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This post written by Stephanie Fader, Marketing & PR Manager

We’re starting to see lots of family reunions planned on MyPunchbowl lately. Summer is a great time to catch up with family members that you only see around the winter holidays. Whether you plan a day at the beach, a family cookout, or a weekend up at the lake, the combination of warm weather, great food, and family make for a terrific family reunion.

Planning a family reunion for your family this summer? We have a few suggestions for how to make the event personal and memorable for the whole family!

1. Use a family photo on your invitation. Choose a summer-inspired invitation design that fits your reunion activity (beach, cookout, etc.) and customize it with a picture of the whole family from the last time you were together. It will definitely get everyone excited for the event!
2. Ask relatives to bring their famous dishes. Make the event a potluck and have relatives sign up to bring certain items. Everyone in the family is famous for something, whether it’s Aunt Theresa’s apple pie or Cousin Jimmy’s chicken wings!
3. Personalize favors for your reunion. Surprise everyone at the reunion with custom t-shirts! We’ve seen everything from old family photos and the family name on a shirt to the location of the reunion with the family name and date. The more creative, the better. You can even print up matching signs and banners to put around your campground or lake house.
4. Plan a family slide show. Collect family photos—old and new—from everyone and put together a slide show. You can set it to songs like “We are Family,” “Homeward Bound,” “Forever Young,” and “These Are the Times to Remember.”
5. Take video and send highlights after the reunion. Using a Flip, iPhone, or even the video option on your digital camera, take video of the reunion. After the reunion, send an eCard to everyone who attended that includes the video you took of the event, or even just one particularly funny/touching moment.

Your relatives will have such a wonderful time at this reunion, they’ll want you to make it an annual tradition!

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