SMART Objective
SMART Objective – Wedding Reception
Objective: Plan a five hour wedding reception for 200 guests on a budget of $15,000 that revolves around dinner, dancing, live music, cutting cake, and farewell to the couple, with an indoor venue reserved one year before the wedding date, and all plans finalized one month before the wedding date.
Time – Time will be the most crucial constraint and will be prioritized. There is an obvious time constraint on assuring that all events will occur on the wedding day.
There is a constraint of five hours to schedule all the events; this will require a very strict schedule, as the events act as predecessors to one another. Dinner has to be prepared, served, and cleared on time before the dancing begins. The dancing cannot occur unless the live band has setup up, check levels, and shown up. The cake cutting cannot happen while the couple is having their dance. And we cannot say farewell to the couple until they have had their cake!
The venue must be booked a year in advance, as most venues for weddings are booked using this timescale. If this is not accomplished, it would be extremely difficult to find a venue and plan accordingly with only a few months time to work with. It could be very upsetting to the couple if a venue of their choice was not available. Worst of all, it would be an absolute disaster if no venue was found to hold the reception at all.
Having the reception completely finalized within one month of the wedding date would reassure the couple, and all of the guests, that everything is going to be perfect as planned.
An ideal result would be to have everything booked on time, and all scheduled events to happen exactly as planned. An acceptable result would to still have everything booked on time, but all the scheduled events to vary 5-10 minutes off schedule, totally no more than 15-30 minutes overtime. A failure would be to not be able to book the venue, dinner, live music, or have the scheduled events running
Objective: Plan a five hour wedding reception for 200 guests on a budget of $15,000 that revolves around dinner, dancing, live music, cutting cake, and farewell to the couple, with an indoor venue reserved one year before the wedding date, and all plans finalized one month before the wedding date.
Time – Time will be the most crucial constraint and will be prioritized. There is an obvious time constraint on assuring that all events will occur on the wedding day.
There is a constraint of five hours to schedule all the events; this will require a very strict schedule, as the events act as predecessors to one another. Dinner has to be prepared, served, and cleared on time before the dancing begins. The dancing cannot occur unless the live band has setup up, check levels, and shown up. The cake cutting cannot happen while the couple is having their dance. And we cannot say farewell to the couple until they have had their cake!
The venue must be booked a year in advance, as most venues for weddings are booked using this timescale. If this is not accomplished, it would be extremely difficult to find a venue and plan accordingly with only a few months time to work with. It could be very upsetting to the couple if a venue of their choice was not available. Worst of all, it would be an absolute disaster if no venue was found to hold the reception at all.
Having the reception completely finalized within one month of the wedding date would reassure the couple, and all of the guests, that everything is going to be perfect as planned.
An ideal result would be to have everything booked on time, and all scheduled events to happen exactly as planned. An acceptable result would to still have everything booked on time, but all the scheduled events to vary 5-10 minutes off schedule, totally no more than 15-30 minutes overtime. A failure would be to not be able to book the venue, dinner, live music, or have the scheduled events running