Welcome Bag Etiquette

Re: Welcome Bag Etiquette

• misshart00 member

  

  October 2014

  I think it's fine to only have them at your room block.

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• huskypuppy14 member

  

  October 2014

  If you are doing welcome bags, they should be for everyone (OOT or not) that are in your room block hotels. 

  
  

  I have never heard of trying  to find where guests are staying if they are not in your room block in order to give them a welcome bag.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• BrandNewJ member

  

  October 2014

  misshart00 said:

  I think it's fine to only have them at your room block.

  
  That's what I'm doing. It'll be difficult to track down all those people.

  

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• allispain member

  

  October 2014

  Anyone staying at the hotel(s) where you have a room block should get a welcome bag. Anyone who stays at their own home or at the local home of someone they know does not need a gift bag.

  
  

  Once the block's deadline for booking a room has passed, you can contact the hotel and have them let you know how many rooms in the block have been booked. That will let you know how many bags to prepare.

  
  

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• climbingsingle member

  

  October 2014

  I think you're fine doing them only for people staying with the room block. 

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• MandyMost member

  

  October 2014

  I think the only exception for doing more than just your room block is if your room block was full and that caused some guests to have to book a hotel elsewhere. In that case, it would be nice (but not necessary) to find out where they're staying and have a welcome bag for them there. 

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• psiloveyouu member

  

  October 2014

  Thanks so much! Knowing that I don't have to deliver to those outside of the hotel block takes a lot of the stress out of the situation

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• novella1186 member

  

  October 2014

  I had been wondering how to deal with this as well, and my parents talked about wanting to host a small welcome party for the out of town people the day before the wedding. If they do this, I may just have welcome bags at the party for everyone. Otherwise, I only plan on giving them to the people who book at our hotel block. It's going to cost you way too much time, energy, and stress to track everyone else down. It's not rude to only give them to the people in the hotel block. No worries. 

  

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• TerriHugg member

  

  October 2014

  Mine situation was a bit different because I had a dw in the Bahamas so everybody was an out of town guest. I had Welcome bags for everyone. Guests staying at the hotel with us got the bags upon check in. Those who didn't stay with at the hotel got their bags at the welcome party we hosted or at the reception.

  

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• flantastic member

  

  October 2014

  FMIL asked about welcome bags, and I told her that I felt weird about having gifts for those who chose to stay in our room block, but not for those who chose to stay elsewhere, which is entirely possible if they wanted to stay cheaper a little further out from downtown.

  That said, I don't think it's against etiquette just to have them for your block, and there's no expectation that you'd track everyone down. For me, that just meant that I went with the approach of eliminating welcome bags as a thing that's not that useful anyway.

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• princessleia22 member

  

  October 2014

  I had a destination wedding, so everyone was OOT.  And everyone stayed at different hotels, with only one other room booked at my hotel. We did a welcome dinner the day before the wedding and just handed them out at that time.

   

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• tcnoble member

  

  October 2014

  We blocked rooms at the hotel where our ceremony/reception are taking place. Guests who block rooms there, before the cut off date, will receive welcome bags. It is far easier to call the hotel after the end date and find out how many rooms were reserved, than to ask every guest where they are staying... especially with our wedding being in Vegas, where people could elect to stay at so many properties. As PPs have said, it's certainly not against etiquette to only have them for your block.

  

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• bizzy592 member

  

  October 2014

  I attended a local destination wedding recently (Nantucket - very few guests owned homes on the island), where welcome bags were provided to all guests. On the RSVP card was a line which asked where we planned to stay. The wedding planner and her assistant drove all over town delivering them. It was a very nice touch, but must have been complicated to organize.
  
  

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