Welcome bags at hotel?

Lechillura

Question -

We are getting married at the beach.  We have a big mix of people flying in from all over.  We also have many locals getting rooms and spending the weekend at the beach and not driving home.

So I am making welcome bags.  Do I make the bags JUST for the out of towners or for everyone staying at the hotel??

In my bags:

Water bottles with custom koozies
Mini Sunscreen
Lip Balm
Mini can of coke w/ airplane bottle of Carib rum
Key Lime cookies & chocolates

I have enough koozies and lip balm for sure. I think I can buy the rest for decent prices if I make them for everyone.

But the amount goes from about 11 to 25.  What do you think??

LeiselEB

Plan on a bag for each guest/couple that stays in the hotel, local or not. 

The welcome bag items sound great!

Simply Fated

I would do them for the locals, too, in case word gets out that you made them for some guests at the hotel and not others. While rational people will assume you did it for the out-of-towners, the irrational people might think it's a personal slight. People are crazy. I'd make the bags for both groups of people.

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We did welcome bags for our guests that were staying at the hotels where we had our room blocks.  I did not have everyone's hotel information if they were not staying at one of these hotels and we had many local guests as well, it would have been impossible to capture everyone.

jessicabessica

Definitely make them for everyone.  

Summer2011Bride

Make them for everyone staying at the hotel.

lyndausvi

everyone

Jager1219

I'd do the bags for everyone staying at the hotel.  But maybe when guests arrive to the ceremony, you leave out the sunscreen/lip balm for those who want it?  One more thing to consider adding is bug spray.

zantster

We are giving ours to everyone staying at the hotel to welcome them to town.  Other guests will just get favors.

nicoleandersonmd

Everyone for sure. We are getting married in Mexico and my fiance's family all live there. I know they would feel somewhat slighted if these were only given to OOT guests. I'm solving the issue of everyone arriving at different days via distributing the bags at our early evening Welcome Cocktail Hour the night prior to our wedding. Everyone will be in by then.

Lechillura

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_welcome-bags-at-hotel?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:9Discussion:3d4f518d-791b-4f71-a47d-b608033bad29Post:15239a7d-85a1-45c0-b46c-ef3bc40dbc3a">Re: Welcome bags at hotel?</a>:
[QUOTE]I'd do the bags for everyone staying at the hotel.  But maybe when guests arrive to the ceremony, you leave out the sunscreen/lip balm for those who want it?  One more thing to consider adding is bug spray.
Posted by Jager1219[/QUOTE]

Confused by this - ceremony?

This has nothing to do with wedding favors.  These are just welcome bags for the hotel guests so I don't want to bring them to the ceremony.

I will make the bags for everyone tho.

I asked because I have been to several weddings at got rooms at the hotels so I didn't have to drive.  Since I was local, I never received a welcome bag.  I do remember seeing the bags for out of towners.  I didn't feel slighted tho. To me it meant:  Locals can bring items from home or run to the store easier. Out of towners can't travel with a lot of items and may not have a rental car.

But I will make them for everyone - that's a lot of bags!