Bridal Club Magazine
Easy Ideas for Wedding Gift Bags
Fill your wedding gift bags with Beautiful Wedding
Favors. Choose from a selection of Favors that match your them or
even get Personalized Favors for your guests.
Here are a few ideas for inexpensive
and easy-to-make gifts bags that are appropriate for wedding
showers and weddings. These few simple ideas can be used to make
gifts to give to the bride-to-be, favours for the guests of the
wedding shower, gifts to the bride and groom, or as mementos for
the guests of the wedding.
These illustrations contain several pictures, so it might take
several (long) seconds for the page to open. Once the page does
open, and then allow a few extra second for all the pictures to
appear.
To make these simple gift bags, you'll need items such as the
following (although you aren't limited to what is listed here):
- Gift Bags (any size, any colour)
- Novelty containers (heart-shaped plastic containers as shown in
the illustrations)
- Shredded Paper (also called excelsior)
- Simple gift items for wedding shower favours and wedding table
mementos (pictured are peppermints, chocolates, votive candle and
holder)
- Tissue paper, curl ribbon, gift tags (see below for free
printable gift tags)
Wedding Shower Favours
A thoughtful idea is for the
bride-to-be to give small gifts to all her guests at her wedding
shower. As illustrated, one inexpensive idea is to give away a
votive candle in a small votive candle holder. (I shopped at a
"Dollar Store" for these items and purchased the votive candles 4
for $1 and the votive holders 2 for $1. The gift bags, like the
pink one pictured, were 3 for $1.)
Wrap the candle in the candle holder very loosely in a piece of
tissue paper and put it in the gift bag so that the ends of the
tissue paper stick out. Write a personal note on the Wedding Gift
Tag (see below for the links to the gift tags), punch a hole in the
corner of the card, and then use curl ribbon to tie the card onto
the handle of the bag. Shopping for items at a Dollar Store, then
entire gift, including the tissue paper, is less than $2.00.
Wedding Table Memento
It is customary to provide a small
memento for the guests of the wedding, typically placed on the
tables at the reception.
The illustrated sample shows novelty container, in this case a
clear plastic heart (which I found at the Dollar Store, 3 for $1).
Put in a few wrapped peppermints and wrapped chocolates (I bought
the candy in bulk at the grocery store). Use curl ribbon to tie on
a personalized Wedding Gift Tag (see below for the links to the
gift tags). Place one at each table setting. By shopping at the
Dollar Store and buying the candy in bulk, the estimated price of
each table memento is about 75 cents.
Gift Bags for Wedding Gifts
No matter what the gift is inside
the bag, you can make use a plain gift bag, tissue paper, shredded
paper (also called excelsior), curl ribbon, and a Wedding Gift Tag.
Colour coordinates everything in whatever colour you prefer.
Use the shredded paper to fill the bottom of the bag, or just to
fill in the side so that the gift sits nicely in the bag. Wrap the
gift item itself loosely in tissue paper, and nestle in the bag, in
the shredded paper.
Use curl ribbon to tie on a Wedding Gift Tag.
Wedding Gift Tags
The gift tags provided are meant to
be printed on sheets of business cards. If you are unfamiliar about
working with business cards to make personalized gift tags, then
please see my tutorial:
http://readingroom.janktheproofer.com/businesscardgifttags.htm