Anyone fancy helping out an exasperated bride-to-be?

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Nothing major, but I'd love some help from some of you that may not be as fed up as me!

I'm making 3 bridesmaids boxes to 'propose' to them i.e ask them to be my bridesmaid.

I have envisioned white or pale pink or grey boxes (just nothing too bright or too patterned), possibly with a ribbon to seal with a bow or with a magnetic close. They are to be filled with a photo book I've made them, personalised mug, candle and another small item so needs to be about A4 size.

I've searched everywhere and they're all so expensive! For a BOX! My budget is no more than £5 each. Please send me any ideas of websites to try/direct links. I'm exhausted and would love your help.

Not being funny, but why would you do this? Can't you just ask them?

Have you looked at The Works am sure seen something similar

B&M or Home Bargains? Matalan, TK Maxx or Homesense?

www.theworks.co.uk/page/art-craft?q=gift%20boxes&top=3245&pg=3

Card Factory
TK Maxx

@HollowTalk how would they put it on social media though? 🧐 #bridesquad #bridetribe #shesaidyes

Hahahahahahaha what next??? A surprise opening of the present?? A Save the Date to present the present?? Jeez!

www.hobbycraft.co.uk/rose-gold-dot-photo-box-288cm-x-197cm-x-115cm/633973-1000?glCountry=GB&gclid=Cj0KCQiA9dDwBRC9ARIsABbedBNCzrxrvgBr4F5pqPNqUvdNYdjQPRyxJouXbCTSzYG0WzqWQlEL4gEaApQZEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

Something like this? www.giftbagshop.co.uk/gift-boxes-40/plain-magnetic-boxes-378/?zenid=ac2g7na865v0ooijjdeqa7nla7

The Tiny Box Company have loads, and they are cheap and great quality

Just ask them and save yourself some money.

These are particularly good, I’ve used them before. www.tinyboxcompany.co.uk/deep-snapshut-box-with-ribbon-tab#153=49

But I still think it’s a mad thing to do, just save all that money and hassle and just ask them. Remember no-one else cares very much about your wedding!

Can they keep the box if they say no.

op, this isn’t making you happy, how can it? It’s just hassle and stuff to do.
Just ask them, they’ll be delighted.
Honestly , even the most simple wedding is lots of work. Go easy on yourself. You don’t need to bend over backwards to make it special. You’ve meet someone you want to spend the rest of your life with, that’s the special bit.

Oh don't be such miseries you lot! Who cares whether or not you'd do it or whether you think it's not 'cool' - OP is enjoying herself and that's the whole point.

Having been there, done that... etc. save your money and just ask them.
Remember, at the end of the day, you care much more than anybody else about your wedding. Don't stress over little things such as boxes and pre-wedding gifts. Save your £££!

@rm1234 mine would have had to have posted a screen grab of the text I sent them

Would something like this with a ribbon tied around suffice?

The OP describes herself as ‘exasperated’ and ‘fed up’, @MyKingdomForBrie, so I think it’s perfectly reasonable for posters to remind her that it’s possible to ask people to be your bridesmaids — for free! — through the medium of words, music, mine, or interpretative dance.

Go to a bakery and ask to buy a few pastry boxes? Then gift wrap them?

Dear God. Will you need a bridesmaid proposal shower? Or a spa day so they can open the boxes together? Then they'll need matching acceptance outfits because it would ruin the whole prospective wedding if their colours clashed on Instagram. (You'd probably end up divorced and rightly so.)
And maybe you should have a proposal rehearsal with a proposal rehearsal dinner. Don't want to look cheap.
If somebody came at me with a bridesmaid box , I'd be running for the hills ...
Surely a little gift from the groom on the wedding day is traditional and sufficient?

@FramingDevice you can easily see that the pp 'reminding' her are in fact being patronising. She wants to make a big thing of asking them, she wants to revel in their reactions, their happiness, the 'specialness' of it. Do you honestly think she doesn't know she could just say the words? Course she does!

People use language in many different contexts, she is finding one little aspect of her planned surprise annoying, doesn't mean she isn't enjoying the process as a whole. It is only human to find pockets of joy in an often humdrum or frankly horrifying world, let her have hers how she will; we all like different things.

Well, then she will acknowledge to herself that she is ‘fed up’, ‘exasperated’ and ‘exhausted’ by something entirely self-imposed, and that maybe she should save her energy for having planning hysterics over whether to have personalised lollipops or fridge magnets as favours?

A pretty gift bag would also do the trick.