Gifts for Parents?

emily1004

I have been racking my mind for months now, and other than a picture frame, what is a good gift to get your parents? Any suggestions welcome!

Julz629

For the moms, we are going to pay for their wedding albums after the wedding.

For the dads, we are either going to do a gift pack for Omaha steaks or some cigars. 

Sue-n-Kevin

Emily, only you and your fiance know your parents best. What do they like to do?

I think we all go through this, because what do you get for the people who mean so much to you, but probably need absolutely NOTHING? I don't have to think about this for over a year, and even if it were imminent, I don't think I'd have a good idea other than something wedding related like a wedding album or a lovely 8 x 10 picture frame that I'd fill with a wedding picture.

Good luck. Sorry, I have no ideas but I'm others do.

corinne2010

One of my friends got both sets of parents a gift certificate to a bed and breakfast. They had 4 location choices of where they could go. I thought that was very nice. I have yet to ask her how much that cost them because I want to look into this for our parents. Otherwise, you can get them a gift certificate to a nice restaurant and buy them a wedding album after you get your pics.

Gwenwhyfare

We are also giving wedding photos as part of the gift. We're thinking of getting FI's parents a gift certificate to their favorite restaurant and possibly a gift certificate for a Comedy show.

I understand where you're coming from though. I'm completely stumped on what to get my Mom. She's the type of person that doesn't like to receive gifts. I'll be giving her wedding photos and I think a photo of the two of us when I was little and when I am older (now) in a nice frame.

emarston1

FWIW, I was talking to my mom about this and she thought it was ludicrious that we now give gifts to the parents.  The only thing my mom said she wanted was to see me happy on my wedding day and that no gift could compare to that.

Very cheesy but she said she doesn't want a gift.

boogerbearoriginal

Liz - my Mom said essentially the same thing. This whole parent gift thing is relatively new because both my Mom and my MIL had never heard of it and thought it was odd.

We got our parent's a bottle of wine and a note that we'd be providing a wedding album once we had the professional pics. MIL is still insisting we take money for her book lol.

HiggyFan42

We got my parents a gift card to three restaurants.  One was very classy and expensive- I think it was for Coach Insignia in the Ren Cen, the other was a more normal place- I think it was Mitchell's Fish Market, and then we did an every day restaurant of Chili's.  Then,  with each restaurant, we paired a gift card for an activity with it.  One was for the movies, another was for a round of golf, and I can't really remember what the third activity was.  We also told them we would pay for a parents album of our picture. 

My parents paid for our entire wedding so we wanted to do a lot for them.

Sadly, I really couldn't tell you what DH did for his parents.  I think we just told them that we would get them an album.  

Knottie1435582995

We got my parents 3 gift cards to restaurants (La Bistecca, Mitchell's & Gaucho), as well as a gift certificate for a couples massage at a spa.  We gave it to them this weekend, and they absolutely loved it.  They yelled at us saying that we spent way too much money...but they paid for the whole wedding and to me it feels like we didn't do enough.

FI's parents get an album.

cmkuno

I honestly think nothing can compare to a really heart felt "thank you" letter.  Your parents most likely don't want something expensive from you, they want you to use your money to start your life together.    

We're give each parent two 5x7 picture frames (both of our parents are divorced, so that's 4 sets of picture frames).  We got really nice ones, and each set is different based on that parent's decorating style.  After the wedding, we plan on giving each parent a picture of just the two of us, and a picture of us individually with that parent.  And of course a super cheesey, "thank you, I love you, you did an awesome job raising me," etc. note to go with it.

MGLI2006

I really like the bottle of wine idea with an attached personal note and mentioning that they would be receiving a wedding photo album. You could make a twist on this by giving a bottle of sparking wine or sparkling grape juice if your parents don't drink alcohol. You could even give a bottle of their favorite liquor or even old fashioned glass bottles of lemonade. the possibilities are endless!

JulesMarie25

We are giving both of our parents a digital picture frame and since we have the rights to our photos I figured that we can put some of those pictures on them when we get our pictures back later on. Plus they can use the frames for long after the wedding for other pictures too.

Check Target or Best Buy, they always  have sales on them.