For the ceremony, the family meal afterwards, and everyone travelling in for it.

Description

Graduation has a peculiar problem: the ceremony itself is out of your hands, and everything you can control is squeezed around it — a fixed date, a hard ticket limit, a city full of families competing for the same restaurant tables on the same afternoon.

This planner is built around those constraints.

It puts the things that are genuinely time-critical at the top of the countdown: claim ceremony tickets the moment they open, book travel and accommodation before the prices climb, and reserve somewhere to eat months ahead, because everywhere near a university fills first. Then it tracks who is using which ticket, which is the argument that happens in every family with more relatives than allocations.

There’s a full travel and stay page for family coming in from elsewhere — arrivals, where each person is sleeping, who needs collecting — plus the four things every travelling guest needs told: the exact address, what to wear, whether the venue is step-free, and who to call if they’re lost.

And one hard-won detail: agree a meeting point for afterwards. Graduation crowds are enormous and phone signal disappears.

The 14 pages Cover · How to Use · The Essentials · Vision & Style · Countdown: Early Plans · Countdown: The Final Stretch · Budget Planner · Guest List · Suppliers & Contacts · Food & Dietary Needs · Run of Day · Décor & Atmosphere · Travel & Stay · Notes