So Now You're Single -- Seminar

R. - what a neat concept for a series of seminars. I hope you have tons of people attend! I think you could offer sandwiches each week and leave it at that. Maybe a platter of various sandwiches, two different salads, and cookies. That's really enough for a day long meeting. I go to seminars all the time for work and the hot foods are nice (like a chicken dish or beef tips) but people seem to like pasta salads, potato salads, green salads, and something simple like cookies for dessert.

Soup is REALLY hard to eat at a business type meeting. People end up leaning forward awkwardly, especially if you have just open chair seating and not tables. As for vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, dairy free, etc.... ask people when they register what options they need and then tailor based on that. If you're expecting 25ish people each day, it would be hard to have all of those varieties and still leave enough "regular" choices for people.

You didn't ask for advice on pricing... but I think your proposed costs might be a bit high. I've never attended anything like that... but if you can cut down your food costs a little you might be able to reduce the price slightly. Good luck!!

Way too expensive. Single mom means single income. $125 for the whole seminar may be more appropriate. Especially when just about everything can be found on the Internet. Maybe meeting once a week on a Wednesday night. The traditional "mom has kids during the week and dad weekends" is becoming a thing of the past. All the recent divorces I know have the kids on alternating weeks.

Even though you are saying that most kids are with their dads on Sundays.... that may/may not be the case.

I would find it the greatest irony to not be able to attend a seminar for single women because I had to find childcare.

It would be neat if you made that available some way.

My input: do these asp they seminars, not in consecutive weeks. Too much, too often for child care, sitter, monopolization if a FTWM's "down" time.
Good luck!

This sounds very interesting. How are you going to advertise this and get people to attend? I would love to do some sort of seminar for a topic that I hold important.

Anyways for your question, I agree doing many consecutive nights is too much. I think 4 consecutive Sundays in November will not work... think about it, that is Thanksgiving hectic time. Honestly, I do a lot of planning for a youth and large church activities and we try and keep it to two dates for a best turnout.

I would probably do something like 2 days, say the first two Saturdays of November or a weekend, like Saturday and Sunday. There is a popular thing called "Time out for Women". It is a two day event, from Friday night to Saturday. Tickets are about $80 for both days. They have the whole she-bang, music entertainment, lots of popular motivational speakers, the works. So, compared to that I think your prices seem pretty heavy... especially for single moms.

You can kind of see the schedule and ticket prices here:
http://deseretbook.com/timeout
http://deseretbook.com/timeout/event/213

As for food, I would keep a light, fresh dinner to keep costs down. I would not do too many options on the dinner, keep it nice and simple. Salad, soup, baked potato, pulled pork for one day, then the next the chicken. Just be sure you have some dessert, chocolate mouse cake or cheesecake or something!