The background: Kevin's parents' 45th wedding anniversary is next summer. The family has had "issues" in years past and has only all been together in one place at the same time once--for my nephew's birthday in Disney last year. Everyone in the family is a Disney fan. We had booked a cruise for June 2011 for just us (me, SG, and the girls). We got to talking to Kevin's brother and he said he was interested in taking his family as well (plus wife and two kids). Turns out it's the same week as Kevin's parents' 45th. So we decided to see if we could get the whole family to book cruises AND pitch in to pay for them to go as well. It was all negotiated and we have been planning it for 6 months. This weekend they will be at our house and we get to tell them. So I have to figure out how to make a really big deal of it!!
I was thinking of first trying to print out a nice picture of the ship and then make some little "people" to paste onto it with all of our pictures. There will be 12 of us altogether. But the big problem is that the Dream isn't done so I can't get any pictures of it!
Can anyone else give me some creative ideas of how to tell them and incorporate the whole thing--the Dream, the dates, their anniversary, the whole family going, and that we are all paying for it???