Name the meaning of the day
CriticalWrite one sentence describing what this celebration must achieve for the people you love.
The Planning System
Twelve chapters, 72 guided decisions, and a coach that always names the next right step. Deadlines move with your date — nothing here is a generic list.
Celebration
Date
Name it
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Days to go
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Critical open
Behind schedule
Pace
Your planning coach
Close the loop: thank your vendors, secure the images, and write down what you would do differently. That page is what makes the next celebration easier.
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Guest experience
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Vendor readiness
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Budget health
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Planning streak
Where you stand
The door is open. Nothing is decided yet.
8% more to become Keeper of the Vision
Next room to open
Dream & Vision
6 decisions left — 0% of the way there.
Keys collected · 0 of 12
Read the LibraryHonours earned · 0 of 8
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You closed your very first decision.
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The meaning of the day is written and agreed.
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Ceiling, contributions and reserve are settled.
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The guest list reflects who will actually arrive.
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Seven days of steady progress.
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Twenty decisions closed before their date.
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Six of twelve chapters closed.
Locked
The day belongs to someone else now.
Critical
Name the meaning of the day is overdue
This was due 20612 days ago and everything after it is waiting.
Complete it this week or move the date deliberately.
Critical
Agree who is hosting and who decides is overdue
This was due 20612 days ago and everything after it is waiting.
Complete it this week or move the date deliberately.
Critical
Lock the date and confirm it against the calendar is overdue
This was due 20612 days ago and everything after it is waiting.
Complete it this week or move the date deliberately.
Critical
Set the total ceiling is overdue
This was due 20582 days ago and everything after it is waiting.
Complete it this week or move the date deliberately.
Critical
Confirm every contribution in writing is overdue
This was due 20551 days ago and everything after it is waiting.
Complete it this week or move the date deliberately.
High
66 tasks are blocked by unfinished work
Lock the date and confirm it against the calendar cannot be finished until Agree who is hosting and who decides is done.
Clear Agree who is hosting and who decides first.
High
26 critical tasks have no owner
Work without a name attached is work nobody does.
Assign an owner to each critical task in the next sitting.
Critical
7 vendor commitments are unsigned
Unsigned vendors are the most common cause of late-stage price rises.
Get written contracts before the next payment round.
Everything downstream is judged against the meaning you set here.
Write one sentence describing what this celebration must achieve for the people you love.
Name the final decision-maker for money, guests and programme.
Check the date against exams, religious calendars, public holidays and rival family events.
Choose the three things that must be excellent, and accept that everything else may be ordinary.
Intimate, considered, full house or public. Decide before the guest list grows on its own.
Collect no more than twelve images that agree with each other.