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Early in our planning, I stumbled across this favor bag idea on Oncewed.com. I love the old-timey, countrified simplicity of these!!!

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So, I decided to co-op the idea for our welcome bags.

I used the same laurel wreath and ’S’ stamps that we had on the invitation boxes, except this time with brown, rather than gold ink. And to close the bag, I folded the tops over, hole-punched two holes through the fold and pulled a ribbon through them, securing with a bow.

I made these three-panel fold welcome pamphlets, which include a little message, an itinerary of the weekend’s events, and a map on the back. I really must thank Miss Ballet Flat for the fantastic map tutorial and Miss Deviled Egg for her idea to use water color paper (I actually used drawing paper) to add heft and texture without blowing the budget.

The only issue with making these was the formatting for the printer. Since the paper was an unusual 8×10 size, I had to hand feed each sheet, and waited for the printer to re-calibrate each time. Very time consuming–I spent a good two hours just on printing (about double that on designing and formatting the images). It might have just been a problem with the equipment I was using, but I note it for posterity. (Oh yeah, and punching rounded corners was fun times, too.)

We added a Bath County visitor’s guide (which highlights beautiful back roads), a county driving tour guide…

Some local and not-so-local food favorites:

Hubbard’s Virginia peanuts. The snack packs we ordered are called “Hubbies”!! How funny is that?

Little bottles of Pellegrino (a bit of a nod to our honeymoon destination)…

Nonni’s dark chocolate biscotti (another nod). They’re individually wrapped–very convenient…

And of course, a little packet of hangover helper, Exedrin!

Welcome to the country!