Book in plenty of advance time and then send out your guest invitations, so your friends and family can make the appropriate arrangements to attend.
Send out your invitations.
Kids whose families can't afford a birthday party or presents get to upload their wish list to the Communigift site and sponsoring families include a link to that list in the invitations they send out to guests of their own kids' parties.
The web application allows the marrying couples to send out RSVPs to guests, crowdsource song suggestions for the wedding, build a social wedding album that can be shared among guests, plan seating arrangements as well as let guests send wedding gifts to the couple through the service.
Events GPS, which the Museum of Modern Art in New York has already used for an event, can be used for managing the guest list, sending out e-vites, tracking RSVPs, assigning table seating, and checking people in on the night of the event to see who showed up and who didn't.
There are the advance copies to send out, bookstores to contact, guest posts to write for book bloggers, and lots of calendar synching as you figure out your events.
When planning a guest list, make sure that if you are sending out invitations, you politely ask your guests not to discuss the party with others unless they know that they're invited.
When we sent out invites, many of the guests thought it was a hoax because they'd never heard of a film being screened at No 10 before and they couldn't quite believe that one of the first would be about fish.
While sending out the invitations, inform your guests to bring their PJ's along with them.
When you send out invitations to your guests, tell them to send you pictures of your 'Fashion Faux-Pas Person' (the FF-PP) wearing their worst outfits.
