Ideas for a Bridesmaid's Gift Bag
- Place a miniature bottle of perfume in your bridesmaid's gift bag.beautiful young woman smells the perfume image by Daria Miroshnikova from Fotolia.com
Your bridesmaids' have thrown parties in your honor, given up their personal time to help you with wedding preparations and listened to your concerns leading up to the wedding date. Show your appreciation by giving each bridesmaid a gift bag filled with items that match her personality at the rehearsal dinner. - Your bridesmaids will appreciate gift bags filled with toiletry items that make it easy for them to prepare for your wedding. Buy makeup bags with the word "Bridesmaid" embroidered on them and include miniature bottles of body wash, shampoo, conditioner, lotion, toothbrushes and tubes of toothpaste. Include small makeup palettes that match the bridesmaid's skin coloring. Purchase miniature bottles of each bridesmaid's favorite perfume and place it in her makeup bag along with a note of appreciation.
- Give your bridesmaids gift bags filled with spa products. The night before the wedding, you can all relax and bond as a group while using the items in the gift bags. Fill small monogrammed, over-the-shoulder bags with back scrubbers, pumice stones, wooden-handled nail brushes and hand-held mirrors, loofahs, body butters, scrubs and scented candles. Create packets of spa recipe cards to give each bridesmaid. After the wedding, they can make the recipes and use their spa kits at home. Copy a few homemade beauty recipes from websites such as Spa Index, All Natural Beauty and Spa Living for Health.
- Bedazzle your bridesmaids by giving them tank tops in colors that match those being used in the wedding. One of the shirts should have the word "Bridesmaid" spelled out on it with rhinestones in honor of the wedding. The other shirt should have the bridesmaid's last name spelled out on the back of the shirt with rhinestones. Place both shirts into a gift bag along with a leather encased flask that says "Girls night out." If you're feeling extra adventurous, fill the flask with an alcoholic beverage.
- Buy small lunchboxes and attach a leather luggage tag with the bridesmaid's initial to its handle. Fill the box with all the items your bridesmaid might need to deal with an emergency: a small sewing kit, safety pins, mints, gum, hairpins, earring backs, a nail file, double-sided tape, stain and static remover. Then add a few goodies, such as cookies shaped like shoes and dresses, tea bags and gourmet chocolate, that she can enjoy whether things go smoothly or not.
