Delete
My daughter wore a Grace Loves Lace dress and she loved it. It is sent to your house and when it arrived it fit perfectly.
5 Likes
Good for her to think it over. DD did another dress shop on Friday (her second). Both times her roommate has encouraged her to sleep on it and that has been good. Yesterday she already ruled one of her top choices out and the other would just need so many revisions. But sheâs learning what she likes at least.
I found one at Davidâs Bridal that seems to meet almost all of her style conditions and emailed it to her tonight. Weâll see what she thinks!
4 Likes
Beautiful
Okay whatâs the consensus here on âamenity basketsâ in the restrooms at the reception venue? This strikes me as sort of silly and a waste of money but Iâm feeling pressured into it. Is this really an expected item?
We had amenity baskets (we used bowls) in the bathrooms. It wasnât a big deal to do them.
But we did not have goody bags in the hotel rooms.
1 Like
Seems easy to skip . You can get sucked into all sorts of supposedly must haves if you let yourself! My son and his wife did have nice goody bags in the rooms but even that is not essential. Have fun planning!
2 Likes
Our son and his wife had them at their wedding in June. Wedding/reception was at a nature preserve (with catered dinner under a big clear tent - sooo lovely!). There was a bus provided from hotel due to limited parking. Honestly I was just relieved to learn weâd have flush toilets. But so very nice that they planned a basket in each of the two unisex bathrooms. They included sunblock, first aid kit etc. They kindly asked if there were any extra items that my 96 year old dad might need.
2 Likes
Itâs beginning to pick up. We are seeing two venues next week. We have two dates scheduled to shop for wedding dress(es). The engagement party is scheduled if I can get a positive response from the restaurant soon. D1 is managing a lot of it, so itâs easier on me.
4 Likes
We had an ammenity basket in the ladies room at Dâs wedding â the florist threw it in.
I did do small gift bags for guests staying in the hotel we recommended. I went to Costco and picked up snacks and bottled water and got tiny packs of Advil from Amazon. It was not expensive to do and was appreciated.
The only party favors we had were pen-sized spray hand sanitizers at each place setting personalized with the kids initials (party was in the summer of 2021) â also not expensive.
That said, they are all easy things to pass on.
1 Like
Our venue had some necessities in the bathrooms. We did not have to provide anything.
First wedding - had amenity baskets. Only thing used was breath mints (individually wrapped mint lifesavers). Second wedding - only had a couple bowls of breath mints, near but not in, rest rooms
1 Like
Dâs venue had amenity baskets in the bathrooms, so we didnât have to think about it. We did not do gift bags or other favors. I canât imagine that anyone missed them.
1 Like
My DD1 got married there in 2014!
Spectacular location.
3 Likes
Beautiful!
1 Like
Fairy tale! 
1 Like
We had none. The venue provided what was necessary that that was more than enough. No goody baskets in hotel rooms, no party favors and no one missed them. If they wanted a keepsake they took home the name placeholders from the reception.
4 Likes
we did not have goody baskets at the hotel but did have baskets in the venue bathrooms, men and womenâs. Sewing kits, dental floss, nail,clippers and tampons I am told were all used.
we also had a basket of chocolates with wedding labels at the church. These, and several other pieces of ephemera (program, trivia and bookmark from the reception, etc) , were mailed inlittle boxes prior to the wedding to the handful of beloveds who were unable to be at the wedding (health, age, distance. We labelled them as âdo not open untilâ the date, so they were âwithâ us âand those were very much appreciated.
2 Likes