{"id":733,"date":"2012-08-09T13:30:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T13:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanorrestaurant.com\/blog\/?p=733"},"modified":"2023-01-03T14:45:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T19:45:33","slug":"guest-welcome-baskets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/guest-welcome-baskets\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Welcome Baskets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_734\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Guest-Welcome-Baskets.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-734\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-734\" title=\"Guest Welcome Baskets\" src=\"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Guest-Welcome-Baskets-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Welcome Baskets\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Guest-Welcome-Baskets-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Guest-Welcome-Baskets.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welcome Baskets<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When out-of-town guests arrive for your <strong>wedding<\/strong> weekend, welcome them with a wonderful basket of treats. Some of the <strong>top <a href=\"https:\/\/www.squidoo.com\/summer-wedding\">wedding trends<\/a><\/strong> for welcome baskets include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Starting with a stylish gift bag, such as an eco-friendly tote with a print design, one that can be used again and again, instead of paper gift bags.<\/li>\n<li>Provide several bottles of water, each encircled with your personalized <strong>wedding logo, <\/strong>as well as bottles of iced tea (one sweetened, one unsweetened,) or several sodas. A <strong>new wedding trend<\/strong> is choosing a retro soda, such as a root beer or ginger beer, orange soda or other unique taste.<\/li>\n<li>Provide a bottle of wine, and have the hotel put wine glasses and a bottle opener in each guest\u2019s room.<!--more--><\/li>\n<li>Provide bagged baked items, either cookies or brownies you\u2019ve made yourself, or choices from our <strong>New Jersey bakeries<\/strong> \u2013 a treat that out-of-town guests love for its authenticity and great taste.<\/li>\n<li>Provide bagged snacks, such as mini bags of chips, pretzels or snack mix, with a top <strong>wedding trend<\/strong> being veggie chips or kettlecorn.<\/li>\n<li>Provide a printed itinerary, including a reminder of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pleasantdale.com\/wedding-places\/best-wedding-venues-new-jersey.html\">ceremony and reception venue<\/a><\/strong> location and printed directions, plus <strong>wedding weekend event<\/strong> start times and locations.<\/li>\n<li>Add in a hand-written note from you both, thanking your guests for coming to the <strong>wedding celebration.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Provide pampering items, such as mini bottles of aromatherapy lotions.<\/li>\n<li>If you\u2019re not having a <strong>budget wedding, <\/strong>you may choose the pricier inserts of gift cards to the hotel, local coffee shops, or nearby stores.<\/li>\n<li>Provide kiddie welcome bags for each child guest, offering healthy snacks and sugar-free drinks, plus games and toys from the dollar store, a top <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.highlawn.com\/blog\/wedding-bar\/\">wedding trend<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>If you have guests on restricted diets, provide them with a welcome bag of <strong>gluten-free snacks<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another welcome basket trend on a higher budget: surprise guests each night with a different treat. It could be a basket of packaged cookies one night, a bottle of wine another night, pampering items another night. Since <strong>wedding weekends<\/strong> can last three or four days, guests stay longer than they used to, so it\u2019s nice to treat them each evening with a new and thoughtful gift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When out-of-town guests arrive for your wedding weekend, welcome them with a wonderful basket of treats. Some of the top wedding trends for welcome baskets include: Starting with a stylish gift bag, such as an eco-friendly tote with a print design, one that can be used again and again, instead of paper gift bags. Provide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,42,43,186,41,25,36,72],"tags":[505,179,91],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bright-ideas","category-earth-friendly-weddings","category-eco-weddings","category-gifts","category-green-weddings","category-party-planning","category-wedding-planning","category-wedding-receptions","tag-wedding-decor","tag-wedding-party-planning","tag-wedding-trends"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}