olive june

our wedding hotel bags

olive juneAugust 6, 2013

one of my favorite parts about our wedding (photos coming SOON!!) was that SO many people traveled so far to be there- which made me emotional throughout the day- as this is what made our wedding SO special- we had people travel from california, denver, new york, boston, connecticut, ohio, illinois, florida, alabama, new jersey, philadelphia, delaware & even italy- and SO many other places~ it was humbling and meant so much to tim and i.

as a result, we wanted to thank those who traveled by making hotel bags… so worth the time and energy- here is a breakdown of the hotel bags we gave out…

*each box had a burlap tag on the side that said: wolf.monaco wedding with either pearls or flowers on the tag- a HUGE thank you to my dear friend, vicky burger, for writing these out:

my students helped me cut these signs for the outside

(on the last day of school- they were so excited to help! so cute.)

and then i laminated them and hot glued them onto the natural colored gable boxes

i designed these timelines and then had them printed on etsy~

an order of events for our guests- this was tied to the boxes with twine

the inside:

items included/some of our favorite things:

– a can of sprite or ginger ale

– a bottle of water with a ‘love’ tag glued onto the label

– reese’s cups

– granola bars

– doublemint gum

– lorna doone cookies

– utz chips

– peanut butter crackers

– two motrins 🙂

– a pack of hot tamales that said “j & t’s fav. road trip treat” in type writer font from pinterest (also written with love by some of my prior students)

– and lastly, my amazing mom (known for her delicious baked goods in small town) baked two cookies for each bag~ thank you mom!

*i had an etsy seller make the following tags and bought the floral bags at michael’s around easter time- one monster cookie/one chocolate chip cookie in each box:

i closed each box with a shabby chic clothespin from michael’s

the love tags for the water bottles – i hot glued them over the labels on the water bottles

the shabby chic clothespins from michael’s:

inside, i also placed a charlotte postcard and a coral sheet of ‘places/things to do’

i set up an ‘assembly line’ and then tim’s parents came over

and helped us assemble all 75 boxes-

THANK YOU!!

along with everyone else that helped transfer and close at the hotel- esp. my dad, jess, alex, and jana- that was a lot of work!! thank you so much