Out-of-town weddings put a welcome bag in every hotel room. The bag has a granola bar, a water bottle, a hand-drawn map, and increasingly a custom wine bottle. The bottle is the first thing the guest sees when they enter the room. The bottle frames the entire weekend.
Brand line: the couple's adopted name
The welcome bag is the first weekend appearance of the couple's brand. The wedding bottle the next night uses the same brand line. The continuity reinforces the couple's chosen household name. We discourage placing the rehearsal bottle in the welcome bag; the rehearsal bottle should appear at the rehearsal.
The format
Welcome-bag bottles are typically half-bottles or splits, ordered in addition to the full-size wedding-day bottles. The smaller format is consumed in the room more naturally than a full bottle, and ships in a lighter weight per bag, which the hotel staff appreciates and the couple's per-bag fee will reflect.
The quote line
Italic foil, the wedding hashtag if the couple insists, but ideally a phrase that reads as a welcome rather than a wedding-favor caption. WELCOME TO THE WEDDING OF JULIA AND FELIPE. SO GLAD YOU ARE HERE. Or simply: THANK YOU FOR COMING THIS FAR. The bottle has done the work of greeting before the couple has shaken any guest's hand.