To ask for suggestions for a wedding "care bag"

[MummytoKatie]

Ok - I blatantly am but I'm going to do it anyway!

I'm being a bridesmaid next weekend and am planning on putting a bag in the women's toilets with stuff for all the guests to help themselves to like plasters, hair grips, safety pins, a small sewing kit, lip balm etc.

Does anyone have any good suggestions? (noting that my parents will be at this wedding so my book of "ten top positions for your one night wedding stand" is probably not appropriate!)

why cant the guests just go to a wedding. I agree with stressed its utterly naff

Stressed just seems to go around making antagonistic posts, I'd ignore her :)

The more I read on here the more I am relieved that wedding was never on my horizon! What is all this stuff its about 2 people isn't it not a bag of stuff in a loo somewhere?

LOl at noddy
" remember Ben and Tinas wedding? Ah it was simply perfection and HOW clever to think of a bag of toiletries hidden behind hte U bend"

agree unless its UTTERLY chic designer and not a bag of Proctor and Gamble then forget it

When I think of the number of times I could have cheerfully snogged anyone thoughtful enough to have the wherewithal to prevent disintegrating tights/sweaty pits/bleeding feet...this is a lovely thoughtful idea.

Am ROARING at the Hyacinth Bucket types turning out to shudder at the very notion

Ew. You sound uncharacteristically unkempt jh

What do you mean by 'uncharacteristically unkempt'?

Do you mean that you would normally expect me to be distinctly kempt and fragrant, and this that disporting myself in public with disintegrating hosiery is most out of character?

In which case you are quite mistaken. I ming.

Lol. I do!
Not sweaty and bleeding

I'm off for my monthly bath...

Sostressed, since when has doing something nice for people been very council estate?

You do realise you come across very Hyacinth Bucket don't you?

I think it is a lovely idea.

Someone upthread said they'd put ghd's in - I really wouldn't do that unless youaren't attached to your GHD's

I'd put in hand cream, sanitary towels, tampons, tights, plasters, and talc.

I don't want to sound like a miserable old boot but I think this is an extraordinary idea.

Isn't there enough to think about without spending 50 quid on a load of stuff which people should have brought themselves?

I think it's a rather strange notion and I have never heard of anyone doing it. Why bother?

Lol at towels. Mind you I'm always amazed people even have periods these days. Coil pill whatever.
I haven't had one since 2003

Yes. It's the infantilisation of society.

What would you use talc for?

Surely they would have vending machines for tampons etc.

Oh just let people sort themselves out fgs. Who wants to share a crusty lip balm anyway?

Thank god and all his seraphim I am never getting married if this is the kind of caper which is expected.

I blame wedding magazines for all this shit malarky when my friend got married she was reading that it would be appropriate to make sure lady guests had 'supplies' in the cloakroom it didnt even say what the supplies were, I got married within 3 months I didnt have time to worry about details

I remember when I first planned to get married 12 years ago (lucky escapes) and bought a magazine, it was all net bags of sugared almonds and matchboxes with the bride and grooms name on.

Deeply naff.

Lol. You might still
Marry.!

The thing is that people see weddings as a big reflection of how perfect their tAste is. It's all really to show off.

I think this is a lovely idea and not naff or 'council estate' at all.

I've forgotten spray deodorant, face wipes, lip balm or laddered my tights loads of times and it would have been great to have been able to sort it out in the toilets rather than feeling self conscious about it. Plasters are a great idea I think, I'd have loved there to have been a plaster in the loo at the party I went to yesterday!

Thing is right, I am FIRST in the queue to castigate bridezillas and all that ghastly vulgar display - my word, do I have some stories!

My own wedding dress cost about £80, and my mum and Granny made it from a sketch I drew, and my Mum made my cake.

BUT

This emergency kit thing isn't about one-up-manship or having OMG THE BEST WEDDING EVAH and spending bazillions to feel like a princess. It's just a thoughtful way of helping out the guests. We all know what it's like to start an unexpected period when OF COURSE you're wearing a new, short, silk dress, or to want to cry every time you take a step in your new shoes.

I just don't see what's tacky about it at all

Would people really share lip balm?

I may well get married when hell freezes over but I am determinedly not having a 'wedding'.

Jodie did you wear your new dress shoes and hat to that wedding yet?

saying all that I had to run to a tescos at the wedding i was at as i ripped my tights wandering round a supermarket in 'your good dress' is a bit

I think I am just selfish I look at weddings and think What's in it for me? And see nothing. Those magazines in Smiths make me pmsl do they sell any?

Hey Getorf! I did - thanks for remembering! And it was a wild success! And someone famous made a right old fuss and said he'd made sure I was filmed on the wedding video and was generally a bit Taken and said "You really stole the show" in front of the bride, which was a bit cringey.