Should all out-of-town guests receive a welcome basket?

shymnky · March 2010

I was thinking about giving my out-of-town guest a nice tote bag with some goodies inside. I was wondering should EVERY person who is from out-of-town receive their own gift bag or is it okay to give a gift bag per hotel room?

AmoroAgain · March 2010

Per hotel room should be fine. If you're wanting to do totes, just make sure they aren't stamped with you or your FI's names and wedding date. Most people would never use them.

aMrsin09 · March 2010

I would give one bag per oom, but try to customize it to each room. For example, don't include two cookies if you know they have 5 people in the room.

brookelynpaisley · March 2010

I did one per room. I agree with the other suggestions: no personalized totes (names/dates) and make sure adjust what's in there to the number in the room. You may also want to be sure to check with the hotel for any guidelines.

CaptiolBride · March 2010

*agreed

petehole · March 2010

One bag per room should be okay; I've been to several weddings where they did it that way. But as someone mentioned, make sure to customize per room. We went to a wedding recently (in the hot summer), one of the thing included was a paper fan to use at the ceremony...well, they only included 1 fan, so only 1 of the 2 of us got to use it.

Also, definitely check with the hotel on how much they charge to give gift bags to your guests, because it could end up costing you a lot more than you think in the end.

JanoBean75 · March 2010

I'm doing one per room, customized for number of guests in each room. My parents are opting to stay in one of the hotels because they don't want to drive back to DC every night. So I'm making one for them too.

petehole · March 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_should-out-of-town-guests-receive-welcome-basket?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:03b45994-c60e-4b95-85e2-757fe7d2bdd8Post:07858a29-dfa5-466c-a17e-87da18e32f0b">Re: Should all out-of-town guests receive a welcome basket?</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Should all out-of-town guests receive a welcome basket? : Really? Hotels charge for that? We didn't run into that problem, but yowza.
Posted by mag920[/QUOTE]

<div>Some do. I had no idea before either, until someone else mentioned it to me. I called our hotel that we have a block at (a Marriott hotel), and I think they charge one rate to keep them at the front desk for people as they check in and a different rate to leave them in guests' rooms. I was glad that someone told me to call and check. I'm a little anti-paying for that since we're already giving them so much business, so now instead our moms and friends are delivering them as people arrive (a lot of our friends are helping out by picking people up at the airport, so they'll give them to them then). </div><div>
</div><div>I asked a friend of mine who had a destination wedding if their hotel charged, and that hotel did not...but it was a tiny hotel in a tiny mountain town, so I'm guessing that was part of the difference? </div><div>
</div><div>Definitely need to check with the hotel's policy too if you are customizing bags, because it's obviously just easier for them to just give everyone any bag that is sitting there for your wedding.</div>

petehole · March 2010

This article on theknot actually suggests that some hotels charge up to $7 per bag! I want to say our hotel was going to charge either $2 or $3 per bag? I don't remember because I got rid of that idea when I found out they were charging at all.

http://wedding.theknot.com/wedding-planning/wedding-budget/articles/10-hidden-wedding-costs.aspx

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