MOGR: Pre-payments

by Tereso Ugalino

In less than 2 months, we have 350 attendees who have excitedly registered to our event. There is no doubt that we will be hitting 500 very soon.  Thanks to all of you who have happily and eagerly invited your friends and relatives to our first-ever Magsingal Overseas Global Reunion (MOGR).

While our event is 2 years away, I would like to encourage you to make your pre-payments at your earliest convenience to avoid the mad rush leading up to the event.

Let me just explain why we welcome pre-payments as early as now.

Firstly, we want to ensure some level of “seriousness” in your intention to attend.  I know that many of you are saying - it’s a long way away.  However, we also know that it is not that easy to collect payments especially that we are all far apart.  The reason we are planning this way ahead of time is to make it as stress-free as we can for our volunteer-coordinators.

Secondly, our event venue needs a guaranty on the number of attendees and requires us to pre-pay the corresponding costs, 60-90 days before our event.  For us to comfortably meet this requirement, all your seat reservations need to be fully paid by November 30, 2014.

If for whatever reason, you have already paid and suddenly cannot make it to the event, your tickets are transferrable but not refundable.  You can transfer your tickets to family members and/or friends who are also Magsingalenos.

Check Payments

Please make your checks payable to any TWO of the THREE following MOGR Coordinators:

Divina Gracia Lu
Juliet A. Harris or
Tereso U. Ugalino.

Please note, DO NOT make your check payable to MOGR because our bank will dishonor it.  On the memo line, please indicate MOGR Dinner for 1, 2, 3 (or whatever the number of seats you are paying for).

Cost is $55/person/night or $110/person for the two-night events on April 17-18, 2015 (Friday and Saturday).

For details where to send your checks, please PM me.

Fund Transfer (eg, via Western Union or bank to bank)

If you prefer to make your payments directly to our bank account (instead of issuing a check), you can also do that. Just PM me and I will give you the bank details.

Fund Raising

We have decided that this event will focus on our “inniliw”.  While it would be great to have a group project come out of this event, we feel that “inniliw” will be the main objective.  If this pilot event turns out to be a success and there is enough interest to make it a regular event, then that will be the time we can think of an MOGR project.

However, to help defray any incidental expenses not covered by the 55/head/night fee, we are planning to raise some money by selling T-shirts and other memorabilia.

Event Program

We will be assigning a group to take the lead in organizing the program (eg, theme) during the 2-night event and any other day activities (eg, pinugpugan picnic at a local park).  We will constantly keep you in the loop on any further developments.

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