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Kiplinger
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Richard Eisenberg

Hosting a Family Reunion? 10 Essentials for a Lasting Legacy

Picture from above of the Neal family reunion in 2024, New Orleans, Louisiana. About 100 people are posed, mostly in matching shirts and lanyards, looking up at the camera.

Saren Eyre Loosli and her extended family are getting excited, and getting ready, for their four-day July reunion at Loosli’s parents’ Utah lake house. They expect to see 54 family members, ranging in age from six months to 80. "The kids sleep on the floor or out on the deck or on the lawn in tents,” said Loosli, founder and director of the Power of Families online community. “It’s not necessarily the most comfortable four days, but it’s worth it."

If you’d like to hold a family reunion, here are ten key questions to answer and advice on how to make the get-together memorable, fun, affordable and ways to avoid rookie mistakes.

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