Occasion plans are written for a person, a family or a committee — not a business. There is no market analysis, no investors and no strategy language. You are asked who is organising, what kind of occasion it is, when and where it happens, how many people are coming and what you can spend.
- 1Start a plan and describe the occasion in plain words — 'my mum's 60th, about 80 people, a hall in Croydon, live DJ, budget around 3,000'.
- 2Pick the occasion type: party, event, wedding or funeral. Anything else fits under event.
- 3Build. You get a costed line-item budget, a timed run of show, supplier and job lists with named owners, and a countdown checklist.
- 4Adjust anything in the thinking panel — swap the caterer, cut the budget, move the date — and the plan and the numbers follow.
Prices are put at realistic local levels for where the occasion is held, and the budget says plainly whether the plan fits inside what you said you could spend, with where to cut if it doesn't. Funeral plans are written calmly and practically: no upselling and nothing celebratory.