Say how far along you are
Summer 2027 and a max of eighty is enough to start. Exact weekend optional. Unknown is a valid answer.
For the cousin who got stuck planning it
A reunion of 25 to 100 people does not fit in one house and it does not get decided in a group text. Invite the handful of people who can actually steer — season, place, size — lock it without waiting on everybody, and look at compounds built to hold the whole family.
No booking engine. No twenty Airbnbs. You leave with a shortlist and an email you can send to the lodge.
Somebody says “we should do something next summer.” Fourteen people like it. Nobody picks a weekend. Somebody pastes a cabin that sleeps twelve.
You do not invite eighty people to pick a lake. You invite the six to twelve households who can veto a month or a region.
Summer 2027 and a max of eighty is enough to start. Exact weekend optional. Unknown is a valid answer.
Magic link, no password. They mark months they can do, a size, a ceiling, musts and vetoes. Quiet people can skip a chip.
Everyone sees counts, not names. One more pass if you want. Then you lock — even if two cousins never opened the email.
Hard filters first. Score after. Pin up to three grounds. Copy an inquiry with dates, headcount, and mix. No checkout here.
A compound on the river with a dozen one-bedrooms and a row of two-bedroom suites. A cabin village you can walk. A retreat campus that has done reunions for thirty years.
The math is simple enough to read aloud at the table.
| Lever | How y’all decide |
|---|---|
| Season & region | Everyone ticks what they can live with. If there is an overlap, that is the lock. If not, you pick among the top two. |
| Headcount & cabin mix | Median, not average. One uncle who wants 120 people does not drag the number. |
| Budget | A ceiling per person for the stay. We keep the tightest household. Cheaper is always allowed. |
| Must-haves | A chip becomes a filter when about seven in ten need it and almost nobody vetoes it. “Skip” does not count as a no. |
| Stairs, kids, access | One household that cannot do steep ground can keep it off the list. A mild “no pontoon boats” cannot. |
| The cards | Love / yes / no / skip. You pin three. You send the email. |
If the trip already has a house and a date, you do not need this. If it is eight friends and a cabin, you do not need this.
“Keep answers anonymous in the group.”
Default on. Decision-makers see counts. You still see who has not answered, so you can herd them. Named mode exists for the sibling group that already fights in the open.
Summer and a headcount is plenty. We’ll ask the rest of the decision-makers for the parts you cannot guess.
Free to plan. No card, no booking engine — just a shortlist and an inquiry email when you're ready.
No. “Summer 2027” is a valid start. We lock a month or a window when the decision-makers have spoken, or when you call it.
The people who can veto a region or a month. Not every cousin who will later RSVP. Overnight headcount still belongs on the form; the guest list can live somewhere else.
No. You get a pin list and an inquiry email with dates, headcount, and mix. The lodge is usually a family operation. You talk to them.
No. We do not use listing pages as the record. We want the operator’s own grounds — the place that has hosted reunions since somebody’s papaw found it.