Seven-minute family photo sprint

Anyone else appoint an ‘uncle wrangler’ to shave minutes off formals? I ran the list like a deli counter with a Bluetooth speaker at 4:37 p.m. and dual-slot backing up between groups, but we still bled three minutes to a missing Aunt Maria — what’s your fastest herding hack?

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@OP I hand the DJ a printed family list and at 4:37 p.m. have them do a quick roll call over the PA — it’s louder and people move faster than my little Bluetooth speaker. If ‘Aunt Maria’ is MIA after 30 seconds, I slot in the next group and circle back so the clock never stalls, though you need a venue that lets you hop on the house mic.

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