Being in the invitation and ticket group was challenging at first as our original concept was too buy the invitations and tickets for 1,200k each, but upon speaking to Mrs Charsley on the matter we decided that it would be cheaper and more innovative to make the invitations and tickets our selves. we went through a variety of ticket invitation ideas before we came up with our final idea. here are a few of our drafts;
We worked on design concepts for about a week and finally decided on a combination of both me and Ingrid's original designs.
My design:
Ingrid's design:
Our final result:
After finalizing our design idea we then had to sort out the printing and the cost, Mr Thompson had connections with the person who had previously done the printing for the drama production program's and put me and Ingrid in contact with the man that did the printing, Ingrid then negotiated a reasonable price of 50,000 shillings in exchange for about 80 invitations.
After we finished working on the design and the invitations were distributed it was decided that we should have tickets as well as invitations. Ingrid worked on the ticket design and i printed and cut out all the tickets the next day. there were about 80 tickets in total, and i printed them and cut them out as soon as Ingrid gave me the template. because it would be too expensive to take them to a professional printing place, i printed all the tickets for free in color at my house. It was a bit of a hassle cutting out 80 tickets in one night but it was worth it in the end. We used special certificate paper to make them seem more formal and the end result was something that me, Ingrid, Dhaval and Kushal were proud to distribute;
When it came to distribution we found ourselves selling tickets very close to the actual event, the reason for this being that people were paying later than we had originally arranged and as a result there was a increased price for any tickets that were bought past the due date. Thankfully even with the increased ticket price there was still a great turn out and allot more people ended up coming than we originally planned for which was great.
Reflections:
In my opinion in the end prom turned out to be a tremendous success and was even labelled by some as being the best prom Kisu has ever had, every one worked equally as hard in all of the groups and we really pulled together and as a result prom was a great success.
A negative aspect of the evening was the seating, Because people arrived at prom at different times and some people did not pay for the tickets and showed up. A few guests were left stranded with no place to sit for a few minutes but it was sorted in the end,
Even though financially we struggled a bit at the beginning in the end with the money raised from the Kisu talent show there was more than enough money to equally fund each of the groups and provide them with whatever resources they needed.
I am very happy with the overall results and think that the event exceeded any of our expectations. My group was very supportive and we all pulled our weight and did whatever was required of us to complete the tasks at hand.
