Answering Your Top Questions About Wedding Welcome Gifts

It’s no secret that planning a wedding can feel stressful and overwhelming. But, when it comes to wedding welcome gifts for your guests, we’re here to take that stress off your plate and make it a smooth and seamless process!

With wedding season in full effect, we’ve been getting a lot of questions about our custom wedding welcome gift design, assembly and delivery service, and wedding welcome bag protocol when it comes to greeting out-of-town guests for weddings. We’re giving you the inside scoop on everything you need to know about wedding welcome gifts and how to set the tone for your wedding with an impressive gift for your guests.

Get ready, engaged friends, we're about to take something off of (not add to!) your wedding planning to-do list, which is more than we can say for most wedding related tasks! 

Make Them Feel Special

As your guests travel to celebrate by your side with you and your significant other, you’ll want to welcome them with a gift that’s as special as they are and makes their visit more comfortable too.

Our gift-box-guru, M&G CEO Jamie Kutchman, is here to help explain more on the topic of wedding welcome gifts. There’s no one better to answer all of your worries and questions when it comes to wedding welcome gifts and setting the tone for your big day.

Let's put your mind at ease about your welcome gifts, because when you’re the couple of honor, your only job should be to enjoy your special day!

Unforgettable and Stress-free

Whether planning a destination wedding or a wedding in their hometown, our couples want to welcome their guests in style, make an unforgettable first impression, and show gratitude to their nearest and dearest for joining in their wedding celebration.

But, more than anything, they don’t want their wedding welcome gifts to be just another stressor around such an important time in their lives. Am I right here or am I right?

It’s our all-inclusive custom wedding welcome gift design service to the rescue for couples that want to wow their guests with completely unique custom welcome gifts that are seamlessly delivered on time for their big day without all of the drama.

Gifting is an Art

When it comes to wedding welcome gifts, we design aesthetically pleasing gifts that go far beyond the run-of-the-mill hangover medicine, and a basic water bottle tossed in a white paper bag.

At Marigold & Grey, we believe that gifting is an art form. We strive to make the whole gifting experience from design to completion stress-free for you, while at the same time making your gift recipients feel cared for and appreciated when receiving their gift from you. 

Thoughtful and Unexpected Thank You's

Wedding welcome gifts are a thoughtful and unexpected way to thank your guests for traveling far and wide to take part in your wedding celebration.

The gifts, often delivered at hotel check-in or the rehearsal dinner the night before, are an opportunity to help make their visit more comfortable by including delicious treats and snacks for guests to enjoy, as well as amenity luxuries and self-care gifts to help them relax and get the party started - or recover, as the case may be!

Many of our couples give their wedding guests a welcome gift in lieu of a traditional wedding favor. Instead of favors handed out at the end of the reception, they will include keepsake gifts or memorable items in their welcome gift sets so that these items don’t get overlooked or forgotten.

Delivered before the wedding weekend or events kick off to ensure they won't be left behind, wedding welcome gifts help to set the tone and get the party started!

Full Service Custom Gift Design

Many ask how our wedding welcome gift design service works and what can they expect during the whole process. It all starts with our comprehensive wedding welcome gift design questionnaire provides you with the opportunity to share basic details of your wedding celebration such as welcome gift quantity and desired budget. We also gather information on your likes, dislikes, wedding design inspiration, and more.

With this important information, our expert gift design team curates a completely custom gift design specifically for your wedding. (For examples of our past work, be sure to browse our gallery of custom wedding welcome gifts.) We will walk you through step by step as we create a cohesive gift design that fits with your wedding’s decor and is packed full of intentional gift items that your guests will use and enjoy. 

We are a full-service gifting company, so this means that our services include design, assembly, delivery and shipping.

Creating custom wedding welcome gifts with us at team M&G allows you to completely personalize your gift from the gift’s container used, which is often a keepsake gift in itself, to the thoughtful gifts inside of each gift set to the personalization of your gift note to greet your guests, and more.

After all, you have more than enough on your wedding planning to-do list. With our custom design and delivery service, you can rest easy and focus on the rest of your wedding.

Team M&G has your welcome gifts covered! 

Answers to Your Top Wedding Welcome Gift Questions

As wedding season rolls around each year, we get lots of questions from couples about the welcome gifting experience. They want to know what they can expect out of our custom wedding welcome gift design process and easy-peasy delivery service. There’s no one better to walk us through the process from start to finish than our team M&G gifting CEO, Jamie. 

Here, in Jamie’s words, are answers to your most common questions and concerns about wedding welcome gifts. 

Do I need to give one wedding welcome gift per couple or one per person?

Most of our custom wedding welcome gift clients do one gift per couple. The exception is when you have wedding guests attending without a ‘plus one,’ and in that case, these guests get their own welcome gift.

A smaller percentage of our custom gift clients really want each of their wedding guests to have their own gift set, so we intentionally design the welcome gifts to be one per guest rather than designing the gifts with items that are meant to be shared.

What do we do if our wedding guests book outside of our hotel rooming blocks? 

If you're wondering how to distrubute your wedding welcome gifts for any guests that book a place to stay outside of your hotel room block, you're not alone. Many couples wonder this, as many wedding guests rent houses, stay at their preferred hotels or use Airbnb or VRBO and the like to secure a play to stay when attending a wedding.

If you have a way of collecting lodging information from your wedding guests, you can make sure their welcome gifts get delivered to wherever they are staying if they book outside of the traditional hotel room block.

If you have a decent percentage of guests staying in rental houses or at hotels not in your hotel room block, you can also arrange to distribute your welcome gifts at the welcome party or rehearsal dinner before the wedding. 

What should I include in our wedding welcome bags?

The sky is the limit on what to include in your wedding welcome gifts. These are unique and custom to you and your wedding!

As an overview, we really like to strike the perfect balance between sweet treats, savory snacks, a beverage, locally-inspired keepsakes, hangover kits, and welcome letters. 

For more, be sure to check out our blog post on what to include in your wedding welcome gifts. 

What should I budget for wedding welcome gifts?

When it comes to budgeting for your wedding welcome gifts, I think the important thing here is to figure out what you’re willing to spend on your gifts and earmark these funds at the beginning of the financial discussions for your wedding.

If left to the very end of the wedding budgeting process, you’re almost always going to be at-budget or over-budget when it comes time for welcome gifts. If gifting your wedding guests is important to you, reserve the funds up-front and plan accordingly. 

For specific examples of what you can expect to see across various price ranges with our custom wedding welcome gifting design service, inquire about our custom wedding welcome gift design service.

What information should I include in our wedding welcome letters?

Of all of our frequently asked questions about wedding welcome gifts, this one is definitely one of the most popular! In fact, we did a whole post on the topic of what to include in wedding welcome gifts.

In general, our couples include a heartfelt welcome message, full itinerary for the wedding weekend, transportation details, things to do in the area, a map of the area, contact information in case of questions or emergencies, and even visual timelines.

Whether you want to thank your guests for helping you get to this momentous day, give them a preview of what’s to come during the wedding weekend, help welcome them to a new location for your destination wedding, or all of the above, our custom wedding welcome gifts are designed with your wedding and your gifting goals in mind. 

For more detailed questions and answers regarding the design process behind our wedding welcome gifts, visit our custom wedding gifts page. We value our clients as much as you do your wedding guests, so let’s work together to design beautiful custom wedding welcome gifts.

Inquire here to get started by telling us your gifting goals and our team will be in touch soon!

Happy wedding welcome gifting!

3 Ways To Do Gifting With Marigold & Grey

When it comes to corporate gifting, gifts for your business, or gifts for your company's employees, clients or events, there are three unique ways to gift with Marigold & Grey.

#1: Custom Gift Design Service

If you're interested in elevated branded gifts for your company for employee appreciation, holiday or any corporate event in between, please get in touch with us to ask about our custom corporate gift design services. We'd love to work with you or your team to create something that reflects your company's brand with limitless options for customization to include branding the packaging, gift contents, printed collateral, and more. 

#2: Add-Your-Own-Logo Program (i.e. Semi-Custom Gifts)

In addition to custom gift design, we also offer a thoughtful semi-custom gift design program with low order minimums and your company's logo and brand on each gift you send. Our Add-Your-Own-Logo Program is perfect for businesses that want to send company branded gifts either all at once for an event or particular marketing campaign OR throughout the year, on demand as you need them, for special occasions like employee appreciation, birthdays, client thank you gifts, and more.

#3: Ready-to-Ship Collection in our Online Shop

For curated gift sets and themed gift baskets that are easy to send for any occasion in life or work, don't forget to shop our curated collection of ready-to-ship gift boxes with quick turnarounds and no order minimums. These ship out within 1-3 business days; rush next-day shipping is also available at checkout.

Images: Lissa Ryan Photography