Welcome bags
Welcome-bag totes guests refuse to throw away
Paper gift bags die in hotel trash cans by Sunday. A printed canvas tote becomes the beach bag, the farmers-market bag, the thing that says your names for years. Here is how we build them.
The tote itself
We press natural cotton canvas totes — the heavier the canvas, the better it carries welcome-bag weight (water bottles, snacks, itineraries) without sagging. Full-color pressing means your artwork is not limited to one ink: paint the town map, the crest, the tandem-bike illustration, whatever your stationery started.
Quantity math that works
Order one tote per room or household, not per guest — typically 55–65% of the guest count — then add 10% overage for late RSVPs and keepsake copies for the families. For 150 guests, that is usually 95–110 totes. We will run the math with your actual room block.
Delivery, handled
Totes are produced in our Orange County shop and delivered flat or pre-stuffed to your hotel, planner, or venue by Thursday of the wedding week. Out-of-area weddings ship ahead with tracking shared to your planner.
The live option
Or press them at the welcome party
Some couples skip the pre-stuffed bag entirely and make the tote the welcome-party activity: guests pick from two or three designs and carry the weekend’s tote home warm off the press. It costs more than batch production — you are paying for crew time at $250/hr and the station build — but it replaces a welcome-party entertainment line item, not just a swag line item. The blended play, and our most common recommendation: pre-press most of the run, press the last fifty live. See welcome-party stations for how the night runs, or pricing for the anchors.