Welcome Bags

[Lynn5700]

Hey Girls!!!

What did you use for welcome bags for your guests? Did you make your own or use what Disney had to offer.

Were Disney's expensive and what do they put in them?
Thanks!!

 

[jasonandlisa]

My floral designer said to look at disneyflorist.com and click on "unique designs" to see all of their welcome baskets. They all seemed pretty expensive to me, since I'll probably need 40-50 total. I've only just started to think about this, though. Thank you for posting this topic!

 

[princessdisneybelle]

There were several really good threads on this topic when I started making mine. One even had a huge list. You might do a search. There are actually several threads. This was actually one of the funest things to do.

 

[pixie08]

These are the bags I am using for my welcome bags:

I bought canvas bags from oriental trading company. I designed the logo in Publisher and printed them on avery transfers, cut, ironed and voila. I will add little tags with the guests names and reservation #.

Inside I am having a welcome folder which will have iteneraries, park maps, disney trivia etc. Inside I am putting Disney postcards, a wedding cd, An "ooops" bag (shout towelettes, sunscreen, chapstick, advil) and adding water and snacks from costco.

 

[StephSFL]

We did both! We had some "welcome gifts/baskets" made by Disney floral and, yes, it added up! Laura, our floral person, let us go into the gift basket shop to pick the things that went into them and we were like kids in a candy store and lost control! We ordered 6 for certain people and each cost between $150-200. They were amazing! If I can find pics I will post them! Treasure chests, leather Mickey shaped boxes, tote bags! Great stuff!

We could have done simple tote bags with the WDW logo and snacks for about $40 each for all of our out of town guests, but that would have gotten ridiculous!

Then we made our own welcome bags for the rest of the oiut of town guests. We ordered canvas tote bags from a wholesales ($2.55 a piece and the arejust like the ones you order from Lands End). We had them embroidered with initials/family names. As for the goodies we put in them, bottles of water, snacks, Disney plush, Godiva chocolates, pictures frames, and much more.

Hope this helps!

 

[Lynn5700]

Wow thank you for the responses.

Now when do you give these to your guests and how did you get them down there if you are out of state.I could ship everything to my fiances father,because he lives in Florida, and he could just bring them to the resort for us.

What did you guys do/are you doing?

 

[princessdisneybelle]

I am giving mine out at the Welcome Campfire. We are driving everything from TX.

 

[aprincess72]

I happen to be lucky enough to live 20 minutes from the WDW outlet. Some of the stuff there is still full price at the parks but it's half price at the outlet. Disney floral offered me some very cute bags for $12 but I was able to get the big black WDW totes at the outlet for the same price.

We decided to personalize our bags to some extent. The standard items are:
Mickey ears, cinderella wedding cameras, WDW note pad magnets, Nemo pens, post cards, chip & dale pretzels, Mickey pants shortbread cookies, homemade Mickey cookies in chinese take out boxes, Disney neck ties for all the guys, and a mini Mickey head topiary like the big ones my mom made for SBP.

Many of my finds were on eBay! The Cinderella camera's were only 3.50 each and I was able to get brand new Disney ties for 3.65 each.
We budgeted $40 per person with a little extra gift for the MOH and BM.

 

[Lynn5700]

These are the bags I am using for my welcome bags:

I bought canvas bags from oriental trading company. I designed the logo in Publisher and printed them on avery transfers, cut, ironed and voila. I will add little tags with the guests names and reservation #.

Inside I am having a welcome folder which will have iteneraries, park maps, disney trivia etc. Inside I am putting Disney postcards, a wedding cd, An "ooops" bag (shout towelettes, sunscreen, chapstick, advil) and adding water and snacks from costco.

I love your bags!! That is exactly what I am looking for.

Where can you get the maps for the parks and resort?Can I order them through Disney?

 

[ChocolateMouse]

I'm giving my stuff out as wedding favours at dinner rather than as welcome bags. Hopefully it makes little or no difference. Each is personalized with the guest's name, so it also serves as a table setting. I ran over my budget long ago , so I've been making everything myself rather than buying. It's been quite fun, although a bit time consuming and I'm short on time.

 

[Maggimus]

These are the bags I am using for my welcome bags:

I bought canvas bags from oriental trading company. I designed the logo in Publisher and printed them on avery transfers, cut, ironed and voila. I will add little tags with the guests names and reservation #.

Inside I am having a welcome folder which will have iteneraries, park maps, disney trivia etc. Inside I am putting Disney postcards, a wedding cd, An "ooops" bag (shout towelettes, sunscreen, chapstick, advil) and adding water and snacks from costco.

I LOVE THOSE!!!

 

[autumnbride2B]

These are the bags I made for our guests. I got them whole sale from an on-line store and made the iron on transfer. They ended up costing about $3.00/bag (before we fill them, of course )

 

[Lynn5700]

Hey girls. I just bought the tan canvas bags for 1.80 a piece at bagrepublic.com.

I also bought the cinderella disposable cameras on ebay too. They had the cheapest prices on ebay. They were $50 for 25 so its like $2 each. Everywhere else wanted 4-5 dollars.

I am going to get the iron on transfers. When I finish them I will post them in my journal.

I'm starting to get everything little by little now that way we have plenty of time to make everything.

 

[happylalagirl]

We went through a company called www.coolpromos.com They were perfect for us. They were those nylon bags with the cords, like backpacks. We had them silk screened in Silver with a pic of Cinderella's castle and the words:

Diane & Andrew
December 11, 2006
... and they lived happily ever after

The bags were a royal blue color. They were beautiful. It was easier for us to have a company make them than it was to do it ourselves. Originally we had 75 people coming so that would have been a lot of bags to make, even if we did just one per family... they had all kinds of bags. However, if you only have a few people coming, it would probably just be easier to make them. Oriental trading always has bags... good luck!!

 

[DisneyFairy19]

I LOVE your bags... They are tooo cute

These are the bags I am using for my welcome bags:

I bought canvas bags from oriental trading company. I designed the logo in Publisher and printed them on avery transfers, cut, ironed and voila. I will add little tags with the guests names and reservation #.

Inside I am having a welcome folder which will have iteneraries, park maps, disney trivia etc. Inside I am putting Disney postcards, a wedding cd, An "ooops" bag (shout towelettes, sunscreen, chapstick, advil) and adding water and snacks from costco.

 

[KT27]

Here are our bags that we used...

We put door hangers in them:

This was our logo and we added the castle to it:

This was my junior bridesmaid bag:

And finally my bridesmaids bags:

 

[princessdisneybelle]

Here are our bags that we used...

We put door hangers in them:

This was our logo and we added the castle to it:

This was my junior bridesmaid bag:

And finally my bridesmaids bags:

I love yours! Love your theme too. Very cute