Weddingbee Blog

The other night on Miss Gingerbread’s BeeTV broadcast, a question was posed to us Bees with only a few days left until our weddings: “What did you want to do that you just didn’t get done?” I couldn’t really think of anything at the time, which I I took as a pretty awesome sign that I’ve actually finished up almost all of the projects that I wanted to do. Later on though, I realized that part of me does wish we were doing more for out of town baskets. I had big dreams (I never actually considered spending that much, don’t worry!), and saw some drool-worthy examples out there, but with around 50 parties of out-of-towners, it just wasn’t feasible to do much.

Mr. T and I decided that the most important things were to make our guests feel welcome, and to make their visit as easy as possible by providing them with all the important information. So, without further ado, I give you our very pared down welcome baskets folders.

Welcome to Maine, here’s a folder!Let’s see, what do we have here?

A guidebook (free)! A map (free)! A postcard (a hot twenty cents)!

A colorful invitation to our day-after brunch- we decided against mailing these, as our guests were already getting a separate “Friday Welcome Party” invite in the mail and we really thought it would be overkill. I Goccoed these, and it was so refreshing to use some colors that WERE NOT BLUE!

A little welcome card with lots of info.

A nice little note written by Mr. T.

The schedule for the weekend (thanks Miss Espresso for the use of your icon!).

A set of directions specific to each hotel (our guests are spread among six hotels). Everyone I showed these to was really impressed by these, but in all honesty it only took a couple of seconds longer than putting it all on one page.

So there you have it, I’m sure no one will be writing home about them (unless they use the postcard, hardy har har), but I hope it helps everyone to feel a little welcome and shows them how grateful we are that they have made the trek to Maine for our wedding.

And since there are three days before the wedding and I’ve still got too much to post about:

*bonus detail!*

Lest you think we aren’t going to be spoiling our guests (out-of-town and in-town alike) just a little, I give you, the ever-popular flip-flop portion of our favors- we’ve got 99 pairs of these for the reception:

I know most people get these for their guests for dancing, but we thought they were especially important in our case because there is a (rocky, hello it’s Maine) beach at our reception site and we want people to be able to explore it!

What are you doing for your out of town guests?