Survival Kits

I recently married one of my best friends. He is the reason I have come as far as I have in the last 2 years. Before our wedding I joined Pinterest (www.pinterest.com) and found a few survival kits that I wanted to recreate. Unfortunately, due to the quickness of our engagement, my work schedule, and the work that I still needed to complete on my Masters degree I was unable to actual create them. However, some of our closest friends decided to get married in even shorter amount of time then us. Mainly because our friend wanted my husband to be the Best Man and my husband was getting ready to deploy for 6 months. One weekend while I was with the bride she mentioned Survival Kits. I jumped right in and said that I would make them with the help of her maid of honor because I wanted to do it anyway along with I needed something to distract me at the time. The following is what we created.

A great pinterest find was the "Groom's Day- Of Survival Kit". I modified our's because well we live in the desert and you can't take men anywhere.

The paper says:
Groom's Day of Survival Kit

Socks...
... to keep the cold feet away

Lifesavers...
... to keep you from drowning in emotions

Small bottle of alcohol...
... to calm the nerves

Mints...
... to ensure a fresh kiss

& Ring pops...
... in case you forget the essentials

<3 your bride So in the actual kit includes each of those. I really wanted to find the roll of lifesavers but I'm not sure where I can find those anymore so there is a handful of the single lifesavers. Then I added a few other things.

The addition items are a travel lint roller, travel deodorant, and a mini Tide to go. These were done because again we live in the desert and can never be without the deodorant. You never know when you will need a lint roller especially when you are wearing a shirt that you wore a little over a month and a half ago. The mini Tide to go is because you can't take men anywhere and you never know when you might need that.

Now, for the Bridesmaids and Bride's Survival Kits they are very similar. There were a few things that we decided we only needed to buy one of to save on cost or we could only find one of. The night before the maid of honor and I went shopping, I did some research (I was not tired and needed something to do) on pinterest and the internet to find what was commonly in the kits.

The list included:
-brush with mirror (Wal-Mart)
-hair spray (Wal-Mart)
-tissues
-safety pins
-mending kit (Jo-ann's)
-super glue (Jo-ann's)
-static remover (Wal-Mart)
-pain reliever (Wal-Mart)
-breath fresher (Wal-Mart)
-stain remover (Wal-Mart)
-lint roller (Wal-Mart)
-Pocket Bac (1oz anti-bacterial) (can be found at Bath and Body Words)
-Band aids
-Q-tips
-mini nail file (Wal-Mart)
-bobby pins
-clear nail polish (Wal-Mart)
-wisps (one time use tooth brushing tool) (Wal-Mart)
-mini lotions (anywhere but I was thinking about going to Bath and Body Works)
-clear elastics (Wal-Mart)
-nail polish remover (I saw and then found little clothes) (Wal-Mart)
-double sided tape (Jo-ann's- it was temp hemming tape)
-deodorant (Wal-Mart)
-lighter (We had these already)
-antacid (Wal-Mart)
-lip glass (anywhere- this bride's favorite is found at Bath and Body Works)

Most of these I was able to find at Wal- Mart in their travel size aisle. There were things that I already had and did not need to buy and somethings I still have not bought and at this point probably won't because of lack of room. Here are a few pictures of what we put in the kits.

I decided to put everything in one of those snap tight boxes so that the box would be useful after the wedding day. The bride and groom have an infant and there is a 5 year old from a previous relationship so I thought these would be a little more useful. You can choose whatever you want and what you feel you will need or what you feel everything will fit into.

To make the full thing, I used red tissue paper at the bottom and then neatly put everything in. I tried as best as I could to make sure that all the items could be seen in some form or another. Then when I had everything put in I put red tissue paper on top. To tell the difference between all 3 kits I put things on top.

For the items that I already had like the Q-tips and bobby pins I did them up a little. I took a handful of Q-tips and tied a ribbon that I had from something around them. I have a lot of scrapbooking things and found the ribbon there. Then I was able to find a piece of card stock in there colors of red and black and placed the bobby pins on that (an idea from another pinterest users).

From what the bride has seen she loves them already. I can't wait to give them to the 3 people. As I mentioned before I wanted to do one for my now husband but ran out of time. However, better late then never and he will be getting something as well that is modified for his life :). More to come on that later.