Weddingbee Blog

We have THE BEST friends and families. Like, seriously, the best. So I am continually in search of ways to make their time at our wedding weekend as comfortable, fun, and filling (as in food, lots and lots of food) as possible!

To begin, when guests check in at their hotels, they will be greeted by this, which is basically a total rip-off of these bad boys by the lovely Mrs. Bell Pepper:

Inside will be lots of regional goodies from both of our hometowns; here’s what we’ve got so far:

From Burger’s hometown - Reading, PA: Fifth Avenue Bars, Unique Pretzels, and Good’s Potato Chips

From my hometown, Pittsburgh, PA: Clark Bars, Heinz Mustard, and Pittsburgh Nuts

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Also included will be some pop, information for the guests, and descriptions of the items and how each relates to where we’re from!

We actually wanted to include regional beers as well (Reading Premium and Iron City), but Cheeseburger Mom and Dad pointed out that some rooms may not have refrigerators to cool the beers and that we’d be giving some minors access to beer. I was convinced not to include them in the OOT boxes by the former more than the latter (who wants to drink warm beer?), but to replace this idea I’m considering trying to arrange having them at the cocktail hour. We shall see.

Overall, I’m ridiculously excited about this little project. We won’t be able to assemble the boxes until we get up there, so these will probably be one of the last things we complete before the weekend begins! That makes me giddy just thinking about it.

How are you greeting your guests?