OOT Bag Love!
September 9th, 2008 @ 2:43 pm by Miss Sweet Tea
We’re still looking for affordable OOT bags, but I came across this in a Daily Candy Deals email sent to me today:
Personalizing the Totes
September 3rd, 2008 @ 3:01 pm by Mrs. Sundae
The lovely Miss Cupcake just wrote about personalizing her Out of Town Totes, and that reminded me that I never got around to writing about ours! I bought our plain canvas totes from cheaptotes.com several months ago for .99 cents a piece. It seems that they went up in price for a little while, but right now they’re on sale for .99 cents again! This is how the plain tote looks:
A Warm Welcome
September 3rd, 2008 @ 8:29 am by Mrs. Cupcake
For a while, we thought we’d use gable boxes to hold welcome items for our out-of-town guests. Then, the fabulous Miss Sundae wrote about finding inexpensive canvas tote bags, and we swiftly changed our minds. Giving our guests bags that they could actually reuse sounded like a really cool idea, so we decided to go for it too.
The bags that Miss Sundae found were a little more expensive by the time I got around to buying them, so I found some similar 15″ x 16″ natural cotton tote bags from InGreetings.com for $0.94 a pop (now available for $0.98 each). The material was fairly thin, but overall we were impressed with the quality for the price. There were some slight variations in size from bag to bag, but other than that we didn’t have any problems, and delivery was very prompt.
I set to work trying to create a design for our bags that wouldn’t scream “THIS IS FROM OUR WEDDING” but instead would hopefully be something that people would reuse.
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Undoing the OOT Bags
August 19th, 2008 @ 3:35 pm by Mrs. Cream Puff
Wanna hear a funny story? I thought you might.
We left for our honeymoon late on Monday night after our Saturday wedding. On Monday morning, I got a very strange phone call. “Hello, Ms. Cream Puff? This is [MIL Puff’s Name].” I thought to myself, “No, this is not MIL Puff. I know MIL Puff’s voice, and this is not MIL Puff. So who the heck is this?”
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The OOT Totes
August 8th, 2008 @ 3:52 pm by Miss Pinot Noir
Kate Parker Weddings has over 20 great city/theme specific Out of Town Welcome Baskets. While these baskets are certainly out of my price range, ranging from $25-45 each + shipping, they are a great place to draw inspiration! Each basket is filled with locally made products and information specific to your wedding weekend.I love the “Green” Welcome Basket:
OOT Bags
August 6th, 2008 @ 3:25 pm by Mrs. Lovebird
Considering all of our 90+ guests were all flying to Cancun for our wedding, we knew our OOT bags were not going to be an easy task.
First off, we had to decide on how big we actually wanted to make these babies, keeping in mind that we would have to transport them all the way down to Mexico. Initially, I was all about the canvas totes; then I realized we would have a hard time trying to fill them all considering we are staying at an all-inclusive resort. Bottles of water and anything your heart desires to drink is provided for at the resort. Not to mention there was no way in hell I was transporting bottles of water to Mexico! The resort is also all you can eat, so there was no need to load them with too many snacks. The hotel also provided all the toiletries you could ever need, including sunblock so we were left with only a few options.
I must have spent weeks deciding on which bags to buy. I eventually settled on these 7 1/4″ x 2″ x 7″ foam bags from Oriental Trading. I was expecting something more, but they served their purpose. There was no way we were bringing 90+ bags to Cancun, so I decided on getting 3 dozen bags. It came out to about one per family/room.
Building the Out-of-Town Bag
July 2nd, 2008 @ 5:55 pm by Mrs. Gingerbread
My biggest barrier to the OOT bag was the bag itself. I didn’t want to pay an arm and a leg for it. There are lots of cute options out there, but even at $5 apiece, it quickly adds up to over a hundred bucks in bags. I also didn’t want to go the paper bag route because I wanted a bag that people would reuse. Then it dawned on me. Reusable shopping bags are everywhere in Vancouver. All of the grocery stores, department stores, and specialty shops have them. Around Christmas, Sears had the most adorable damask reusable shopping bags. Sadly, those are gone, but the Bay has some simple ones that we snatched up for .99 each. It even says “Esprit Global” on the bag (instead of “The BAY”), which kind of fits our whole destination wedding/travel theme. I am thinking that our guests will be more likely to take this bag with them on future grocery shopping trips than one that has our names on them.
OOT Bags
April 7th, 2008 @ 1:43 pm by Mrs. Cream Puff
It seems like a few of us bees are at the same point in our wedding planning…so although you saw another post not too long ago about out-of-town bags, I gotta post mine, too. Momma Puff and I finished them during her visit, and we were quite proud of the finished product:
Stranded In New York
March 28th, 2008 @ 4:50 pm by Mrs. Canary
Mr. Canary and I are working on our guide to NYC to include on our wedding Web site and as a little pamphlet in our out-of-town bags. This is a great little pet project for Mr. Canary who loves to write, but also a lot of fun for both of us to reminisce about our favorite spots. I’ll post more on that when we’ve completed the project, but while we were compiling our list, one of my most favorite places in the city came to mind, The Strand Bookstore.
If you’re a New Yorker and a bibliophile like Mr. Canary and me, you’ll know why The Strand is a “must-visit” on our list. It was one of the first places I took Mr. Canary when he’d visit me during our summers in college. It’s the best no-frills shop… all about books (over 18 miles actually!)
The Strand circa 1938 {Image from here}
