Anyone have any brilliant/creative ideas for welcome bags? My wedding is in a little over 3 months, and I'm starting to put these together. I plan to leave a bag in each hotel room where our guests will be staying-- just paper gift bags with handles in a flowery black and white pattern, with colorful tissue paper. I am thinking of filling these with mini water bottles, some kind of snack (like POP chips or granola bars), mints, shout wipes, tissues, and info about the morning after brunch. I'm not trying to spend too much money, but I also feel like all of these things, though certainly useful, are pretty generic.
I haven't been to many weddings myself, so maybe that's why I'm struggling to come up with better ideas. What's something that you particularly appreciated getting in your welcome bag when you were a guest at someone else's wedding?
It's possible for us to specify who the bags are for if we want to fill different bags with different items (like bags just for kids, or just for our college friends) but the venue charges us more if we do that...
Re: Welcome Bag Ideas?
Are welcome bags necessary? Do guests expect them? I can understand any info about the city where wedding is, but all the rest? Or am I alone in these sentiments?
I may or may not plug the "Other events" page on our website. I listed and linked (for location and cost if any) community activities like the science museum, art museum, symphony, local sports ect.
The only time I got a bag was when I flew across country for a wedding. B&G gave all OOT guests a bag with local foods. DH and I had a great time trying the foods when we got home and having a nice reminder of the trip. We also tried at least one of their suggestions for places to go listed on their website and really liked it.
For our wedding we had a lot of family coming from OOT. For most it was their first trip to Pittsburgh so we wanted to share some of the city with them. We included Clark bars, smiley cookies, Heinz flavored chips, chocolate covered pretzels and oreos from the local chocolate shop, a coupon booklet from the mall by the hotel and we printed up a welcome letter with definitions of words only used in Pittsburgh (Pittsburghese). All of this was put into an American Eagle shopping bag (HQ is in Pittsburgh).
@erina27 do you know about the Herr's Heinz flavored chips? We ordered them online and they were really good.