Some of your guests may be traveling a long distance to your come to your wedding. It is always a really nice touch if you have "welcome" gifts waiting in their room when the arrive!
Welcome gifts are an opportunity to express your personality. A really great welcome basket will get you guests excited for what is yet to come the rest of the weekend!
This is also one part of your wedding that is easy to put together yourself if you need to cut some costs. Or if you don't have the time this is also something a wedding planner often offers or a local gift store or often florist will offer as a service.
Below is the following recipe for a great welcome gift:
1. maps and brochures - include things that you and your fiance enjoy doing in the town/city
2. snacks - everyone loves snacks! (I had one bride who had Krispy Kreme donuts with icing in her wedding colors waiting for her guests)
3. drinks - include a bottle of water or your favorite bottle soda (like an Izzy)
4. personal - include something that represents a quirky/fun part of your and your fiance's personality
5. A PERSONALIZED THANK YOU NOTE - this is a way to really thank each of your guests individually and an opportunity to let them know how much they mean to you
6. come up with a really cute package to put all of these items in - it is all in presentation! At a friends wedding they had customized eco-friendly totes made with a cartoon of both of them on the front - I still have and use mine :)
FINALLY, have fun with it and get creative!!!
The bouquet: peonies, tweedia, roses, freesia, stephanotis.
The maid's bouquets: roses, hydrangeas, freesia.
The centerpieces: we did 2 different shape vases (the bowl above and also a pedestal vase) both were wrapped with tropical leaves and contained hydrangeas, roses, freesia, tulips.
The cake: roses, freesia, delphinium.
I know that for those of you in the North it has felt like winter for a couple of months now but it just getting cold down south and we only now starting to think about our winter themed weddings and events :) Lucky us!
Printable Invitations are now available at Tre Bella {flowers}. Stop by to discuss your wedding flowers and also browse our newest collection of printable by Snow & Graham and Smudge Ink.
We are so excited to be presenting this event with Solas Raleigh.
We are so excited to be presenting this event with Solas Raleigh. Bubbles & Bling will be an evening of champagne, appetizers, cake, fashion, great event tips and so much more.
I can't wait until we get the photos from David and Elizabeth's wedding. Above is a pic that Becky took with her camera - it turned out pretty well so I can't wait to see how the professional ones look. It was the most elaborate chuppa that we have ever done - and I was quite pleased with how it turned out. 
As many of you know September/October is a busy time of year for weddings in the south and this has definitely been true for Tre Bella!
The cake below was by Donna at Sweet Memories - her cakes always look incredible :)
In the center of our table we spelled out the word ENVY with jade roses and green hypericum berries. This was Becky's fab idea and I think it is easily applied to a corporate event or wedding - spelling out the company name or the monogram of the bride and groom on their head table !!
At each corner of the space we had columns draped in green linens with an a very green arrangement on top!
We had a GREAT time and there were definitely some great tables this year! It is always fun to design outside of the box and create something over the top - it helps you come up with ideas for the next client :)
Some of your guests may be traveling a long distance to your come to your wedding. It is always a really nice touch if you have "welcome" gifts waiting in their room when the arrive! 
