Our Wedding - Out Of Towner Bags

Here's the final result of our OOT gift bags. As I mentioned before, we really wanted to offer our guests a real taste of NYC. All the contents below were packaged in a white I Heart NY bag. Here's what we stuffed the bags with:

• 2 bottles of our custom water bottles
• Apple (Big Apple theme :))
• NYC Taxi Treat Cookies
• Black & White Cookie (another NYC classic)
• NYC magnet
• NYC postcard
• Deck of NYC playing cards
• Mini bottle of Bacardi Big Apple rum
• Cracker Jacks, potato chips & pretzels
• Granola bars
• Swedish Fish, Peppermint Patties & Tootsie Pops
• Mini Hersheys chocolate with our custom wrapper & Hershey kisses packaged in a mini aqua chinese takeout container with our monogram label
• Bottle of Wholearth Body Wash (the Certified Organic brand I developed)
• Tourist info
• Personal note to thank out of towners for their time and effort in making it to our special day

It's amazing how much stuff we were able to cram in the bags. I'm really glad that we took the time and made the effort to put these together for our guests. They turned out to be a huge hit!

And They're Off!

I am so excited! Our planners just stopped by to pick up boxes and boxes of various wedding necessities for this weekend - OOT bags, bathroom baskets, flip flop basket, candy & candy bowls, pictures, votives, ring pillow, guest book, flower girl basket, etc. They're all out of here and I can finally breathe a little easier!

I can't believe the day is almost here. Only 3 more days to go and it looks like it's gonna be a gorgeous weekend. Keep your fingers crossed for me :)

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Crunch Time

Just for the weekend. I'm not going for good or for an extended period of time or anything...

It's the final weekend before the wedding and we have a lot of last minute things to take care of. Good thing we can do a lot of the things indoors because Tropical Storm Danny is going to make for a pretty rainy weekend.

Projects include making a photo list, ordering prints from the E session to display at the reception, putting vacation photos in frames for table themes, deciding which other photos to display, tracking down more frames, writing the sizes on the flip flop hang tags, labeling water bottles & chocolates, deciding attendant walking/standing order, write thank you notes for OOT bags, starting to assemble OOT bags & attendant gift bags, buy maroon colored M&Ms for cookie table (I know it's a cookie table but we wanted to give some candy away too :)), and possibly, if the labels and bags come in today, we'll put the monogram labels on the cookie bags.

Quite a lot to do but I know I'll feel so much better after we accomplish all of this.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend!

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Treats For Our Sweets

I've been totally consumed these past few weeks with all the little details that will make our guests feel comfortable, happy & extra spoiled. Be it the NY themed out of towner gift bags (I'd love to add this cute cookie favor above from One Girl Cookies. I'm totally obsessed with all things NY and I'm even going to add little Bacardi Big Apple Rum bottles), the flip flop & bathroom baskets (J thinks I'm crazy wanting to add makeup remover & cotton balls and hair gel. She doesn't think that people will really need that stuff at the wedding) or the ever expanding cookie table (originally we were just going to do our sugar cookie recipe as a favor but now it's expanded to Jen's family's Norwegian Krumkae and my family's Greek Koulourakia and we'll probably have some maroon & possibly aqua or teal colored m&ms in cookie jars on the table too).

I swear the more time you have before the wedding actually happens, the more things get added to the list! I'm just hoping that all of our guests have a wonderful time and like all the extra treats.

I Wanna Be A Part of It!

I can't believe it's come to the time of the planning process where we have to think of the Out of Towner gift bags. I remember months ago thinking how I have all the time in the world to think about that. I don't have to worry about that until right before the wedding. Well guess what? It's right before the wedding! 1 month from today, in fact! Wow, the panic is starting to set in!

We really want to offer our guests a real taste of NYC so we're goin all out with a Manhattan theme. Here's a little sampling of ideas we've been kicking around.

• NYC Taxi Treats cookies

• Black & White cookies

• Apples (the Big Apple - get it?)
  
• Bottled water
  
• Chocolate - mini NYC wrapped Hershey chocolate bars & kisses
• NYC Magnet
• NYC Postcard
• Deck of NYC playing cards

• Potato chips, pretzels & peanuts
• Mini bottle of Bailey's
  
• Travel size pack of aspirin
• Mints/gum
  
• Travel tissue pack
• Tourist info - maps/pamphlets/etc.
  
• Personal note to thank out of towners for their time and effort in making it to our special day

And we'll package it all up in a NY gift bag.

I'm not sure if I'm forgetting anything. I want to make sure that our guests are comfortable, well fed & entertained with a NY flair.

Are you guys doing welcome bags? Do you think we're missing anything?

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