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Matriarch Gets Creative With
Family Reunion Gifts
Sarah Clarke Walburten, eldest sibling and family matriarch of the Clarke Family, decided to gift her family with memories and she used promotional products to do it.
Sarah has always been great at keeping family photo albums up to date. With 7 brothers and sisters, all of their kids and grandkids, as well as her 6 grown children and their offspring, there are a lot of pictures.
When the family decided to get together for an extended family reunion this spring. they reserved an estate in Nantucket; finding a vacation property that sleeps 60 adults and dozens of children wasn’t easy but they did it!
The special 3-day weekend event, which is scheduled for upcoming Memorial Day, is bound to be a terrific time, but Sarah wanted to do something really special for everyone. She got out the family photo albums along with a scanner and got to work. After all of her scanning, she jumped on Facebook too and started downloading pictures from there. Before long, Sarah had a few hundred awesome images of the entire family and, with the help of her youngest son, she put together a beautiful power point presentation and set it to some fun music.
Sarah has been a real estate agent for over 30 years and has always used promotional items to show her gratitude for the home sellers and buyers she works with. She asked her company graphic artist to do her a favor and put together a simple, yet beautiful design of a family tree with the first names of each family member drawn on the leaves. Then, she contacted PENSRUS, her go-to promotional products company, and ordered 100 custom drives, which she had pre-loaded with her power-point presentation.
The plan is to present the slide show at the Saturday night dinner party, but Sarah also wanted to send it home with every family member in the family, along with all the pictures that are sure to be taken over the weekend.
Upon arrival, each family member including any children over 3, will receive a disposable digital camera with instructions to take as many pictures as they like. When the weekend is over, Sara will collect all of the disposable digital cameras and download the images into a file marked Family Reunion 2013, load those files onto each drive and, voilà!, each family member will go home with a thumb drive full of memories.
We love hearing great ideas about the creative ways our clients use our products. Not just intended for promoting business, promotional items are a really great way to create something special for an event. What have you done with customized promotional products in your personal life?
