Hen Party Gift Bags - my experience & ideas

catalunya

Hi ladies

Just wanted to share with you my MSE hen party gift bags I have been creating for my friends hen do. I wanted to do something from myself as Chief Bridesmaid, to all the girls who are coming (18 of us in total) and thought a nice way of doing this was to do a party kit/survival pack for each person.

I have managed to do the following for £2.03 pp:

Paracetamol: 4p (cut a standard pack up - 4 tablets each)
Lucozade drink: 44p (big packs were on offer)
Mini polo pack: 16p (6 for 99p in 99p store)
Pack of tissues: 8p
Make up wipes: 33p (pack of 20, multipack from 99p store)
Small dairy milk bar: 12p (again, multipack on offer)
Emery board: 6p
Mini Haribo pack: 12p
Pen: 7p (I am making notecards for each guest to write a note)
Alcoholic shot: 25p (4 for 99p - home bargains)
Party popper: 3p
Cocktail parasol: 3p
6 plasters: 6p
Glowstick: 6p
Cotton buds/pads: 2p
Bag to put it all in: 16p

The bags are just brown paper kraft bags from ebay - I am making labels to stick on them to personalise them - printing them off at work (perk of working in the graphics dept!)

I put some of the smaller items - such as the cotton buds/pads, plasters and paracetamol into smaller cellophane bags which I had from making stuff for my own wedding. Means they werent going all over the place!

I am hoping they'll turn out well - I purposely tried not to busy too much crap and I hope everyone will appreciate them - but for £2 a head I thought I did good.

Its amazing what you can find in stores these days!

Hope this gives people some ideas if they are going to be doing their own

CompBunny

Great idea Catalunya and you managed to make £2 per person stretch a long way!

RobynLouise_2

thats brilliant! I did something similar for my sister but I bet I spent nearer £5 a person cos I did it in a rush and didn't shop around!! Hope my hens are as thoughtful as you

74jax

In our wedding bags we also enclosed:

'do not disturb sign' if you're having a sleep over it's a nice touch (free).
A razer (12 for 99p)
Tictacs (6 for 99p)
Bottle of water (6 for 89p - in asda)
Bottle of wine - yeah kinda pushed the boat out with this one....
Party feet (3 for 99p)

RobynLouise_2

I read that too quickly and got "bottle of wine, 6 for 89p"..and thought, I want me some of that!!!

catalunya

74jax wrote: »

In our wedding bags we also enclosed:

'do not disturb sign' if you're having a sleep over it's a nice touch (free).
A razer (12 for 99p)
Tictacs (6 for 99p)
Bottle of water (6 for 89p - in asda)
Bottle of wine - yeah kinda pushed the boat out with this one....
Party feet (3 for 99p)

Jax that do not disturb sign is great!

I may knock a few of those up for my guests staying at our wedding venue!

CompBunny - scouting around for bargains is totally up my street (like many of us I guess!) so I loved doing it. Easy when you live in a town that has low price point stores in it!