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On December 31 of last year, Lauren burst into the family living room and announced that...

On December 31 of last year, Lauren burst into the family living room and announced that she and Connor (her college boyfriend) were going to be married. After recovering

from the shock, her mother hugged her and asked, “When?” The following conversation resulted:

Lauren: January 21.

Mom: What?

Dad: The Now Wedding will be the social hit of the year. Wait a minute. Why so soon?

Lauren: Because on January 30 Connor, who is in the National Guard, will be shipping out overseas. We want a week for a honeymoon.

Mom: But Honey, we can't possibly finish all the things that need to be done by then. Remember all the details that were involved in your sister's wedding?

Even if we start tomorrow, it takes a day to reserve the church and reception hall, and they need at least 14 days' notice. That has to be done before we can start decorating, which takes 3 days. An extra $200 on Sunday would probably cut that 14 day notice to 7 days, though.

Dad: Oh, boy!

Lauren: I want Jane Summers to be my maid of honor.

Dad: But she's in the Peace Corps in Guatemala, isn't she? It would take her 10

days to get ready and drive up here.

Lauren: But we could fly her up in 2 days and it would only cost $1,000.

Dad: Oh, boy!

Mom: And catering! It takes 2 days to choose the cake and decorations, and Jack's Catering wants at least 5 days' notice. Besides, we'd have to have those things before we could start decorating.

Lauren: Can I wear your wedding dress, Mom?

Mom: Well, we'd have to replace some lace, but you could wear it, yes. We could order the lace from New York when we order the material for the bridesmaids' dresses. It takes 8 days to order and receive the material. The pattern needs to be chosen first, and that would take 3 days.

Dad: We could get the material here in 5 days if we paid an extra $20 to airfreight it. Oh, boy!

Lauren: I want Mrs. Jacks to work on the dresses.

Mom: But she charges $48 a day.

Dad: Oh, boy!

Mom: If we did all the sewing we could finish the dresses in 11 days. If Mrs. Jacks helped we could cut that down to 6 days at a cost of $48 for each day less than 11 days. She is very good too.

Lauren: I don't want anyone but her.

Mom: It would take another 2 days to do the final fitting and 2 more days to clean and press the dresses. They would have to be ready by rehearsal night. We must have rehearsal the night before the wedding.

Dad: Everything should be ready rehearsal night.

Mom: We've forgotten something. The invitations!

Dad: We should order the invitations from Bob's Printing Shop, and that usually takes 7 days. I'll bet he would do it in 6 days if we slipped him an extra $20!

Mom: It would take us 2 days to choose the invitation style before we could order them and we want the envelopes printed with our return address.

Lauren: Oh! That will be elegant.

Mom: The invitations should go out at least 10 days before the wedding. If we let them go any later, some of the relatives would get theirs too late to come and that would make them mad. I'll bet that if we didn't get them out until 8 days before the wedding, Aunt Ethel couldn't make it and she would reduce her wedding gift by $200.

Dad: Oh, boy!!

Mom: We'll have to take them to the Post Office to mail them and that takes a day. Addressing would take 3 days unless we hired some part-time girls and we can't start until the printer is finished. If we hired the girls we could probably save 2 days by spending $40 for each day saved.

Lauren: We need to get gifts for the bridesmaids. I could spend a day and do that.

Mom: Before we can even start to write out those invitations we need a guest list. Heavens, that will take 4 days to get in order and only I can understand our address file.

Lauren: Oh, Mom, I'm so excited. We can start each of the relatives on a different job.

Mom: Honey, I don't see how we can do it. Why, I've got to choose the invitations and patterns and reserve the church and . . .

Dad: Why don't you just take $3,000 and elope. Your sister's wedding cost me $2,400 and she didn't have to fly people up from Guatemala, hire extra girls and Mrs. Jacks, use airfreight, or anything like that.

  • Using the time estimates offered in the case create a simple timeline/schedule. This need not be detailed, just the basics are sufficient.

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Expert Solution

Activity Predecessor Start date End Date Days
Announced decision to marry Dec-31
Reserve church and reception hall 01-Jan Jan-21 1 Day
Decorating hall Reserve church and hall Jan-18 Jan-20 3 days
Fly in Bridesmaid (Jane cost $ 1000) Jan-18 Jan-20 2 days
Choose cake and decorations Jan-02 Jan-04 2 days
Finalize Jack caterer Choose catering and decorations Jan-12 Jan-17 5 days
Select lace material Jan-01 Jan-02 3 days
Book material for dress Select lace material Jan-02 Jan-09 8 days
Dress made with help of Mrs Jack (Cost $ 48) Book lace material Jan-10 Jan-15 6 days
Final fitting of dress Make dress Jan-16 Jan-17 2 days
Final press and clean Final fitting Jan-18 Jan-19 2 days
Rehearsal night Final press and clean Jan-20 1 days
Getting addresses ready Jan-04 Jan-07 4 days
Selecting invitation card Jan-01 Jan-02 2 days
Print invitation card (extra $ 20) Select invitation card Jan-03 Jan-08 6 days
Labeling the invitation cards (by hiring extra girls extra cost of $ 40 per day i.e. total $ 80) Print cards and get addresses ready Jan-09 Jan-09 1 days
Post the cards Labeling the invitation cards Jan-10 Jan-10 1 day
Invitation to be received by relatives Post the cards Jan-11 10 days before the wedding
gifts for the bridesmaids Jan-07 Jan-07 1 day
Wedding Day Jan-21

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