My husband's family will celebrate their 99th Annual Family Reunion this year. We've been going off and on for 55 years. We always take up a collection and that goes toward the expenses. Many years ago the Reunion Committee opened a bank account. The money is kept there from year to year. We have a President, a Secretary -Treasurer, and a Vice-President [who will be next year's president]. Each year a new vice-president is elected. Committees take care of making lemonade, games for the children, table covers, ice cream for supper, etc. We have dinner between 12 and 1:00 pm and supper, at 5:00 pm, is ice cream and home made cake. We bring our own table service - silver, napkins, plates, etc. We bring items to be auctioned and this money goes in the bank account too. These items include plants and flowers, needlework, cakes, etc., etc., what ever people want to donate. For the 90th reunion my husband's cousin and I borrowed $100.00 from the reunion fund to pay for the printing of a family book. It included the family genealogy [we attempted to find all the descendants of the immigrant ancestors and their history in The Netherlands, back to 1713]. Also, Ruth had gathered family stories for years and we included those. We sold it for $10.00 and sold 100 of them. The next year we had 25 more done and sold them too. The profit from those sales went into the reunion fund. Another year some of the cousins did a cook book. Just a few ideas............. Jocelyn in Ohio