Gifts for Parents

BookWormKim

Hello Ladies,

Both my fiance's and my parents (grammar?) are paying for most of our wedding. What kind of gifts do you recommend getting them as a thank you? And when do you present these gifts? Day of?

Thanks!

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This isn't a thing where we live. Actually, none of the gift giving is. Like, giving a gift for hosting my shower? What? No one does that here. Giving a gift for the wedding = giving you jewelry to wear.

That said, I HATE that it's not a thing here, so I'm doing it anyway. Except the parent gifts at the rehearsal, because I was going to do albums with wedding photos. I could go ahead and buy the album and give them a blank one, but I know my mom and FI's mom will never get around to putting them in there, so I'm just writing them each a nice card and mentioning in the card that once we get photos back, we will be giving them an album.

Hopefully this is a good idea, because otherwise, I got NOTHIN'.

kmmssg

I received a beautiful sapphire necklace from my DD at her rehearsal dinner.  The other 2 who have had weddings didn't do gifts, which was just fine with us.

A nice photograph of you with your parents at the wedding in a nice frame is a lovely gift.  If they are avid collectors of something that could be nice too.  I do encourage you to skip what the wedding industry shoves at  you like handkerchiefs.  NO ONE uses these anymore and it would be stuffed in a dresser forever.

As a late thought, a handwritten note from my children is the BEST thank you they can ever give me.  I don't need gifts, but if they feel the need to express their thanks, a heartfelt letter will have in a puddle of happy tears.

Kate61487

Like Domino I did albums for the moms (actually printed photo books from shutterfly).  We told the moms at the RD that we would be giving these to them after the wedding.  We were lucky enough to have full access to all of our photos electronically within a week of the wedding and I made their photobooks (as well as my own) a priority after we got back from the HM.  Even still it was just under two months before I finished all three and ordered them.  But since they knew they were coming they got to pick some specfic photos and make requests of what to include.  They both loved them.

While the photobook technically counted for my dad too I guess, we also got him a capcatcher (which was what we got all the guys b/c I found them and thought they were really cool).  We gave it to him at the RD along with the BP gifts.

tlc35

We plan on doing letters and restaurant gift cards at the rehearsal dinner and then giving wedding albums as part of a Christmas gift. This way we don't have to stress about getting the photos right away.

mvance3

What I did is I bought my mom an amethyst necklace that will match her dress and for my fiance's mom I got her a pair of sapphire earrings (she hasn't bought a dress yet, but I figured blue was a safe bet).  I'm going to give them these gifts at the same time I give my bridesmaids theres...at the rehearsal dinner.  If you're looking for less expensive ideas, check out the embroidered handkerchiefs on etsy.

BookWormKim

Thanks so much for the ideas. BAsed on what you were saying... I'm thinking I'll give them a nice frame with a heartfelt thank you written inside of it to be replaed at some point by a professional photo of the families at our wedding.

I thought about getting both my mother-in-law and mother gifts for throwing the bridal showers. Unsure what just yet. All your really suggestions help!!

Have a great day!