Bridal party gifts

Aimeeeee

Hello, I think we are sorted for the majority favors with these vegas themed placecard holders, we will be putting in thank you note cards seeing as we are not having assigned seating and figure the guests could use them at home to hold their fave vegas pic / as a post holder etc.

http://www.thebigweddingshoponline.co.uk/onlinestore/prod_1871467-Las-Vegas-Themed-Place-Card-Holders.html

I'm struggling with gifts for the others but in particular the parents, at the moment its jewellery for the females and personalised hip flasks for the men. Also seen some vegas tote bags on zazzle with 'mother of the bride' and 'mother of the groom' on which im unsure about.
I see so much creativity on here wonder if my fellow knotties can help me out with some inspiration as would like something a bit different and vegas themed. Extra points for pics.
xx

starryeyed77

Personally I am not a fan of gifts that have Bridesmaid or Mother of the Bride etc because odds are they will never be used again. We were doing a nice necklace for my mom and will make a photo book for her after the wedding.

SD210

As someone who falls into the "many, many, many times the bridesmaid, finally a bride" category, I can say that I have enjoyed necklaces, monogramed LL Bean tote bags (not monogramed with "Bridesmaid," but rather with my actual initials), and earrings as BM/MOH gifts.  One thing that was sort of a waste, honestly, was a "maid of honor" sweatshirt with sweatpants, because it's not like I can really wear it out in public again (or even to the gym) - well, I suppose I could, but I'm not a fan of wearing stuff like that in public.  We wore them getting ready for my friends wedding (during makeup and hair) and it was cute for pictures, but honestly I haven't worn it since. 

I think the key to a good BM/MOH gift is to give them something that they would like if it was their Birthday, as opposed to your wedding.  In other words, a nice gift that is unrelated to the wedding that they could use again.  (For example, I love my LL Bean tote bag, as I use it as a beach bag every summer).  Some people fall into the category of "if you are going to require your bridal party to wear specific jewelry on your wedding day, you should buy it for them."  I think that is nice as a gift too, so long as it is something they can wear again (I've received nice pearl necklaces, earrings, etc., that I have happily worn again). 
Just my humble opinion... different strokes for different folks.

Gribbles

For MIL we got her a lovely Jo Malone set with bath products and custom made perfume oil.

I got my mum this, with Vegas on the map:

http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/bombus/product/bespoke_map_heart

We got FIL a gorgeous framed print of Vegas at night, and my dad got an album with all of our photos, as he did not come to the wedding.

I have also seen cute map cufflinks which i think are very cool - maybe even a good gift for the groom(one with where you met, the other with Vegas on or similar?)

http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/search?term=map+cufflinks&search.x=11&search.y=15

Aimeeeee

Thank you, so many fab ideas, particularly loving the more personalized tote bags, customized perfume and photobook ideas. On another totally unrelated note, I tried to upload a word document on a new post to share our invitation inserts map and things to do for anyone who would find it helpful to use/edit but it said image not supported, anyone any idea of how to do this?x

Aimeeeee

Thank you, so many fab ideas, particularly loving the more personalized tote bags, customized perfume and photobook ideas. On another totally unrelated note, I tried to upload a word document on a new post to share our invitation inserts map and things to do for anyone who would find it helpful to use/edit but it said image not supported, anyone any idea of how to do this?x