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dcfkan · Mar 11th, 2005, 08:29 PM

What's left for me to say now that you have said everything?

Ah yes, cost!

IMHO, the overall cost of the weekend (Sat night stay only) was not much more than a weekend away at other MINI meets for most locals. The added extras were the cost of the outfit and donations.

However, we did give plenty of notice, and I believe it was possible to spread the cost by putting a bit aside each months.

We will always get the extremes - those who are enthusiastic and sign up and pay up as soon as the details are available, and then those who would wait until the very last minute to pay up or decide to join in the fun. I hope, as organisers, we will be able to persuade more of those in the middle ground to join the fast pay camp, and pull some of those in the slow pay group into the middle ground

And FYI, I already bought the main fabric of next year's dress, and my dressmaker already knows I would need another dress next year, and I shall re-start my standing order payment to her to build up the fund required for the new dress as soon as I have been paid

As for location, we will never be able to please everybody, however, we will try and please as many people as we can next year

As for the food, I believe it was adequate, and my lamb was fine

DJ, well, enough said

Location not exactly glam, well, see responses from Soggy and Sham

Raffle/auction too long - already recognised as an issue

Sitting down too late - see Soggy's response

I had to ask the duty manager to hurry those still hanging around outside at 20:10h, and said that it would be the last call before dinner would be served. Do we need to use a bell next time or something?

Pressure to donate - those fines were not the ideas of the organisers

We, as organisers, will look for ways to improve people's enjoyment of the night next year

And thank you for your feedbacks

However, please take a read of the organisers' feedbacks so that you, the attendees and would be attendees, could help us in making next year's ball even more enjoyable and successful than this one, thank you

DK

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Mar 11th, 2005, 08:29 PM	#7
dcfkan In exile, down SOUTH! Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: London WC1 Local Time: 04:12 AM Posts: 13,580 Offline	What's left for me to say now that you have said everything? Ah yes, cost! IMHO, the overall cost of the weekend (Sat night stay only) was not much more than a weekend away at other MINI meets for most locals. The added extras were the cost of the outfit and donations. However, we did give plenty of notice, and I believe it was possible to spread the cost by putting a bit aside each months. We will always get the extremes - those who are enthusiastic and sign up and pay up as soon as the details are available, and then those who would wait until the very last minute to pay up or decide to join in the fun. I hope, as organisers, we will be able to persuade more of those in the middle ground to join the fast pay camp, and pull some of those in the slow pay group into the middle ground And FYI, I already bought the main fabric of next year's dress, and my dressmaker already knows I would need another dress next year, and I shall re-start my standing order payment to her to build up the fund required for the new dress as soon as I have been paid As for location, we will never be able to please everybody, however, we will try and please as many people as we can next year As for the food, I believe it was adequate, and my lamb was fine DJ, well, enough said Location not exactly glam, well, see responses from Soggy and Sham Raffle/auction too long - already recognised as an issue Sitting down too late - see Soggy's response I had to ask the duty manager to hurry those still hanging around outside at 20:10h, and said that it would be the last call before dinner would be served. Do we need to use a bell next time or something? Pressure to donate - those fines were not the ideas of the organisers We, as organisers, will look for ways to improve people's enjoyment of the night next year And thank you for your feedbacks However, please take a read of the organisers' feedbacks so that you, the attendees and would be attendees, could help us in making next year's ball even more enjoyable and successful than this one, thank you DK :apple: