Todays post comes from our guest blogger Annie Byrne, Wedding Planner from Aislinn Events:
Photo Credit: Kate Parker Weddings
I am currently thinking about welcome packs for out of town guests. This is a lovely thing to do especially if your guests are travelling. Imagine taking planes, trains and automobiles, arriving tired to your hotel and finding a beautiful well equipped welcome gift bag (or basket or box…) in your room from the bride & groom. Aaahhhhh.
Include information on the wedding activities – where to be and when. Local information from the tourist office. What about a postcard from the place where your wedding is being held? Bottles of water, mints, cookies, tea, dried fruits and nuts.
Or personalize more to the style of wedding. From champagne snipes to flip flops the possibilities are endless and will fit any budget.
Check your hotel to make sure they will put them in the bedrooms and also to make sure what you are putting in your welcome packs are not already in their rooms. Bottles of water, hand cream and the like are standard in the better hotels so put in something they will not have and also act as a souvenir.
I recommend bags or boxes as opposed to baskets and not only for the cost factor. Your guests may not want to drag an empty basket back home with them.
I really like these Gable boxes from boxandwrap.com. They come in all colours and will even put a logo or monogram on them. Or what about a plain brown? You can have a personalized rubber stamp or embosser (customrubberstampsonline.com, thestampmaker.com and even Vistaprint) made for the front then use the stamp in other areas for your wedding (napkin rings perhaps?). Tie any of them with a nice ribbon and Bob is your uncle – in fact Uncle Bob will love them too!
