Tag Archives: guest bags

Mar 21, 2017

Charleston Collage

Today, we’re going to help you with ideas for the perfect wedding welcome favors based on the type/location of your big day.  Of course with Charleston being our backyard, we try to find ways to switch it up a bit, but still representing both the city location and the clients marrying here.  For a formal destination wedding downtown, bags custom printed with the couple’s printing motif are filled with upscale goodies like champagne splits, custom Candlefish scented candles, and favorite treats of the bride and groom.  Another Charleston wedding features canvas totes printed with an illustrated map of the weekend locales, locally made cheese wafers and local chocolate. Of course, providing guests with all of the pertinent information- transportation schedule, addresses of event locations, and things to do in the surrounding areas are all necessities.

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Since we do do a lot of destination weddings, we like creating fun and new ways to customize the favors that greet guests upon arrival, perhaps to a location they have never been before. For this Colorado weekend, leather trimmed totes were filled with thoughtful details like wood grain S’well bottles (tote along on your hikes), “trail” mix, and kit full of sunscreen, mini O2 bottles to battle any elevation issues, and fly fishing embroidered caps.

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For a Southern beach wedding, jute beach bags are stocked with printed koozies, ER kits (bandaids, tums, aspirin, sunscreen, and chapstick), lots of beach worthy snacks and magazines for guests to enjoy while soaking up the sun, and printed water bottles.  Other items to include are printed beach towels, flip flips, and printed toss away sunglasses.

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For this intimate destination wedding at the Montage Palmetto Bluff, the venue provided home made biscuits and locally made jam, which Lettered Olive created custom packaging for and delivered to each guest cottage the morning of the big day… Talk about leaving a lasting impression!

3.21.17   |   TARA GUÉRARD
Bridal Style, Charleston, Event Design, Event Planning, Food and Drink, Gifts, Shopping, Stationery, Invitations and Pretty Papers, The Lettered Olive, Uncategorized, Weddings | 1 Comment
Nov 15, 2016

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A big hit that we have been finding as part of our guest welcome bags are our E.R. Kits.  We’ve done a variety of these over the years with different contents and containers. Today, we’re sharing tips on putting together your own “E.R. Kit”.

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photo by Corbin Gurkin

For this kit, to compliment the canvas and leather tote that was the Welcome bag, a small canvas zipper tote housed standard emergency items like band aides, pain relievers, and sunscreen. But, consider your wedding location as well. For this Aspen wedding, mini Oxygen sprays were included for altitude adjustments.

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We have recently been working with a new company, Packlane to create custom printed boxes.  Lettered Olive works with us and our clients to design something that works with the wedding or party theme and then Packlane prints the containers- love it! The blue box housed interactive invitations for a 7 year old birthday party we did for a client recently, so they are perfect for custom mailers too!

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For a recent client marrying in Charleston, we listed out all of the contents on the bottom of the box to minimize printing expenses and packaging inside the box.

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For this fall Charleston wedding, contents included everything needed to survive the Lowcountry when we have our wonderful fall weather. Bug spray is a must- and here we have it combined with sunscreen- perfect! There are plenty of online sources for this spray so you can find your favorite.

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We’ve had lots of requests lately as well for “Hangover” cures. Some of our favorites are Emergen-C packets and Party Smart pills.

11.15.16   |   TARA GUÉRARD
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We pride ourselves in the South (especially Charleston) on our Hospitality. I feel that one of the things that has driven Soiree’s success is our ability to help our clients make their guests feel welcome. We are always working on coming up with beautiful, creative, and customized Welcome bags for our weddings. We love to personalize them to our couples- whether it be through using their favorite foods or items representative of the location, or printed/embroidered bags, or printed items (from Lettered Olive of course) that match the wedding papers.  Here are some that we have curated over the years.

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photo by Liz Banfield

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photo by Liz Banfield

Kerr guest bag

photo by Liz Banfield

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photo by Liz Banfield

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photo by Liz Banfield

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photo by Liz Banfield

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photo by Liz Banfield

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photo by Corbin Gurkin

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photo by Corbin Gurkin

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photo by Adrienne Page

5.20.15   |   TARA GUÉRARD
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