welcome bag question~

hose85 · May 2012

Hey ladies, I have a question about welcome bags. How do I do this? Just for OOT guests who are staying at the hotel we reserved rooms at? For example my uncle is staying in another city all together (don't ask why) and FI's mom is staying at another hotel. I honestly don't have the energy or time to run all over tarnation dropping off bags. But am I supposed to? Or is it bad etiquette skip them all together since I feel like it's just one more thing I have to worry about/work on? Thank you!

janeash · May 2012

We are skipping them. Too many people staying in too many different hotels. We are thinking of throwing a welcome BBQ a few days before the wedding for whoever is already in town...if we do that, we might give them each something small as a "welcome token".....bottle of wine or something maybe??

kelsey+brandon · May 2012

We're giving them to the people that are staying in the hotel that we have a room block with. This way we'll be able to drop them off at the hotel and they'll deliver them to the correct rooms for us and will be waiting for our guests when they arrive in their rooms!

HarperBargo · May 2012

We are doing welcome bags. Our guest list is over 65% OOT guests. I also know how nice they are to get when you travel for a wedding. We are doing bags for the OOT guests staying in our hotel and the one across the street. Our bags are filled with simple things like a bottle of water and local snack items.

futuremrsbecerra · May 2012

I don't want to do them bc our wedding is OOT already so that means everyone is "getting" one and i'm trying to save money since our guests count is way more then we expected. However, my mom is all about "etiquette" and she wants to do it and i have complained and fought with her too much about this. She is getting her way partially. I'm only letting her do it to my uncle ( her brother), my aunt (her sister) and her cousin. Noone else is even going to expect it so none for them. And i'm not going to be apart of the OOT bags at all. If my mom wants them there, then she is going to do them. I have too much on my plate to worry about them. She says it is a way to thank them for coming far away. I say our "thank you" is free dinner, drinks and a party on our tab.

Ok thanks for letting me vent!! lol

melntaitt · May 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-club-boards_june-2012-weddings_welcome-bag-question?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding Club BoardsForum:3ae4d68d-f10a-4dec-8810-da13c14a7b86Discussion:ead00931-3b5f-4f00-9b97-0b79cac71d52Post:50ff9774-4434-4ee2-a600-ff5138894eb0">Re: welcome bag question~</a>:
[QUOTE]<strong>We're giving them to the people that are staying in the hotel that we have a room block with.</strong> This way we'll be able to drop them off at the hotel and they'll deliver them to the correct rooms for us and will be waiting for our guests when they arrive in their rooms!
Posted by kelsey+brandon[/QUOTE]

For us this is only two hotels so it's what we're doing.

LindsayM22 · May 2012

We're only doing them for the people staying in our hotel blocks. I don't see how it's possible to track down people at other hotels, so we aren't doing it. We're going to have a note, water, some cookies and maybe Ale8 in them.

hose85 · May 2012

thank you!! this makes me feel less pressured, the thought of adding more stuff to my todo list makes me want to rip the whole thing up and throw it away!

Cassandra999 · May 2012

I told my mom they would be a pain and now they are.
We are doing them for the main hotel block, plus FI's family has a group of people staying in the hotel across the street so we will do those too. Anyone staying anywhere else will just miss out. If they wanted to they could have booked in the block but they didn't.

HilareyL · May 2012

Everyone is staying at the same hotel so we're going to do them. We're doing some local snacks, water, a map of the city and a wedding agenda. One per room- not per person.

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