Your parents will be celebrating their 40th anniversary next month. You are planning a big celebration, but you are not sure how to make the occasion really memorable. Write to your best friend, Joan, who is a professional event planner. In your letter:

Dear Joan, How are you and your family? I hope you are all doing well. It has been a while
that
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we met since our friend Akash's birthday six months ago and I stress that we
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should
shoud
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should
make it a habit to catch up frequently. As I know you are one of the busiest professional
event
planners in the city; I thought of taking your help for celebrating my
parents
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40th anniversary which is on 15th December. As
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I am kind of lost when it comes to planning a party and I am in need of your help to make
this
event
really memorable for my family and mainly for my parents. I have been thinking a lot about the
event
's location whether we should organize it in our home or in a hotel or in our family's favourite outstation spot - Ooty. Mainly, as you know my father and mother,
they
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are very particular
with
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the people and the food, so we have to thoroughly discuss and plan the
invitees
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list,
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dining
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dinning
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menu, and
the
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location to suit their preferences.
Also
, I would like to give a surprise gift to them
in
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the
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special day of their life. I welcome your ideas for the gift and my thought
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this
would be a car or
a jewelry
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for my mother and a hand-made watch for my father. Please let me know your opinion. So, the above is the context for my letter, I recommend that we meet
this
coming week when I come to
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for my office meeting to discuss in
details
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about
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all the details including if I have to compensate for your involvement in organizing
this
event
. Looking forward
meeting
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you
next
week. Thank you. Yours dearly, Srinivasan M
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The Closing

The style of the letter determine how you have to close it.

Check out the suggested closing sentences for each type of letter in the General IELTS Test. The closing sentence should be the last sentence of your letter.

Formal style (To someone you have not met, whose name you don’t know)

  • Yours faithfully,

Semi-formal (To someone you may or may not have met, whose last name you know)

  • Yours sincerely,

Informal (To someone you know well, whose first name you know and use)

  • Best regards,
  • Warm wishes,

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