need ideas for thank you gifts for parents

nikki5982

OK, so I have a mother and my fiance has divorced parents and I've been looking online for potential gift ideas and am turned off by the traditional choices. We plan to give each parent a photobook of the wedding but that's probably a few months after the wedding and we want to give them something else at the rehearsal dinner. Any ideas? Would be much appreciated.

[Deleted User]

What about a gift card to a nice restaurant? A bottle of wine? What do they like to do or where do they like to go?

aerinpegadrak

We did gift cards.  Dad got Southwest Airlines, Mom and stepdad got their favorite hotel, FIL and SMIL got a favorite restaurant.  They're getting albums for Christmas.

nikki5982

Thanks for the suggestions everyone! I think being more creative and/or personal is the way to go. Gonna have to put some thought into it. MIL loves the opera, so perhaps tix may be nice. Thanks again!

Summer2011Bride

You know your folks better than us, but one suggestion might be a night away somewhere in a hotel after all the stress of the wedding planning is over so they can relax and focus on themselves. A nice dinner out could also accomplish this for less money.

I think we'll try to do something personalized. We obviously won't have wedding photos yet, but we might try to do something with an engagement photo of ours. Or we might try to be creative with shots of us and our parents when we were little kids. Something sentimental is good with parents a lot of times.