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[quote=Anonymous]For Christmas 2014, we hosted a week long family reunion for 32 people.  It was awesome and exhausting.
People came from all over the country for it.

The occasion was to celebrate my MIL's 80th birthday.  Her birthday is 2 days before Christmas, so of course all the family members wanted to stay for Christmas as well.  The house was not big enough to have a birthday party for all 32 members of her immediate family, and friends and neighbors as well.  So we ended up renting a knights of Columbus facility for Saturday for  60 or so people for her birthday party.  Then came her actual birthday two days later, then came Christmas two days after that.

Things that were helpful -- 
Designated parking for all the cars at the house and everyone informed in advance as to where to park. The driveway was to be used to loading and unloading only. 
We set up the carport into a visiting area.  (This was in Georgia, so the weather was decent) Folding tables were set up, many patio chairs were set up in the carport.  We set up a trash can and trash bags out there.  We set up sodas, water, napkins in the carport.  The visiting area in the carport thing helped a great deal in reducing traffic in the house. 
We made sure everyone had each other's phone numbers and knew where each was staying.
I got $300 cash in small bills before it all started, and if anyone was "running into town" I gave them a grocery list and cash for whatever stuff we needed that we had not already purchased in advance.  (Most people, of course, were happy to use their own money to pick up whatever was needed, but there were some college age people in the group).
Different family members were in charge of dinner for everyone for each day.
I typed up "The plan" for the whole week and mailed it to everyone in advance. 
Someone brought a couple board games.

On my personal "to do" list, I wrote "have seven family squabbles".  Then when the family squabbles inevitably happened, I just smiled to myself because now I could cross it off my "to do" list.

Things that happened that I totally did not see coming -- 
Two different families came to the family reunion with their dogs!  
One person was sick and half the people there got sick from that one person.  If I ever do something like that again I will totally get all the vaccines I can beforehand.  [/quote]

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