Essential or Extra - Welcome Bags

Essential! As an out of town guest I love getting a welcome bag! It's always really nice to have a bottle of water and a snack to tide you over - especially if your hotel doesn't have a little bodega!

I think nice but again not essential! They are probably more important if you have lots of out of town guests.

Extra! We are not doing them

Extra. No need for this with all the internet and easy access to everything.

I’m not sure yet, it depends on how many of our out of town family comes I love the idea though

I do personally feel these are extra but my mother and FMIL disagree so we compromised. So we're doing welcome hotel bags with water, snacks, and cookies. A woman that works with my FMIL makes these amazing cut out sugar cookies so she's makes wedding cake and heart shapes that will have icing and sprinkles in our colors. I bought the gift bags and tissue paper from Oriental Trading and the moms are buying the contents.

Extra. I would’ve loved to do this but it’s logistically impossible. Ours is a destination wedding so everyone is coming from elsewhere. Trying to put bags together and travel with them, then trying to get them to 10-15 different hotels? No. Just no.

I think so.to show how much u think them for been a part of your big day

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That's a good point! I didn't even think about how you can munch on the snacks in that bag to hold you over! Lol, always got to throw the Advil in there for the next day!

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I totally agree! If I end up having a destination wedding, I'll definitely provide them for my guests!

Extra. It's a nice thought if you can afford it but it's not essential.

Our site has a caurosel on location so only thing we plan on doing is giving each guest a token probably with our engagement picture or in a small bag. Would welcome suggestions anyone else may have ?

I think for those coming out of town a welcome bag is essential and very much needed. However I don’t thunk we will be doing that for ALL of our guests (100+ people is ALOT)

Extra and waste of money! I would much rather treat them to lunch or a dinner

Wish people would stop wasting money on these! Unless you are going to give me some amazing local snack I dont want/need candy or a water bottle or ibuprofen.

Extra - guests receive a lot at the wedding, dinner, drinks, favors, etc.

Extra, not doing this haha.

Extra! I feel like noone will even use those random items.

This wold be extra due to a lot of people would not use this or take them with them after they left.

Extra. My guests are out of town but not so far out of town that they would stay several days.