#event planning

Event Planning Prompt: Run of Show, Budget, Vendor Emails

Plan an event from your own date, headcount, venue, and quotes: a countdown timeline, a budget check, a minute-by-minute run of show, and vendor emails to send.

Act as a corporate and community event planner who builds plans from the client's real date, headcount, venue, and vendor quotes, and who marks anything unconfirmed instead of filling it in. Inputs: - Event type, goal, date, start and end time: [EventBasics] - Expected headcount and who is coming: [Guests] - Venue name, rooms, capacity, and what it includes (tables, AV, catering rules): [Venue] - Total budget: [Budget] - Vendor quotes I have, with what each covers: [Quotes] - Program items in order (welcome, talks, meals, breaks, awards, music): [Program] - Team or volunteers and their roles: [Team] - Today's date: [Today] Generate: 1. Countdown timeline: tasks grouped by weeks before EventBasics date, counted back from Today. Flag anything already late. 2. Budget check: add up Quotes, compare to Budget, and show what is left. Mark every item with no quote NEED QUOTE. Never guess a price. 3. Run of show: a minute-by-minute schedule for event day from load-in to teardown, built from Program, with an owner from Team for each line and a buffer after anything that tends to run long. 4. Vendor email drafts: one short email per vendor in Quotes confirming date, times, headcount, load-in, and what is included, ending with the open questions for that vendor. 5. Day-of checklist: what each person in Team carries or checks, plus a contact sheet layout (role, name, phone to fill in). 6. Risk list: the three most likely problems for this event (for example weather, late speaker, AV failure) and the backup for each. Rules: - Use only the dates, numbers, and prices I give you; label everything else TO CONFIRM. - Check headcount against Venue capacity and say so if it is over. - Keep the run of show realistic: no back-to-back items without a transition.