Somebody said "we should do this more often." Now you are the family reunion committee.
Four generations scattered across the country, a pavilion deposit, 81 matching shirts, and a potluck that must not produce four potato salads. This plankit is the clipboard the family never had: households by branch, the weekend schedule with the group photo pinned, the budget down to the coolers of ice, and one link even the elders can open.
The group photo, pinned: 4:30 on the rose garden steps, shirts on
81 forest-green shirts on the budget, next to the elder travel fund
Two days, five parts — RSVPs for every one of them
A family reunion is a small festival run by volunteers who share a last name.
Friday hugs, Saturday cookout and the group photo, Sunday goodbyes. The plan holds all of it — who is coming from where, who brings what, and which stories get recorded this year, not next.
Households, by branch
Aunt Rosetta, the Atlanta branch, the Dallas cousins, the Chicago crew — invite by household, see every branch's members in one place, and know exactly who has not answered without calling your mother. It's real, and it's in the screenshots below.
The potluck board
The plan runs the potluck today: the dish-signup list — who brings what, one line per household — plus the signup task on the checklist, the serving-line notes, and the warming-trays budget line you can see below. The claim-a-slot board with category caps is next. CLAIM-A-SLOT BOARD — COMING SOON
The memory wall
On the family page today — it's called Photo Drop: anyone with the link shares old photos and memories, and every post is held for your approval before it's public. Project them Saturday night. And the plan still protects the moment itself: story hour is on the schedule, elders first, recorded.
A committee of cousins
Setup crew, food table, kids' games, photo wrangler — everyone works from the same live plan instead of merging three group texts at midnight. Every cousin gets a scoped link — their lane, nothing else.
One real reunion, in pictures.
These are unretouched screenshots from the real product. The Carter Family Reunion is a sample plan we built end to end to show you exactly what it does — four branches, two days at Lakewood Botanical Gardens. Click any of them to look closer.
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The dish-signup list runs the potluck today — who brings what, one line per household — beside the serving-line note on the picnic, the signup task on the checklist, and warming trays, dish cards, and coolers of ice as a real budget line. Category caps the family claims from their invite links — the claim-a-slot board — are coming soon. CLAIM-A-SLOT BOARD — COMING SOON
Carter Reunion — Dish Signups
The Facebook group vs. the email chain vs. this.
| The family Facebook group (free) | Email chain + a spreadsheet | PlanFlow Family Reunion | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it really is | Where announcements reach 40% of the family | The committee's real tool, rebuilt from scratch every reunion | The reunion's home — households, schedule, budget, one link for everyone |
| Reaches the whole family | whoever the algorithm shows it to | whoever's address still works | ✓ every guest gets a personal link — no account, no app |
| Households, by branch | ✗ | a column someone maintains | ✓ real households with members and addresses |
| Potluck signups | a comment thread | a tab named "FOOD — FINAL v3" | ✓ the dish-signup list, by household · claim-a-slot board COMING SOON |
| Memory wall | photos buried in the feed within a week | ✗ | ✓ Photo Drop — approved photos & memories on the family page |
| Music four generations can live with | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ must-play, do-not-play, the songs that matter with their moment, and requests as you collect them — paste a list straight out of Spotify or drop a spreadsheet, it de-dupes, and it prints on the DJ's sheet |
| Weekend schedule | three pinned posts | a PDF nobody opens | ✓ per-day, per-part, with the photo pinned |
| Budget | ✗ | the treasurer-cousin's burden | ✓ tracked to the dollar — the money itself stays in your Venmo/Zelle |
| Price | free — minus half the family | free — plus 60 volunteer hours | $99 once · founder $79 · pocket change per household |
Comparison covers free and paid alternatives using published pricing and official documentation as of July 2026. Facebook is a trademark of Meta Platforms, Inc.; Venmo and Zelle are trademarks of their respective owners. PlanFlow Planner is not affiliated with them.
Ask the reunion anything. It drafts — you approve.
Names are scrubbed before anything leaves the Service, and every action is logged.
The elders won't wait for "next year."
Get the family in one place. $99.
Founder price $79 for the first 25 families — or through September 1, 2026, whichever comes first. 30-day money-back. One plankit plans one reunion, start to finish. Yours through your event + 12 months after — and the archive gives your next reunion an 80% head start.
Start the reunion — $79Founder pricing applied at checkout · scoped committee links included · the family never needs an app
Same event on repeat? A Track is $19/mo · planning all year, Celebration from $39/mo — see the whole ladder
What the reunion committee asks.
Half the family isn't on Facebook. The other half is ONLY on Facebook.
Every guest gets a personal link that opens in any browser — text it, email it, or post it in the group. Facebook becomes one more place the link lives instead of the place the plan dies.
How do we handle the money for the pavilion and t-shirts?
We track it; we never touch it. The budget holds every line — the pavilion, the 81 shirts, the elder travel fund — planned against paid, and the family pays however it actually pays: Venmo, Zelle, checks in birthday cards. No fees, no percentage, ever.
Grandma is 91. Can she use this?
Her link opens like a webpage — big text, the schedule, get-directions. And someone in her branch — from the guest list or their committee link — can mark her household's RSVPs for her, person by person.
Is this the same as the Class Reunion plankit?
Same spirit, different animal. Class Reunion is built around finding lost classmates and one big night. Family Reunion is households, branches, a potluck, and a whole weekend. Pick the one that matches your crowd.
We do this every two years. Do we start over next time?
A plankit plans one reunion, all the way through — and afterward it archives on your account, readable and exportable, for the standard 12 months after your event. When you buy the next reunion's plankit, it starts 80% done from the archive: structure, potluck categories, and the household list carry over; RSVPs and signups reset. Family that celebrates constantly? On the Celebration Track at $19/mo, duplicating into a new event is simply included.
What does "founder price" mean?
$79 instead of $99 for the first 25 family-reunion plankits, or through September 1, 2026 — whichever comes first. One payment for the whole reunion — never a subscription.