Flip Flop baskets

StaceyC828

Hi ladies!For those of you who had or are planning to have flip flop baskets at your reception, how many of each size are you picking up?  Is anyone getting mens filp flops too or just womens?Old Navy's having a sale right now... $2.50 on the non-metallic ones so I'd like to pick some up, but no idea how many to buy!Thank you

bostonbride214

We invited 200 guests, half of which are women (100) so we bought 50 pairs in various sizes (5 - 10) figuring that the older crowd won't use them.

eouellet

We bought about 50 for a final guest count of 135 and every pair was gone. Young and old took them. Didn't get any men's ones though - they will already be wearing flats! I'd say we got 50% in sizes 7 and 8, and the other 50% in 5, 6, 9, 10, 11.

2dBride

Since I had mostly the "older crowd," few people took flip flops.  The Chinese cotton Mary Janes I got (for $1.50 each) were far more popular.

BostonBride919

We had 40 pairs for 150 guests and there were like 5 - 7 pairs left at the end.... HTH!

clbartnicki

We bought 30 pairs for 150 guests. I got an assortment of sizes from 5-11 but got a lot of 7-8's. HTH!

StaceyC828

Perfect, that was exactly what I was looking for.  Thanks so much everyone!

SummerBoston10

If you have a Gap and/or Banana Republic card they are having a 30% off sale starting October 30th (or 31st). I am planning to buy around 40 and I will probably have around 50 women.  A lot of our female guests are young so I figure they will all be gone and even if people don't use them that night, they can just take them as a favor. 

Lilshimmer

I have a bunch of brown flip flops left over from our wedding. I'll sell them for $1 each pair.  Email lilsmk6@yahoo.com

kelmarfar

We had about 150 guests and I did 50ish pairs. All of them except for about 5 were gone, and all of the ones that I had left were size 10 (which is fine, since I am a 10). I did mostly 7, 8, and 9, with about 5 pairs of 6's and maybe 7 or 8 pairs of 10's. They were very popular! HTH!

kelmarfar

Oh, and if you plan it right, Old Navy does the $1 flip flop sale over Memorial Day weekend. The limit is 5 pairs, so get there early and bring a bunch of people. I got about half of mine that way.

SummerBoston10

Do you know if the $1 sale is only in the stores or is it online too?

vagonzal

I bought my flip flops (all white) at seagillintl.com, a website where you buy in bulk. The smallest order comes in 72, but I split  the order with another bride so we each got 36 pairs in small, medium and large. I got all white flip flops and will decorate with different ribbon colors. For 72 pairs, I paid $69.56 total including shipping, so each pair costed about 98cents!