Must Haves For Wedding Welcome Gifts That Wow

We know a lot of thought, time and energy goes into planning and executing the details for your wedding so it’s important to us to make sure your wedding welcome gifts live up to the same level of detail. As professional gift designers, we’re often asked what are the “must-haves” for wedding welcome gifts that truly wow wedding guests.

For team M&G, wedding welcome gifts that impress your wedding guests and leave a lasting impression come down to three important keys to making memorable wedding welcome gifts, including making your guest feel celebrated, focusing on your location, and memorable keepsakes.

Whether you’re trying to set the tone for an incredible wedding weekend, provide comfort for guests who have traveled to a destination wedding, introduce your guests to your wedding’s location that means a lot to you and your partner, or give a unique wedding thank you gift in lieu of traditional wedding favors, there are so many reasons that couples curated wedding welcome gifts for their family and friends - and we’re here for all of them!  

Thoughtfully Set The Tone

A specially curated and thoughtful gift awaiting your wedding guests when they check into their hotel or when they finally get to their room after a long day of travel is a great way to begin and set the tone for your wedding weekend. When we talk about thank you gifts for your guests whether they are custom-designed wedding welcome gifts or from our ready-to-ship online shop of predesigned wedding welcome gift sets, we’re talking gifts that create an experience for your guests and are something a little more than a paper bag with a water bottle and some hangover medicine. 

As you think about what you want to include in your wedding welcome gifts to wow your friends and family who have taken time out of their busy lives to attend your wedding, keep our three keys to amazing gifts in mind and you can’t go wrong. 

To create unique wedding welcome gifts that are as meaningful as your wedding guests are to you, you’ll need to make sure your guests feel celebrated, focus on your wedding’s location, and don’t forget to include keepsake gifts that leave a lasting impression.

In more detail, here is how to design, package, and assemble wedding welcome gifts that will blow your guests' minds and be a wedding detail they’ll be talking about for years to come. 

Keys to Memorable Wedding Welcome Gifts

There are three simple, yet important, things that we strive to do with all of our custom wedding welcome gifts. If you want to take off a very big and often confusing task off your wedding planning to-do list, be sure to get in touch with our custom gift designers, as they will take you through the entire process from start to finish so that you don’t have to do anything except enjoy your wedding!

For more help with where to start or what to include in your out-of-town gifts for your wedding guests, be sure to hit these important points with your welcome gifts and they are sure to be a highlight of your wedding.

The keys to any wonderful wedding welcome gift that excites are to make your wedding guests feel celebrated, to make your wedding’s location known, and to always leave a lasting impression with intentional keepsakes they can take home and enjoy. Done and done!

Your closest friends and family have traveled far and wide to take part in your wedding celebration, so greet them with a wedding welcome gift that makes them feel appreciated, that introduces them to the location of your wedding and, most importantly, why you chose that spot for your big day, and always be sure to include a thoughtful keepsake as something that they can take home to remember long after your wedding is over. 

Keep these three things in mind when designing your wedding welcome gifts and you will wow your wedding guests! 

Make Your Wedding Guests Feel Celebrated

It is of the utmost importance to make your wedding welcome gifts as unique as you, the couple. Unique gifts that represent the couple exchanging wedding vows make the gifts stand out for this occasion against other wedding welcome gifts your guests have received at weddings or events before. 

By personalizing your wedding welcome gifts with colors, intentional details, and gift items that speak to the couple and the wedding design aesthetic, you’ll leave a lasting impression on your guests. Not only will they love the wedding welcome gifts you’ve given but the gifts will make them feel celebrated, loved, and special.

Especially if you’re giving your guests wedding welcome gifts in lieu of favors, you will want to go the extra little bit to make your gifts stand out. Think about, what types of gift items your guests would enjoy. What would make them feel special? What would make them feel like an important part of your wedding celebration?

Great examples of how to make your guests feel celebrated include:

• Personalized custom cookies or sweets
• Gourmet snacks or beverages they’ve never tried before
• Amenity kits, like hangover kits or travel essentials
• Reusable gift bag or or other specialty item that doubles as a gift vessel
• Personalized welcome letters or notes to greet guests
• Detailed itinerary of wedding weekend so guests know when to be where
• Use of wedding colors on gift’s items, ribbons, and gift tag
• Use of branding elements from wedding, such as same pattern from invitations

Focus On Your Wedding’s Location

Letting your wedding venue or location take center stage in your gifts is an easy way to help curate wedding welcome gifts that wow. It’s not only an easy theme to start building your gifts from as a starting point, but it gives your guests a special insight into your relationship so they can learn more about what matters to you as a couple.

You chose your wedding location for a reason so let your wedding guests know why it’s so special to you with items included in your wedding welcome gift. The items could be sourced from the local area or a memorable keepsake that incorporates the wedding locale for your guests to hold on to.

Locally inspired items help your guests understand where your wedding is taking place and cherish their visit even more. It’s especially nice when you can support local businesses from your wedding location by selecting their items to include in your wedding welcome gifts.

Great examples of how to focus on your wedding’s location include:

• Custom-drawn maps of your wedding’s location 
• Specialty food or beverages from the location or region
• Candles or other small gift items made by local artisans
• Art prints or photos of the location
• Locally inspired symbols or motifs in packaging
• Guidebooks and pamphlets about the location
• Information about things to do in the area or local attractions that you like
• List of your favorite places to eat

Keepsakes That Leave A Lasting Impression

After your wedding day has passed you want your guests to have something from your wedding welcome gift that they can still hold on to. Although we love to include consumable gifts like snacks, beverages and amenity items that guests can use right way to make their stay more comfortable, the final key to wedding welcome gifts that wow is to be sure to include a memorable keepsake. 

For our custom wedding welcome gifts, we always try to include a small yet thoughtful souvenir or memento guests can take home with them and use or cherish long after your wedding is over. For this key piece of a wow-worthy wedding welcome gift, think of something beyond the snacks and drinks, and try to think about useful gift items that will make a big impact. 

Pro Tip:  Look for travel size or mini versions of your keepsake gifts to pack inside of wedding welcome gifts. Not only are these smaller gifts more affordable, they are easy to pack for your guests. If your guests are traveling to your wedding’s venue, they likely won’t be able to take home big or bulky presents from their welcome gift. With travel sized keepsakes, they can experience the gift’s meaning and purpose, and easily take it home to enjoy.

You get bonus points if your wedding welcome gift keepsakes or snacks are made by local artisans or purchased from local shops. You’ll be hitting all of the three keys to impressive wedding welcome gifts with a locally inspired keepsake.  

Great examples of keepsakes that leave a lasting impression:

• Coasters, tumblers, or other drinkware
• Luxury candles or aromatherapy tools
• High-end hand soaps or body lotions
• Coffee table, travel or art books
• Hats, socks, or other unisex accessories
• Self-care and relaxation items
• Handmade boxes, small plates and bowls
• Customized clothing or one-size-fits-all accessories

Stress-Free Wedding Welcome Gifts

Many think that when it comes to impressing their friends and family with wedding welcome gifts, it's all about picking out the different gifts to include. While that part is important and can be very fun, it's not the whole story. There are many other parts to ensuring a stress free and seamless experience for you and your guests.

We know first hand how much goes into the wedding welcome gift process!  Imagine if your guests got wedding welcome gifts that were broken, or worse didn’t get a gift at all. It takes time to source each gift item, ensure proper packaging elements, pack those items, and then get them to where they need to be on the wedding weekend. 

If the thought of designing, sourcing, assembling and delivering your wedding welcome gifts - in addition to everything else that you have to do with your wedding, work and life - feels overwhelming to you, our gifting experts are here for you.

If you’d rather hand it over to the professionals, team M&G is ready to design unique wedding welcome gifts that impress you and your guests. We’ve got your back and can take this off of your plate with our full service custom wedding welcome gifts, and our pre-designed wedding welcome gift sets that are ready-to-ship in as many quantities as you need. 

From start to finish, with our custom wedding welcome gift service we take care of each step along the way so that you can relax and enjoy your wedding knowing that the welcome gifts are done and done! Using the three main keys that we outlined above, our expert gift design team will gather information about you, your wedding, and your guests, and create a thoughtful and unique wedding welcome gift your guests will love and appreciate.

In addition to fully custom-designed wedding welcome gifts, we also offer a collection of pre-designed wedding welcome gift sets and a restroom amenity basket that are ready to go. All of the work is done for you, you can simply shop our ready-to-ship wedding welcome gifts with gender-neutral designs and a fun selection of snacks and beverages for your guests to enjoy.

Our M&G couples can find exactly what they’re looking for with our ready-to-ship wedding welcome gifts, or work with our team of expert gift designers to create custom wedding welcome gifts. It’s the wow-factor details and personalized touches that make wedding welcome gifts so important to us.

Happy wedding welcome gifting!

3 WAYS TO DO CUSTOM WEDDING GIFTING WITH MARIGOLD & GREY

When it comes to wedding gifting, gifts for welcome gifts for guests or wedding party gifts for bridesmaids and groomsmen, there are three unique ways to gift with Marigold & Grey.

If you're interested in custom designed and curated gifts for your wedding to welcome guests to their hotel, we'd love to work with you and your wedding's design aesthetic and event location. Ask us about custom wedding welcome gift designs.

In addition to custom gift design, we also offer a thoughtful semi-custom gift design program with low order minimums and your wedding's logo on each gift. Our Add-Your-Own-Logo Program is perfect for couple's with a wedding monogram or crest who want to send curated wedding welcome gifts or bridesmaid and groomsmen thank you gift sets.

For curated gift sets and themed gift baskets that are easy to send, don't forget to shop our curated collection of ready-to-ship gift boxes with quick turnarounds and perfect for all occasions.

Happy wedding welcome gifting! 

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