hen party bags

lauz8726

sorry if this is in the wrong place!
I am organising my sisters hen party, im doing gift bags for all the hens (25 of them)
so far in the bags I have
hen night name badges - £1 for 6
a small plastic musical instrument - (tamborine,morraccas and trumpets) - £1 for 8

I have emailed boots and asked if they could possibly send out some free samples. Im going to buy plasters,condoms and chewing gum and put 1 in each bag does any1 have any idea where else i could get things nice and cheap, i have searched ebay and amazon but things seem to be quite expensive when u work out how many bags im making.

thank you for any help
x

Bargainmonkey

Lip Balm would be nice! I have just bought some Shrek Apple Flavour lip balms for 19p each at Home Bargains.

jonaylor

A pack of Paracetomol each for the next day? About 19p a pack at Tesco.

funnyguy

Your right ,this is the wrong place to post,and if you are sorry you wouldnt have done it.

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lauz8726

Thanks for the helpful replies

simple_but_sweet

hi, sorry if im late in replying but when I was a bridesmaid last year I did up bags for about 10 people. i included:
- naughty or nice balloon
- keyring torch (we were glamping)
- a personalised badge
- a small set saying "thanks for attending (brides name) hen party & the date" that had a lolly, sweets and a charm in it
- pack of chewing gum
- pack of facial wipes
- a particularly shaped whistle
- the same shaped straw
- a beaded shot glass
- dare cards
- bubbles

the bride got those plus a banner, a garter & headband set

i also bought prizes (1 for everyone there) from another online shop

In total it cost me in excess of £100, i'd say there was cheaper options available but I built mine up over a few months

TeganB_2

Hiya! I have recently been on a hen night in london and we had really great hen night bags i think that the maid of honour had put a lot of effort into personalising the night. She used Hen Stuff if you want to Google it and check it out, they do like pre-made bags and ones you can put together yourself xx

lauz8726

brill,thank you,il have a look now xx

RockPaperScissors

I found that I didn't receive very many samples when I asked around so in the end I went on to ebay and bought a make up job lot. There was about 40 items in there that I divided up which worked really well.

I also found a lady on ebay that made personalised "medals" for each person for a couple of pounds each. I didn't tell the bride (my best friend) what we were doing but asked her to provide a sentence about each hen that was then engraved on the back, with a picture of the hen on the front.

Also got some bubbles, a box of really cheap test tube shots (put 2 in each bag) some "love hearts" that had "Ems Hen" written on the side, some chocolate and an emergency couple of paracetamol.

Good luck