plan your family reunion or other annual summer event consider honoring a very special person or a few very special people at the event.&nbsp;<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps, you would like to recognize:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Grandparents or parents for all of the special experiences they have provided.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>A couple who recently got engaged or married to wish them well.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>A recent graduate or someone departing for or returning from military active duty or overseas assignments to thank them for their service.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>A family who is moving away or who travelled far to attend the event.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Someone celebrating a special birthday this year.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>An individual who did something really special.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>An individual who has recovered from a serious injury or illness.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You might also wish to recognize two people (or groups of people), one older and one younger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Selecting_the_Honoree_for_Your_Family_Reunion\"><\/span><strong>Selecting the Honoree for Your Family Reunion<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps, the best way to select the honoree is for you to think about everyone attending the event to identify honorees that all attendees would feel really good about honoring.&nbsp; You could then rank order the potential honorees and select one or two.&nbsp; Alternatively, you could ask for nominations and\/or have an election.&nbsp;&nbsp; The risk of having an election is that attendees who have, say, lots of brothers and sisters might be more likely to be selected than, say, only children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Recognizing_the_Honoree_at_Your_Family_Reunion\"><\/span><strong>Recognizing the Honoree at Your Family Reunion<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There are several ways to recognize the honoree, depending upon the honorees personality as well as the personality of the group&nbsp;<sup>2<\/sup>. &nbsp;&nbsp;Some options might include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Assemble a wall of photos of the honoree (and caption them if possible)<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Prepare a slide show honoring the honoree (if lighting conditions will permit showing slides).&nbsp; Be sure to keep it interesting.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Ask the honoree to perform or share something related to what they\u2019re being honored for (for example, if they wrote a song\/poem, or if they recently performed something somewhere).<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Organize a game show: Who knows the honoree the best?<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Select honorees favorite foods for part of the menu.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Present a \u201ctoast\u201d for the honoree.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Compose a song for the honoree.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Have all of the attendees bring a sign for the attendee (like a greeting card, but a sign on, say, 8.5 by 11 or D4 matte paper).&nbsp; Take photos of the guests bringing the sign, presenting the sign to the honoree, and the honoree holding the sign.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>If your honoree is really adventuresome, have all of the guests bring a second sign in a sealed envelope.&nbsp; Blindfold the honoree for the second slide presentation and photos. (Be sure to bring a nice bandana, lined with foil so the honoree can\u2019t see through it, that will look nice in photos).&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Have a cake (or fruit bowl) ceremony in which the guests each light a candle on the cake (or fruit bowl) while telling a great story about or thanking the honoree.&nbsp; After all candles are lit and photos are taken, the honoree extinguishes the candles.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, you want to choose different ways to recognize the honoree at your family reunion each year so your recognition ceremonies remain interesting and fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you plan your family reunion or other annual summer event consider honoring a very special person or a few very special people at the event.&nbsp;1 Perhaps, you would like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastertheevent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastertheevent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastertheevent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastertheevent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastertheevent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mastertheevent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"https:\/\/mastertheevent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastertheevent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastertheevent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastertheevent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}