Card box/baskets?

I've brought a wicker basket and lined it with material. I've made a 'cards' sign which I'm going to peg on to some twine, which I'll some how tie to the lid. I brought some mini pegs too. I can't seem to load a photo sorry, hope my description helps! I didn't want to buy a box to throw away and I can re use this, not sure for what though, maybe to keep wrapping paper and birthday cards in!

I've ordered a sack like this from etsy...

Pic isn't showing? Basically a hessian sack with our details on front! Search 'wedding card sack' on etsy!

We decided to receive our cards in person, so that we could say thank you as they were given to us.

We toyed with the idea of having a post box (nothing against them!), but decided not to. I think it was being brought up with the principle of opening a card and present in front of your aunties and uncles and immediately hugging and thanking them. Whilst we can't open and read them all during the wedding (wow, that would take a long time), we thought we could at least take them in person and give them a kiss.

We'll take them all early on in the day (during drinks reception), and lock them away in a car boot securely. We'll put the mums in charge of taking handfuls to the car, LOL.

:/ I'd like to think you know your wedding guests well enough that they wouldn't steel from you.

Haha bless you, that wasn't a dig, it just concern me as i thought you meant your guests.

I must admit though, I made our card box from a box our wall post box came in ( yep I was sad enough to buy an outside post box just for our RSVP's so in the event I wasn't in wen the postie came the dogs wouldn't eat them) and my OH did say the slit is big enough to stuck your hand in and take from it. My response was 'well you let me know who you thinks going to do that an I'll let them know they can't come' he soon shut up because e couldn't think of anyone who's ever stolen from us or would who's invited to the wedding!

we've got a sack too

presuming it's the same one, here's a pic

We bought a plain wooden one of eBay and painted it ourselves to match our theme...

I think I'll probably use our picnic basket....its wicker with a white and flowery lining, think it'll do the job nicely!

Thank you! Some really good ideas!! I saw the sacks and was going to go for one of those, but I showed my best friend and she said that it might be a bit big, if you ladies have had one, how big are they? I really do like them and although I wouldn't use it again, it could be folded up nice and put in the memory box......

thanks again xx

We had a sack too (ours went on a mini wooden sled because it was winter/Christmas time). It worked out about the right size – one thing to think about is it won’t stand up on its own (unless your sacks are much fancier than ours!) so make sure you’ve got a cardboard box or similar to put in the bottom, makes it easier for people to put things in.

I hadone made and it wasn't too expensive.

And I decorated this one

I would measure my sack for you (ooer missus) but it's currently somewhere among the pile of stuff in the 'wedding corner' of my bedroom and would take ages to find from what I remember when it arrived, it isn't huge - around the size of a very large carrier bag. I'd been wondering about how to get it to stand up - was thinking spray starch might work?

I have a vintage suitcase, with hessian embroidered card sign, plus luggage tag thank you message x

these are gorgeous! can I ask where you had it made? xx

We managed to pick up a wooden chest for £20 from a little second hand shop. OH is sanding it and painting (paint was a bargain, unwanted large sample pot of dulux in the exact shade we wanted for 50p).

I am going to decorate it up after using my cameo cutting machine.

Seconded alyj66! Would like to know myself. They're lovely x

Hi ladies, here's the link for the first one;

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ARicherDesigns?ref=pr_shop_more

It is from a canadian seller on etsy but I didn't pay any import tax. You may need up to 6 weeks for an order because of the shipping time but it was well worth the wait

the second box was from one of those sell everything want everything shops so I can't help with that one, I was just lucky.

And thank you

This is ours. I bought a cheap new wooden box from ebay, burnt some writing on the outside with a pyrography pen, waxed it and then decorated the inside. We'll use it for a keepsake box after the wedding.

We didn't bother at all. There was a table spare at the hotel where we had our reception so people popped their cards and pressies on there. Easy peasy. And free.