The $$Now$$ Wedding$$Part A$*$ On December $31$ of last year, Lauren burst into the family living room and announced that she and Connor $($her college boyfriend$)$ were going to be married. After recovering from the shock, her mother hugged her and asked, $$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$$t possibly finish all the things that need to be done by then. page $352$ Remember all the details that were involved in your sister$$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$$t have to fly people up from Guatemala, hire extra girls and Mrs$.$ Jacks, use airfreight, or anything like that. $1.$ Using the yellow sticky approach shown in Snapshot from Practice $6\mathrm{.}1,$ develop a project network for the $$Now$$ wedding. $2.$ Create a schedule for the wedding using MS Project. Can you reach the deadline of January $21$ for the $$Now$$ wedding? If you cannot, what would it cost to make the January $21$ deadline and which activities would you change? The $$Now$$ Wedding$$Part B Several complications arose during the course of trying to meet the deadline of January $20$ for the $$Now$$ wedding rehearsal. Since Lauren was adamant on having the wedding on January $21($as was Connor for obvious reasons$),$ the implications of each of these complications had to be assessed. $1.$ On January $1$ the chairman of the Vestry Committee of the church was left unimpressed by the added donation and said he wouldn$$t reduce the notice period from $14$ to $7$ days. $2.$ Mother came down with the $3-$day flu as she started working on the guest list January $2.3.$ Bob$$s Printing Shop press was down for $1$ day on January $5$ in order to replace faulty brushes in the electric motor. $4.$ The lace and dress material were lost in transit. Notice of the loss was received on January $10.$ Could the wedding still take place on January $21?$ If not, what options were available? $-$ Plot out the events in sequence leading up to the wedding date. $-$ Which events can be completed? $-$ How each event will be completed? $-$ What, if any, are the extra costs associated for this wedding? $-$ Part B$-$add in scenarios $1-4.-$ Can the wedding still take place? $-$ If not what suggestions $($aside from eloping and not getting married$)$ can you make that would help it happen on time?