Event Planning Checklist - Details You Don't Want to Miss

An event planning checklist is important for the organized and effective management of any event, whether small or large. There are so many small details involved in organizing an event that you don't want to miss any or it could seriously harm your event.

Event List

Although these are not nearly all the items that could be on your event planning checklist, some of the things you will want to think about are:

• Buying supplies and managing budget


• Delegating tasks


• Organize location


• Organize event catering


• Book entertainment


• Plan games


• Post invitations


• Run event

Free web-based event management systems can be a great resource to help you organize these different aspects of your event and keep all your information centralized.

Free Party Invitations

Let's begin with the party invitations. If you really want something that is unique but also cheap (in fact, free!) you should make your party invitations online using Web 2.0.

Web 2.0 makes it easy to create your own web page using over 60 multimedia applications that enable you to add photos, video and music, as well as many other elements without any special technical knowledge. This means that you can make your party invitations look exactly how you want.

When you have created a great web page then simply send out emails to your guest list telling them where they can find the page.

Corporate Event Planning

Other than your free party invitations, you can also use many other aspects of corporate event planning such as managing your budget, delegating tasks and getting people's opinions on different aspects of your event. Use the poll application to give people a choice of menus, games, locations or entertainment. Use the task manager to delegate tasks to those who have either volunteered to help or whose responsibility it is to help with the event in your organization.

Another item we put on your event planning checklist is to buy your supplies and manage your budget. Managing your budget can be easily done with the budget manager and you should try to cut costs wherever possible on your party supplies.