Pre-Travel Packets | The Budget Savvy Bride

I really wanted my guests to be surprised by a packet of information and goodies to get them excited for their coming trip to our destination wedding. It is coming so quickly!

So I decided to send a packet to each couple (or single, in some cases) between the two-month and six-week marks in our countdown. The packet contained luggage tags, a CD full of island music, a packing list, and a brochure about the resort and wedding week.

Luggage Tags:

I utilized vistapint (vistaprint.ca) a lot throughout my wedding planning. They frequently had (less-so now, but still good deals) free items even! My luggage tags were actually vistaprint business cards (free!) I designed online. On the back, I put our location and date. Then I used the same method of ?laminating? that I did with my bookmarks (here: http://thebudgetsavvybride.com/diy-laminated-bookmarks/). With my trusty roll of packing tape (used only on the back, so people can write on the front), I had personalized luggage tags for my guests.

CD:

I really toyed with the idea of including a CD. I wanted to include the music, but to a lot of people, CDs are venturing into the realm of the archaic. But my coworker ? who I carpool with ? pointed out to me that most people would have vehicles that came with CD players still. Okay, a CD it was.

I DIY?d the CD sleeves. I just folded some paper, following an image search on pinterest. I cut out a list of songs included on the CD on blue paper, and glued that to the inside. Recordable CDs were purchased at Walmart, and I downloaded the music at home to make the copies. I labeled each CD with a sharpie, with our names, the date and location, and the warning label: ?Caution: May Cause Intense Island Day-Dreaming; Listen at Your Own Leisure?.

This is the list of songs that made the final cut, onto the CD:

• Burning Love
• When The Night Feels My Song (Hey Beautiful Day)
• Brighter Than The Sun
• One Love
• Three Little Birds
• God Only Knows
• I?m Yours
• Stand By Me
• Honey Honey
• Wipeout
• Steal My Sunshine
• Don?t Worry, Be Happy
• Hot, Hot, Hot
• Say Hey (I Love You)
• I Can Hear Music
• Lovely Day
• Toes
• Vacation
• In The Summertime
• Walking On Sunshine
• Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini
• Zoom Zoom Zoom
• Changes In Attitudes, Changes In Latitudes

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I have an eclectic taste in music, but wanted to include happy music that immediately made people think of the sand, sea and sun, and, oh yes, love and happiness!

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Packing List:

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I got this packing list at Michaels a couple years ago; it actually is designed to stick on the fridge. I carefully wrote out the list by hand, and then tore off a blank sheet for people to make their own notes on. The list was in the $1.50 bin.

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Brochure:

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I designed these on Word, printed them off on my home computer, cut them out, and glued them to regular cardstock. I am very happy with how they turned out. I included information about our destination, bits of trivia (a nod, albeit a subtle one, to my daily ?did you know?? in my classroom), information about dress codes at our resort, hotels we will stay at en route, travel details, and so on.

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Altogether, my only new expenses were the CDs, and postage. I previously had the packing lists, and paper, but even those were inexpensive (the paper was a large packet from Staples).

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So do you think this will help get my guests excited about the wedding and destination?

Source: http://thebudgetsavvybride.com/pre-travel-packets/

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