Wedding Prep 101: A Wedding Welcome DIY Bags

When it comes to your wedding details, often times wedding welcome gifts come up in the discussion as level of importance. The debate has been as follows… are welcome gifts for out of town guests necessary? Can we afford to add this to our budget? what type of wedding welcome gifts should we incorporate? and the list goes on… Many believe that they are an over the top expense that can become too pricey. Then you also have others say that they help to create a theme for your wedding as soon as guests begin to arrive. in this instance either way, We believe that whatever you choose is entirely up to you. your wedding day should be celebrated as you choose. You can create a luxurious wedding with or without wedding welcome gifts. There are no rules to how you design and celebrate your wedding.

DIY WEDDING WELCOME GIFTING

THE BEST DIY ADVICE FOR WEDDING WELCOMES!

We’ve seen many who completely opt out of welcome gifts or choose to go the DIY route where you go out and purchase all of the items to build your own gifts. this way you can find cute ways to build welcome gifts by recruiting family and friends to help depending on how many gifts are being created. The DIY route can be fun where you can get all the items that you choose as well as being able to distribute the way you like. the sky is the limit when it comes to adding local snacks and goodies, trinkets and even the couples favorite sports team emblems. We love to see couples create gifts that showcase their personalities. There is no right or wrong way to design your gifts.

Personal story time, I myself got married in Virginia Beach at a beach front home rental, a beautiful 13 bedroom home where close friends and family could stay with comfort and then we had a beach ceremony which turned into a indoor ceremony (but that is a story for another day) where we made beach themed wedding welcome gift bags for every room when each guest entered. They included our favorite snacks, sunscreen, sunglasses and of course a few “beverages” that were beach ready. This allowed us to keep our gifts manageable and affordable while still keeping with out aesthetic and wedding theme. While we created gifts like these we asked a few bridesmaids and early coming relatives to help us craft the bags as it turned into another family wedding event which was so much fun! This is a great way to welcome your out of town guests with something detailed and thoughtful to make them feel truly welcome.

To get you started in the right direction we’ve created a DIY to show what can be created and how to make it your own with a few little ideas. All of these things we found at Target and we had to incorporate a few local items to help with putting a personal stamp on the bags as well. Your wedding from start to finish should be something momentous and special to how you want to celebrate your big day with your friends and family. We find more often than not, brides and their wedding planners love to have help in this department because it allows them to delegate the responsibility of tedious tasks such as welcome gift planning, organizing, prepping and packing as one of those tasks. Not to mention getting the gifts to the destination of where all of the guests will be staying will is a task within itself. Making plans ahead of time is always recommended on what you want to do to create the wedding of your dreams.

YOUR WEDDING - YOUR STYLE

make it your own with a few little DETAILS

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WHILE WE KNOW THAT DIY’S ARE ALWAYS EASIER SAID THAN DONE. wE OFFER A FULL WEDDING GIFT COLLECTION THAT RANGES FROM BRIDESMAIDS PROPOSALS TO WEDDING WELCOMES. We WOULD love to take this job off of your plate with our fully pre curated wedding welcome gift collection, which has been crafted with the soon to be Mr. & Mrs. couple in mind. We created these gifts with the INTENT to free up time FOR THE COUPLE to focus on other tasks like writing and rehearsing your nuptials or honeymoon destination! Shop our full collection of wedding packages if diy is not in the cards for you. believe me, we definitely understand!