Welcome Bags

Up until about two weeks before the wedding I was still undecided if I wanted to bother doing welcome bags for our out of town guests.  We had a room block but we also had guests staying in numerous other locations so in the grand scheme of things I was afraid it just made for too much running around for us.  But thank God for D who took charge and dropped off all the welcome bags.  I am so glad I decided to do them because they turned out to be one of my most favorite and fun wedding tasks.

I bought all the navy bags at the Dollar Store

I had made all the tags months ago (one of the reasons I ended up doing the bags in the end because all that time wasted making the tags if I didn't do the bags!)

On lunch one day a co-worker and I headed to Sam's Club and purchased all the supplies.  I had a blast doing this part and could have bought about 80 more items.

Each guest got a Welcome word search that I created on 

Excel using words that had to do with our wedding and us as a couple

 I included a set of directions to and from the wedding 

venue and rehearsal dinner venue from all the hotels

My mom and I filled the bags and tied the tags on a few days before the wedding.

I overstocked extra goodies into the bags for the groomsmen, bridesmaids and those with kids.

Our guests loved them, and so did I when I got to eat all the leftover goodies!

 Are you doing welcome bags?  What will your contents include??

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